PLAC 5616 - Civic Technology Principles and Practice

Effective Start Date: 01/01/2021
This course familiarizes students with current technical, ethical, and regulatory aspects of Smart Cities development. It introduces the civic technology framework and ethos as a bridge between emerging technologies, local governance, and community priorities. Students will design and deploy a web application in collaboration with partners outside the university that advances the public interest. Tools may include R, shiny, MySQL, Git, AWS.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Student Option