Middle East Technical University came in second with “Kız Başına” at Spring 2018 Peer to Peer (P2P): Facebook Global Digital Challenge.
Facebook joined the EdVenture Partners’ managed program, which empowers young people to push back against online hate and extremism, in spring 2015, and P2P has since become Facebook’s partner counterspeech effort with the widest global reach.
Student teams participating in P2P must design, pilot, implement and measure the success of a social or digital initiative, product or tool that:
- Motivates or empowers students to become involved in countering hateful and extremist narratives.
- Catalyzes other students to create their own initiatives, products or tools to counter hateful and extremist narratives.
- Builds a community of interest / network focused on living shared values that counter hate and extremist narratives through action.
During Peer to Peer (P2P): Facebook Global Digital Challenge period, students from different countries reached over 29 million people with their various tactics during the competition period, with the winning ideas ranging from creating original board games to educate about people with diverse backgrounds, to empowerment with women’s issues, to hosting benefit concerts to help bolster awareness of and equality amongst residents of slum communities.
Kız Başına (Just a Girl) Project of ODTÜ, with coordinatorship of Instructor Yeşim Çaplı, took second place and was presented with certificate and $3000 awards. The project was selected from 50 teams who participated this term, implementing real solutions in each of their communities over a two to three-month period.
Kız Başına seeks to spread awareness and inform the public on various key social issues that center on women, empowering women to become activists in support of each other and the issues that matter most to them. Moreover, Kiz Basina focuses on a wide range of related issues, from online oppression of women, to domestic and rape violence, to child abuse prevention education for mothers and teachers.
For detailed information, http://kizbasina.com/#features can be visited.
