The Parliament of Ghana and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has invited FactSpace West Africa to participate in the Africa Regional Workshop on Trade, Security and Gender.<\/p>\n
The three-day workshop will bring together parliamentarians from Africa and the United Kingdom, Ministers and Senior Diplomats in Ghana and experts from various fields.<\/p>\n
As part of the activities of the workshop, there will be a Committee Inquiry Exercise where it will be assumed that a Parliamentary Committee in Ghana has decided to run an inquiry, to understand better the wide-ranging consequences of the covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The Director of FactSpace West Africa, Rabiu Alhassan will be expected to serve as a witness during a session that will focus on “Responding to security risk of misinformation during a health emergency.”<\/p>\n
During this exercise, the delegates\/MPs would have the opportunity to ask witnesses on various gender, security and trade issues raised by the covid-19 in Ghana.<\/p>\n
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Context <\/strong>for mock committee inquiry <\/strong><\/p>\n During all health emergencies, good public communication is essential \u2013 for example, proper communication of disease risks, public health measures and the most appropriate behaviours at the individual level.<\/p>\n The government of Ghana has used a range of communication channels during the covid-19 pandemic, including regular Presidential Addresses, Minister\u2019s Press Briefings, a designated covid-19 Website, and Social and Traditional Media.<\/p>\n However, as in many other countries, Ghana has had to contend with wide-ranging covid- 19 misinformation and misconceptions, particularly on social media.<\/p>\n In response, GhanaFact, an independent fact-checking platform, has called for consistent political messaging, efforts to reach out to the population via offline outreach, work with community leaders and reliable information in local languages.<\/p>\n It identified social media companies as having particular responsibility for tackling false information in Africa.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Scenario for th<\/strong>e<\/strong> panel<\/strong><\/p>\n A recording posted on social media has gone \u2018viral\u2019 within Ghana, falsely claiming to be the voice of Ghana\u2019s Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu.<\/p>\n The video makes several untrue statements about the covid-19 pandemic \u2013 for instance, that herbal remedies can cure the disease and that public health restrictions are no longer in force.<\/p>\n Several complaints were made about this recording, including by the Government, but it took a long period for the company responsible, \u2018BlueTube\u2019, to remove it.<\/p>\n In the meantime, the recording was shared widely across closed messaging apps and other sites. Questions remain over BlueTube\u2019s general policies and specific actions in this case.<\/p>\n There is also debate over how the government can best approach public health communication and respond to damaging misinformation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: FactSpace WA<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Parliament of Ghana and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has invited FactSpace West Africa to participate in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":3426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,10],"coauthors":[472],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-factspace-west-africa","tag-ghana"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":7,"label":"Press Releases"}],"post_tag":[{"value":24,"label":"FactSpace West Africa"},{"value":10,"label":"Ghana"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CPA-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rabiu Alhassan","author_link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/author\/rabiu-alhassan\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":7,"name":"Press Releases","slug":"press-releases","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":85,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":7,"category_count":85,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Press Releases","category_nicename":"press-releases","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":24,"name":"FactSpace West Africa","slug":"factspace-west-africa","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":28,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":10,"name":"Ghana","slug":"ghana","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":21,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8444,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/8444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}