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Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and PR Manager, Google West Africa, explains. The Open Fund builds on support provided by the GNI, in April and December of last year, to news efforts fighting pandemic misinformation. They anticipate that the selected projects will also benefit from GNI-supported research into the most effective formats, headlines and sources to counter COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. A total 309 applications were received from 74 countries, with Africa Check partnering with Theatre for a Change for the purposes of their project. They will produce a serie...

© Supplied by Mhairi Allan Aberdeenshire creative Mhairi Allan has expanded her offering by launching a series of online workshops, encouraging others to develop their creative skills during lockdown. Mhairi, owner of Stonehaven-based Paper Houses Design, decided to launch virtual lessons after receiving advice and support from Business Gateway and Scotland’s national digital training programme DigitalBoost. Launched in 2018 and focusing on sustainability, the homeware and textiles business is known for its bold and stylish patterns. Mhairi takes a transparent approach to digital textile ...

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free. To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic. The good news is tha...

Google Launches $3 Million Fund To Fight COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation  January 16, 2021 The Google News Initiative (GNI) on Tuesday announced a global open fund worth up to $3 million to fight the spread of misinformation around COVID-19 vaccines.  Called the COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund, this initiative is intended to support journalistic efforts to effectively fact-check misinformation about the COVID-19 immunization process that specifically seek to support audiences that are underserved by fact-checking or targeted by misinformation.  “The uncertai...

Projects that demonstrate “clear ways to measure success” and aim to reach groups “disproportionately affected by misinformation” will be prioritized.