The Schedule
For live-streamed sessions, please register through the Zoom link.
Day 1, May 12:
9 AM - 10 AM: Registration and Breakfast
10 AM - 10:30 AM: Introduction and Housekeeping
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Lightning Talks (Livestreamed)
Why do Indians share a lot of health misinformation?
Sudipto Sengupta - CEO, The Healthy Indian ProjectHow Numbers in the Media Can Mislead: Exploring Data-Related Misinformation
Akhil Reddy - Product Manager, Factly
Health Misinformation and Stigma - a queer perspective
Ritash - Associate Director, Solidarity Foundation
Duha - Intersex Asia research fellow, IHRI co-founder & co-ordinator
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Design Thinking Sessions: Needs gathering across domains
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Workshop Sessions
Ekta: Growing and sustaining a consortium of fact-checkers in India - opportunities and challenges
Neelam Singh - Editor, The Healthy Indian Project
Uzair Rizvi - Journalist, AFP Fact Check
Habeeb Rahman YP - Fact-checker (Malayalam), NewsMeter
Bharat Nayak - Founding Editor, The Logical Indian
Abhilash Mallick - Associate Editor (Fact-check), The Quint
Sneha Alexander - Program Manager APAC, Meedan
Shalini Joshi - Program Director APAC, MeedanSocial Media and Archiving
Padmini Ray Murray - Founder, Design Beku
Maya Dodd - Director, FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research, FLAME University
Siddarth S Ganesh - QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU
Tarunima Prabhakar - Co-founder and Research Lead at Tattle
Ritash - Associate Director, Solidarity Foundation
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM: Break
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM: Academic Research in Action (Virtual presentations, Livestreamed)
Heavy Tweeters and the Loud Television Hosts: A Tale of Alienated Protesting Farmers of India
Vihang Jumle- Co-lead, Social Media and Disinformation LabThe Effect of Social Media on Voters: Experimental Evidence from Political WhatsApp Groups
Kevin Carney - Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Privacy Preserving Data Collection Infrastructures for WhatsApp
Kiran Garimella - Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information, University of RutgersEmpowering diaspora communities to counter misinformation
Scott Hale - Director of Research at Meedan and Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet InstituteDeepfakes and the Practice of Journalism
Andrea Hickerson - Dean and Professor in the School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi
7:00 PM: Reception
Day 2, May 13:
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Breakfast
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Lightning Talks (Livestreamed)
Policy Responses to Misinformation and Disinformation
Prateek Waghre - Policy Director, Internet Freedom FoundationIndian Government and Fact Checking
Aditi Agrawal - Independent Technology Journalist
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Lightning Talks (Livestreamed)
Main Kaun Hoon? Kahan Hoon?
Identifying Oneself in the Misinformation Landscape
Tejas AP (all pronouns), Independent ArtistIndian Civilisation is 10 billion years old and other bullshit comments I've read online
Keshav Rajendran - Filmmaker and Partner of Production House, 1G4TGames Against Misinformation
Adhiraj Singh - Viral Spiral (Tattle), The Games We Play Online
Karen D'Mello - Director of KathaSiyah Collective, Creating ‘Trust Me. It’s a Forward!’: Combating misinformation with play and care
Abhilash Mallick - Associate Editor (Fact-check), the Quint, Verify Kiya Kya
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshop Sessions
Unpacking gendered disinformation: Examining real-life cases and potential solutions
Pooja Pande - Co-CEO Chambal Media
Kritika Goel - Head of Fact-Checking, India, Logically Facts
Adrija Bose - Senior Editor, BOOM Live
Sneha Alexander - Program Manager APAC, MeedanRegulating Misinformation In India
Preeksha Malhotra and Haseeba Sayyed, Independent Media Regulation Researchers
Game Room: Viral Spiral
Viral Spiral lets players experience the temptation to share fake news. They earn clout as they go viral and get to experience how biases can be manipulated for personal gain. Forcing players to face the consequences of the harm it causes, the universe adapts to the decisions the players makeGame Room: Trust Me, it's a Forward!
Trust Me, it's a Forward turns the disembodied nature of digital messages into an interactive game experience that relies on players’ ability to segregate fact from fiction. The game simulates behaviour that results from our interactions with information manufactured by large data systems that wield the power and resources to bend facts and public opinion
Day 3, May 14:
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Build in the open hackathon
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Build in the open hackathon