•T  he German federal government has already implemented a number of important projects and measures in the context of the Digital Agenda. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has expanded the scope of future areas of involvement.1 Among other things, the government has successfully auctioned off mobile broadband radio frequencies. In addition, the federal programme for promoting broadband deployment has been set up, over one hundred specific practical examples of Industry 4.0 were introduced at the 2015 National IT Summit, the interministerial programme Smart Networks Strategy (Strategie Intelligente Vernetzung) was initiated, and the funding programme Digital Technologies for Business (Digitale Technologien für die Wirtschaft PAiCE: Platforms | Additive Manufacturing | Imaging | Communication | Engineering) was started. In addition, we assist small and medium-sized businesses in the digitisation process by setting up Mittelstand 4.0 Centres of Excellence. Meanwhile, the pace of technological change is picking up, and data traffic is rapidly expanding. One of the main reasons for this is the increasing connectivity of devices, machines and people through the Internet. In 2015 approximately 20 billion devices and machines were linked via the Internet. It is estimated that this number will increase to one-half trillion by 2030. In order to benefit from this trend, we hereby propose our Digital Strategy 2025, which describes our goals in the major areas of focus and specifies measures to be implemented. 1 BMWi publication: Industrie 4.0 und Digitale Wirtschaft (Industry 4.0 and the Digital Economy), April 2015. BMWi publication: Impulse für die Digitalisierung der deutschen Wirtschaft (Going digital: driving the digital economy in Germany), September 2015.