Create a digital tool for citizens to help verify false information

Developers, designers and journalists will work on the prototypes in the Fact Checking Hackathon to be held on September 22 and 23 in Caracas

With the aim of combating false content and building a better society based on truth and verified facts, a meeting of programmers, designers and journalists will be held on September 22 and 23, 2018, at the Wayra Venezuela Academy.

In this Fact Checking Hackathon, participating teams will have to develop a technological application for Chequeamos, a verification project of Chicas Poderosas Venezuela, which is part of the El Poder de Elegir regional platform, reported Carmen Riera, SDI Consultores director. content manager of Runrun.es.

We want developers and designers to help journalists shape a technological tool that allows citizens to help quickly verify false news circulating on social networks and through WhatsApp, "he explained.

The winning team of the hackathon will receive a grant as a prize, which will allow them to work on the development of the prototype they present, until achieving a product that can be at the service of the media, journalists and Venezuelan citizens.

"We need everyone's collaboration to combat false information and build a better society based on truth and confirmed facts," added Yelitza Linares, director of SDI Consultores and business leader of El Pitazo.
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