IT Planning Council, FITKO & Governikus

Effective together

✓ Central political steering body for the digitalization of public administration
✓ Legally compliant and efficient digitalization
✓ Optimization of administrative processes

The IT Planning Council is the central political steering body for the digitalization of public administration in Germany. Its task is to coordinate cooperation between the (German) Federal Government and the federal states on information technology issues and to ensure the strategic management of e-government projects.

The IT Planning Council helps to digitize administrative processes, some of which are still paper-based, and thus make administration more efficient. By steering e-government projects, it promotes the automation of processes, which means that citizens and companies can interact with the authorities more quickly and in a more user-friendly way.

These digital solutions create the basis for a modern administration that not only increases efficiency, but also improves service for society and the economy.

IT products such as the Governikus applications and the Anwendung Governikus MultiMessenger application are among the central tools that contribute to these plans. These products from the IT Planning Council are already regularly used, operated and continuously developed in the administration in order to drive digital change in the administration.

This means that not only the administrations themselves, but also citizens and companies benefit from a modern, service-oriented administration.

This is what the IT Planning Council stands for

Coordination of the digital transformation

public administration, through cooperation between the (German) Federal Government and the federal states on IT issues.

Control of e-government projects

aiming to make administrative processes more efficient through the use of modern information technology.

Ensuring continuous further development

of IT applications that support the administration in its digital transformation.

The FITKO (Federal IT Cooperation)

To support the IT Planning Council in its tasks, an organization was created as a central coordination and networking body : FITKO (Federal IT Cooperation).

FITKO was founded on January 1, 2020 by an amendment to the IT State Treaty as an independent institution under public law under the auspices of all federal states and the federal government, based in Frankfurt am Main. FITKO's mission is to drive forward the digitization of public administration in practice and to network those involved. It provides support in the decision-making process, ensures the binding implementation of its resolutions and presents neutral solutions. Dr. André Göbel has been President of FITKO since 1 November 2023.

Detailed information can be found on the FITKO website.

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