Would start aug 7th d w. This is to almost. Be used to be a bank clerk now in his new home of china hes a star player. Is an influencer he promotes German Companies online in china but he spent the last 4 years living in shanghai watching how chinas digitalisation history in past that of germany. This includes payment one scam buys his coffee oh but thats not all. The news is perhaps to organize his entire life. 56 of them by steve for instance i can use city service to check how much pension ill get Health Insurance a parking tickets you can even pay your electricity or doctors bill i can do just about anything and just one simple app i dont carry my wallet with me just my cell phone and you know but. And since this is now the case for most people in china even the poorest have switched to mobile payment this man is wearing his payment code around his neck. Did you get the digitalisation really is a revolution what you dont get to choose whether to take part in it or not you just have to. Digitalisation no other innovation has brought about so much change in so little time when we look towards china or are we seeing our own future. In the Digital World the balance of power is shifting. Giant digital corporations dominate the global economy. Germany seems left behind in the dust fashion retailers a londo wants to take up the fight will be there to fill the. Fungus and mop we believe the marketplace will consolidate and death and the politicians responsible for the internet is uncharted territory for us all. Do they have a vision for germanys Digital Future this film accompanies federal commissioner for Digital Affairs over t. V. And imo so isnt mobile 1st its mobile any. Experts are watching a global race unfold between policymakers and businesses as they buy for Digital Power or in the midst of a societal are people who is going to wind up battle between these 2 grand systems politics and Technology Europe has fallen behind in the digital sector the german politicians have wasted at least the back 8 Big Tech Companies today know more about us and this fancy. The question is who wields power on the internet welcome to the digital age. This is the town of martin hyder in north rhinewestphalia. This is where shanghai based thomas darks and used to live his parents still live here and he used to work for the savings bank before he became an influencer now he produces. Promo clips for German Companies along with his wife the pain. Killer was in china stacks and has 10000000 online followers many people watches videos like this one where he promotes the schoolbag brand now go back in china hes known as often. And what does that mean affable guy today really translated author means the happy one because many followers say my physique reminds them of a happy buddha so who suits me quite well. Today thomas decks and has an appointment with him go back in cologne his most successful video to date was for their brand and had long been clear to gordon a bit ahead of their go back to chinese operations that the brand needed to penetrate the Chinese Market and. I mean that then we end up in germany about 700000. 00 children start school each year in china its some 16000000. 00 now if not all 16000000. 00 children or their parents may be able to afford an air bag above but if we can reach even 10 percent thats already over double the size of the German Market unlocked. Influencer d. X. And is instrumental to this plan. The idea was for him to film go bag gifting a taxi drivers family with school bags along with money to cover their sons to wish and all that had equivalent to 2500 euros. That is that the clip went viral gun. Rights and a new life i think the video went live on august 13th and on that very day our daily turnover practically tripled and this went on until the day the school year started attack so we could be sure that the boost in traffic was helping us the traffic cones hoofed. Viewers are generally directed from the video platforms straight to ali babas online shops. You may want to get to the ship its one of the largest Platform Companies in the world and they go to place for german vendors hoping to sell goods in china. Because everyones there its basically a Search Engine and a one stop shop listen i whatever customers want they go there to look at more it ought and theyll find it theyre in it on bandcamp not just in straight away hopefully. With all the china has a stablish one of the 1st make a Platform Companies in the world the company is present in all areas of life customers can make payments with all the pain. While they shop on the Sales Platform team all for auction things on talbot the chinese even they can find their way using a map. Or have groceries delivered with element. Valley cloud owns huge Storage Farms the internets infrastructure and ali baba pictures produces in markets hollywood movies and thats just a little slice of the fast ali baba universe. In. The British Technology expert Jamie Bartlett observes a similar trend taking shape on u. S. Based platforms. Google and facebook in the same ones you always hear. No longer are just Search Engine platforms all social media platforms or video sharing platforms they increasingly will branch out into other areas amazon is no longer just a seller of products its also a provider of all sorts of mazing web space the most highly valued companies in the world have long been Platform Businesses the top ranks are occupied solely by american and Chinese Companies microsoft apple Amazon Google and facebook chinas front runners are ali baba intense and. The only German Company to even make the top 100. 