Post on 22-Feb-2016
description
e-CooperaMassive Online Open Courses to Reduce Risk during Reporting
Activities
Participants
Kara Andrade, Central AmericaLizette Gonzalez, Jorge Luis Sierra, MexicoQazi Fazli Azeem, PakistanDiana del Olmo, USAAndrew Bast, USAJoshua Mmali, Uganda/DRCTrevor Knoblich, USAInna Dubinsky, USAMagnus 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 practices2. War/armed conflict3. Repressive regimes/human rights issues4. Natural disasters5. Epidemics6. Systemic corruption7. Public protests8.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.
Technology to Solve the Problem
MOOC
Technology to Solve the Problem
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.
What is a MOOC?
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 StrategiesShauna 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 CrimeJorge 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/TraumaBruce Shapiro (English)
• Managing & Verification of SourcesSamantha Barry (English); Megan Specia
(EnglishWaqas Banoori
Proposed syllabus - Part VI
• Ethics & ProfessionalismSAMANTHA BARRY (English); INNA DUBINSKY
(English/Russian); GUSTAVO WIN (English/Spanish); SONIA SCHOTT (English/Spanish)
• Guide to Reporting Human Rights StoriesMANISHA 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
We Need You To Help Us Train