Our Tasks
The Digital Office, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is the central unit that supports KIT in its digitalization efforts and advises and supports the management level in its responsibilities in this regard.
The Digital Office acts as an overarching mediator in terms of the management level’s responsibility. It is assigned to the Executive Board Department “Digitalization and Sustainability” and supports the Vice President Prof. Dr. Kora Kristof in her responsibility for the digitalization area of action in the KIT 2025 Strategy.
The Digital Office thus generally examines the possibilities and benefits of digitalization for KIT and drives them forward. The technical requirements and users’ needs are recorded and taken into account for the further development of KIT’s digital infrastructure.
Our Offerings
The Digital Office:
- advises and supports the Executive Board and the heads of divisions in shaping digitalization and information security issues.
- Together with the CIO, is responsible for the development and implementation of the digitalization strategy as part of the KIT 2025 Strategy.
- is responsible for creating structures (e.g. committees) for setting and coordinating digitalization topics and projects.
- provides and maintains an overview of digitalization at KIT and is the universal point of contact - in the sense of a pilot function - for digitalization topics at KIT.
- takes up user requirements, current developments and interests and brings them to the right place at KIT in a targeted manner.
- advises and supports in setting up and preparing digitization projects.
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Which topics are affected by digitalization at KIT?
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Information security should adequately protect an organization’s information. How does KIT safeguard the fundamental values of confidentiality, integrity and availability?
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Digitalization is part of the KIT 2025 Strategy as a strategic area of action. What goals and measures is KIT pursuing?
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How does KIT guarantee all stakeholder groups are involved in the processing of upcoming and future digitalization topics?
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15.11.2024 The second report of the ZKI Cloud Commission describes the changes in administrative and provision processes in German universities resulting from the introduction and use of cloud services. Elke Spanke (former DO) and Patrick von der Hagen (SCC) are among the co-authors.
04.11.2024 Dr. Sibylle Haßler (IWU) presented the EXU RDM activity CREATIVE with a scientific poster at the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration annual conference 2024. The project makes the data repository RADAR4KIT more accessible to researchers at the KIT Climate and Environment Center.
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29.10.2024 At the annual conference 2024 of EDUCAUSE, Dr. Isabel Gallin (DO) moderated three table sessions as part of the Annual Partner Summit. The session “Higher Ed Working Together with Industry” discussed issues of cooperation between universities and industry; the session “Association Partnerships: Wrap-up & Next Steps” addressed the role of organizations such as EDUCAUSE and EUNIS in fostering effective partnerships. Isabel Gallin is Vice-President of EUNIS.
(Photo from left: Peter Angelos (Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Cloquet, Minnesota), Isabel Gallin (KIT, EUNIS) and Tiffany Beth Mfume (John Hopkins University Baltimore))
Hannah Bachus joined our team as a project officer on October 1, 2024. The project of ITAS, DO and SCC will identify future-oriented topics and potentials at the interface of digitalization and sustainability, integrate them into processes and communicate the results.
Welcome to our team!
You can find further news about digitalization at KIT in our news list.