Tech for Democracy - Days of Action

Annique Mossou is a trainer and researcher focusing on mis- and disinformation at open sourcem investigative media Bellingcat. Prior to joining Bellingcat, she worked for several open source teams at the Dutch National police and specialized on online jihadi propaganda.

Silas Jonathan is a Fact-checker/researcher with DUBAWA Nigeria. A graduate of Mass Communication from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, he is an expert with the use of fact-checking tools for verification.  Silas has worked on several consequential fact-checks that have earned him a nomination at the 2021 AfricaCheck fact-check awards.

Jency Jacob is the Managing Editor of BOOM and has worked with some of the top television and print networks in the country over the last 2 decades. Jency manages a newsroom of enterprising fact checkers across India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, who are striving to keep our social media and public space clear of misinformation and communally sensitive disinformation that can result in real-life implications.

Ed Bice is the founding CEO of Meedan and in this capacity has since 2005 devoted his professional energies to creating digital tools and programs that promote collaborative verification, annotation, and translation. In this role he has led strategy and project definition for several software development efforts in social linguistic computing, cross-cultural education, and social media journalism.

Christopher Bouzy is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur, who has launched several startups, and coded dozens of desktop and mobile apps. In 2018, he launched Bot Sentinel, a programme that is able to rate twitter accounts engaging in harassment, trolling and disinformation campaigns. His goal is to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment.

Min Hsuan Wu, also known as “Ttcat,” is the co-founder and CEO of Doublethink Lab, a Taiwan based organization that operates at the intersection of the Internet, public discourse, civil society, and democratic governance. Doublethink Lab is researching modern threats to democracy and devising strategies to counter them.

Johan Farkas is a PhD student in Media and Communication Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. His research explores disinformation, ‘fake news’, racism and political struggles, specifically in connection to digital media.

Jianing Li is a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been a Knight Scholar of Communication and Civic Renewal and a Helen Firstbrook Franklin Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow. Li's research centers on misinformation, social media skepticism, and how inequalities across information, racial, social and economic domains shape people’s understanding of the society we live in.

Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen, Asia adviser with IMS (International Media Support). Holds a PhD in media studies from University of Copenhagen and has a background as a journalist working for Danish media. She has been with IMS since 2017 where she advises on programme and strategy development and leads research efforts. She has followed the development of mis/disinformation and hate speech in the region closely and among other things advised on various programmes and projects designed to counter the issues at local, regional and international level.