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Hybrid Global TechCamp Reconnect Nepal – Virtual Session

Countering global mis/disinformation around COVID-19 and other Public Health Issues

Alumni Resource Communications Campaigns & Advocacy Countering Disinformation Public Health
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February 24-March 11, 2023

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Description

The U.S. Department of State in partnership with our implementing partner Kathmandu Living Labs, is hosting Global TechCamp Reconnect, a hybrid event that seeks both to address global public health challenges, including those related to dis/misinformation surrounding COVID-19, and during the in-person event, counter disinformation throughout South Central Asia.

The virtual event will convene global TechCamp alumni and regional SCA youth and civil society leaders to increase digital technology capacity and improve media literacy to reduce the reach and impact of public health disinformation. The virtual sessions are intended to reach out to participants worldwide, while the in-person event in Kathmandu will focus on addressing local and regional challenges in and around Nepal, making for a powerful program that’s both local and global.

The virtual component will comprise three 3-hour virtual trainings, each running twice live and once as a recorded session with moderated chat.

The in-person event will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 8-10, 2023.

Information on the VIRTUAL component of the Global Reconnect, below.

For details about the in-person component of the Global Reconnect in Nepal, click here.

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Agenda

 Session 1aSession 1bSession 2aSession 2bSession 3aSession 3bSession 4 - Recorded
DateFebruary 24, 2023February 25, 2023March 8, 2023March 8, 2023March 10, 2023March 10, 2023March 11, 2023
Start Time (ET - Washington, DC) 9am ET8:30pm ET10am ET8pm ET9am ET8pm ET2am ET
End Time (ET - Washington, DC) 12pm ET11:30pm ET1pm ET11pm ET12pm ET11pm ET5am ET
Trainer(s) Name
Topic		Hermence Matsotsa: "Why cross-cultural communications strategies should be utilized during Global Health Crises"Dr. Suchi Garr: "Young people leading recovery and response to global health crisis"Dr. Linda Desens, Dr. Denise Scannell, and Dr. Brandon Walling; MITRE Labs Health Innovation CenterDr. Linda Desens, Dr. Denise Scannell, and Dr. Brandon Walling; MITRE Labs Health Innovation CenterRebecca Distler: "Using AI to Understand Public Health Mis and Disinformation"; Anurag Banerjee: "Managing Misinformation. We know it exists. How do we win on the New Internet?"; and Jamie Arkin: "What are the limitations of AI and Social Listening in the Public Health Context?"Rebecca Distler: "Using AI to Understand Public Health Mis and Disinformation"; Anurag Banerjee: "Managing Misinformation. We know it exists. How do we win on the New Internet?"; and Jamie Arkin: "What are the limitations of AI and Social Listening in the Public Health Context?"
Trainer(S) Name
Topic		Dr. Suchi Garr: "Young people leading recovery and response to global health crisis"Hermence Matsotsa: "Why cross-cultural communications strategies should be utilized during Global Health Crises" "Taming the Wild, Wild Information Environment: Applying the HIPE TM Framework for Understanding and
Addressing On-Line Harmful Health Information"		"Taming the Wild, Wild Information Environment: Applying the HIPE TM Framework for Understanding and
Addressing On-Line Harmful Health Information"		Ezinne Onwuekwe: "The infodemic virus: the role of data in distilling fact from fiction"Ezinne Onwuekwe: "The infodemic virus: the role of data in distilling fact from fiction"All Sessions - concurrently running in Breakout rooms.

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