00 is. Ranked 58th in the world. But some German Companies are trying to catch up in the summer of 2019 fashion retailers along opens its new headquarters in berlin twice a month is on board and day when they welcome all the newcomers. There are 200 today alone 200 out of 14000 account. Snacks are tailored to the new workforce. The average the londo employee is in the early thirtys and speaks english. They come from all over the world. And i was really surprised when i found this amount of people i think thats ok im sorry i didnt make that im so excited its its like its implied that they are doing something good its great to have it going on which you dont want your white men to hear and learn a lot of scenes and you know move forward you might hear. The newcomers or shown the heart of the company. And i would say lets start with. The places designed to make people reluctant to go home there are not. Individual offices but instead Flexible Working spaces inspired by big players like google apple for free support on the floor are the founders principles speed. And entrepreneurship. So you know that if you like America Great you didnt. Lose your job. And they too are part of the family pictures of the office dogs are posted on instagram with the hash tag was a launch of. The welcome speeches invite the newcomers to not just be part of a company but to join in on a mission its on pasqual because the v. P. Of product and design. Were very excited to have you on board and im personally very excited to kick off this day in telling you more about our story that started off with a very bold idea in 2008 in germany to sell shoes online and so the spirit of optimism that something crazy is possible starting with yes rather than with this is never going to work is something that keeps us all together so long ago has a new ambitious goal it wants to become a platform not just an Online Department store but a digital shopping district it wants to bring customers and retailers together and be the one who makes the rules what does it mean to be a platform ultimately the goal of sachin is to become the starting point for fashion and theres other examples in your life for instance when youre looking for entertainment and you dont know what to watch on friday saturday night you start opening match flicks and that fixed recommends you what you should watch so this very strong bonds to those platforms is what were looking to be in terms of starting point for fashion lisa me cheika heads Business Operations for germany austria switzerland poland and the Czech Republic under her stewardship the londo is to become a platform in all. These countries as the platform going the platform strategy also means that customers can buy brands thats a lender doesnt carry in stock but instead these products the sole directly by our partners we are networked with 1300 offline struggles and some of them generate a large part of their turnover through sunland. Even classic brick and mortar shops. Now. Invite more for instance there is a lot of his out of the consumer weimar Department Store so the platform one of them the schiller coffee house downtown is the biggest shop in the city. This afternoon theyre unveiling the upcoming spring trends. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to our grand fashion show here at the house were delighted you want to take a glimpse at the coming season this is let me tell you this season will be anything but boring. With. No facilities extra special attention is given to regular customers who still prefer visiting in person because the Good Solutions are going to be open to them. Meanwhile the Platform Business is humming along in the rear stock room customer orders through the lawn to come in from all over germany. People are still buying that skirt. 24 hours a day working in the digital age constanza here bush diet and Christina Gore are looking for the product ordered the internet has created a new profession besides sales clerks there are now socalled pickers. Whatsits i number it into the a in series or a full. You lose their 0 for this cant be it. Ive got a 5 to 5 here anyone know where it is and. Mine also covers its my job is to find the product a customer ordered online here in the store and then take it to the stockroom for shipping files and logs and them how many would use today for it decrypts received quite a few orders but today there were around 250 or 200 posts i would still. Go through and we get to use our own tissue paper and stick our logo on top of the food so customers can see that its from closing with. Us. And it definitely took everyone some getting used to to not serve customers face to face but to just get a list of the product and send it off without any personal contact at times theyve gotten the hang of it now and really give it their all out so it would. In order to be displayed on the platform the shiller call false pays a lot of heat how much exactly Neither Party will say Department Stores filling platform orders will this save offline businesses or spell their demise. Thats over the counter retail isnt on its way out and was stick around but in a completely different form for. The. Economist fear that small and Medium Sized Companies and their workforces may end up losing out in this Digital Transformation platform economy marks the dawn of a new age what does is this is practically a new economy because you dont necessarily need 3 or 4 different platforms you need one single marketplace and thats why these platforms have a tendency to snatch up entire markets on the in other words they gravitate towards monopolies and because the market is dominated by only a few players then we basically have not much choice i would say the major platforms