Every 20th person lives offline

Digital office, medical data: What politicians are planning

"ID Austria", digital ID cards: The government is proud of the digitization projects of recent years. After the election, all parties are insisting on further expansion - but with different priorities.

(Bild: APA/HANS KLAUS TECHT)

6.3 million Austrians are voting for a new parliament on September 29 - and are thus setting a new course not only in the "analog" world. For the parties, the World Wide Web is no longer uncharted territory, but a virtual space that they want to shape. Krone+ reveals the digital plans of Austrian politics so that you can go to the ballot box informed.

"ID Austria", digital ID cards and official documents, "green passports", online funding applications, electronic health records - in recent years, our politicians have never tired of digitizing official channels and government services. But not everyone can keep up, especially older people: one in five people over 65 live "offline", according to Statistics Austria. There is a divide in society, not only in IT skills, but also in the acceptance of digital services - keyword: data protection. Some people are calling for a documented right to an "analog life". What do the campaigning parties have to say about these issues? How should the digital state take Internet deniers with it? Krone+ asked - and found out quite different points of view.