Tech For Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs

What opportunities and challenges do digital technologies present for the development of our society?

Tech for Good, developed by UNESCO and Cetic.br/NIC.br, explains how digital technologies are empowering billions of people around the world by providing access to education, healthcare, banking, and government services; and how “big data” is being used to inform smarter, evidence-based policies to improve people’s lives in fundamental ways.

It also addresses the new challenges that technology can introduce, such as privacy, data management, risks to cybersecurity, e-waste, and the widening of social divides. Ultimately, Tech for Good looks at the ways in which stakeholders are coming together to answer big questions about what our future will look like in a hyper-digitized world. Therefore, this course is for:

• Technology specialists who want to understand more about how ICT is being used to improve people’s lives around the world.
• Sustainable development practitioners who need to understand the opportunities and limitations of technology in a development context.
• Advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in the key concepts and practices of this exciting and ever-changing field.

This online course is in English and offers video transcripts in the following languages: Español, Português, Русский.

Source: EdX

Offered by: SDG Academy

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