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Overview

Learn how to harness digital technology to drive social impact, environmental protection, and sustainable development.

Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Advancing Social Impact with Digital Technologies
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Highlights

  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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  • The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a blueprint to help simultaneously tackle humanitarian and environmental crises.
  • On this six-week course from RMIT University, you’ll take a guided tour with world experts through the UN SDGs. During this exploration, you’ll discover how digital technology can help achieve different SDGs and drive social impact.
  • Using carefully curated case studies, you’ll discover the real-world applications of digital technology. You’ll then develop an action plan for your organisation to adapt this approach and work toward relevant SDGs.
  • You’ll start by delving into the SDGs that promote equal opportunity.
  • Exploring quality education, reduced inequality, and gender equality, you’ll discover the digital technology solutions that can help achieve these goals.
  • Next, you’ll explore the link between digital technologies and sustainable institutions, delving further into SDGs such as sustainable cities and communities.
  • Expanding from cities to the planet, you’ll learn how digital technology can positively benefit the environment – from on land to below water.
  • Each week, you’ll unpack real-world case studies to help you see digital technology in practice.
  • During the final weeks, you’ll understand how this technology can help with SDGs for clean water and sanitation, zero hunger, and partnerships for achieving the goals.
  • You’ll finish the course by identifying the SDGs you want to help achieve and draw up an action plan to help harness digital technology for positive social impacts.
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Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction

Welcome to the course

The UN Sustainable Development Goals

Digital technology as a humanitarian tool

The use of case studies

SDG 1: Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere

Week 2: Digital technology and equal opportunity

Introduction to week 2

SDG4: Inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all

SDG 5: Gender equality - Ending all discrimination against women and girls

SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth

SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

Week 3: Using digital technology to build sustainable institutions

Introduction to week 3

SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy

SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

SD11: Sustainable cities and communities

SDG16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Week 4: Digital technology and the environment

Introduction to week 4

SDG12: Responsible consumption and production

SDG13: Climate action

SDG14: Life below water

SDG 15: Life on land

Week 5: Using digital technology to preserve human life

Introduction to week 5

SDG 2: Zero hunger

SDG3: Good health and wellbeing

SDG6: Clean water and sanitation

Week 6: Using digital technologies to establish partnerships and affect humanitarian change

Introduction to week 6

SDG17: Partnerships for the goals

Course summary

Creating your action plan

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