Ahmed X. Medien is a systems engineer, a data scientist, and a global convener on the subjects of credibility online/information integrity, looking for empathy, common sense, and middle ways to the challenges of misinformation and citizens input into the behind platform and content governance online. In the past 5 years, he led several symposia, public fora, and conferences with hundreds of academic researchers on trustworthiness and credibility of information online, civil society organizations, practitioners amongst platforms workers and analysts. You can observe his work via the MisinfoCon global summit series, the Conference for Truth and Trust Online, the Misinformation Village series and the Wikicredibility demo hours series as well as the WikiCred funded research projects.

In 2024, Ahmed is focusing on the intersection of community, design and computational technologies including AI to build new digital pathways towards peace online and in the real tangible world, free democratic debate, and transformational change in society; in arts, governing and online expression. You can follow Ahmed’s work on his website: https://axm.events.