Public Sector

Digital sovereignty is defined as the ability of organizations and public administrations to maintain control over data, technologies, and digital infrastructures—independently of external providers and opaque platform ecosystems. When digital dependencies pose strategic risks, sovereignty determines the competitiveness and ability to act of states and companies. Digital sovereignty is therefore becoming a strategic success factor.

As a member of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA), mgm supports the joint initiative of the European open source industry for digital sovereignty. We co-signed the Declaration of Digital Independence at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty on 18 November 2025 in Berlin.

The digitisation of public administration in Germany is at a decisive crossroads. While important administrative services are now offered digitally thanks to the Online Access Act (OZG), one key problem remains: citizens and businesses have to repeatedly submit the same data and evidence. Register modernisation is the answer to this challenge.

The OZG Cloud, an administrative IT system landscape for municipalities and public institutions, continues to gain momentum. In recent months, the mgm project team,...

On 30 October 2025, Marcus Warnke will discuss with experts at the Rhineland-Palatinate Digital Administration Conference how clear control, prioritisation and transparency in portfolio management enable effective and sustainable digitalisation in public administration.

The digitization of public administration is the central transformation on the path to state modernization. The Online Access Act (OZG) requires the federal government, states, and municipalities to offer administrative services digitally. However, digitized application forms are only the first step. Only complete, seamless end-to-end digitization creates real added value – for citizens, businesses, and public authorities.

mgm has now been awarded the eGovernment Readers' Choice Platinum Award in the ‘Consultant’ category for five years in a row – clear proof that we are maintaining our leading position in the digitalisation of public administration.

On 2 October 2025, Roland Kreutzer, Head of Public Sector Consulting at mgm, together with Dr Julia Hodapp and Anne Voigt, will be demonstrating at the Smart Country Convention (SCCON) how the NEGZ – Competence Network for Digital Administration – is driving forward the digital transformation of public administration – and why it is worth getting actively involved.

The recently published eGovernment Monitor 2025 by Initiative D21 sheds light on the situation: Yes, there are now plenty of digital administrative services available – but citizens and businesses are right to point out that many of them still seem analogue, difficult to access or untrustworthy. If we want to take the digital state seriously, we must not only deliver ‘more’, but above all deliver better.

Public administration faces a dilemma: how can effective digitalisation be implemented when resources and budgets are tight? At this year's NEGZ Autumn Conference, we will show how this can be achieved – with proven methods for impact-oriented and coordinated management of digitalisation projects.