The Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University was established in 1998. It was designed to accommodate a diverse student body, with backgrounds ranging from Information Science and Civil Engineering to Business Administration and Medicine, where a computer science background cannot be expected. To establish a shared core despite this diversity, the curriculum positions design, analysis, and policy as the common foundation of Social Informatics.
The central goal of the program is to realize a cycle where students apply science and technology to design social information systems, conduct empirical experiments and analysis, and feed the outcomes back into both policy and science and technology. This cycle serves as the core of the curriculum.
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