Objectives

• .To promote and influence the informed and critical use of digital technology and computational approaches in the social sciences, arts, literature, history, area studies, linguistics, media, management, and other disciplines within the humanities.
• To promote multidisciplinary domains of research in the social sciences that connect sociology, humanities, law economics, management, governance, policy, education and related disciplines with technical innovations in mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
• To bring together students and faculty from within various centres of KUDSIT as well as researchers and community members to explore the crossroads of the humanities and computing.To encourage and motivate student community to take up the future challenges of the growing IT industry
• To enable researchers and students to adapt computational and computer-aided methods to access, analyze, sequence, and present social and cultural artefacts in innovative ways.
• To engage with wider community of researchers, academics and practitioners for initiating, developing and sharing ideas to address and influence various emerging digital policy challenges
• To generate new and relevant knowledge through original research, and intervening through direct engagement with the civil society and communities.