We're living through a 'pandemic of misinformation' while battling a global pandemic, and trying to solve the climate crisis. This misinformation travels through our online spaces 6 times quicker than the truth, and poses a threat to the success of COP26, the most important climate conference of 2021.
How can technologists respond? We'll use a 'mini-sprint' process to fast and furiously brainstorm potential tech interventions to help, and what additional help we need from others to get there.
I am already running a project on climate misinformation and how to stop it. We'll be advertising briefs to help curb the infodemic throughout the year. Great ideas can get involved by answering those briefs and be promoted by our networks.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:We'll split into groups for the groupwork, so we can accommodate different group sizes. And we'll tailor feedback times appropriately.
If 30 people come, we'll do 6 groups of 5 with a tight brief and use breakouts in Zoom. If it's just 3 of us, we'll work it together.
Ex-Mozilla Fellow, and climate change campaigner. On a mission to ensure the ethics catches up with the technology of modern advertising.