dont dominate the market they basically are the market damn i think not because i think that theyre good i think theres just. One powerful companies charge ahead in the digital age and dictate the market do we need a force to counter them. What about policymakers. The federal commissioner for Digital Affairs doherty beer is attending the games com Gaming Convention in cologne. Shes been at the helm of digitalisation for 2 years now. She and transport minister under here sure you want to spread their enthusiasm for digitalisation. What is the daughter who has been addressing the topics of games and harnessing innovation for years now. She assures the progress that you sports and digital. Infrastructure and in many many more areas physically all that you meant is everyone in the cabinet is excited to see you too and that you know i know wed have to ask them but you certainly are mixing next question and taking the time. Often has 10 sometimes 15 such appointments a day her goal is for digitalisation to be considered a political issue. Except my law i once said offhand that many of my colleagues want this internet thing to just be over with at some point as there is definitely a bit of truth to that some do feel that if we just ignore these developments long enough they would really come tomorrow even if. Theres offices in the chancellor one floor below uncle americas. And shop i have a smartphone and 2 tablets as you can see i dont have a computer here at home i had it removed immediately even in the old building off on him i dont have one in my Parliamentary Office either my motor isnt mobile its mobile only. 0. Point 2 this interview is the interview today then im meeting a photographer for another interview and psystar today is a very media intense day then my breakfast which sadly i didnt manage to photograph and tough. As it is why do you post. Can i destroy develop people like that not just me or doesnt want to torture my sides i dont get around to it every day but today i really wanted to show all my scheduled appointments one after the other because its always nice to be no chance parents and show what im up to will die. Or. Go to bears office plus a front room thats it thats where her digitalisation realm ends and the chancellor. Theres no dedicated ministry of digitalisation but the policy makers face countless challenges who tackles them what response has the German Government put in place. Because i dont have an organizational chart that i brought something new instead. On survive that nobodys seen it yet either its called a dashboard in my talk that he gets to see who is actually responsible. As that and this is just a 1st draft or damage to determine which ministries are tackling the issue before and the good news is they all are. The ministry of transport for example is responsible for Digital Infrastructure in the ministry of labor the think tank fabric discusses digitalisation the ministry of the interior intends to digitalize administrative procedures while the ministry for Economic Affairs supports the Digital Transition in all the ministries combined a total of 244. 00 teams and 76. 00 departments deal with digital issues. In addition there is the Digital Department and the chancellor for Strategic Issues and the Digital Council an expert committee. In the digital cabinet all 15 ministers are to meet with specialist policy makers. The Innovation Council is for politicians and Business Leaders and she helps coordinate all doughty bear commissioner for Digital Affairs. Are policymakers prepared for Digital Transformation. But do critics say. You see how problematic it is everyone bubbles about on their own with no overarching plan i think its disastrous. When i look at when everyone is in charge and then no one really has as most humans i mean there has to be a minister at the top jihad with an allocated budget and staff in order to quarter nate and guide others who are responsible. In theory to our table is minister of state for digitalisation in practice she wields a little actual power come out to be had to take there has no budget and she just serves as window dressing shot of the government can say we take digitalisation seriously but they wont give her the main challenge the market so i really appreciate her as a colleague but she lacks the support of the budget and the power within the cabinet to make progress with precisely these issues importance of time as one skips intern and sets model of us crime section to section as often as we send a very a no use crying over spilt milk to put it more politely of course you always have to work with what youve got. Is the feeling that someone asked why so many if it were to be just one head thats entirely the wrong approach what i care about is does it work well not and does it when for instance the government takes its charts along to meet with centralized Platform Companies. The digital summit of the German Federal government and. Commissioner wishes to emphasize the positive aspects of digitalisation here as well she meets with a group of students in a side room. Over the next few years the federal government is investing 5000000000 euros in better digital equipment in schools. Its not just that one student is concerned the funds may not reach their proper destination since schools have to actively apply for those. Items for even another problem is if the principal doesnt take the initiative the students face a problem. It isnt obligatory you have to contact the officials yourself or its this and thats where i see the problems or the educational concept isnt really put into practice and the students lose out because of it i guess its you know if you just use