Digital Action Plans for Austria

The Digital Action Plans for Austria (Digitaler Aktionsplan Austria) is a strategic framework aimed at guiding Austria’s digital transformation, ensuring that it strengthens the country’s resilience and competitiveness. The action plan is designed to address key areas such as economic growth, job creation, and improving the quality of life for people across all regions. It emphasises the importance of digital services in making administration more accessible to both businesses and citizens.

Key elements of the action plan include:

1. Crisis resilience: Ensuring Austria remains resilient in the face of crises through the development of robust digital infrastructure.
2. Competitiveness: Enhancing the competitiveness of Austrian businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), through better use of data and digital tools.
3. Innovation: Positioning Austria as a leader in digital innovation by fostering the use of new technologies and creating legal frameworks that support experimentation and testing in real-world conditions.
4. Data utilisation: Leveraging data to drive innovation while ensuring data privacy and security, with a focus on high-quality data use for societal benefit.
5. Education: Strengthening digital education and training to create a workforce capable of thriving in the digital economy, with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.
6. Health and security: Utilising digital tools to improve healthcare and ensure the security of critical infrastructure and the public.

The action plan incorporates long-term sustainability, focusing on the responsible use of natural, economic, and financial resources. It also includes provisions for the fair distribution of digital infrastructure across all regions, ensuring equitable access for all citizens.