Municipal area data center

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Municipal regional computing center ( KGRZ ) is a name for full-service providers who take on electronic data processing tasks for cities and municipalities . This traditionally includes the development, introduction and maintenance of classic municipal applications . Municipal area data centers procure hardware and software , perform service tasks ( advice , training , installation , maintenance and support ) and implement data protection and data security measures . KGRZ are mostly institutions under public law .

Examples

The municipal computing center Niederrhein (krzn) is located in Kamp-Lintfort and has been an IT service provider for municipalities in the Niederrhein region since 1971 .

The municipal data processing region Stuttgart (KDRS) was founded on June 29, 1971 under the name "Regionales Rechenzentrum Mittlerer Neckarraum GbR" with headquarters in Stuttgart . The association has been operating under its current name since 1995. It looks after 189 members (as of June 30, 2012) in the Stuttgart region .

The municipal data center Minden-Ravensberg / Lippe ( krz ) in Lemgo ⊙ has been an IT service provider for the three districts of Minden-Lübbecke , Herford and Lippe as well as for 34 cities and communities from these districts since 1972 . As a municipal association , the krz has the status of a corporation under public law . Over 200 employees support around 7,500 PC workstations with around 10,000 devices in the administration of the association area.

The local area data center Kassel ⊙ was founded by Albert Osswald , the former Hessian Prime Minister ( SPD ), as an institution under public law for the state of Hesse , the administrative district of Gießen and the surrounding communities and cities. The new building was officially opened on March 15, 1972.

The Communal Data Processing Center South Lower Saxony (KDS) ⊙ was founded on July 1, 1972 as a civil law company by local authorities in the southern Lower Saxony area as a central facility in Göttingen . This centralization made an economical use of the then very expensive technology of electronic data processing possible for all shareholders. After the German reunification, local authorities from the state of Thuringia also joined this joint institution. On October 6, 2010, 34 local authorities in southern Lower Saxony set up the KDS association, which began operations on January 1, 2011. With the change in legal form, the local authorities have left the state of Thuringia.

As a municipal IT service provider, the regio iT company for information technology mbh , based in Aachen and with a branch in Gütersloh, is a partner for municipalities and schools, energy suppliers and waste disposal companies as well as non-profit organizations. The company, founded in 2003, emerged from the Aachener Datenververarbeitunggesellschaft mbH (founded in 1967) and the joint municipal data processing center (founded in 1975) and is organized under private law. In 2011, merged the former regio iT Aachen GmbH with the INFOCOM Gütersloh AöR to today's regio iT GmbH.

The Municipal Information Processing Baden-Franken (KIVBF), headquartered in Karlsruhe and locations in Heidelberg, Heilbronn and Freiburg since 1 January 2003. It was created Franken / Lower Neckar, Middle Upper Rhine / Northern Black Forest and Southern Upper Rhine / High Rhine from field data centers of the Regions . The municipal IT system house offers its members (489 cities and municipalities, 17 rural districts, 7 urban districts, 2 corporations under public law) IT specialist solutions for public needs. Together with KRBF GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary, it achieved annual sales of around EUR 107 million in 2011.

The municipal system house LVR-InfoKom is a 100% subsidiary of the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) based in Cologne-Deutz. The municipal IT system house offers the various departments of the LVR IT specialist solutions. Since 2005 LVR-InfoKom has been run like a municipal company. In the 2013 financial year, the company achieved an annual turnover of approx. 55 million euros with around 390 employees.

literature

  • Fleischhack, Julia (2015): A world in a data frenzy. Computer systems and amounts of data as a social challenge in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1965–1975 (= Zurich contributions to everyday culture 22), Zurich.

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