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EBIC

Empowering Brazil's impoverished communities through critical decision-making: a communitarian communicative strategy.

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Author: multiowner

How do we study the problem of the infodemic? How do we empower community members?

Posted on September 17, 2021

We start by getting to know key members of our target communities, building trust and gaining entry. These people are respected and so more likely to be influential within their communities. Our Brazilian partners, have built an extensive network of contacts within vulnerable communities in the state of Goiás. We get to know these community […]


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Where is the project taking place? Where are we working?

Posted on September 17, 2021

We are studying and working with communities at four different locations in and around Goiânia, Brazil: 2 favelas: Villa Lobo (more rural) and Buena Vista (more urban) 1 garbage pickers cooperative: Cooper-Rama 1 homeless shelter: Tio Cleobaldo


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About EBIC

EBIC is a project that works with disadvantaged communities in Brazil (such as favela dwellers, the homeless and garbage pickers) to empower them to gain critical skills and access to information to identify what is or is not likely to be ‘fake news’, particularly in the realm of COVID-19.

Funding

We are funded through AHRC/GCRF, the project combines the expertise of teams at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.

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