DEVELOPMENT

The DMCD Pro-Seminar proposes a practical perspective on the new challenges and opportunities posed by digital and analog technologies applied to community development. The core objective of this Pro-Seminar is to acquire the critical skills to understand the impact of past and current technology-based development interventions from theoretical and empirical standpoints. Through this, participants will be equipped with the necessary tools to assess the role of digital technologies and media in their own organizations and projects... The first session of the course will consist of a brief presentation of theoretical and conceptual approaches linking the use of technologies to poverty reduction and community empowerment, based on the required and recommended readings. A second session will engage the group in considering how these approaches are being applied to real situations through documented examples of effective community-based digital development projects and related initiatives..