Misinformation on Africa: Training for Media Practitioners

EDMO is launching an online training on understanding and handling disinformation for media practitioners working on Africa. Co-organised with AfricaCheck and FactSpace West Africa, the training proposes three modules on actors and techniques of disinformation, fact-checking and verification tools and safety and protection of journalists. Applications will open soon.

CEDMO International Conference: Europe Tackles Information Chaos

This one-and-a-half-day conference open to general public will take place in Prague under the auspices of the Czech Presidency of the European Union. Leading experts and key stakeholders – including NGOs, academics, think tanks, practitioners, and legislative and technology actors – will contribute to exploring a comprehensive range of topics.

The complexity of the problem of information disorders will be addressed in discussions focused on a wide range of topics, including:

● the impact and regulation of disinformation

● strengthening democracy in the context of declining trust and increasing societal fragmentation

● the current role of media and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

● foreign interference

● the relation between technology and disinformation

● efforts to boost media and information literacy.