the word problem 11 times maybe it was 10 or 12 times but either way quite frankly i believe thats just too much to ask and personally i see more opportunities where the program can be deployed sensibly and the concepts are already on hand and they are comprehensive thats right now its someone elses time it. Takes thats what social media use my me my favorite tool is instagram really because theyre people much friendlier because how we treat each other is important to me i mean and im going. Door to bear is quick to post pictures on instagram for visits to major Platform Companies such as facebook. Or google. Google. Google. But what about the problems the Digital Companies are posing for policymakers for example for years giant platforms have hardly paid any taxes despite billions in turnover. In part because they post profits and losses globally. And the result while top earners in germany fall into a 45 percent tax bracket and in the e. U. Conventional Companies Pay 23. 2 percent on average Digital Companies less than half their 9. 5 percent. But thats still far more than what the biggest digital players hand over. To take one example from the us amazon turned a profit of 11300000000. 00 there in 2018 and paid 0 taxes on. You must understand little subsets taxpayers who pay half their income like corporations pay a fraction of the title from 10 to 25 years they pay less taxes but im completely against waging that sort of trade so everyone pays their taxes in their home country and thats why it always depends what rights do i say and what comes back as it says there is talk of this to demands they should pay even if they must be healthy about it its a start to. Have your taxation of Digital Companies is a global issue one keynote speaker at the digital summit is my greater best talker the head of digitalisation at the european commission. Shes a european doughty bear of sorts but her tone is quite different. But need to put a fine one impacts so that this is paid in cash taxes just as well as any other pieces do already. We need. We can make sure the temps are named use or people i dont know its the other way round the more you know and how those Companies Operate the more you see the harm they are this is how they want to show things in common. Their home for 4 days. And when every day life is driven by platform apps people deliver this data supply around the clock like in china. These bikes can only be booked by app. If you dont have the. And want to hail a cab go off and wait in vain. To be admitted into Chinas International Import Expo you have to have your face scanned. German entrepreneurs exhibiting at the fair to. Gordon from go back for example. To listen soulful promotion of the saddleback we are selling Primary School bags. At the booth he takes a quick selfie with their promoter. Ok here we go back can reach up to half a 1000000 visitors but customers buy online on the pages operated by the major platforms just like the schiller call false environment air go back pace feast of the platform and supplies its data ali baba. This is the best you know what happens to the day to your company feeds into the internet here in china. They have no no idea. I dont think you can request that kind of automation. When news is on the page in a cafe he also leaves behind data. Does he know how much the platform knows about who. Gets all the data volume is certainly huge of course you could live like a hermit somewhere but if we dont jump on the bandwagon it will eventually find ourselves struggling behind watching from the sidelines. Its the Digital Business model the platform supposed easy access to customers in return they demand data from companies and customers. Not just in china. We are observing now a major quest for data and is driven mostly by the Business Models of the college of firms internet made up by its online you can observe how much time ive spent on a website how much i interact with it what products it caught my interest or what topics i prefer which before. You can then make deductions about my occupation and depending on which topics im interested in and all this is collected and compiled into a broad class im not. A margin of time in 10 or 1520 years from now not that far away really where somebody who is 18 years old has had almost their entire life data fied their fitness levels their diet levels their caffeine intake Big Tech Companies today know more about us than the study. Without a doubt. However unlike the stasi customers in the digital age often disclose their data voluntarily its an enticing offer the more data customers give to a company the more accurately it can tailor their products to each individuals demands solano also collects Customer Data as the size of it what about the style all this flows into an algorithm. For the. Drawing on millions of data points product designer and pasqual steam create special profiles from fashion conscious adopters to the chronically dissatisfied. Then go and when we look at this feedback we notice a pattern of behavior of models this means that we can show our customers that we understand we know you here the things you like and here are some things you might not have 9 lyrics citing as relevant to you the 6 band on the 1130 and the llano also uses customer type ologies to show targeted advertising. There is no evidence that the Company Fails to sufficiently protect data scientists have long fears that customers might also be influenced against their will. And. Heres one example a couple in their early thirtys is considering having children but also loves to travel. The major platforms already know this about them based on their online clicking behavior. And