With support from Microsoft Ireland, UCD’s School of Information and Communication studies has estabished the Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme with the goal of building digital policy training and capability in Ireland and Europe.

 

The innovative programme mixes the abstract and the applied with core modules from the School of Information and Communication Studies. This programme introduces students to basic concepts and issues in digital policy, giving a historical and critical understanding of how to theorise digital objects and environments by learning to situate them in perspectives such as platform capitalism, governance, data infrastructures and information analytics.

 

The Grad Dip in Digital Policy is designed to prepare graduates for careers in evaluating, implementing, and studying core topical, theoretical, and methodological issues that arise in digital policy today. The course will take a multi-disciplionary approach to investigating the institutional and public policy dimensions of the prevalence of digital technology, as well as the underlying social conditions (economic, political, and cultural) and public/private sector contexts that give rise to such technologies and their governance.

 

Our Digital Policy programmes are interdisciplinary. Flowing from content developed at our UCD Centre for Digital Policy, they are designed to offer graduates the opportunity to study some of the core topical, theoretical, and methodological issues that arise today. These include investigating the institutional and public policy dimensions of the prevalence of digital technologies, digital infrastructures, and data processing in all dimensions of life. Our programmes will allow students to study the underlying social

conditions (economic, political, and cultural) that give rise to and influence such technologies and their governance, as well as the multiple public sector and commercial contexts where policy is made and enacted.