Workshops

In collaboration with Excited SFU and GoForIT

 

Monday 25 November (14:00-17:00)

 

Abstract

Candidates from higher IT education will have an important role in solving the great societal challenges of the future. For this, the candidates need relevant competence on sustainability and digitalization. To facilitate these efforts, there is a significant need for teaching staff and study program leaders to exchange experiences and build shared knowledge about good practice and useful resources related to sustainability and digitalization. In the current situation there is increasing pressure for higher education institutions to save resources while maintaining a high quality of teaching and learning. This makes it especially important to share knowledge and experiences on how to integrate sustainability and digitalization topics into courses and study programs in effective and efficient ways, considering the possibilities offered e.g. by AI and state-of-the-art pedagogical approaches.

 

Questions to be addressed in the workshop include:

 

The workshop will be the fourth in a row of similarly themed workshops held in conjunction with NIKT. With these workshops we seek to contribute to engagement and continuity the IT education community related to the integration of sustainability and digitalization in teaching and learning.

 

Organizers

Birgit R. Krogstie, birgit.r.krogstie@uia.no

John Krogstie, john.krogstie@ntnu.no

 

Birgit Rognebakke Krogstie is Associate professor of Applied information technology at the Department of computer science, NTNU. Krogstie is Director of Excited Centre for Excellent IT Education, where IT education for sustainability is a focus area. Krogstie is a participant in GoForIT, a national network on Twin transition.

 

John Krogstie is Professor of Information Systems at the Department of computer science, NTNU. Krogstie  is director of NTNU Center  for Sustainable ICT – CESICT and member of the board of the GoforIT network.



Digital transformation in healthcare is the leveraging of advanced technologies to improving the delivery of care to patients and to coping with new requirements of such delivery, most notably the shift from hospital care to home care. While patient-needs-centric, it also necessarily requires changes and improvements of healthcare-related processes. Whereas various benefits of this transformation are broadly acknowledged, the increased connectivity; the huge volume of -sensitive- health information; and the lack of sufficient cybersecurity awareness and culture among both healthcare professionals and patients result in increased cybersecurity risk and make digital healthcare attractive to cyber criminals and prone to cybersecurity attacks such as phishing, ransomware, distributed denial-of-service attacks, and malware. The increasing connection of medical devices to the Internet, hospital networks and other medical devices expands the attack surface making the patient safety risks higher. The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the interdependence and co-evolutionary dynamic of the cybersecurity and privacy risks in healthcare. All these have raised the need to develop new solutions to increase the cybersecurity and resilience of the healthcare sector and its supply chain. 


Submission instruction for the workshop can be found here: https://cyballiance.nr.no/sunrise-2024/ 


Organizers 

Habtamu Abie, habtamu.abie@nr.no 

Vasileios Gkioulos, vasileios.gkioulos@ntnu.no 

Sokratis Katsikas, sokratis.katsikas@ntnu.no 

Sandeep Pirbhulal, sandeep@nr.no