Digitainability WS2021/2022 at HfP - Digitalization and the common good скачать в хорошем качестве

Digitainability WS2021/2022 at HfP - Digitalization and the common good

A huge amount of civic engagement and volunteering is carried out via the internet – with the Covid-19 pandemic serving as a further catalysator. Nonprofit organizations have special needs when it comes to digital communication, fundraising, recruitment, and organization. Like in every business, accelerated digitization during lockdown demanded to rethink and restructure hundreds of tasks within civic organizations. With the slight difference that civic organizations often have less or even no resources - monetary and skill-related. In this week’s session Armin Pialek from the German Foundation for Civic Engagement and Volunteering presented how the foundation tackles these special digitalization needs for the common good. The issues of sustainability and digitization are among the central challenges of our time. Both transformations need to be actively designed, whereby sustainability and digitization do not have to be considered side by side, but rather together in the sense of "digitainability". The concept "digitainability" as a fusion of the terms "digitization" and "sustainability" emphasizes the possible positive reinforcement effects of digitization and sustainability, which have so far been often neglected. It describes the ability to combine positive aspects of digitization and sustainable development and thus advance both digitization and sustainable development. At the same time, however, the central challenges and possible negative effects with regard to ecological, economic and social issues must also be kept in mind. Universities like TUM play a central role in the design of digital and sustainable transformation processes as learning locations for education for sustainable / digital development, as incubators for innovations in the field of sustainability and digitization, and as role models for local economic, social, ecological and technological developments . Over two semesters, we will discuss the two megatrends sustainability and digitization and uncover potential for action for TUM, the city of Munich and beyond.