What We Do
We are creating educational materials that help people navigate the bad information that is flooding their communities. At Co-Designing for Trust we understand that you have to navigate a lot of information every day, and some of it is designed to deceive, to exploit your emotions, and to divide your communities. We are supporting communities to create tailored educational resources that they can use to better sort the good from the bad. Our approach ensures that these resources reflect your community’s needs and values, so that our educational solutions fit easily into your everyday lives.
Why This Work Is Important
We offer resources that help communities respond to false and misleading information, often referred to as misinformation. Misinformation is a big problem around the world, which impacts everything from jobs and health public services and general community wellbeing. Unfortunately, misinformation is a difficult problem to address, because it is often intentionally designed to trick us, exploit our emotions, and pit us against one another.
To make matters worse, very few educational programs have been created to address misinformation within many of the communities that are disproportionately targeted by it. This can make communities feel that the programs are disconnected from the everyday realities of how they interact with information.
Our team is working to reverse this trend, by collaborating directly with communities to create holistic solutions tailored to their unique local context.
Our Approach
Strengthening trust requires that we all work together to overcome the many divides created by misinformation. We believe that everyone needs to have a seat at the table when we are creating solutions, which is why we have adopted a co-design approach. Co-design is a process that involves communities in the design of their own solutions. This ensures that the educational resources that we produce are relevant and steeped in the wisdom of your community. We design for trust with you: Educators, librarians, community leaders, learners, activists, and anyone else who is looking to be a part of the solution.
What People Say
They created a community that was inclusive and empowering and caring about finding strategies to help heal and empower communities that need it most.
Community organizer
The research team has really listened to the participants and allowed their ideas to grow directly out of community contributions.
Rural librarian
It’s unique to bring together academics, researchers, librarians, teachers and journalists to tackle real problems and potential solutions to mis/disinformation. The group’s collective work has yielded incredible, doable ideas that will change our communities.
Workshop participant
Get in Touch
Interested in learning more about how you can protect your community from the impacts of misinformation? Reach out to our team to learn more about our services or share your story.