#defyhatenow

DefyHateNow is a project by the berlin-based r0g agency for open culture and critical transformation aimed at avoiding the Rwanda-Style media-induced genocide by raising awareness about and developing means to mitigate social media-based hate speech, conflict rhetoric, and online incitement to violence.  Under this project, we organized numerous activities under the following themes.

Fact-Checking + Verification Workshops

Misdirection on the internet has played a key role in inflaming the South Sudan cyberspace. Faked photos, stories/blogs, and the cloning of popular websites have been used to influence public discourse.  We have been equipping civil society organizations, journalists, and activists through workshops, forums, and meetups to understand practical tools, and techniques to fact-checked online information.

Theme focus in brief:

• User-generated content verification, the sessions break down key step-by-step strategies to verify UGC online.
• Tools for digital forensics / verification
• Social media Code Of Conduct

Ethical Social media use and Citizen’s storytelling.

Ethics, by definition, is the concept of what is good, bad, right, and wrong. In social media, the right ethic equals the right perspective and the right thinking on how to leverage social media appropriately and how to engage people in the right manner. The purpose of this program is to build a thorough understanding amongst the participants on best practices of social media and most importantly, mediums and skills to tell their stories online.

Theme focus in brief:

• Ethical issues in blogging
• What you should not post online
• World Cafe: PR canvas
• Digital Safety