Youth Against COVID-19 – Episode 1

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UNFPA is teaming up with Prezi to help young people around the world learn about COVID-19 and how they can help keep their friends, families, and communities safe.

This episode, produced in partnership with the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association, will teach about COVID-19. Users can re-create the video to share with their family and friends. This encourages and enables sharing correct and reliable information to take action to stop the spread of COVID-19. The key messages of this episode are available to help the viewer remember the most important information to share here.

Scripts for the videos are available here so that each young person delivers the same correct message.

Visitors can go to Prezi to learn how to create their own videos. A gallery of the videos made by other youth around the world is here.

Source: Youth Against COVID-19 – Episode 1

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    COVideo19 Student-Led Initiative

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    COVideo19 is an initiative led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health students aimed at providing science-based, social media friendly information on COVID-19 in multiple languages. The students are part of the Digital Health Society, the student arm of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative.

    The video series, aimed at young, connected audiences around the globe, challenges viewers to become “public health warriors” and combines scientific knowledge about COVID-19 with instructions on how to help stop its spread. In addition to the introductory video—now available in 20 languages and counting—COVideo19 features brief Q&As in multiple languages that address common myths, misconceptions, and concerns sourced from students’ home communities, ranging from the effects of COVID-19 on mental health to the seasonality of the coronavirus. The videos are available on the School’s playlist.

    Source: COVideo19 Student-Led Initiative

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      Actions to Support Media, Enhance Access to Information, and Leverage Digital Technologies in the Fight Against the Pandemic

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      UNESCO is the UN agency with a specific mandate to promote “free flow of ideas by word and image”. It welcomes the immense efforts of communication and information communities to tackle the current COVID-19 crisis, including:

      • sharing lifesaving information, debunking misinformation,
      • strengthening the implementation of the fundamental right to information,
      • leveraging the use of public interest media, ICTs and OER for e-learning, and connecting people online.

      UNESCO is closely monitoring the impact of this crisis on media freedom, safety of journalists, and the fundamental right to access information.

      In a context of unprecedented challenges for the media and digital technology sectors, UNESCO has created a “resource center” of selected responses to COVID-19.
      It includes a collection of examples of actions related to communication and information made available for the purpose of:

      • Sharing practices
      • Identifying priorities
      • Facilitating partnerships
      • Amplifying good practices
      • Providing advice and technical assistance to governments and relevant national stakeholders
      • Fostering North-South, South-South, and triangular cooperation

      This “clearing house” provides a non-exhaustive list of illustrative examples. It will continue to evolve with the COVID-19 pandemic and the quick development of responses.

      Source: Actions to Support Media, Enhance Access to Information, and Leverage Digital Technologies in the Fight Against the Pandemic

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        COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Guidance for Field Teams: Technical Brief

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        This is a short guide, with important steps and resources, on how country programs can track and address rumors around COVID-19 (as needed). The guide includes a number of great resources and links while also sharing nuggets from global, collective thinking around rumors.

        The guide includes sections on:

        • Coordinating
        • Discovering the rumors
        • Verifying the information
        • Engaging the community

        Source: Technical Brief: COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Guidance for Field Teams

         

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          Coronavirus: The Seven Types of People who Start and Spread Viral Misinformation

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          BBC Media have investigated hundreds of misleading stories during the pandemic. It’s given them an idea about who is behind misinformation – and what motivates them.

          According to BBC Media, gere are seven types of people who start and spread falsehoods:

          1. The joker
          2. The scammer
          3. The politician
          4. The conspiracy theorist
          5. The insider
          6. The relative
          7. The celebrity

          Source: Coronavirus: The Seven Types of People who Start and Spread Viral Misinformation

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            Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation

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            This factsheet uses a sample of fact-checks to identify some of the main types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation seen so far. Building on other analyses (Hollowood and Mostrous 2020; EuVsDIS 2020; Scott 2020), the authors combine a systematic content analysis of fact-checked claims about the virus and the pandemic with social media data indicating the scale and scope of engagement.

            The analysis concludes that misinformation about COVID-19 comes in many different forms, from many different sources, and makes many different claims. It frequently reconfigures existing or true content rather than fabricating it wholesale, and where it is manipulated, is edited with simple tools.

            Source: Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation

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              Avoid Fake News Video

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              This short video in Tagalog describes how fake news related to COVID-19 spread online and how to deal with this misinformation. It also emphasizes on getting the right information from official sources. This video can be shared online through social media channels.

              Source: Avoid Fake News Video

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                Toolkit to Spread Awareness and Take Action on COVID-19

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                Inspired by the actions of young people across the world UNICEF has compiled a set of actions that anyone can take to join the fight against misinformation and stigma, and to promote community support and spirit, divided by the time it will take one to get involved, so anyone can decide how he or she can best contribute.

                Source: Toolkit to Spread Awareness and Take Action on COVID-19

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                  Coronavirus: Here’s How You can Stop Bad Information from Going Viral

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                  A UK parliamentary sub-committee is asking members of the public to submit examples. The committee has particularly requested submissions of disinformation spread in private groups and closed apps such as WhatsApp. Meanwhile, experts are calling on the public to practice “information hygiene”.

                  Here are the ways in which the article states one can stop bad information from going viral:

                  1. Stop and think
                  2. Check your source
                  3. Could it be a fake?
                  4. Unsure whether it’s true? Don’t share
                  5. Check each fact, individually
                  6. Beware emotional posts
                  7. Think about biases

                  Source: Coronavirus: Here’s How You can Stop Bad Information from Going Viral

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                  Synthesized Guidance for COVID-19 Message Development Navigation Aid

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                  The purpose of this brief aid is to help the user effectively navigate Breakthrough ACTION’s Synthesized Guidance for COVID-19 Message Development. This document provides screenshot tutorials to maximize the speed at which one can find the information regarding COVID-19.

                  The Breakthrough ACTION’s Synthesized Guidance for COVID-19 Message Development is a living digital document that facilitates accessing the information you need via internal and external hyperlinks. The contents of the Synthesized Guidance for COVID-19 Message Development will be updated periodically. Any updates will be announced and highlighted in this guide.

                  Source: Synthesized Guidance for COVID-19 Message Development Navigation Aid

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