On February 24, 2023, Campaigners against misinformation and disinformation in Liberia in partnership with Orange Digital Center hosted a one-day Digital Literacy Workshop for eighteen (18) students from six schools in Rural Montserrado County at the Orange Digital Center in Congo Town, Monrovia. The students learned two topics: “Finding and consuming reliable and credible digital content and Communicating and sharing reliable and credible digital content”. There were two Facilitators at the one-day Digital Literacy Workshop. Mr. Luther Jeke, iCampus CEO and Ms. Joyclyn Wea, Co-managing Partner, STAGE MEDIA Liberia.
Three students came from six schools in Rural Montserrado County. The schools include: Lucy Gibson School and Montserrado Technical Institute in Mount Barclay, Kingsley Lington Academy and Confidence School in Fendell and New Jerusalem School and Careysburg Public High School in Careysburg.
At the end of the one-day Digital Literacy workshop, the students were given certificates of participation for actively participating and becoming promoters of reliable and credible information in Liberia. Those students now serve as ambassadors in the fight against misinformation and disinformation in Liberia in their schools and communities in order to sustain the peace in Liberia especially during and after the upcoming Presidential and Legislative Elections and beyond.
The Organization is working with schools, universities and other media institutions to host awareness on Media Literacy.
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