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Summary
In this module, we will draw your attention to the importance of using the ICT facilities offered by your education institute as much as possible. By using the appropriate hardware and software, we can better protect our sensitive data, such as personal data, and guarantee the greatest possible security.

Education institutions never stop moving. Having the room to innovate is one of the basic needs for our survival. If you want to use a new software or hardware application, we will consider together whether that is possible. Perhaps there exist possibilities within the current ICT landscape for achieving your goals or supporting your daily work. Or perhaps it will, in fact, prove necessary to obtain new technology for this. In that case, it is essential that we travel down the appropriate road together to ensure that the licences are concluded in the proper manner and (if personal data is processed by the application) that there is a processing agreement with the supplier.

You may under certain conditions also use your personal equipment for your business activities. However, we strongly advise against synchronising your business cloud services with your personal equipment, for example, to prevent the proliferation of files. If you always work on the cloud, then using your personal equipment need not necessarily be a problem.

We will also discuss the use of social media, such as Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube in this module. It is not possible to enter into a processing agreement with these organisations for maintaining control over the use of personal data. In fact, under the licence agreement you conclude with these organisations when creating an account, they are permitted to use all content you post on their platform. It is therefore difficult to withdraw consent which was granted previously for the use of personal data, when that personal data is already scattered all over the platform.

In short: as long as you stick to the range of ICT facilities already offered to you now, you can ensure maximum guarantees for privacy and security. However, if you are looking to innovate, there is sufficient scope for doing so, as long as this takes place in close consultation with the appropriate departments in our organisation: information concerning the way in which you should do this can be found on the relevant pages throughout this module.

We will begin each module with a short quiz so you can find out what you already know about the various subjects. Good luck with this first module!