The budget of the federal government has doubled since 2019 and includes about 19 billion euros in 2024. Planned expenses for digital subjects were higher in the previous year, for example, the entire budget of the Ministry of Health (16.7 billion Euro). This was the result of a study by the Lebanese Center for European Economic Research Manhem (ZEW) on behalf of Thinktank Agora Digital Change.
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Coronpendandemic has strongly increased the expenditure for digitization, commenting by Stephen Human, Managing Director of Agora Digital Transformation. “Nevertheless, the difference between the European Union countries continues to increase in administrative digitization in Germany in recent years.” More money now has no effect, he insisted. The main thing is to create the right structure for digital solutions.
More than 60 billion euros in four years
In the domestic years 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024, the federal budgetary funds included digitization. According to study A total of 60 billion euros. The largest chunks formed funds for digitization of administration (16.6 billion euros), followed by digital infrastructure (13.8 billion) as well as research and innovation in the field of digitization (12.8 billion) and Bundesver (11.9 11.9 11.9) Billion). The ratio of digital posts in the entire federal budget increased from 2.7 percent in 2019 to 4.5 percent in the top in 2023.
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“In addition to budgetism, effective use of public funds is also important for a successful digitization policy,” Thilak Mahendran said, Innovation lead for the Digital Government Act in Agora Digital Transformation. “In this regard, budget funds should not only be determined for digitization, but also the results of their money should be carefully evaluated.”
20,000 domestic title evaluated
However, ZEW researchers had to drive a lot to determine expenses. Because the expenses are spread on all departments and countless domestic titles. Scientists initially evaluated over 20,000 domestic titles, including a text analysis and a help of machine learning approach with keywords. This became more difficult than the fact that full budget plans are available only as PDF.
With machine methods, researchers identified around 6000 titles as “potential digital”, which they then manually examined. Due to this high effort, he left the domestic years 2020 and 2022.
“There is a lack of uniform system for digital versions to produce transparency for digital versions,” said Thomas Nebel, co-writer of the ZEW Research Area “Digital Economy”. Politicians have to ensure more clarity here, as digitization is “one of the major changes of this country”.
Countries and municipalities also invest billions
Since ministry does not often manage to release domestic funds (such as national academic platform), actual expenses may be lower than the target values mentioned in the study. However, ZEW researchers have not evaluated a special fund (such as Bundesvehar). The expenses of federal states and municipalities were also not considered. They also invest in digitization to a large extent. For example, how much the state spends for modernization of administration, so rarely can be estimated.
(CWO)
