The Digital University: Information Security And Transparency

The digital university has today emerged from its hitherto cloistered existence and become an open, transparent and crystal-clear, where information, data, publications, classes and projects are open to society, and the great functions of teaching, researching, and training qualified professionals are no longer fundamental decisions that are overridingly linked to the university sphere. The digital university was forged in the 20th century, and it has since revolutionised all previously known information systems. It has also raised some considerable management challenges. One of the basic aspects of this transformation concerns the data and information owned or generated by the universities themselves. The universities, in spite of the budgetary constraints to which they have been subjected -sometimes due to the crisis-, should not remain on the margins of these changes, but engage fully in training future professionals and taking the lead in achieving the goals of the Information Society. There are numerous challenges facing universities in the 21st century -they will be required to be digital, open, transparent and crystal-clear. These challenges particularly concern the treatment, transparency, creation and negotiation of data and information. The goals of the digital university must be approached from the point of view of respect for individual freedoms and for citizens' fundamental rights.