FIT5237 · Responsible digitalisation

Overview

This unit aims to develop your understanding of the ways in which digital technologies, processes and systems can be responsibly designed, developed and implemented to contribute to global challenges of sustainability, equity and inclusion. You will explore the ways in which the digital transformation of processes and systems - particularly with data-driven and algorithmic technologies - can better recognise and respond to short, medium and long-term consequences and impacts on individuals, organisations, communities and societies. You will learn how to apply ethical design and human rights frameworks to information system design, development and deployment in a range of organisational contexts, and develop their critical thinking and writing skills.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Holistically analyse the benefits, risks, consequences, and impacts of digital transformations on individuals, organisations, communities and societies.
2. Describe and explain the key principles that underpin the responsible digital transformation of processes and systems for operational, legal and societal accountability.
3. Identify and navigate the existing and emergent regulatory frameworks impacting on information system design and development.
4. Apply ethical design, human rights and sustainable development frameworks to the design and deployment of data-driven and algorithmic technologies into digital ecosystems in a range of organisational contexts.

Workload

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.