M.Sc Digital Society at CURAJ Offline Course

The Central University of Rajasthan in collaboration with International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore (IIIT-B) has started a Two-year Masters Programme in Digital Society with effect from Academic Year 2017-18, similar to the one being offered at IIITB.

The programme introduces to the students from diverse educational backgrounds the academic interlinkages between the two advanced streams of knowledge- Science and Technology and Social Sciences for better career opportunities and staying competitive.

Digitalization is shaping almost all aspects of our professional and working lives. Career opportunities include work as internet researcher, digital media researcher, software development professional, digital consultants, ICT consultants, policy experts, etc. Students passing out from the programme will be working in ICT industries, research organization, private companies, public sector, consultancy services industry, and international organization and also in non-governmental organization. Both the Institutes: CURAJ and IIIT-B  will conduct combined Placement activities as per the Placement Rules exiting at the respective Institutions.

The Two Years Masters in Digital Society would fulfill the following objectives:

• To help the students to appreciate and understand the digitalization ideas, tools and technologies from the perspectives of society at large.
• To enable students to think innovative and generate ICT based solutions intended to address developmental deficits and challenges in the society.
• To help the society to find out ways of strengthening system mainly to counter the laggards performances in the social and economic sectors of the economy.
• To engage in evidenced-based policy-making process and advocates for deployment of digital technologies for the effective policy-implementation process.
• To promote and enrich interdisciplinary research on the digital society by interlinking ICT and Social Sciences.