2020: Engaging Grassroots During the Pandemic

Indonesia’s MAFINDO embarked on a community campaign during the pandemic to combat infodemic with creative approaches such as cooking and farming with locals.

Speakers:

Aribowo Sasmito, MAFINDO Santi Indra Astuti, MAFINDO Dewi Sari, MAFINDO

2020: Matchmaking Experts with Journalists

AUSMC paired experts with journalists to quickly disseminate facts during big news events, besides setting up mini peer reviews for preprints during the pandemic.

Speaker:

Susannah Eliott, Australian Science Media Centre

2020: FactShala

In partnership with the Stanford History Education Group, DataLeads and Internews ran a research study about how rural internet users make decisions about online information, which ran across 90 cities in 23 states in India.

Speaker:

Shivalee Kaushik, DataLEADS Aakanksha Sharma, Internews