Under the Project Title: Promoting Media Literacy in Bangladesh, SACMID is implementing the following activities between the time line of January-August 2020. It can be noted that in consultation with FPU, the supporter of the project, SACMID had to revise its activities due to the unprecedented lock-down situation around Corona Pandemic in the project area.
The activities to implement for the year 2020:
- Capacity development for local leaders on Media and Information Literacy to combat violent extremism on social platform
- Develop Training Manual
- Develop digital awareness material through organizing Online competition (in collaboration with EMK Center)
- Facilitate Training for Community leaders (in 02 unions outside of the capital)
- Choose fake news of the week and create Video Blog (In collaboration with and administered by Fact watch-ULAB)
- Analysis of Teachers’ Curriculum in the light of Media Literacy (in collaboration with TTC)
- Newly Developed Content proposed to NCTB to include in the Text book & Capacity building of the teachers
- Consultation Meeting
- Research (Survey, Assessment, critical analysis, story making) on: in and around Media & Corona crisis
- Digitalization Practice & Prospect
- Conduct on line survey – free flow of information and Journalists’ safety & security
- Featuring Journalists
- Role of Media in crisis
- Media in post-crisis
- Publication of study findings
- Awareness Campaign on COVID -19
- Social Influencer engagement – Social Media Campaign (by using community radio) to combat fake news through social influencer like young celebrity, celebrity doctor, religious leader.
