“Intelligent networking” stands for digitalization in the infrastructure areas of energy, healthcare, transport, education and public administration.
Systematic digital networking and the use of innovative ICT technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart data as well as horizontally connecting platforms can lead to process optimization, productivity gains and cost savings as well as socially relevant economic, ecological and social sustainability impulses. The cross-industry nature and the need for a large number of stakeholders to work together to implement intelligent networking are particularly evident in smart city/smart region initiatives.
Digitalization has become an integral part of society. More than ever before, the digital transformation has developed from a publicly perceived topic of discussion to an accepted requirement at all levels of society as a result of the coronavirus situation. And yet the framework conditions in Germany are not yet sufficiently well designed. The experts in the Intelligent Networking Working Group believe that further measures are required in all areas. Over the past few years, the Intelligent Networking Working Group and its expert groups (EG) have continuously developed situation reports and concrete recommendations for action (see div-report.de).
The Intelligent Networking Working Group is focusing its activities for the 2021 summit period on the annual theme of “Services of general interest and future viability through intelligent networking”. The digital networking of the infrastructure sectors of energy, health, transport, education and public administration is an elementary component of services of general interest and the future viability of our society. The energy transition, demographic change and overcoming urban-rural divides can only be successfully mastered if the underlying infrastructures are consistently upgraded digitally. The current public debate on this, particularly in the context of the digital transformation of cities and regions and issues of digital sovereignty, digital resilience, digital participation, digitalization and sustainability, digitalization for the common good and collaborative digitalization, requires in-depth professional engagement in order to enable a well-founded and equally comprehensible argumentation.
The Working Group will therefore examine, classify and evaluate the interrelationships in greater depth as part of its work program. It will publish the findings developed during the year in the form of recommendations for the coming legislative period and discuss them publicly with other stakeholders at the 2021 DIV conference.
Under the umbrella brand “Deutschland intelligent vernetzt” (DIV), the Intelligent Networking Working Group, its expert groups and partners have been organizing and hosting interactive conference formats on the status and outlook in the basic sectors of energy, health, transport, education and administration as well as other areas of intelligent networking since 2015. The aim is to intensify networking between the players involved and to learn from each other. The conference is being planned and held in cooperation with Charter of Digital Networking as well as the Stadt,Land.Digital and nachhaltig.digital initiatives, the MÜNCHNER KREIS and others.
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Member of the Board of Management of T-Systems Deutsche Telekom AG and CEO of T-Systems
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
T-Systems International GmbH
Digitalization has become an integral part of society. More than ever before, “digitalization” has become a publicly perceived topic of discussion. It has become a driving strategic issue for companies of all sizes. And yet the framework conditions in Germany are not yet sufficiently well designed. The experts in the Intelligent Networking Working Group believe that further measures are required in all areas. Over the past few years, the Intelligent Networking Working Group and its expert groups (EG) have continuously developed situation reports and concrete recommendations for action. As a high-ranking expert committee with around 300 experts from more than 150 companies and institutions, the Intelligent Networking Working Group is supporting the digital transformation of the infrastructure sectors in Germany. As part of the Digital Summit process, recommendations for implementation at federal, state and municipal level are being developed with the aim of ensuring and further developing suitable framework conditions in order to advance Germany’s digital networking through
The Intelligent Networking Working Group is focusing its activities for the 2020 summit period on the annual theme of “Implementing intelligently networked cities and regions – achieving sustainability!”. The work includes presenting political recommendations for action, holding a conference on the annual topic and initiating a toolkit with good practices for digital sustainability projects for cities and regions as well as holding discussion rounds at the Digital Summit:Political recommendations
Summary of the key statements and recommendations on the 2020 annual topic in a separate publication.
Under the umbrella brand “Deutschland intelligent vernetzt” (DIV), the Intelligent Networking Working Group, its expert groups and partners have been organizing and hosting interactive conference formats on the status and outlook in the basic sectors of energy, health, transport, education and administration as well as other topics related to intelligent networking since 2015. In 2020, the Working Group held a conference with numerous partners to exchange experiences and ideas on relevant practice-oriented topics and issues in the context of the annual theme “Implementing intelligently networked cities and regions – achieving sustainability!”. The aim was to intensify networking between the actors involved and to learn from each other. The conference was planned and held in cooperation with nachhaltig.digital, the Charter of Digital Networking, the Münchner Kreis and others.
Together with the Stadt.Land.Digital initiative, the Working Group collects good practices of sustainable, intelligently networked solutions for smart cities and regions and makes them accessible. In cooperation with nachhaltig.digital, the Charter of Digital Networking, the Münchner Kreis and other platforms of the Digital Summit, successful and innovative examples of digitalization and sustainability are collected, processed and made available to implementers and decision-makers in cities and regions as implementation aids and guidelines. The aim is to provide practical support to local authorities, drive forward the rollout of sustainable, intelligently networked solutions and thus generate multiplier effects.
Further information on the Smart City Navigator can be found at: www.smart-city-navigator.de
With the aim of making the focus group’s annual topic understandable and tangible, the focus group is presenting an exhibit at this year’s Digital Summit together with the city of Jena. A current smart neighborhood project in Jena-Lobeda will be presented. This regional implementation measure in the existing stock of typical prefabricated buildings is derived from the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Ecological, economic and social sustainability are integrated here. The Smart Neighborhood Jena-Lobeda is a blueprint and practical aid for the concrete implementation of current and future projects.
As a high-profile contribution to the Working Group’s discussion, the event “Digital Municipality between Resilience and Green Deal” will take place on the first day of the summit (30.11.).
The digitalization of municipalities, both in metropolitan regions and in medium-sized cities as well as rural districts and villages, makes it possible to achieve greater sustainability, particularly through the intelligent networking of infrastructure areas such as energy, health, transport, education and public administration.
Municipalities play a particularly important role in implementing global goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, European goals such as the EU Green Deal and national requirements such as the German Sustainability Strategy and the German government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 as well as the goals and measures of the federal states. Smart city and smart region initiatives are where digitalization for greater sustainability is at its strongest. This concerns, for example, ecological aspects of the energy and transport transition, social and political aspects of quality of life and participation as well as economic issues of innovation and regional location quality.
The event will discuss the viable path between “implementing the European Green Deal on the ground” and a rapid development towards resilient structures, as the pandemic currently demands.
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Member of the Board of Management of T-Systems Deutsche Telekom AG and CEO of T-Systems
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
T-Systems International GmbH