Germany in autumn 2010. It will be cooler. Two opposing phenomena are paying off: deal on the one hand the desire for more influence in politics by citizens and on the other hand, the helplessness of the political actors, with the further advance of globalization and digitalization, for freedom, growth and security as central policy aims to ensure the future.
It began with the petition for more Non smoking protection in Bavaria, was continued in Hamburg with the topic of school reform, strengthened S21 in Stuttgart under the term and is expected to see NOlympia in view of the German bid for the next Olympic Winter Games is continued: the citizens to make more pressure on the policy. They are also largely successful because they have thanks to the Internet through powerful tools for articulation and mobilization. Especially with the protests against the new central station in Stuttgart, this is particularly clear. The opponents of the station project Stuttgart21 organized primarily over the Internet. We use all the possibilities of Web 2.0: YouTube, Twitter, blogs, Flickr, Feeds, social networks and bookmarks. This quick and easy technique allows the organizers to ask again and again, tens of thousands of protesters to participate in events outside the station. Every minute will be sent to Twitter messages www.kopfbahnhof alternative proposals on the website -21.de shown. On this side there is also a call to sign an appeal to Prime Minister and other politicians Mappus the next speaker to be announced Monday demonstrations, pictures of the demolition of part of the north wing and new expertise and Others published by the federal environment. New supporters imagine, flyers, posters and postcards are available. Also a call for donations is on the side. A mini-banner counts the days until the state election in the spring of 2011.
On the www.parkschuetzer.de citizens can register to the gate guard and opting for a stage commitment. There are levels green, orange and red at the level of green have registered over 22,000 people, about the level of red 2,000. Red means in an emergency to be ready to face even the construction vehicles in the way or to be chained to trees. The page also live data are visible, for example, how much park guards are currently on the gate guard. The page
www.life-in-stuttgart.de refers inter alia to the Stuttgart-appeal for an immediate moratorium (http://stuttgarterapell.de/) can be signed electronically. Nearly 40,000 people have already done so. Webcams, recent recordings from the central station.
page www.dialog-21.de "represents blunt arguments that are" in a kind of treadmill with posters. So it is, on a poster, "It is true that part of the Castle Gardens site over the years will be. It is also true that this lack of education and culture that make up a modern city. " The site is a campaign "The good arguments prevail" of the proponents fake, it turns virtually the Pro-arguments of the proponents 'um'.
The advocates of the new underground main train station to try on the web at www.the-new-
heart-europas.de the citizens for the reconstruction of the Stuttgart train station to win. However, here no interactive applications are used. Detail displayed on the page the objectives and the project details. Pictures of the demolition of the walls of the north wing will be published. Some statements on the rail project are on the page, self-registrations are not possible. The official site Stuttgart www.stuttgart.de e published an open letter Lord Mayor Dr. Wolfgang Schuster. There is a reference to a base in the urban web site, which in turn www.bahnprojekt the page -stuttgart-ulm.de refers. It is identical to the URL: www.the-new-heart-europas.de proStuttgart21 The association has the side [url = www.prostuttgart21.de] www.prostuttgart21.de [/ url] appear. Some 1,000 citizens are listed there as a supporter.
Just a few years, these mobilization campaigns only with great organizational and financial cost were possible. Invitations had printed and distributed will be costly, reports were made almost exclusively on existing and largely established media. Today we have understood the protesters that the register of the Web 2.0 world to take full. The example of Stuttgart shows that policy, management and owners are well advised to take a closer turn these new media. People expect information and arguments in new ways by their management.
paging . The current Google Street View project - the company published shortly in the Internet real houses first views of the 20 largest German cities - makes it clear how the real and the digital world more and more mixed and is therefore the policy with new challenges.
The combination of power and space is still in its infancy. But see the first signs that a reality and virtuality in the future more and more "superimposed." The mobile communications is on the way to impose real objects a kind of "digital skin" to the user a wide range of possible interactions, based on the displayed objects. This development looks at the policy largely helpless. Only through public pressure they awoke from the digital hibernation. The topic of Google Street View is with all the new legal issues. Already in 23 countries, this service has been introduced. The fact that Germany is not excluded as an important market for IT companies is expected to have been well known. But only now beginning the German policy to deal with it. Quite late.
characterized many years away, that the digital world creates its own jurisdiction. National legal framework is largely ineffective in the globalized world. One can complain or regret, but it is reality. In a recent issue of the prestigious magazine The Economist, the question was whether Facebook, Google and others are far from their own countries in the global cyberspace. Facebook, with its now more than 500 million global users ("residents") of the "third largest state" after China and India. Legal issues such as under the Privacy touch with our service, equal to half a billion people probably more than 150 countries from various law-sen and Kulturkrei. This challenges the global world of states.
Germany has failed to attend at an early stage to an active Netzpolitk. This charge you have to make the policy. The example of Google Street View shows how uncoordinated the federal government this issue is addressed. The Interior, the Ministry of Consumer Protection and the Justice Department went for weeks with different voices in the public. In the meantime, turned on, the Chancellor and asked Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla, prepare a line of Google Street View. Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière did the only thing in which he announced the topics to address Internet privacy and principle. That will happen this fall.
It's preposterous and shows a certain helplessness that leading politicians are known in the media that they exercise the right of appeal to use Google Street View, not to see their private houses shown on the web. Should we not demand more of them to do their job and to create legal frameworks, which both carry the entrepreneurial interests and the privacy of citizens, rather than the concerns of citizens ? To curry
We must be careful that we do not close for sheer activism in public spaces. We threaten the freedom as a fundamental property of an enlightened society. Check According to the Berlin Senator of Justice officials in the Senate administration, the buildings that may appear on the Internet and what is not. This is the wrong way. Public buildings are called the building because they are public or have a related function. Why should suddenly present town halls, swimming pools, fire stations, youth centers and schools are not all "moral rights", not in the digital world can be defined? It is in the public interest that these buildings can be found. The Bavarian State Office for Data Protection said that ground, that when the general right to privacy is, entitled to the natural persons and not legal entities under public law. Thereafter, a cancellation of their buildings require only individual citizens, but not municipalities.
Today's data protection provisions are from the stone age of data processing. Many current basic questions remain unanswered, let alone being asked. Necessary minimum international standards. Privacy has long been an issue for G-8 or G-20 summit. Ultimately it is about the balancing of liberty rights in a global world order not kodifzierten. As long as there are international standards do not exist, as long as you should find a negotiated together.
The topic network policy makes clear how important it is to practice a comprehensive policy. Comprehensive policy and departmental thought fit often do not coincide. A thematic approach to policy - not by levels of differentiated responsibilities and asks - will bring more service, more quality and more efficiency. The world of networking is challenging the state in his new organization structure. The transformation to a government network and an integrated network management Germany has yet to come. [/ B] save
