With the comprehensive and consistent approach that a digital agency could provide, Germany would take on a leading role internationally. In the G7 similar task groups have been initiated; however these have been assigned specific tasks (in particular e-government) and no generic digitisation tasks. The new federal Digital Agency, on the other hand, should be based on three pillars: • bringing competencies together, • supporting the political digital agenda, and • sustainably building up digitisation competence. This process should encompass the entire digital value-added chain, beginning at the content, service and application level, to connectivity, and on to devices and users. Horizontal issues such as research and development, standardisation, data protection and IT security should always be included in order to prevent silo mentality when solving conflicting objectives for the digitisation process. Our first step is to significantly expand the Federal Network Agency’s analysis capability and its ability to act. This will take the development of existing and new statutory requirements into account. It is especially necessary to strengthen our observation of the market and participants, not lastly to satisfy new European regulations on maintaining Internet neutrality. Also in the course of the current review of the European legal framework being conducted by the Euro­ pean Commission, we expect that the duties of national regulatory authorities for a Digital Single Market will be expanded. Setting up digital networks / Internet platforms, a start-up team is the first step toward proactively expanding and concentrating competencies. In the mid-term however, a Digital Agency should be a service point that takes on the task of informing companies and consumers, being available to government agencies as a central competent contact and also identifying and removing obstacles to political strategies. Just like the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) or the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), a new Digital Agency can help to master one of the major challenges to society.