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Digital future: Leipzig-Lindenau starts church infrastructure project!
The Leipzig-Lindenau-Plagwitz parish is launching a digital infrastructure project to promote collaboration, donations and sustainability.
Digital future: Leipzig-Lindenau starts church infrastructure project!
The Leipzig-Lindenau-Plagwitz parish has begun an ambitious project to improve its digital infrastructure. The aim is to create a sustainable and modern working environment for both full-time and volunteer employees. The project plans include setting up a powerful WLAN, setting up a central server system and developing a web-based platform that will be used for both internal collaboration and external public relations. This is reported by the EKD.
Particular attention will be paid to promoting new forms of mission and financing, including digital donations. In addition, a guest network will be set up to make it easier for people who are not involved in the church to have access to the community and contact with community events. This pioneering project is being financed with 94,753 euros from the digital innovation fund.
Challenges of digital transformation
The digital infrastructure is considered a fundamental element for the implementation of digital technologies and a sustainable transformation of society. In this context, the Digital civil society that current digital infrastructures are often not sustainable. The increasing energy consumption in data centers and networks as well as the poor conditions in the production of electronic components represent major challenges. Many devices are often not repairable and cause high environmental impact.
The vision for 2030 envisages climate-neutral online conferences, supported by open source solutions. The aim is to certify all data centers in Germany with the “Blue Angel” environmental label and to ensure that new data centers are operated exclusively with renewable energy. These measures are not only ecologically necessary, but also crucial for social acceptance of modern digital infrastructures.
Resource conservation as a future strategy
In order to create a sustainable digital landscape, experts from the civil society movement are calling for, among other things, resource-saving digital infrastructures and EU-wide standardization of hardware. The idea of the right to repair also plays a central role. This would ensure that users have a real choice between ad-supported and paid offerings when using their devices, while reducing resource consumption.
Overall, the project of the Leipzig-Lindenau-Plagwitz parish shows an exciting possibility of how digital transformation can address not only computational but also social and ecological challenges. It is an example of how communities can move towards a sustainable, digitally enabled future.