Media Civics Lab’s Seminar-Workshop Series Successfully Trained Youth Leaders

 

The virtual workshops concluded a training program aimed at equipping youth leaders with crucial responsible digital citizenship skills and media literacy awareness.

 

Media Civics Lab just concluded the second phase of their Media Literacy Program aimed at educating youth leaders on how new media can be used to spread information while recognizing and eliminating fake news, in their respective communities. The series of webinars and workshops concluded with a surprising turnout participated by Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) leaders nationwide.

A total of 452 youth leaders from all over the Philippines joined the workshops while 52 SK Leaders graduated from the program. By finishing the program, these SK Leaders are now armed with the proper knowledge to train youth constituents in their communities—just what Media Civics Lab envisioned—to acquire responsible digital citizenship skills to curb the spread of misinformation from the grassroots level.

A Collaborative Effort

Media Civics Lab would like to thank its partner organizations who teamed up with us in making this program successful. These are: Facebook Philippines, EngageMedia, Move.PH, AUC, Out of the Box, Vera Files, Internews, Disini & Disini, YSEALI, and FYt.

Onwards to a Responsible Digital Media Participation

With the current muddy state of digital media where the boundary separating facts from fake news often appears unrecognizable, Media Civics Lab felt strongly complied to break the wall of misinformation.

The resulting Media Literacy Program has raised the conversation of battling disinformation by creating a series of discourse by educating youth leaders with a correct understanding of how the new media works and instilling to them the right mindset on how to use it for the betterment of their communities.

“Disinformation online has major consequences offline. It can kill by triggering political violence”, said Chief of Party of Internews Greg Kehailia.

“It can cause a series of threats to human rights, freedom, justice, and democracy everywhere”

As the adage says, “the truth shall set us free”, there’s no other way to enjoy our freedom by becoming responsible digital media practitioners from hereon.

About Media Civics Lab

A joint project of the U.S. Embassy of the Philippines and Break the Fake Movement, and in collaboration with the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), the Media Civics Lab is a Media Literacy and Awareness Training for Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) and other emerging community youth leaders all over the country, with the goal of equipping them with crucial responsible digital citizenship skills and grooming them to become the next breed of media literacy and awareness champions in their respective communities.

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Gabriel Billones

    Gabriel Billones Jr. is a digital entrepreneur, storyteller, and educator. At his highest value, he provides experience-based insights on the areas of digital marketing, e-commerce, software development, and multimedia content production through mentoring, training, and project management.

    Gab is the Founder and Sole Proprietor of Y-loop Digital Solutions - a Manila-based weekend agency mobilizing virtual talents to create value in digital marketing and innovation for social causes and advocacies. With more than 8 years of experience in digital marketing, e-commerce, and multimedia, and a Certificate in New Media and Journalism from Ball State University, Indiana, as a recipient of the Study of United States Summer Institutes (SUSI) Fellowship in New Media and Journalism, Gab has helped 100+ international and local brands establish their online presence and optimize their digital channels for conversion.

    Gab is very involved in the local and international digital sphere. He has led several digital projects across the Philippines and in the ASEAN region. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Organizer of the Break the Fake Movement, which focuses on projects on critical thinking, fake news and disinformation, and media awareness and literacy. Break the Fake is a recipient of the YSEALI Seeds of Future 2019 and the organizer of Break the Fake Hackathon 2019, Break the Fake Blogathon 2017, and Break the Fake Vlogathon 2020. In his role in Break the Fake, he has contributed to several efforts to combat disinformation, including providing the framework for Facebook’s Digital Citizenship program; launching the Department of Education (DepEd) Philippines’ online training on fact-checking which amplified to thousands of teachers all the country; and centralizing and fact-checking data on Covid-19 response, which served as a backbone database for several COVID-related technology initiatives in the Philippines.

    He is also one of the Project Managers of Go Social: A Digital Marketing Tour Bootcamp, the Philippines’ winning entry to the 7th Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF), a Trainer of the digitaljobsPH program of the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) - the Philippines, a Certified Lead Learner of DevCon Philippines, Former Vice President of Iligan Bloggers Society (IBS), and a Founding Member of Digital Rights Coalition (DRC) of the Philippines and Digital Makers Asia Pacific (DMAP).

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