“Management has long been privatizing a number of basic university services. Among them, the Information and Communication Technologies Service, which is responsible for managing emails, has denounced. The UPV/EHU management wants to migrate employee and student emails to Microsoft Office 365, “without giving users more opportunities”.

“Several people who are part of this community decided to create the Stop to Precarization Platform concerned about the consequences of this project: to put personal data, project results and research into the hands of private companies; dependency on the products of a national multnational; the loss of public status of the UPV/EHU and the waste of funds from the UPV/EHU, explain in subcontracts.” Last June, signatures began to be collected, and the platform’s declaration has already received over 700 accessions. “They are adhesions of university workers, students and unions, as well as private individuals and associations.”

The rector of the UPV/EHU appeared this Wednesday to make the following requests: “Do not transfer our personal data to a private company, reject privatisation in ICT management and make a real commitment to free software. We are waiting for the UPV/EHU leadership to respond to our requests. We would not like to pick up these answers with words, but with actions that support our demands.”