Hive Mind is a cutting-edge online harbour gathering activists, trainers, journalists, CSOs, teachers, university students, and a wider community interested in learning more about improving media literacy skills.
For different audience types, Hive Mind offers different value propositions. From simple information and news-based blog posts, to fully custom developed self-paced courses, Hive Mind produces and publishes content to deliver high-quality learning experiences with 4 main topics at its core:
- Countering disinformation
- Digital safety and security
- Creating positive narratives
- Media literacy online
In addition to the existing 4 topics, Hive Mind develops further educational materials on selected areas and topics.
Who Is It For?
- For the wider public audience. It is intended to share eye-opening and thought-provoking content to people who are faced with the threats of disinformation, lack of digital security and lack of media literacy on a daily basis. The main value proposition for them is to regularly visit Hive Mind, learn new skills and nourish the mindset of gradually improving their media literacy skills using the cutting edge tools made available to them.
- For the newly established and growing Community of Practice. It goes beyond learning new skills, it is about fostering and expanding a group of like-minded people with various collaborative instances, and nourishing a creative environment to share ideas, as well as simply learn, network and connect with others.
Learning Space
Hive Mind is in the process of finalizing a learning platform to host various types of training for diverse audiences. Due to the ongoing pandemic, in-person meetings are not feasible, so an innovative offline space has been created, trying to best reflect an offline training environment. It aims at creating opportunities to communicate with experts, as well as enables uploading/downloading materials.
Learning space also offers self-paced courses to users who wish to continue their learning journey at their own pace and schedule.
You can register now for the following courses:
“Building Positive Narratives”
In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and believable. You will learn how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes and understand how to use social media features in favor of your narratives. Through persuasion, a mapping technique, and essential story elements, you will learn how to reach specific audience and build a powerful story.
Available also in: Albanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish
“Digital Campaigning Basics”
This course covers core elements of a ‘people-powered’ campaign – a tool for mobilizing mass audiences to support activists’ causes. Based on real-life examples, you’ll also cover practical tools needed to create your own campaigns.
Available also in: Russian
“Countering Disinformation”
In this course you will learn how to distinguish between various types of disinformation and avoid traps such as echo chambers, polarization or propaganda. Moreover, we will share with you the essential knowledge and tools to tackle disinformation more effectively.
Available also in: Albanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish
“Think Twice: Media Literacy Online”
Thanks to this course you will learn new skills and gain knowledge about e.g. bot detection method, common biases that distort information, how to recognize different types of misinformation, how propaganda works and what you can do to become more digitally resilient.
Available also in: Albanian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian and Russian
“Digital Safety & Security”
The goal of the course is to cover fundamental cyber security concepts, state surveillance, cyber-crime, as well as specific ways of how to model threats using a framework developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF. You will learn how to develop an empowered mindset towards improving and valuing privacy and security, understand the importance of a wide range of threats to privacy and security, and how to apply core techniques for protecting Digital Security.
“Open Data for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)”
The goal of the course is to equip civil society practitioners with up-to-date knowledge and skills essential for data analysis, creating data-based, digital campaigns, or measuring the effectiveness of Internet-based interventions bringing about a positive social change.
Trainer’s Space
Hive Mind aims to enable trainers to create their professional profiles and let its audience reach out and connect with them more easily. Hive Mind has already started to generate a wide reach in the CEE region and started generating website traffic focused on specific audiences: By doing this, it intends to:
- Give space to Trainers to showcase their work and connect with prospect learners
- Let trainers connect with other experts and stay up-to-date on best practices around facilitation, course creation, trainings and more;
- Give space to facilitate virtual-led trainings, webinars and workshops;
- Let trainers stay connected to nonprofits, civil society organizations and other positive change-maker organizations who want to improve their skills in respective areas and are looking for trusted partners;
Showcasing Your Work
Hive Mind gathers an audience interested in improving skills on countering disinformation, cybersecurity, creating positive narratives and media literacy online.
It cooperates with researchers, analysts, policy-makers, trainers and leaders in their fields. From now on, there is an opportunity to publish their work, present and promote future training schedules and extend their outreach and visibility. Hive Mind is designed to accommodate different formats of content from text-based pieces to video and voice-based content.
