Pacific Cultural Knowledge and Digital Innovation

Description

This course explores the nexus between Pacific cultural knowledge and digital innovation, and how they relate to contemporary socio-economic and environmental challenges. The course unpacks concepts such as digital transformation, digital innovation and digital disruption in relation to Pacific cultural knowledge. It examines the use of cultural knowledge as being complementary with technology as well as the growing digitalization of Pacific life and culture across the Pacific and globally. The course looks at how the two engage with each other and how digital transformation has impacted on Pacific communities in profound ways. The course will use the transdisciplinary approach to explore these crucial issues.