Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]
That concern is somewhat justified for sure, but what’s good is that the authority of this IT Planning Council also stems from the Länder (states), so that there will be (a) at least some continuity and (b) it might even be the case that some politicians of his party are actually behind this.
My guess is that nobody really knows what will happen with this once the Merz administration takes over.
That concern is somewhat justified for sure, but what’s good is that the authority of this IT Planning Council also stems from the Länder (states), so that there will be (a) at least some continuity and (b) it might even be the case that some politicians of his party are actually behind this.