what can happen is that this information gets sold to the highest bidder so for example you could imagine a company that specializes in 1st energy treatment. Encouraging these people to go for holidays in order to delay having children for example the control room or videos more adverts about holidays or even more of 80 years of having friends who are going on holidays rather than baby videos and these people may find themselves 5 years later after travelling a lot more they find themselves in a situation where they need for attention services so they have and that may be what what this companies that provide Fertility Services are optimizing for because theyre trying to create future customers. Data is the fuel that feeds major platforms are we at risk of losing control of our data. So longer not only collects Customer Data but also that of its employees. The Company Calls this 360 degree feedback. The associated Computer Program is called zone are and depends on employees evaluating each other by Digital Tools helps them rate their colleagues strengths and weaknesses. As a professor for the future of work in a study investigated what Companies Like salon dont use this data for. These would be at these assessments are gathered and then aggregated into what is generally referred to as a score on. The companies usually have a classification system. A 3 tier system has become established for whatever reason with a low mid and High Performance lifestyle that is the power of numbers. And in principle its no longer your employers feedback its your colleagues opinions facts on the stress theyre. So youll find with most big tech firms theyre obsessed with Employee Feedback monitoring their employees working out what theyre doing or to try to drive increases in productivity and they would say happiness most of us you know what happens there is not a great number of different contexts are suddenly mixed together when enough money you money should i not always give my best friend a good rating in the company regardless of how well i can she did her job demanded he look in front moral conflicts when you were forced to use such software i certainly didnt think that it would ever end up being used in germany. Is a board member of the lander. He rarely gives television interviews. But he wants to emphasize digital feedback systems have long been commonplace. Reason difference even if were definitely not the only company to use 360. 00 degree feedback and i think it is overall the Natural Evolution of assessment and feedback culture to incorporate more data out of the question is how can we collect as many data points as possible in order to create an objective assessment in order to know where have accomplishments really been achieved and what needs more work and this forms the basis of our promise to employees weve always said so mondo is a place to learn and grow from the here and to me that really states the core of why employees enjoy working i got to hear. Data Protection Authority is currently investigating the tool the program is under constant revision is along to assess. Digitalisation is shaking the bedrock of all we know how we work how we live together who knows what about us and how is it being used. In china the state drives digital development. The country is steaming ahead into the future and this group of german entrepreneurs wants to join. In the past such digitalisation tours led to Silicon Valley but now its shanghai like this one organized by the Management Consultancy accenture. This trip is led by dr may walk. She was born in beijing and works for accenture and humble. The 1st lesson for german visitors is facial recognition what happens if they cross a red light here if you crawl 7 on its rack they capture you in the spring and your face well be lifted. All of the spring over there and people know you made a mistake people know you are the person cross the street. You cant yeah yeah hes real clear here you see this people obviously broken the law so he can help us to make the people follow the rules i would say so i mean shaving and their works are one now a bit careful especially when they see the camera here on the streets. A total of 600000000. 00 smart cameras monitor the country they recognize exactly who theyre filming. The government gives the projects whooping names like eagle eyes were sky and. What is their plan. And. Good morning im chen i want to show you something that you could only do it in china. The Chinese State television explains what the collected data can be used for already voluntary point systems reward customers for instance for giving their data to shopping platforms but china this year china wants to introduce a state run social Credit System mandatory for everyone and every person is then meant to get a score from the state. Being. Social create the social Credit System or scoring is based on 1st collecting information from the population. The folks you go to they cross the street on red lights or have they committed a crime because all this data is collected and points are assigned. Of course this is also an attempt at measuring a persons value and if the governments a good thing they could use this or this information for good it can improve services that can improve health care and so on if the governments are bad then that could be a problematic and i think it can lead to all kinds of exploitation and tyranny. The Chinese Government does all right. The plan and penalties for people who scores dropped below a certain minimum. They cannot go chaplain back in place they cannot go tapping high speed trains they cannot go to luxury restaurants and they cant get a go through as they are unable