CrossComITS – Cross-media community platform for teaching private IT security skills for vulnerable groups
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Project
CrossComITS is working towards training members from the vulnerable target groups to become so-called security mediators through a train-the-trainer concept and thus become active as contact persons for IT security in the community. At the same time, the needs of vulnerable people are given special consideration through empirical studies and participatory design and implemented in the form of scenarios on a social platform. These scenarios can be used by the security mediators on the platform for both online and offline offerings and can also be adapted, revised and expanded. This is how a community is initiated.
Aim of the project
The aim of CrossComITS is to create significant added value to strengthen the private IT security of vulnerable citizens by combining an innovative technical solution with a precise understanding of its target group-orientated design for vulnerable users.
The Digital Opportunities Foundation is involved in the project as an associated partner. It provides support and advice, particularly in the development of application contexts for members of the project's vulnerable target groups and the train-the-trainer concept for security mediators.
Project partner
The CrossComITS joint project comprises four partners, six associated partners and one subcontractor:
- Chair of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen
- Chair of Information Security and the Chair of Hypermedia and Multimedia Systems at the Department of Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein Sieg University of Applied Sciences
- Professor of Communication Science specialising in political communication at the Department of Social Policy and Social Security at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
- Professorship for Educational Science at the Department of Healthcare at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW
- NanoGiants GmbH
- and 6 associated partners
Funding program
BMBF-Bekanntmachung “Forschung Agil – Unterstützung von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern bei der privaten IT-Sicherheit”.