The Media Civics Lab is a hyperlocalized, multi-stakeholder approach to equipping young leaders, underprivileged individuals, women, teachers, government officials, PWDs, and every key stakeholder across civil society with crucial fact-checking and media and information literacy (MIL) skills and resources in a bid to develop future ambassadors online, hone a participative online community and safe online spaces, and create a localized media education training in various communities.

Amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the world faces an “infodemic” or information pandemic. This calls for a more calibrated response to critical thinking on a grassroots level. Now that we’re entering the post-pandemic era, engaging the ASEAN youth who will champion media and information literacy (MIL) has never been this important.

The program adopts a blended approach to learning through self-paced courses, reading lists, seminar workshops, offline training, and many other learning interventions. For 2022, we are launching the Media Civics Lab Fact-Checking Academy for Content Creators and Influencers.