Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – In a pilot project, 25 vocational schools from Baden-Württemberg have started working with data protection-compliant office programs from the US company Microsoft. The state data protection officer Stefan Brink advises the schools on this. The specially adapted version of the “Microsoft 365” software is to be put through its paces, because there had recently been concerns about data protection. According to Brink, the current version stores data stored online on German instead of foreign servers.
What has been used by other companies for years is now being tested in some schools: Teachers should receive a standardized e-mail address and use conventional office tools such as “Word” and “Excel”; in addition, they should get the video conference system “Teams”, which some schools are already using on their own initiative.
According to Education Minister Susanne Eisenmann (CDU), teachers need a contemporary digital work environment. “We want to make this available to teachers with the digital education platform,” she announced on Monday.