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Posted on: 28 Sep 2020
Hacking the fake news
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Media Development Foundation (MDF) invites developers, graphic designers, media literacy specialists, and others who are passionate about digital technologies from all over the globe to hack the fake news challenge on 22-23 October 2020.
The aim of the hackathon is to generate new innovative technological ideas to detect and fight malign information operations and fake content.
What to expect?
During the 2 day-event groups of 2-6 participants will be working together with mentors to design innovative tech solutions (games, apps, chatbot, etc.) aiming to identify, expose and analyze misinformation and disinformation and other malign information operations.
The hackathon month will be full of training opportunities from our partners from Bellingcat and Facebook, so stay tuned for a big announcement in the beginning of October.
What are the requirements for the hackathon participants?
Hackathon will be held online. Although, if the epidemiological situation allows, offline space will be arranged for Georgian participants.
What are the prizes?
Each winning team will get $3000 as a prize for production.
The participants will be chosen based on the filled application.
Application deadline: 18 October 2020
Working language of the hackathon is English and it is required for at least one member from each group to know the English language.
The hackathon is organized by Media Development Foundation (MDF) - a leading Georgian NGO in media monitoring, teaching media literacy, and fact-checking, together with a Tbilisi-based creative enterprise ForSet in partnership with Bellingcat and Facebook Journalism Project with the financial contribution of Zinc Network. Media partner of the hackathon is Civil.ge.
In case of questions, please, contact Mariam Akhalaktsi (MDF) - mariama@mdfgeorgia.ge or Teona Tomashvili (ForSet) - teona@forset.ge
The aim of the hackathon is to generate new innovative technological ideas to detect and fight malign information operations and fake content.
What to expect?
During the 2 day-event groups of 2-6 participants will be working together with mentors to design innovative tech solutions (games, apps, chatbot, etc.) aiming to identify, expose and analyze misinformation and disinformation and other malign information operations.
The hackathon month will be full of training opportunities from our partners from Bellingcat and Facebook, so stay tuned for a big announcement in the beginning of October.
What are the requirements for the hackathon participants?
- The prototype should be a digital tool (game, app, chatbot, website, web extension, etc).
- The prototype should be relevant to the hackathon aim.
- The prototype must be scalable and easily adopted by other countries.
What will be the format of the hackathon?
Hackathon will be held online. Although, if the epidemiological situation allows, offline space will be arranged for Georgian participants.
What are the prizes?
Each winning team will get $3000 as a prize for production.
The participants will be chosen based on the filled application.
Application deadline: 18 October 2020
Working language of the hackathon is English and it is required for at least one member from each group to know the English language.
The hackathon is organized by Media Development Foundation (MDF) - a leading Georgian NGO in media monitoring, teaching media literacy, and fact-checking, together with a Tbilisi-based creative enterprise ForSet in partnership with Bellingcat and Facebook Journalism Project with the financial contribution of Zinc Network. Media partner of the hackathon is Civil.ge.
In case of questions, please, contact Mariam Akhalaktsi (MDF) - mariama@mdfgeorgia.ge or Teona Tomashvili (ForSet) - teona@forset.ge
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