Safety By Design

RMIT University

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Start Date: 18 Sep, 2023
4 weeks
Study Content: Videos

Learn how to design online products and services with user safety and rights at the core of the design and development process.

Course Fee: Free

Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Understand why cyber safety matters

If you design online products and services, it is important to invest in risk mitigation at the front end and embed user protections from the beginning. Knowledge of user safety is crucial to help up-and-coming tech leaders prevent their platforms and services being unintentionally weaponised to carry out abuse.

Jointly developed by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and RMIT University’s Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, this four-week course will arm you with the tools and skills to design online products and services with online safety and user rights at the core.

Using the principles of Safety by Design, you’ll gain essential knowledge to minimise online threats by anticipating, detecting, and eliminating online harms before they occur.

Unpack transparency and accountability

You’ll start by exploring the three principles of Safety by Design: service provider responsibility, user empowerment and autonomy, and transparency and accountability.

You’ll discover how these principles can be used in your context to increase your online safety knowledge and reduce the risk of harm for your users.

Enhance your e-safety with industry self assessment tools

Next, you’ll put your knowledge into practice as you conduct an e-safety self-assessment on a mock online product or service.

This will help develop practical skills to ensure you can use the self-assessment tool outside of this course to promote user safety and rights.

Delve into cybersecurity research from RMIT University

Finally, you’ll explore the remaining key initiatives of safety by design and the resources available to you.

You’ll learn how these initiatives help to increase awareness of safety by design to ensure you finish the course with the skills to embed cyber safety into your organisational culture.

This course is suitable for:

• Anyone with an interest in designing and developing online products and services

• IT personnel involved in online product and service design and development

• Educators involved in upskilling students on technology design and online safety

• Anyone with an interest in technology policy

• Engineers, computer scientists, lawyers, ethicists, entrepreneurs working in the technology space.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

RMIT University

RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise specialising in art and design; architecture and the built environment; engineering; computer science; and business and management studies.

One of Australia’s original tertiary institutions, RMIT University has over 80,000 students (including 12,000 at postgraduate level) who are undertaking professional and vocational education, applied research, and industry and community engagement.

RMIT has a unique approach to meeting the challenge of being ready for life and work: it offers an education that is deeply grounded in ideas and cross-disciplinary understanding, applied through innovative, enterprising practice to solving problems and meeting the needs of its community.

RMIT’s goal is to offer life-changing experiences, and to shape the world with the talent, knowledge and learning capability that it shares.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.

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