Topic: Digital politics

In the course of accelerated climate change, provisioning of digital information on dynamics in forests plays a key role for climate change-appropriate and sustainable forest management.

With its digital strategy, the coalition government is following up on previous efforts to coordinate digital policy across ministries. An assessment by Thomas Hess and Christoph Egle.

The indicator shows how internet access density is developed in cities, smaller towns and suburbs and in rural areas.

The indicator shows how many people have used public authority websites or apps in the last twelve months. This allows conclusions to be drawn about how well e-government structures and services are developed in a country.

Organisations and facilities of outstanding importance for supply security on a societal level are called critical infrastructures.

As a new term, digital policy describes a comparatively young and still evolving policy field. It is becoming increasingly visible through institutionalisation.

Originally a technical term, digitalisation broadly describes the use of various digital technologies and the associated, diverse transformation processes.

In the first approach, digital transformation refers to changes in society or social subsystems accompanying digitalisation.