BRYCA aims to promote critical thinking and to strengthen the resilience of youth to misinformation and hate speech online as part of the global objective to promote support to civil society in protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms worldwide.
An online “serious game” called Qlever, available on mobile phones and computers and targeting marginalized youth across Central Asia, is developed to build their resilience to fake news and misinformation.
In parallel, trained teams of specialists in each country are monitoring fake news and misinformation in more than 230 media, social media groups and blogs and influencers pages every week. These false stories will be debunked and their content shown to be false on the project partners online resources and information literacy tool Media Sabak.
In addition MIL experts in each country will be trained to run offline MIL trainings for vulnerable youth in rural and urban areas.
Timeline
- January 2020: Project launch
- August 2020: The educational online game is available in Russian, Tajik, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Kazakh
- February 2020: Media and information literacy training of trainers
- February 2020: First 20,000 players registered
- September 2020: MIL grants awarded
- October 2020: 35,000 players registered
- December 2022: End of the project