Stories
This page offers a collection of stories and examples of interesting, effective and inspiring work in the region, from people we interviewed or who came to our community calls.
We’re grateful to them for sharing their stories, strategies and learnings from their work, and we hope that their examples serve as both insight into what has been done and what has been successful, and inspiration for what can be done in future.
We envision this as a living resource, and hope to add to it as we continue work in this area
In our analysis of these cases, we also identified seven key strategies for strengthening a region’s information ecosystems. You can read more about each of these in the full report.
- Address information challenges from an ecosystems perspective
- Find out what people’s actual information needs are and prioritize those
- Work at the local level and cultivate a sense of community
- Create meaningful conversations and go beyond digital spaces
- Building new systems centering the environment, context, knowledge traditions and existing technologies
- Protect those who suffer from hostility embedded within information ecosystems, such as activists, communicators and journalists
- Collaborate to build healthy ecosystems
