October 18, 2021
We plan to extend these conversations about the nature of science in these Town Halls. We had planned for another pilot in Spokane on March 21 in partnership with Washington State University(WSU). Unfortunately, it has been postponed due to the coronavirus. If there is a silver lining, it is that this is a timely and…
This Quiz Website Collaboration Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into by and among Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”); the University of Washington acting through its Center for an Informed Public (“UW”); and Deeptrace B.V. (“Deeptrace”). The parties wish to work together to develop an interactive online quiz to educate voters about malicious synthetic media and to promote development…
The objectives of this project are to finalize development of, evaluate, and scale an escape room (with online and physical versions) that achieves cognitive and affective learning outcomes about misinformation. The project also contributes new knowledge around information literacy theory and pedagogy, game appeals and mixed reality games applied in a civic context, and virtual…
The University of Washington iSchool (PI: Jason Yip) requests $249,745 from the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program for an implementation project grant (Goal 1: Objective 1.1). The overall need is to equip children (ages 6 – 13) with the resilience and knowledge they need to combat misinformation. The intended impact is to co-design, promote,…
This planning grant seeks to explore gaps in data sharing between municipal government and decentralized care networks in response to COVID-19 with the aim of proposing the development of new modular data protocols to prepare for future shocks and improve community resilience. The project will collect and assess the relevance of municipal 311 and other…
The primary objective of this project is to build resilience towards disinformation through the deployment of a hybrid physical/digital misinformation escape room with Ukrainian and Russian language versions in upper secondary schools in Ukraine. The expected participant results are:Increased ability to identify disinformation technologies and techniques increased awareness of the affective dimensions of disinformation increases…
The goal of this project is to develop a tabletop game as a novel educational approach to help increase people’s awareness and understanding of misinformation. Research suggests that public library efforts to teach about misinformation do not sufficiently account for misinformation research in other fields and tend not to appeal to audiences that would most…
October 13, 2021
The digital divide has long been recognized as a factor contributing to the economic marginalization of low-income communities, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color (BIPOC communities).1–7 The pandemic transformed the digital divide from a long-simmering issue to an immediate crisis as schools, training programs, and essential services rapidly moved from in-person to virtual…
In the United States, lower income households, significantly less likely to have a computer or internet at home, were disproportionately impacted by the historic job losses in the Spring of 2020. In response, a Seattle-based workforce development nonprofit in partnership with the City of Seattle launched a program called Digital Bridge. The program distributed 197…
