Emerging Digital Tech for Impact

This course will explore the concepts and application of emerging technologies for impact. During the course, the students will gain an understanding of the enabling environment required to scale and implement emerging tech for impact though: 1) An understanding of the history of digital tech for impact; 2) In depth into emerging digital technologies; 3) Identifying the enabling infrastructure and ecosystem needed to enable emerging digital technologies to achieve social impact; 4) Analyzing the current challenges for scaling and implementing successfully emerging digital tech for impact; 5) Doing deep dives into two types of emerging technologies, their challenges, their successes and their future potential -- Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies; 6) Additionally, we will focus on the different and complex variables that should be considered to achieve social and environmental impact.