The Humara MIL Kit for the Multiverse of Digital Fallacies is a part of Digital Empowerment Foundation’s Media and Information Literacy (MIL) initiatives to enable people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information and media, as well as to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages in their own right. An understanding of MIL would also help communities that are getting online to have a better understanding of misinformation, online trolling, stereotypes, prejudices, and other online threats.
Key Components
- Modules that facilitate critical digital literacy and learning on how to safely navigate the digital space
- Interactive comic book with stories of online threats and solutions that have been taken from real-life instances to connect with the community members
- Masks to enable role-playing and a meaningful community exchange on critical digital literacy and being safe online
- Gaming activities that encourages discussion, enables critical learning and empowers community members with solutions to digital threats
- Reading material on the evolving digital landscape and what it means to be safe online
- Additional collaterals that highlight the importance of media information literacy and the importance of enabling all digital citizens with critical digital literacy tools
Impact
- 20,000 women have been enabled in critical digital literacy
- 6,000 students have been connected to comprehensive media and information literacy
- 2,000 information agents enabled with critical thinking and online safety and security tools
Status
Ongoing
Stories from the Field
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