How laws become software

More than 2000 years ago, the carpenter Joseph travelled with his pregnant wife Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census. In order to spare today's population this experience in the 2022 census, TNG is working together with our client AKDB on digitising the registration system. In the future we might not even have to make the tiresome journey to the registration office when moving to a new address.

The heterogeneous landscape in the German registration system, caused among other things by federal structures, poses great challenges for the municipalities when it comes to digitalisation. Technical structures must be built that include the citizens as well as the various authorities. At the same time data reconciliation must take place, rulings of the Constitutional Court must be taken into account, and data protection must be guaranteed by encrypted transmission of information and a validated system login.

In their Big Techday talk, Dr Ulrike Schröder from TNG and Franz-Xaver Salat from AKDB describe how they are facing these challenges and which technical solutions will make the lives of German citizens easier in the future. You can find this and other talks from the last Big Techday in the Big Techday Playlist or directly here.