to get names or ins and they call and even read the house if a childs face broke in one place restrictions are imposed everywhere. Whats happening in china is no less than a social revolution the government is transforming the country at a breakneck speed. To climb to booting heads a Management Consultancy in germany. You dont have to like what you see to be impressed by chinas determination. I think thats the huge advantage of a Single Party System my solution comes they just implemented and it stopped the internet startups of being founded in the state is dispersing a lot of funds to them this puts china in the name of god it is obvious i dont know if you know. A good 2 hours away from shanghai the city of hung joe is home to the make a platform. That invests in the company developing the governments facial Recognition Software and it supports the social scoring system. But ali baba doesnt actually allowed television teams with camera onto their premises. We accompany the tour group to the for you. Then were told from here on the cameras must stay off. Only photos are allowed inside. The tour group learns alibaba is currently building a Worldwide Logistics network they want to reach any point on earth with their products within 72 hours. And. That evening in hong show the german entrepreneurs recap what they experienced today. If there is this incredible unfathomable optimism in technology they say things Like Technology will give us a Brighter Future and frankly even it will help us dominate the world of a greater. He said this digital totalitarianism seems to be the most successful model for christ in what it says are. You how did you hear people are under the impression that the Government Works just fine germany our basic impression is the government doesnt work that has an impact on so of course we put up with all the other downsides which take a heavy toll on us surveillance scoring and so on and you think to yourself at some point someone ought to bring up George Orwell george all nobody ever does and thats a bit surprising and makes you question your own position of it i think its wrong for him because of its one thing. China is compelling us to act how do we ensure that our Digital Transition doesnt turn orwellian but that the old world doesnt face its demise how do we pave a democratic way into the digital age. A 3rd of germans actually believe that the dangers of digitalisation outweigh the opportunities for them things are changing much too quickly. Then again at a digital trade fair in lisbon the impression is germany is far too slow. Its been left in the dust by major platforms from the usa and china but what are the costs of catching up yeah you know because everyone thinks whats happening in china is great but no one in germany wants educations like they have in china at the expense of freedom and Human Rights Watch and no one wants to give up democracy in our country and i believe that even without relinquishing our basic Democratic Values we can step up our game thats exactly selebi at some point. But how. Is a lot of board member who benefit to us on his way to see commissioner doughty pair. There is a lot that the platform boss and politician could argue about. Like indecision regarding germanys digital policy or platforms of hunger for power online. But the tone remains pleasant. With dr tape there i think we have an interlocutor who took interest in digitalization long before she was named commissioner and was with his team and i think both sides always provide ideas we can discuss but there are always issues we can talk about probably many members present as this could be so didnt it im not one who always tries to force things or who gets rude i dont get lout thats not my way of doing politics get down to 20 of politicians are willing to take entrepreneurs to the side but thats not your style. You just come to mind up for them to type of course that really appeals to the general public and youd probably like it to be because it translates into more clicks and a bigger audience but you must remember everyone has their cross to bear and everyones face a certain constraints wherever they stand from give us nothing and so youd say youre taking the lead and hes right i make Great Strides every day with grand visions on high heels into the future towards a positive Digital Future one of. We need our politics to put this on the agenda and what kind of a digital millia do we want to have to alter our world was we need to understand from 5th knowledge is what is actually feasible technologically. And they need to understand from the public and from politicians what are the rules and. Regulations that should govern their systems who wields the power online policymakers businesses all of us. In munich as in many german cities people have already decided to let ali baba into their everyday life at the Victor Wanyama mocked food market you can pay in cash or with all the above is all the paper. You can find the chinese logo in many shops. At the drugstore chain d. M. You can pay with all the paper in all of its 2000 german affiliate branches and an old traditional tavern has replaced its blue and white flag with one from ali baba. And so the digital age dawns in germany brought to you by china. Cheat me or super food. Discounted and inexpensive but animals are suffering and the environment is crying out. A new trend healthier than feeding resources and. Price war on the place probably just cheap. Made in germany. 30 minutes on d w. Enjoying the conflict so to sebastian. Hong kong never leads to news for long these days now its the draft of a new security low. 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