Description of impact
Our research on digital literacy and social impact has led the way in enhancing digital media skills for activists, journalism students, archivists and human rights advocates across the Global South. Through a partnership with Meedan, a US-based technology organisation, and an extensive network of over 20 civil society groups in the North Africa Western Asia region, in Latin America, East Africa, and the Philippines, our research has:improved media literacy skills for a total of 7,407 beneficiaries through the provision of online and offline training, strengthening their role as investigators and contributors to the public sphere;
created a replicable programmatic framework, including a monitoring and evaluation toolkit, which has helped partner organisations expand and thrive, now used in 24 countries as the main evaluation tool;
transformed the scale and quality of citizen journalism activity documenting the Syrian uprising-war and preserved the work of these citizen photographers and videographers.
Impact date | 2014 |
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Category of impact | Public Policy or Services impacts |
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Outputs
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‘I will not leave, my freedom is more precious than my blood’. From affect to precarity: crowd-sourced citizen archives as memories of the Syrian war
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding factors and barriers to alternative media development in emerging economies: Learning from the Check Global project
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review