CISA, Combating Covid-19 Misinformation
Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2021
Problem Statement
Combat the spread of COVID-19 mis- and dis-information, particularly among Chinese diasporas.
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Problem Scoping and Discovery
Throughout the Semester, a team of cybersecurity and information systems graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University conducted over 40 stakeholder interviews and developed and built a fully functional online MDM training curriculum hosted on the Learn to Win platform.
Solution Proposed
The course was designed to take 30-45 minutes to help citizens, and government and industry employees define Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-information (MDM), understand why it is important to slow the spread of MDM, and how to identify some of the most prolific creators of MDM.
Results
The student team gave over the Intellectual Property rights so that CISA personnel could coordinate with technical stakeholders, transfer the curriculum to a federal government-accessible learning management platform, and incorporate it into workforce and stakeholder training programs.