Kirsten Wildberger Chancellor Frederick was a little surprised to be appointed to the new cabinet. All this happened “suddenly rather suddenly”, 55 -year -old said in one of his first public performance in late April, a formal handover in his predecessor, Volcker Witting office.
Strict, of course, wildburger is not truly an erstwhile, as his ministry is completely new for digitization and state modernization, but the Transport Ministry is the one where he and his team have been temporarily adjusted.
Things are moving quickly: independently when appointed, the new minister only became a merge’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). But Wildberger’s powers are important: five ministries, as well as the office of Chancellor, all have surrendered some of their scope to bundle together in their new department.
Essentially, anything that involves involving the state’s IT infrastructure, is now under the supervision of Wildberger – by a person who operates his life until a fortnight before a fortnight, which operates consumer electrons throughout Europe.
Will Germany Dar?
What is the meaning of wildberger’s job, yet it is yet to be seen, but the focus on efficiency and digitalization, and the minister’s alleged position as an interpoper from the business world has compared with the cuts of Elon Musk and radical government that the government’s efficiency has been brought to the United States in the United States.
Niklas Potrafke, director of the Center for Public Finance and Political Economy at the IFO Economic Institute in Munich, argued that the quality of wildbergers and musc can be “disruption”.
“I mean doing some things in a different way, thinking in a new way,” he told DW. “And to real change or destroy things that we know are important – like administrative processes. These are positive aspects that we can bring here with the effect that Elon Musk has.”
But Wildberger is unlikely to dismiss government employees and soon swings a chainsaw in any political rally and swinging. For one thing, he does not know sympathy with far and wide. Wildberger said in an official statement, nor is the tone of Wildberger as aggressive as a musc for: “My goal is to create an optimal position for Germany to develop as a competitive and innovative digital location.” “This requires a modern, skilled and civil-oriented state and administration that thinks digitally and works.”
As mirror The news magazine said, Wildberger said that he works with “respect, curiosity, determination and teamplay” – plus, he added a dash of the cryptical, “friendly penance”.
In a way, Potrafkes feel that comparison of musk is not really suitable. “Alon is Musk, I think, a very unusual personality, and very attractive,” he told DW. “Wildberger is almost not attractive.”
A more German difference: Musk is not officially part of the government, which means that it is not bound by day-to-day administration agreement.
But wildberger certainly shares the taste of the musk to separate the business rules. “For every law, two must be canceled. Is this possible?” Hey, on Tuesday, in a speech at a meeting of the CDU-Surrender Lobby Group The Economic Council.
He M and M and laws believe that they believe that the supply chain law, which is designed to protect human rights and multinational supply chains has guards against the use of modern slavery, and heating laws, which are to create heat in new build climatic-friendly.
Regulation vs ‘disintegration’
Potrafke admitted that it was threatened by putting business officials in the government. “A bad result wood is undoubtedly if the former Basinaps make policies, search as regulation, which benefit their own areas,” Heer said. “They can put wings to their nest, so to speak, because they know that they will one day leave politics and profit with their company.”
There are some rules that are to stop it. Unlike Musk, wildburger will be subject to its new AI rules, along with strict data privacy rules of the European Union. Wildberger stated that Artificial Intelligence represented a great development opportunity, and intended to examine the new rules how they could be implemented in a favorable manner to innovation.
The powers of Mothle, Wildberger want to be hedge by Germany’s federal system, which means that state governments and local district officials have great power on their digital public services.
Lina-Sofi Muller, head of a digital society network initiative D21, said, “One of his big tasks would be that he should combine and find common land with states, as he said Lina-Sofi Muler, head of D22, head of a digital society network, said, which works with both the private sector and the government.” It’s not just: What is the power to rule. Can you make? “
Why wildberger?
Chancellors are not breaking new land by putting the managers of the Merz Company in the cabinet. In fact, this is something about a German tradition, on both sides of the political partition: In 1998, for example, the then social Democrat Chancellor Garhard Shrodar created Walner Muller, who was a board member of the energy giant RWE, his new economy minister – was hoping to indicate that his government could be more business.
But still, the appointment of Wildberger was a surprise for many people – even among those who were expecting the Merz government to establish the Ministry of Digitalization. “I believe everyone was surprised,” said Muller of Pahl D21. “I called some people in my network, and I was so, ‘Do you know her?” Nobody really knew him.
Perhaps the additional surprise was the unusual special power given to the Ministry of Wildberger: Veto on other federal departments if they want the government to say “important IT expenditure”. In Germany, expenditure control is generally given to the Ministry of Finance – although it is limited by constitutionally attached principles that each government ministry has the right to decide its affairs.
“This expenditure control is a strong means, but he cannot say: ‘You have to spend it on something else,” Muller said. “This is only a veto.”
Muller hopes that Wildberger’s commercial background means that he will be more inclined to measure his ministry’s performance according to real indicators. Muller, whose organization initiative D21 conducts annual surveys on people’s perspectives for digitization, had their suggestions for what the thesis could.
“To get success for him, I would expect to look at the pick-up rate for digital services,” he said.
This may not only be reflected on how people see digital public services – “If people say,” the government really makes my life easier. “” If I see a positive tendency in those numbers, I would say that he would have done something right, “he said.
This will actually be an important step in a county where talking about digital services often descends into the easy jokes about fax machines.
Edited by Reena Goldenburg
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