Hi folks

Just forwarding on an event that may be of interest to anyone looking at issues of news literacy and open knowledge. They're trying to increase geographic diversity (...sadly it'll be 4am in Sydney so no good for me).

Best Simon

Wikimedians Strengthening Knowledge

and News Credibility on the Internet

https://www.wikicred.org

Hi everyone,

Join us, Wikimedians, and other journalists, professionals, academics from the credibility space for the second WikiCred Demo Hour on Tuesday, December 1st at 12 pm EST / 5 pm UTC.

Here's the event agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXWi568/edit. You can sign up https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzVMF9Pe8Zr7Mh2CXw/viewform here and we will send you a Zoom link a few days before the event.

*About WikiCerd*

"WikiCred" is an initiative by Hacks Hackers and several other partners such as the Credibility Coalition, MisinfoCon, and Wikimedians interested in the conversation about credibility and trust in the entire information ecosystem.

*About WikiCed Demo Hour*

The WikiCred Demo Hour is a regular monthly online meetup that brings together members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from the online credibility space and reliable news. Our calls are held on the first Tuesday of every month, with ongoing discussions on our Slack channel.

Ahmed + WikiCred Team wikicred.org