South Africa, Sept. 1 -- The grant, provided by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), will support a three-year project to facilitate collaborations between various research organisations, practitioners and activists in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America and Asia.

The project's principal investigator is Prof Herman Wasserman, Director of CINIA. Wasserman will lead a team to coordinate projects on issues such as disinformation, media literacy, technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TGBV), and generative AI.

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The project's goal is to promote multidisciplinary and innovative research, stakeholder collaboration, policy advocacy, and capacity building. The proje...