Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP) and State Secretary for Digitization Florian Tursky (ÖVP) presented the new digital administration platform of the federal army “BundesheerOnline”. Men who are on conscription, military service, members of the militia or those providing training services should benefit. “In total, more than 100 relevant processes will be digitized in the future,” it said at a press conference in Vienna. The platform went online on Thursday.
According to the Bundesheer, 90,000 people a year can already use the service with the first digital official channels. Tanner mentioned forms for family and partner alimony, housing benefit, health insurance for next of kin or the provision of bank details and contact details, among other things, as examples of official channels that have already been digitized. In general, all official channels in the armed forces should be digitized on the platform by the end of 2024. That is about 100 procedures in total.
Access is through a secure identification process such as ID-Austria, cell phone signature or a personal identification, Tanner said. The platform also allows users to contact the responsible clerks and speakers in the form of a chat.
“You just have to be like Tinder”
“After our conscripts were called up for military service, they had to go through certain procedures to, for example, fill in forms for housing benefit, family support or disclosure of bank details and send them to the responsible office,” the minister said. representatives of the media. “That means downloading forms, filling them out by hand and sending them by mail.” With the new platform, that should now be a thing of the past. “With the Digital Austria Act, the goal was set to digitize all official channels by 2024,” said Tursky. According to the State Secretary, about 90,000 paper forms had to be completed every year in order to release bank details. “Young people use the latest smartphone apps. That’s why the military’s platform needs to be as simple as Tinder,” says Tursky.
At the end of this year, the platform must be available to all conscripts – so conscripts and civil servants – and will be expanded in the future. Tanner pointed out on Thursday that some 40,000 conscripts a year are registered by the armed forces in Austria.
Source: Krone
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