The previously little-known BundID plays a central role in the digitalization of administration in Germany: The federal user account will be used in all federal states in the future and will be “further developed into the DeutschlandID”. This is what the Online Access Act sets out in paragraph 12. In future, citizens will be able to use BundID to register for online administration services across the country. According to the federal government’s “Digital Administration Dashboard”, 5.1 million users currently have a BundID account.
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But what does the further development of DeutschlandID actually mean? A central project is the “integration of bidirectional communications”, as announced by the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) at the request of the C’T. Therefore applicants and authorities should be able to exchange application-related messages with each other. For example, officers should be able to ask questions about an application, and citizens should be able to provide additional information.
BundID mailbox as fax successor
This sounds really obvious, but BandID doesn’t provide such a function yet. At the moment, the user account has only one mailbox in which messages from the authorities end up – but citizens cannot reply there and have to contact the authorities in other ways. According to BMI, bidirectional communication is “planned for 2025”. According to BMI, another function, “Status Monitor”, is already available to interested executives. Applicants should find out the current processing status of their application with just one click.
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So far, BundID has not been introduced nationwide in Germany. According to BMI information, nine federal states use BundID exclusively: “Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia closed their state accounts in favor of BundID Saarland has switched immediately – without any prior service accounts – to BundID.”
1600 online services connected
The fact that a federal state uses BundID does not mean that applicants can use the account to log in to all online services of the respective federal state and its municipalities. Authorities must first integrate the user account into their services. According to BMI, the administration’s 1,609 online services and portals are currently linked to BundID – up from 1,200 last May. BMI does not know the total number of services nationwide: it cannot make any statements on this. Services and portals are under the sovereignty of countries, a spokesperson said.
According to BMI, it is not yet clear when BundID will be renamed “DeutschlandID”. A spokesperson said the name change “will involve significant effort, including financial, and is therefore planned only after functional development.”
Also planned on the BundID roadmap is an interface to the EUDI wallet. It is a smartphone app which, according to EU rules, citizens must also be able to use to register for administrative services online. The interface “enables all developed online services that integrate or have already integrated BundID to connect to the EUDI wallet,” BMI explained.
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