Advancing Digital Literacy and Information Integrity

Advancing Digital Literacy and Information Integrity is sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

This grant supports initiatives aimed at improving digital literacy and information integrity. The Knight Foundation provides grants to communities to foster information access, support expression, and encourage economic growth.

This can include supporting initiatives that help cities use digital technology to make decisions, and promoting economic opportunity through inclusive pathways to jobs and entrepreneurship, which often involves digital skills.

IPIE Launches Global Initiatives to Advance Digital Literacy and Information Integrity with Knight Foundation Support IPIE Launches Global Initiatives to Advance Digital Literacy and Information Integrity with Knight Foundation Support IPIE Launches Global Initiatives to Advance Digital Literacy and Information Integrity with Knight Foundation Support Read The News December 2024 The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) is advancing efforts to improve digital literacy and information integrity through groundbreaking initiatives over the next three years.

These include launching a new panel on digital literacy, convening global experts, and enhancing engagement with policymakers. This important work is made possible in part by a $750,000 grant from the John S. and James L.

Knight Foundation . The funding will also support a new cohort of IPIE policy fellows and a landmark global summit on the information environment, which will bring together research scientists and experts from around the world in New York City. Additionally, the grant provides key support to the IPIE Scientific Panel on Indexing the Information Environment , addressing the urgent need for comprehensive digital assessment metrics.

Professor Phil Howard, President of the IPIE, said: "We are so grateful to partner with Knight Foundation to further our shared values of democracy and transparency. Knight’s support will enable the IPIE to continue our work of organizing, evaluating, and elevating research to improve the global information environment.

” Through these initiatives, the IPIE continues to build scientific consensus and advance solutions to critical issues in our rapidly evolving digital landscape. John Sands, Senior Director for Media and Democracy at Knight Foundation, said: “The research community today is producing growing volumes of scholarship to help us better understand our complex information environment.

We’re supporting IPIE’s work to help shorten the gaps between observation and scientific consensus and between insight and more informed policy. ” For more information please contact Kathryn Chapman, Communications, Kathryn. Chapman@IPIE.

info or Press@IPIE. info. The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) is an independent and global science organization providing scientific knowledge about the health of the world's information environment.

Based in Switzerland, the IPIE offers policymakers, industry, and civil society actionable scientific assessments about threats to the information environment, including AI bias, algorithmic manipulation, and disinformation. The IPIE is the only scientific body systematically organizing, evaluating, and elevating research with the broad aim of improving the global information environment.

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