The Foundation for Advancing Critical Thinking in South Asia (The FACTS) is a nonprofit educational initiative to enhance Media and Information Literacy (MIL) education in the South Asian region. The FACTS acknowledges MIL as a significant life-skills required for every citizen in the digital era, regardless of their age and educational background. MIL empowers citizens to successfully navigate highly polluted information and news spheres differentiating “Facts” from all kinds of falsehood. Given the importance of MIL, the FACTS strives to enhance the quality of MIL education in the region, through training, advocacy, research, networking, and sharing.
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Our Approach
We believe that Media and Information Literacy (MIL) – the ability to critically consume Information, News and other Media contents is vital life-skill required for a healthy democracy. The FACTS strongly believe providing knowledge about MIL is important, but what is even more important is to provide necessary skills and competencies to the citizens so that they become competent in navigating the complex news and information ecosystem with practical ability to differentiate facts from all kinds of falsehood. Therefore, the FACTS is striving to empower educational institutes at Tertiary, Secondary and Civil Society Levels to make sure that the MIL education is actually focused on creating highly informed citizens
It was truly an insightful seminar on Media and Information Literacy, organized by the FACTS at Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University of Sri Lanka. We, the lecturers and our graduate students, learned immensely about the manipulative effect of social media. The seminar made it clear that MIL education has to be provided with adequate practice.
Nisansala Jayawardena
Senior Lecturer, Trincomalee Campus The Eastern University of Sri Lanka.
The Media Literacy Summit - 2022 organized by FACTS in partnership with the Department of Media Studies, University of Peradeniya, immensely helped us and our students to learn skills required to be critical news and information consumers. We learned how to include a gender aspect in our teaching on media literacy.
Poongulaly Srisangeerthanan
Lecturer in Media Studies Faculty of Arts The University of Jaffna
It was a great opportunity for me to work as the student coordinator of the University of Peradeniya in hosting the National Media Literacy Summit 2022. After attending the summit, I realized that Media and Information Literacy is the irreplaceable foundation of a vibrant and healthy democracy. Thank you ‘The FACTS’ for bridging the Agriculture Faculty Journalism and Media Unit for giving this golden opportunity.
Kavitha Perera,
University of Peradeniya
