Ignacy Niemczycki is the chairman of the Bronislaw Geremek Foundation and board member of the Akcja Demokracja Foundation. He is also a former civil servant working on the EU budget and a journalist dealing with EU affairs. Ignacy is the former acting director of corporate communications at IKEA Retail in Poland. He graduated from Bocconi University in Italy with a degree in management and the University of Lancaster in England with a degree in sociology.
To increase media literacy and strengthen citizens’ resilience to social media disinformation, this project organized classes and webinars to equip participants with essential theoretical and practical tools they can apply to their daily lives. Most workshops occurred in smaller, non-urban areas where citizens are less knowledgeable about media literacy. A total of 37 media literacy classes were organized in educational institutions, targeting both younger and older citizens. Along with two additional online webinars, the project engaged approximately about 1,300 people. Sessions covered topics such as the role of social media in our lives, social media algorithms and profiling, the impact of social media on personal and public life, coping with disinformation, and online security.
Ignacy participated in the IVLP Project 21st Century ChangeMakers: Disinformation and Election Security, organized by the U.S. Department of State and FHI 360.
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