INF9850 – ICT for Development: Building a Better World?
Course content
ICT for Development is an emergent and important discipline within Information Systems, and supporting career paths in ICT companies working in development, development agencies, and government and non-government organizations engaged in introducing ICT projects. The landscape is comprised of state of the art technologies involving mobile, social media, cloud hosting, and various others. This provides an exciting arena for IT graduate students to engage with cutting edge technologies and also participate in broader social development processes.
Learning outcome
Key learning outcomes of the course
- To conceptualize ICT for development, with emphasis on the relationship between technology and development in particular socio-political situated contexts
- To analyze different perspectives on development and the manner in which we can understand ICTs from these perspectives
- To analyze the nature of ICT applications in different development domains such as health, education, water and sanitation, and migration
- To analyze various approaches to evaluate the outcome of ICT for Development projects
- To analyze what are emerging ICT applications, and also emerging new development challenges in contemporary society
- To be able to critically analyze if ICTs are helping to create a better world in a development context.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with INF5850 – ICT for Development: Building a better world? (continued).
- 10 credits overlap with IN5390 – ICT for Development: Building a Better World?.
- 10 credits overlap with IN9390 – ICT for Development: Building a Better World?.
Teaching
3 hours of lectures per week.
The first lecture is compulsory.
Examination
Home exam at the end of the semester.
Mandatory assignments must be approved in order to take the exam.
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.
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