State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia

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State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia

Logo of the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia
State level State of North Rhine-Westphalia
position State company
Supervisory authority Ministry for Economy, Innovation, Digitization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
founding July 1, 1948
Headquarters Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Authority management Hans-Josef Fischer
Servants 2300
Web presence www.it.nrw
Fountain Five Bronze Arches (1981) by Elmar Hillebrand in front of the main building planned by Gottfried Böhm , photo 2011

The State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (abbreviated: IT.NRW) is the State Statistical Office of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and thus the central information service provider. At the same time, IT.NRW takes on the tasks of the central IT service provider for the state administration in North Rhine-Westphalia.

It was created in 2009 through the amalgamation of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia and the joint area data centers in Hagen, Cologne and Münster.

Locations

IT.NRW is headquartered in Düsseldorf . Other locations are in Hagen, Cologne, Münster, Oberhausen and Paderborn. In addition, some employees are based in the construction and real estate operations in Düsseldorf, Soest, Münster, Duisburg, Cologne, Aachen, Dortmund and Bielefeld.

Tasks in the field of information technology (IT)

As the central IT service center of the state administration, IT.NRW offers a comprehensive range of information technology products and services. This includes the provision of an efficient IT infrastructure that is available at all times. For the planning, implementation and economic operation of the required IT infrastructure, IT.NRW provides services and a. in the areas of e-government, communication networks, software development and operation. Examples are the state administration network (LVN), the central network and server management, the use of local networks and the GeoServer NRW. In addition, IT applications are developed and supervised and employees of the state administration are trained in a training center.

Tasks in the field of official statistics

General tasks

As the central information service provider, IT.NRW, as the state's official statistics office, provides the statistical infrastructure for North Rhine-Westphalia. The state enterprise bears in its name, as far as statistical tasks are carried out, the addition "Statistical State Office". It prepares the statistics stipulated by EU, federal and state law, collects the data, processes them, evaluates the results and makes them available to the public. National and environmental accounts and other overall systems of statistical data complete the range of tasks. The principles of neutrality, objectivity, scientific independence and statistical confidentiality are observed in all statistical tasks. All official statistics require a legal basis, i.e. a law or an ordinance, in order to be carried out and published. IT.NRW works closely with the statistical offices of the other 15 federal states and the Federal Statistical Office.

The statistics compiled and published cover the following subject areas:

IT.NRW offers an extensive range of data on its website. The state database contains results for North Rhine-Westphalia as well as for the cities, municipalities, districts and administrative districts in North Rhine-Westphalia. With the regional statistical online atlas NRW (Statlas.NRW), IT.NRW provides a comprehensive range of interactive maps. In addition, around 550 different publications appear annually, which are available for download via the publication service on the Internet - mostly free of charge - in the form of PDF or Excel files.

As part of a special topic for the 2019 European elections, the question "How much Europe is there in North Rhine-Westphalia?" Was answered using figures from various statistics. Numbers and data from the four main topics of people, mobility, economy and politics were presented.

Another special on "How international is education in North Rhine-Westphalia?" highlights the four main areas of education of the population, early childhood education, elementary and secondary schools as well as universities and dual training.

Conducting censuses

As the state's official statistical office, IT.NRW is responsible for conducting censuses in North Rhine-Westphalia. As part of the Europe-wide 2011 census , the so-called “ 2011 census ” was carried out. The 2011 census was used to collect population, building and housing data and was carried out on the basis of the 2011 Census Act, which came into force in Germany on July 16, 2009. The law specifies u. a. also states that the federal and state statistical offices inform the population about the census on the Internet.

Further tasks

In addition to the IT and statistical services described, IT.NRW offers various other services, particularly for the NRW state administration. This includes, for example, the organization of trade fair appearances, IT printing and logistical services.

IT.NRW operates a software development center (Cologne) as well as data centers in Hagen and Münster at the locations of the former area data centers. Processing work for official statistics is carried out at its locations in Oberhausen and Paderborn.

History of the official statistics of North Rhine-Westphalia

Formation of North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia extends largely over the former Prussian territory. In 1946, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded from the northern part of the Prussian Rhine Province and the Province of Westphalia. In 1947 the formerly independent state of Lippe , which had not belonged to Prussia , gave up its independence at the instigation of the British and was incorporated into North Rhine-Westphalia. The administrations of the former Prussian administrative district of Minden and the former state of Lippe were merged to form the new administrative district of Minden-Lippe (later the administrative district of Detmold ). In 1948, the state of Lippe officially became part of North Rhine-Westphalia with the passing of the "Law on the Unification of the State of Lippe with North Rhine-Westphalia" by the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament . From now on Detmold was the new seat of the district government instead of Minden .

Before World War II

Statistical data was already recorded in Prussia. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. ordered the establishment of a "Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau", which began its work in Berlin in 1805. Beginning in the 18th century, there was a significant expansion and institutionalization of official statistics in the 19th century. In Germany, statistical offices were set up in the various sub-states, which are considered the forerunners of the state statistical offices. In 1905 the “Royal Prussian Statistical Bureau” was renamed “Prussian State Statistical Office” and in 1934 it was incorporated into the “Reich Statistical Office”.

In 1935 and 1938, after the integration or dissolution of the state statistics, statistical offices were again established at the provincial associations in the Rhineland ( Düsseldorf ) and in Westphalia ( Münster ) due to the need for regionally specific data . In the course of the Second World War, they mainly had to deal with decentralized tasks.

post war period

From 1945 the tasks of the statistical offices were largely determined by the British occupying forces , which data was required for their zone. When North Rhine-Westphalia was founded in 1946, a statistical office was created in Düsseldorf, at the seat of the state government, which, together with the Münster state statistical office, procured data for the military government. On July 1, 1948, the two statistical offices were merged to form the “State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia” based in Düsseldorf. As the material and personnel requirements increased, the company moved from the rooms in the house of the high president to a building on Düsseldorf's Haroldstrasse. Work continued here until 1951; Then the State Statistical Office moved into a former Wehrmacht barracks in Ludwig-Beck-Strasse, which was further expanded between 1958 and 1971. In the barracks, the State Statistical Office developed into a central service company for the state and its citizens. The expansion of the area of ​​responsibility, especially the 1961 and 1970 censuses, resulted in considerable personnel, spatial and organizational bottlenecks. Branch offices were created in Paderborn and Oberhausen , and the State Statistical Office was spread over seven office buildings in Düsseldorf.

On November 10, 1972, the foundation stone for a 16-storey house was laid in Mauerstrasse in the north of Düsseldorf on the former barracks of the Royal Prussian 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11 . On June 1, 1976, the State Statistical Office was able to move into its main building. The architect Gottfried Böhm designed it with a facade made of COR-TEN steel . Today, the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia has five office buildings in Düsseldorf and other locations in Hagen, Cologne, Münster, Oberhausen and Paderborn.

Creation of IT.NRW

On January 1, 2009, by decree of the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior, the former State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia and the joint area data centers in Hagen, Cologne and Münster were combined to form the State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia. The company statutes for the State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia (circular of the Ministry of the Interior dated November 15, 2008) stipulate, among other things, the tasks as well as the operational and economic management.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "History" on the IT.NRW website ; retrieved October 14, 2009
  2. ↑ "Company statutes IT.NRW §3" on the website ofrecht.NRW.de ; retrieved December 31, 2018
  3. ↑ Topic special for the 2019 European elections . May 8, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Topic "How international is education in North Rhine-Westphalia?" August 19, 2019, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Census 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 39.3 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 38.1"  E