We’re part of the SPRIND mission
Deutschland,
was geht?
We’re working with SPRIND to digitize public administration application processes.
Why keep proving what the state already knows? Our team, “Verwaltung, die weiß, was sie weiß” — an administration that knows what it knows — is developing an approach that connects existing data with understandable processes.
Verwaltung, die weiß, was sie weiß
Meet the teams at SPRIND
“Deutschland, was geht?” is a joint mission of SPRIND and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation (BMDS).
Less paperwork.
More help.
Applying for a public service often starts with gathering information that already exists elsewhere. People submit the same evidence again. Meanwhile, eligibility rules are implemented separately in administrative software, online applications, and benefit calculators.
This is where we start. As a software team from Hamburg, we bring experience with data, APIs, and public administration. Through this mission, we want to turn that experience into a process that uses existing information and asks only for what is actually missing.
Our idea: the EUDI Wallet application factory
We want to describe an application’s rules once, as an executable legal model. This model should express the eligibility conditions and the evidence needed to establish them, allowing the same eligibility logic to be used throughout the process.
The intended building blocks are the EUDI Wallet for digital identities and credentials, and NOOTS, Germany’s National Once-Only Technical System for exchanging evidence. Our model should coordinate the required evidence from the wallet and through NOOTS. One possible use case is the German supplementary child allowance, Kinderzuschlag.
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Model the rules once
Eligibility conditions and required evidence are described in a shared, executable model.
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Use existing evidence
The process should incorporate relevant credentials from the EUDI Wallet and through NOOTS wherever access is permitted.
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Ask only for what’s missing
People provide the information still needed. The underlying rules and results remain traceable.
From idea
to prototype
The “Deutschland, was geht?” mission grew out of 27,707 contributions from the public. Selected teams are now developing concrete approaches with support from SPRIND, BMDS, and experts from public administration.
Our application factory is part of this prototyping phase. We are exploring how a legal model, digital evidence, and an application workflow can work together. Our goal: less repeated data entry, less duplicate implementation, and more time for processing applications.