00OPT2004G - Graduate Certificate in Information and Communication Technologies and Development
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Overview
About the Program
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to dramatic improvements in the productivity of businesses in advanced economies; they have expanded access to information of all sorts, empowered citizens and communities, and helped to strengthen governance.
These technologies can be employed to address problems in the developing world as well, where a large proportion of the population lives in poverty and without access to adequate food, nutritional information, education, health care, credit, and other social and economic opportunities.
The Information and Communication Technologies and Development certificate program equips students to work across boundaries to identify, evaluate, and implement solutions to pressing societal problems in the developing world.
The program has three broad components:
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Understanding processes of technology diffusion and adoption in developing regions.
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Acting through the design and deployment of information systems in close collaboration with the communities they are meant to support.
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Redefining the dialogue about the role of technology in the global economic and political processes that affect developing regions.
The Graduate Certificate in Information and Communication Technologies and Development is issued by the School of Information but is open to all UC Berkeley graduate students. The certificate is in addition to a student’s regular degree program and is designed to complement a wide range of existing degree programs. Upon graduation, you will be issued a certificate in addition to your diploma, and completion of the certificate program will be noted on your official transcript.