Breaking invisible barriers: Are you working with MIL?

[ UUID ] 638f19c1-c808-4677-8e86-432d3c8a7a23

[ Session Name ] Breaking invisible barriers: Are you working with MIL? [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Roslyn Kratochvil Moore [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] DW Akademie [ Submitter's GitHub ] Roslyn-Kratochvil-Moore

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Tamar Kintsurashvili

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Eddie Avila

[ Other Facilitator 3's Name ] Sharada Kerkar

What will happen in your session?

Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is the ability to access, analyze, and create media across many platforms and formats. It encompasses a variety of approaches, such as digital inclusion, addressing misinformation, fact-checking, and digital rights, essential for global citizens to fully achieve their personal and collective rights to freedom of expression and access to information. This diversity is reflected in a new initiative called the MIL Experts Network (MILEN) convened by DWAkademie. This session will include practitioners from MILEN from Georgia working on combating fake news, from India working with web literacy in rural communities, and from Latin America working on media analysis with indigenous communities. They will share their experiences working collectively to curate and provide open-source MIL resources.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

At the conclusion of the session, we want participants to have a better understanding about the need for MIL and their own role in supporting communities to better understanding how media works, to analyze more critically the messages transmitted, and to make informed decisions as consumers and producers of information, especially on the web. Session attendees will work in breakout groups to identify resource needs, feed into the design of the network, and collect ideas of how the network can help disseminate MIL ideas and resources. We hope that participants will be motivated to engage in MIL activities in their own communities knowing that they can count on the support of MILEN curated resources and initiatives to raise awareness.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Overhead projector, post-it notes, flip charts and markers

Time needed

60 mins