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Jisc's Chief Regulatory Adviser, Andrew Cormack, talks about GDPR and how you can streamline processes.
Read about what the law requires and what Jisc's members should do.
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Jisc's free GDPR event on 6 December 2017 is designed to offer our members practical advice around the impact of these changes and how to plan and implement changes across your organisation. Our experts will be on hand to answer your questions throughout the day.
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Universities and colleges need to have various processes and practises in place prior to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming UK law in May 2018. Andrew Cormack provides useful advice at these links:
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In October 2014, the DfE provided advice aimed at School leaders, school staff and governing bodies in all maintained schools, academies and free schools and also local authorities. This is a link to the document
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GÉANT has secured a new special discount offer from ownCloud, an enterprise file sync and share solution. They're offering
even more value than before to new customers until the end of 2015.
Because of the holiday season, new applications must be submitted before 23 December.
More information can be found at:
http://www.geant.org/News_and_Events/Pages/ownCloud-licensees.aspx
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Martin Hamilton and Dan Perry at Jisc have written a report on the future of cloud computing. Click here to find out more about the origins of cloud services, their implications for institutions, what Jisc has done to help institutions adopt cloud services and some ideas on what Jisc can do in the future. Included in that report are success stories from the organisations that use cloud services - read about the collaboration, research and cost savings that have been realised.
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Following the recent Court of Justice of the European Union's judgement on 'Safe Harbour' arrangements for the transfer of personal data from the EEA to the USA, Jisc has produced this note for institutions.
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Jisc recently carried out a study to investigate whether cloud based systems and services can meet the needs of the education sector and also to determine the level of interest from the sector.
The results can be found here and if you scroll to the bottom of that page you can find the raw, anonymised data. 38 HE organisations and 37 FE providers took part in the survey.
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Cloud technology provides many more opportunities for innovation than the stereotypes suggest, says Andrew Cormack, in the Ed Technology article published on 17/4/2015. Read the article at Cloud is... Or is it?
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What is the cloud?
Cloud computing is the delivery of IT as services over the internet. Cloud users don't need to purchase or install software and companies don't have to run their own application and data servers; the cloud service providers ("CSPs") host applications and provide the computing power from their data centres.
What are the benefits and disadvantages of using the cloud?
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