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.

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 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)

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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

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