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Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

The certificate course called Securing Digital Democracy by Coursera prepares every citizen about the true potential of electronic and internet voting aspects in the future. It teaches you everything that you must know about the true risks and security issues in our times. This course takes a look at the different times of past, the present, and future aspects of conducting elections and the various technologies involved in elections. This course will teach candidates about exploring the different subsets intersected by the factors involved in the process like Including the use of computers, human factors, Cybersecurity and its threats, public policy, and other related factors.

This course is rightly titled securing digital democracy since it deals with the most important aspect of democracy, the elections. The course teaches in detail the entire electoral process and the challenges one can encounter and hence prepare for in the future course of elections. With insights from the past with a detailed history of voting, this course is curated with a very structured format that is easy to grasp and allows an understanding of every candidate from different backgrounds. For candidates from public policy, cybersecurity, and software testing this course will develop an understanding of the electoral process and its changing dynamics that will better help them develop tools for the elections of the future.

The Highlights

Course offered by University of Michigan
The programme duration is 14 hours
Access the programme in different language subtitles
Completely 100% online offering
E-certificates can be shared ahead
Certification from Coursera

Programme Offerings

videos
Readings
Practice Exercises

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 2480	yes	Coursera

Securing Digital Democracy Fees Details :

Fees components	Fees
Course on Securing Digital Democracy	Rs. 2,480

Eligibility Criteria

Certification Qualifying Details

The Participants will be given a course completion certificate only if they complete the programme successfully as well as make fee payment for it.

What you will learn

Knowledge of Cyber Security

By taking this certification programme in Securing Digital Democracy candidates can gain the following insights:

An understanding of the reasons for the current day electoral process and its development through the history of elections.
Learning about the history of computers in the electoral process, its advantages, and security risks involved.
Public policy candidates can learn about how the various methods of registrations and voter IDs have evolved for the computer elections age.
Ways in which new technology and voting processes can be refined for further policy development, software testing, and programming to avoid the threats to elections.

Who it is for

Application Tester

Admission Details

Candidates can apply for admissions in this Securing Digital Democracy programme by:

Step 1: Visit the Course page.

Step 2: Clicking on the ‘Enroll for Free’ tab

Step 3: Signing up and creating a login from Google or Facebook ID

Step 4: A window will appear with 2 options namely, ‘Purchase Course’ and ‘Full Course, No Certificate’.

Step 5: If you purchase the course, the candidate needs to make the payment online. In case the candidate opts for 2nd option then the candidate can access the full course without making the payment but the certificate will not be given.