With billions heading to the polls this year, the stakes for global democracies are substantial. Generative AI advances and broad accessibility are already reshaping sectors with exponential growth ex...
Ed Bice
Ed Bice is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006 he has devoted his professional energies to improving the internet. Ed has led strategy and project definition for open source software development efforts in social computing. With support from Sida, National Science Foundation, Google and Meta, Meedan has developed human-in-the-loop AI chatbots enabling journalists, scientists, and community leaders to provide knowledge services into closed messaging environments. Ed is a member of the Partnership on AI's AI and Media Steering Committee.
Recent projects include the #FactsFirstPH initiative with Rappler, Confirma 2022 Brazil Election monitoring project with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Twitter’s media context program, the COVID-19 Vaccine Media Hub (Google), and WhatsApp’s 3PFC (third party fact-checking) program.
From the United States to the Marshall Islands to Pakistan and the Philippines, countries around the world are experiencing rising rates of floods, heatwaves and natural disasters. Climate change is a...
Vaccinating against misinfodemics: journalists and public health misinformation
In the field of global health, information quality crises can quickly escalate into public health crises, with grave consequences for both population health and trust in institutions more broadly. Wid...
In May 2018, a Belgian political party circulated a video of Donald Trump that went viral. The problem? It wasn’t a real video. An example of synthetic media, popularly known as deepfakes, the video...
Trust in journalism is the problem it seems everyone’s talking about right now. This panel isn’t about talk; it’s about doing. Practical solutions you can take back do your newsrooms today to he...
I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t verify that: misinformation and AI, challenges and opportunities. Given the scale of misinformation and disinformation online, new approaches to detecting and addressing ...
Electionland was a unique collaborative project to track and cover voting problems during the 2016 US elections across the whole country and in real-time. It was also the largest social newsgathering ...
Verification, Collaboration and Community Engagement: Amnesty International’s lessons from using Open Source Intelligence to monitor global human rights violations and train the next generation of ...
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