Digital Intelligence*
Your major for a digital world
What is Digital Intelligence?
Digital Intelligence is the capability to understand, judge, and shape the digital world around us.
It means recognising how technology and information influence people, organisations, and society; deciding what matters, what can be trusted, who is affected, and what should change; and taking a more active role in shaping what comes next.
How you develop your Digital Intelligence
You develop all three pillars throughout the major.
Strategist
Understand the bigger picture, recognise who is affected, and judge what should change.
Builder
Turn ideas into digital solutions that can be tested, used, and improved.
Sensemaker
Make sense of information, question what can be trusted, and use evidence to make better decisions.
Where you apply your Digital Intelligence
You apply all three pillars first to your own digital life, then to organisations, and finally to society.
Personal
My digital life
Organisational
The digital workplace
Societal
Our digital society
The Digital Intelligence major
The three pillars and three levels come together in nine courses. Click a course to find out more.
Where will you take your Digital Intelligence?
Become a Digital Architect
As a Digital Architect, you bring together people, technology, and information to understand what needs to change and help shape what happens next in your own digital life, in organisations, and across society.
The Digital Architect mindset
Being a Digital Architect is also about how you approach problems, make judgements, work with others, and take responsibility for what you create.
Imaginative
Sees what could be different.
Curious
Asks questions and explores.
Critical
Questions assumptions and evidence.
Resourceful
Finds a way forward.
Adaptable
Responds to change.
Self-directed
Takes ownership.
Communicative
Makes ideas understandable.
Collaborative
Works with different perspectives.
Responsible
Considers consequences.
Together, the knowledge, skills, and mindset you build across the major help you:
Digital Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
Digital Intelligence
Digital Intelligence is the human capability to understand, judge, and shape the digital world, including how and when to use technologies such as AI.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is a form of technology that can generate, analyse, predict, and automate tasks using data and models.
Combine Digital Intelligence with other study
Digital Intelligence can complement study across business, technology, and health.
Bachelor of
Commerce
Combine Digital Intelligence with other Commerce majors to add digital, analytical, and innovation capability to your business study.
Artificial
Intelligence
Digital Intelligence can be taken alongside Artificial Intelligence in the Bachelor of Science.
Digital
Health
Several Digital Intelligence courses also contribute to the Digital Health major in the Bachelor of Health.
*Digital Intelligence in 2027
Information Systems is proposed to become Digital Intelligence in 2027, subject to regulatory approval.
For questions about Digital Intelligence or how it might fit into your degree, email the School of Information Management at sim@vuw.ac.nz.