# Information Disorder Community Discussion March 10 2021 ### Goals: 1. Broaden the framing of information disorder beyond facts vs falsehoods towards structural issues affecting the Information Ecosystem in India. 2. Identify and highlight interventions that have worked. 3. Conect content creators, NGOs, CBOs with researchers, techies, designers. Network should include more disciplines such as behavioural scientists, designers.. 4. Advocacy - Create local vocabulary to engage with regional examples of info disorder-interface design-larger narratives - Conceive better strategies --- --- ### Dream Ideas: - Further research into how different aspects of the information ecosystem interact and contribute to information disorder - monitor and evaluate misinfo combating initiatives on grounds of methodology, relevance and impact - Give centerstage to people like teachers, society president or doctors/nurses who are "dealing" with misinformation in their communities. - Workshops for journalists: - on better, wiser reporting (non amplification) - for collaborative stories - Find and enable better communication strategies of nuance for different stakeholders: - Policy explainers/briefs for political leaders/aides - norm resetting - non English speaking audiences - antidote to transparency-washing - Tech enabled interventions - An indexing and collating interface to work with spreadable media as is and not just the meta-data to serve as a larger repository that can function as a site for mass observation. - Build a predictive FN /misinfo tool that classifies different narrative paths, possibilities and assumptions, extracted from a database - chrono-thematic:(working with multiple languages and recurring time-scapes) - Do an expansive multilingual whatsapp scoping exercise focusing on local languages: this would require participation from users - Figuring out provenance-mechanisms before legislators do. - Get citizens involved in some misinformation response drive, even if at a very small scale.