Securing Digital Democracy
Securing Digital Democracy is an online course offered by the University of Michigan in the United States. The course introduces students to the security risks involved with electronic voting and Internet voting and can be beneficial to anyone who is a registered voter in their country. Lasting for five weeks, the class is broken into five modules that each require two to three hours of study time per week. The modules are: Voting as a Security Problem, Computers at the Polls, Security Procedures and Voting Around the World, Human Factors and Internet Voting and New Technology and Policy.
Democracy and Development: Perspectives from Africa
Democracy and Development: Perspectives from Africa is an online course offered by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. The class is self-paced, giving students the freedom to complete the course as slowly or quickly as they desire. It is recommended that students spend one week on each of the seven course modules: Introduction; From Difficult Legacies to Democratization; The African Citizenry: Diversity, Public Opinion and Civil Society; Understanding the Rules of the Game: Institutions in African Democracies; Accountability and Service Delivery; The Expanding Role of Human Rights and the Judiciary; and Digital Democracy.