Webinar on ‘Effectively using Public Data to strengthen governance – Experience of Factly and the growing fact-checking phenomena.

The MPP Student Council is organising a webinar on ‘Effectively using Public Data to strengthen governance – Experience of Factly and the growing fact-checking phenomena.’

Speaker – Rakesh Dubbudu

Rakesh Dubbudu is an experienced RTI campaigner and founder of Factly a platform that strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using high-value government records at the center, state, and local body levels.

Themes to be discussed in webinar:

• The speaker’s insights on the utility of data as a public good, and the ways in which better public engagement can be achieved with the government data.
• Skills required to see through data and decide fact from fiction
• Career opportunities in the fact-checking space
• The speaker’s experiences regarding Factly and the fact-checking phenomenon.