Information Disorder Analysis
In Africa, various actors, both online and offline, engage in creating and disseminating fake news for diverse reasons, including financial gain, political influence, and upholding authoritarian systems. These actors use tactics and tools to spread disinformation, including computational propaganda such as bot networks and troll farms to push specific narratives and generate online discussions. The DAIDAC program initiative is specifically aimed at unravelling the complexities and methodologies of disinformation, as well as understanding public information consumption patterns, preferences, and behaviours.
Our goal
The goal of the the DAIDAC program is to proactively engage with and uncover disinformation campaigns and efforts to weaponise false information, such as the Russia/China disinformation campaigns, and waves of data swamp from Turkeye and the Emiratis targeting African democracies, political messaging, insurgency-coordinated messaging, and other deliberately divisive content. The DAIDAC program is a wide spectrum umbrella to capture the demands from law enforcement, intelligence, research, corporate security and journalism
Our programme approach
Our approach is multifaceted, combining research, policy advocacy, capacity building, and community engagement to address the complex challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology and information disorders.
Investigations
Conduct Open Source Investigations to expose political and economic threats, particuarly as they affect electoral systems, democratic structures, the country’s economic assets and institutions like, banking, data, and planning institutions.
Strategies and Structures
Build mitigating strategies and structures to address the challenges and opportunities of digital technology and AI in Africa.
Reports and Publications
Publish timely research analyses and reports covering gaps in the African information ecosystem.
Capacity Building
Offer capacity-building efforts for journalists and researchers through OSINT fellowships focused on digital disinformation campaigns.
