We are pleased to announce that the Technology Governance Summer School has received the 2025 APSIA Innovation Award for Professional Development Programming. This prestigious award recognizes innovative initiatives that have supported the professional development of graduate students in international affairs over the past year.
The BSIA Summer School offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of technology and governance. It brings together graduate students from policy, social science, and STEM backgrounds to explore how technological change influences governance, policy, and society. Program co-director Dr. Jatin Nathwani emphasizes that the program serves as “a ‘boot camp’ for graduate students in the social science, humanities and STEM disciplines to learn, shape and challenge established assumptions for an informed discourse on public policy choices. Co-working with leading experts, the opportunity for students is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of governance and the role of technology to deliver practical solutions.”
“We are delighted that the value of this program has been recognised,” said Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald, BSIA Director and co-director of the program. “Inter-threading appropriate levels of understanding transformative technologies, how these technologies are adopted, their impact on society and the implications for governance, the program prepares participants for leadership and policy roles in a digital, data-driven and intangibles world. Serving as an excellent augmentation and ‘top up’ for both STEM and social science degrees, the program is helping prepare the next generation of technology and policy leaders.”
APSIA brings together graduate schools focused on international affairs, aiming to improve the quality of international affairs education and promote global understanding, prosperity, peace, and security. The APSIA Innovation Award celebrates creative and forward-thinking initiatives that enhance and support the professional development of graduate students in international affairs. “It is a real endorsement for the School,” said Dr. Fitz-Gerald. “We are honoured to be recognised among such an esteemed cohort of institutions, and we thank APSIA for this distinction.”
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