期刊名称：Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline
印刷版ISSN：1547-9684
电子版ISSN：1521-4672
出版年度：2002
卷号：5
页码：133-133
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：Being on the wrong side of the digital divide limits the life chances of the socially excluded, who have had neither the wherewithal nor the
opportunity to obtain highly paid, skilled positions in IT. Irish policy makers see education as the solution to this problem. However, providing
institutional support for the socially disadvantaged who wish to avail of third level education in IT poses significant challenges. This
paper describes these problems and explains how they were overcome in implementing an undergraduate university programme called the
Diploma in Applied Business Computing. This targeted initiative was an unqualified success in that it achieved its primary objectives—
academic and social. However, what made it so was the commitment of concerned stakeholders, from members of the executive steering
committee who developed and implemented the course, to the lecturers who delivered it, the companies who supported it, and the students
who participated in it.
