Fact checking - Sri Lankan experience
Part 1 - Lead Organizer
Contact Person
Rasika Niroshan Dayarathna
Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate)
ISOC - Sri Lankan Chapter
Designation
Vice president
Gender
Male
Economy of Residence
Sri Lanka
Primary Stakeholder Group
Academia
Part 2 - Session Proposal
Your proposal is for
Capacity Building Day (Prep Day)
Session Title
Fact checking - Sri Lankan experience
Track
Trust
Session Format
Fireside Chat
Where do you plan to organize your session?
Virtual / online
Specific Issues for Discussion
We initiated a project where the community is empowered to identify accurate facts related to health and nutrition. During the project, we faced many unexpected issues including diverse opinions expressed by health care professionals and separating scientifically validated facts from politically corrected facts, how the people take the message. After the project, we realized that this is not a simple but a very complex issue. Therefore, the long-term solution is to empower the youth. This can't be done by school teachers and others since they have already trapped into believing the false information. In this session, we would like to share our experience and also would like to learn from others. Based on the feedback, we would like to develop lessons for school children.
Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF
In short, the information accessed through the Internet must be reliable. Otherwise, people would not trust the Internet and also unpredictable harm would cause due to misleading and false information. Therefore, it is our duty to make sure that the information disseminated through the Internet is reliable. Building a trusted Internet is one of the priorities of APrIGF.
Methodology / Agenda
We will have a moderator and present our findings. We invite the audience to share their experiences. We will discuss where these are matching and mismatching. We will discuss the reasons for mismatching. Then, the discussion will be diverted to the possible solutions.
Please provide 3 subject matter tags that best describe your session.
Misinformation, Fake news, Public health
Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible)
| Name | Designation | Organization | Economy of Residence | Stakeholder Group | Gender | Status of Confirmation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderator (Primary) | Lasith Gunawardhana | Member | IOSC- Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | Academia | Male | Confirmed |
| Moderator (Back-up) | |||||||
| Speaker 1 | Rasika Dayarathna | Vice president | ISOC- Sri Lanka | Sir Lanka | Civil Society | Male | Confirmed |
| Speaker 2 | Prabath Samarasinghe | Member | ISOC- Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | Civil Society | Male | Invited |
Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session.
The proposal was drafted by three of us and Lasith and Rasika carried out the project. So, we can share our experiences.