While the new ministry still has to deliver, the idea of creating a ministry with a dedicated budget is not that bad of an idea. Before often money was diverted in other places, ministries failed to synchronizes. Digitalization itself was part of the traffic ministry (as digital infrastructure, the ministry also has many agencies below such as the weather service, so it made sense a bit), however, most administrative procedures were part of the ministry of interior and citizen data often handled by the finance ministry. I am not a fan of the new government either, but I still hope that a bit of digitalization will finally land in Germany. Beyond sovereign tech fund, IMHO, the previous government failed to deliver regarding digitalization. To be fair the big problem in Germany remains the federal structure with tons of stuff implemented differently at state level and even worse at each municipality.