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October 2014

On 21 October 2014, the National IT summit was held with the subject “work and life in times of digitization - Together. Innovative. Self-determined.” The summit was determined by the new topics evoked by the Digital Agenda and different work groups discussed the main topics. The Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière, referred to the DeMail-system, an encrypted electronic letter system, and emphasized that the system will be implemented all over the country. He announced that more than 200 civil services will be communicating with this system until the end of 2015. Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, pointed out the importance of secure e-government services. Furthermore she announced a new ID-application, which can be used for a quick and easy electronic identity-verification.