Join this AI for Good project that aims at combatting climate misinformation and the spread of climate-related fake news.
As the project moves forward, we are realising the big impact it could actually have, and that is really really exciting. However, we are also realising that we truly need as many hands as possible to help and that there are certain skills we currently do not have in the team!
Our aim is still to build a tool in order to help people identify articles about climate change that are not scientifically accurate or simply not true. This tool, called Climate Battle Cards, will be in the form of a plug-in that would be available to install in any browser and that will flag those arguments against climate change that are not accurate and provide the reader with scientifically reviewed counter-arguments.
We are looking for volunteers to help us in any of the following areas.
- Climate change research
- Marketing
- Product
- Data Science / Data Engineering
- Backend and Front End Software Support
- UX/UI Design
Furthermore, we are now creating new teams for organisational purposes, which means we are also looking for team leaders! See this document for more info on the teams: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NiJkhbZkgGmP9ONsF8RyDivzqC8Ty6BLawENDEQLEko/edit#heading=h.1a6pv57slern
You DON'T need to have any academic or professional experience in order to help! It’s sufficient with motivation and will to learn!
It is, honestly, a really fun project that has great potential. So if you are interested in climate change, or if you want to build your experience in Data Science and add a cool project to your portfolio or if you are simply looking for a fun side-project please do join the meet-up on Wednesday.
Please find more information on this leaflet: https://bit.ly/3uQ8QEk
Or simply join our slack and ping a message on #climate-misinformation channel: http://bit.ly/2p8icye - there you can ask us about anything!
Agenda:
18:00-18:15 A round of introductions and updates
18:15-19:00 Brainstorming
Join this AI for Good project that aims at combatting climate misinformation and the spread of climate-related fake news. Problem statement: most people accept climate change as real, however, they don't take action to challenge the misinformation about it.
To solve this problem, we aim is to build a tool that would help people identify articles and posts about climate change that are not scientifically accurate or deliberately misleading. This tool (possibly in the form of a plugin or something more mobile-friendly) would be available in any browser and will flag arguments against climate change and provide the reader with scientifically reviewed facts.
As the project moves forward, we realize how much impact it could have in fighting misinformation and greenwashing in things that we read online. So we truly need as many hands as possible to help us with different tasks from product design to building web scrapers and training an algorithm that can spot climate misinformation online.
We are looking for volunteers with the following skills:
- Data Science / Data Engineering (data scrapers, classifiers, NLP)
- Backend and Front End Software Engineering (plugins, mobile apps)
- Climate change science (climate facts, denial tactics, inoculation)
- Marketing specialists (consumer behavior, go-to-market strategy)
- Website developers and content writers
- We also need strong team leaders!
You doN'T need to have any specific professional experience. Your motivation to explore and make progress by doing is more than enough.
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Resources:
1) https://shorturl.at/dlrFI - Product wiki with all the latest research and assumption that we need to validate
2) https://github.com/ClimateMisinformation - GitHub repo to contribute to our project on the tech side
3) https://shorturl.at/qLTXY - long google doc with meeting notes and detailed information about the project since its inception
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Agenda:
18:00-18:15 - Introductions and updates (please don't be late)
18:15-19:00 - Brainstorming and collaboration
