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Center for an Informed Public INFORMATION This item is being presented for information only. BACKGROUND The Center for an Informed Public (CIP) is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Washington dedicated to resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society and strengthening democratic discourse: http://cip.uw.edu. The UW established the CIP after the Knight Foundation announced a $5 million investment in July 2019. It’s part of a $50 million Knight Foundation effort (https://www.knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-fifty-million-develop-new-research-technology-impact-democracy) to better understand how technology is transforming democracy and how we receive and engage with information. The CIP also received substantial initial funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (https://hewlett.org/). The CIP officially launched on December 3, 2019, with an event on the UW campus. The event featured UW President Ana Mari Cauce and Washington State University President Kirk Schulz announcing a statewide partnership to research and combat misinformation. Jevin West, CIP Director and Associate Professor in the Information School, will share details on current projects and the goals for the Center’s inaugural year. The facial recognition exercise in the slides is based on the http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/ project to bring public awareness to deepfake technology. Attachments

1. CIP Presentation 2. Presenter’s Biographical Information

Board of Regents Meeting University of Washington

February 13, 2020

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Our Team

Jevin WestInformation School

Emma SpiroInformation School

Chris CowardInformation School

Kate StarbirdHCDE

Ryan CaloLaw School

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Our Mission

Our mission is to marshal the collective resources of a world-class, publicresearch university, embedded within local communities, to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

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Center Activities

RESEARCH POLICY EDUCATION ENGAGEMENT

Innovation Fund Whitepapers New Faculty Program + Events

Infrastructure Policy Briefings Curricula Dissemination

Community Labs Toolkits PhD Fellowships Communication

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http://callingbullshit.org

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Community LabsUS Public Libraries

Seattle Public Library

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http://cip.uw.edu

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Presenter’s Biographical Information

Jevin West is an Associate Professor in the

Information School at the University of

Washington.

He is the co-founder of the DataLab and

the Director of the new Center for an Informed

Public at UW. He holds an Adjunct Faculty position

in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science

& Engineering. He is also a Data Science Fellow at

the eScience Institute and Affiliate Faculty for the

Center for Statistics & Social Sciences.

His research and teaching focus on misinformation

in and about science. He develops methods for

mining the scientific literature in order to study

the origins of disciplines, the social and economic

biases that drive these disciplines, and the impact

the current publication system has on the health

of science.

He co-developed a course, Calling BS, that teaches students how to combat misinformation

wrapped in data, figures, and statistics. The course is now being taught at universities around the

globe. More information can be found at https://jevinwest.org.

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