More than 20 students from various faculties of the University of Bahr el Ghazal ended on Friday a workshop of two days on using the internet to spread peace messages and to identify and counter hate speech online.
The workshop organizer Viola Joseph said says Wikipedia is a source of information where there is a lot of information about South Sudan, this information may be outdated or incorrect, so she trying in this workshop to encourage the students to write correct data about South Sudan in this workshop, and this in will contribute to the peace process.
Viola added that the workshop was held under the auspices of DefyHateNow initiative which is supported by the German Foreign Ministry by rog agency for open culture and critical transformation. The second part of the workshop was about the importance of using the Internet to spread messages of peace and not to use it to spread violence and hatred among citizens in South Sudan.
One of the students involved in this workshop said that they have discovered that Wikipedia can provide either accurate or inaccurate information about South Sudan and this workshop is an opportunity to do needed correction.