Berlin is the digitalste German city

Berlin is located in the digitization in the countries of comparison. The distance from the capital to Hamburg and Bremen, the Index for the digitalization of documents in the current Germany-the places two and three. The nationwide circuit is in Thuringia. the Jacqueline Lang Jacqueline Long.

born in 1990. Language in Passau and Text studies, but then a couple of years of little to do with language and a lot of coffee and cake. The first newspaper internship at the only German-language weekly newspaper in Australia. First Station in the süddeutsche Zeitung: The Young people's page. Responsible for the series "What makes Munich with you?". Since November of 2017, a volunteer with the süddeutsche Zeitung. Previous stations: district editorial Dachau, Online, MRB, Bavaria. Travel occasionally to the travel Department in the world and part of tests and Bars and Cafes for the Munich.

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In terms of digitisation are in the Germany-wide comparison, the Federal States of Berlin and Hamburg on the front, Thuringia, forms the conclusion of the light behind Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This is one of the current Germany-Index of digitalization, which was presented on Monday by the competence centre Public IT at Fraunhofer-Institute in Berlin.

for the First time, the Index of 2017 has been determined. Also at that time, the city States of Berlin and Hamburg were in front. In the last two years, the two countries were able to extend this lead even further. Rural parts of Germany lie far: This is a Problem for the 68 percent of the German population who do not live in big cities like Hamburg or Berlin.

the"equivalence of living conditions"

hope for improvement there is, especially due to the Expansion of the fibre-optic network and the associated access to 5G, the fifth generation of mobile communications. This could be ensured in the future, "equivalence of living conditions" of all the people living in Germany, said Interior-Secretary of state Markus Kerber. So far, there are private companies that would ensure the supply, but the show increasingly that this is not sufficient in a post-industrial society. "State Action is required," said Kerber.

So the Broadband supply with a minimum of 50 Megabit-per-second in German cities at 93.5 per cent, on the Land, only 50.5 percent of the households are supplied with this speed. Even faster fibre-optic connections outside of Hamburg, Hessen and Schleswig-Holstein, less than five per cent of all households. The demand for a digital offer, but in spite of the enormous differences in all of the areas are similarly high, the need for action, accordingly, in size, said project Manager Nicole Opiela.

A similar discrepancy between supply and demand on the local level: the digitalization of The local governments have made considerable progress, for the citizens of all of the rings were hardly any Online services available, said Opiela. Business registration, registration information, and Vehicle registration services, who would wish to have the most citizens online. A desire, however, only very few municipalities fulfil. Reason is not the unwillingness of the municipalities, but the high hurdles, such as when privacy was but often. Kerber has called for a "gelasseneren dealing with data".

The number of employees subject to social security in the field of IT has increased since the last survey in the year 2017, more than 20 percent. Noteworthy is that the proportion offnener is to become of the total number of small. This underlined "the positive momentum in the IT sector". Nevertheless, the increase in open IT positions by more than 26 per cent over 2015, the way may be "on a developing shortage of skilled workers",-stated in the Index.