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e-Coopera. Massive Online Open Courses to Reduce Risk during Reporting Activities. Participants. Kara Andrade, Central America Lizette Gonzalez, Jorge Luis Sierra, Mexico Qazi Fazli Azeem, Pakistan Diana del Olmo, USA Andrew Bast, USA Joshua Mmali, Uganda/DRC Trevor Knoblich, USA
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e-Coopera Massive Online Open Courses to Reduce Risk during Reporting Activities
Participants Kara Andrade, Central America Lizette Gonzalez, Jorge Luis Sierra, Mexico Qazi Fazli Azeem, Pakistan Diana del Olmo, USA Andrew Bast, USA Joshua Mmali, Uganda/DRC Trevor Knoblich, USA Inna Dubinsky, USA Magnus Ag, USA
Leaders NGO Project Lead: All of us Technologist Project Lead: Qazi Fazli Azeem Project Presenter: All of Us Group Number 13
The Need / Summary of the problem Journalists and activists need training to reduce risk. How do we teach them security strategies and tools to keep them safer? Note: It's the activities that are associated with reporting that create risk, not whether you call yourself a "journalist" or "reporter".
Risk Situations (Joshua) People are at risk if they are reporting on: 1. Organized crime & illegal business practices 2. War/armed conflict 3. Repressive regimes/human rights issues 4. Natural disasters 5. Epidemics 6. Systemic corruption 7. Public protests 8.Political matters
Context Mexico: Journalist are blackmailed and harassed when they report corruption and drug trafficking. Guatemala and Honduras: Anybody who is doing reporting on high-risk activities is in danger. Pakistan: journalists need to have technical tools to do their job safely
Context DRC, Kenya and other countries in Africa: journalists lack information. Also access and distribution are big problems. Russia and other states in Eurasia: Journalists and activists work at their peril reporting human right violations, corruption, etc. and risk persecution or even being killed.
Proposed Solution (Azeem) To create a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) about security strategies and tools to teach journalists and activists about risky activities, behaviors and contexts and how to be safer.
What is a MOOC? A massive open online course(MOOC) is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web.
Existing solutions or relevant links • Use a pre-existing platform: ICFJ, Knight, WordPress, places where journalists and activists go for training • Use existing syllabus/ content / core skills (CPJ, ICFJ/ Freedom House, UdeG, Internews, IREX)
Proposed syllabus (Inna) • Risk Assessment Taylor Corbett (English) Jorge Luis Sierra (Spanish/English) State Dept./UN Official - Basic Preparedness/Exit Strategies Shauna Dillavou (English/Spanish) Joan Mower (English/French) Waqas Banoori (English, Urdu) Joshua Mmal (English); UN rep (Jon Greenway)
Proposed syllabus - Part II • Assessing & Responding to Risk/Standards of Practice Jorge Luis Siera (Spanish/English) • Information Security Protocols/ Technologies to keep you safer (encryption/file security/anonimization/info gathering/mobile) Judith Matloff (Spanish/English); Manisha Aryal (English); Shauna Dillavou (English/Spanish); Qazi Fazil Azeem (English, Urdu)
Proposed Syllabus - Part IV • Organized Crime Jorge Luis Sierra (Spanish/English); Juan Cedillo (Spanish); Judith Torrea (Spanish/English) • Natural/Political Disasters/Civil Matters/Health Epidemics/Hazards Sonia Schott (English/Spanish); Inna Dubinsky (English/Russian); Erin Cauchi (English) • Stress Reactions/Trauma
Proposed Syllabus - Part V • Stress Reactions/Trauma Bruce Shapiro (English) • Managing & Verification of Sources Samantha Barry (English); Megan Specia (EnglishWaqas Banoori
Proposed syllabus - Part VI • Ethics & Professionalism SAMANTHA BARRY (English); INNA DUBINSKY (English/Russian); GUSTAVO WIN (English/Spanish); SONIA SCHOTT (English/Spanish) • Guide to Reporting Human Rights Stories MANISHA ARYAL (English); CHRIS MITCHEL (English); KELLY MATHESON (English) -
Proposed Syllabus - Part III • Technologies to keep you safer (encryption, anonymization, info. gathering, mobile) Annie Wilkinson (English); Brian Nunez (English); Ravi Madhusudhan (English/Urdu); Amanda Hickman (English); Qazi Fazil Azeem (English, Urdu) * In case any of these speakers are not available, other candidates can be approached.
Recruitment (Trevor) - Teachers/experts recruitment - Distribution - Production (Technical: recording, editing, infographics, uploading) - Incentives - Participants/Target audience
Follow-on actions Step 1: Design Wireframes Step 2: Find experts Step 3: Design a final syllabus Step 4: Design the MOOC Step 5: Launch the MOOC
Distribution - Phase 1 - Start with a page on TechCamp's WordPress site (secure login page) - Step 6: Promotion via partners
Distribution - Phase 2 - Expand to other MOOC site(s) - In-person training - Social media via partners; e-mail lists - Lack of web access -- radio, mobile, flash drive, SMS
What It Looks Like Protection of Journalists http://techcampglobal.org/protection-of-journalists-trainings.php