• Ahmed X. MEdien

    Conference Producer | Partnerships Builder | Knowledge Infrastructure, Cybersecurity Disinformation Research

  • Conference Producer | Partnerships Builder | Knowledge Infrastructure and Disinformation Research

    Ahmed X. Medien is a results-driven systems analyst with career-long record of operations, coalition building, project development, and management success for global organizations

  • Conference Producer

    I have overseen the planning, production, and management of numerous conferences on misinformation, content governance, and digital safety topics with partners such as the Mozilla Foundation. I served as program co-chair at MozFest 2023 and RightsCon 2022

    Policy Research Lead

    As a policy researcher, I led and contributed to research papers focusing on cybersecurity challenges, misinformation, content moderation, information integrity, and trust and safety processes on digital platforms and platform content safety standards in the US, Canada. the UK and EU

    Operations and Process Manager

    I have extensive experience as an operations manager in for-profit (e-commerce and marketplaces) and internet non-profit with a proven track record of managing full project life cycles, including project inception, planning, management, and execution, and possess expertise

  • REPORTS

    E-governance | Citizens Dialogue and Participation | Content Safety

    [PDF] Citizens Dialogue On The Future of Internet, Data Ownership and Artificial Intelligence - Tunisia (2020)

    PROJECT DIRECTOR, RESEARCH LEAD AND EDITOR


    REPORT: https://bit.ly/3mJLu3K

    [PDF] E-Government Survey 2022:
    The Future of Digital Government

    CONTRIBUTOR

    REPORT: https://bit.ly/41Awynv

    [PDF] Advancing Digital Safety: A Framework to Align Global Action

    CONTRIBUTOR

    REPORT: https://bit.ly/3MMyANa

    Meedan in Tunisia: Verifying elections in the Arab world

  • Misinformation Village

    Misinformation Village 2022 - DEFCON 30

    Truth and Trust Online Conference Series

    October 12-14 2022, Boston, USA

    MisinfoCon global summit on misinformation - international journalism festival '22

    Thursday, April 6, Perugia Italy

    MisinfoCon Brasil 2022

    How to Tackle Misinformation In The 2022 Brazilian Elections

    MisinfoCon Science 2020

    MisinfoCon at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Washington DC, USA)

    WikiCred Demo Hours

  • Portfolio

    Find out about my current and previous projects

    Misinformation Village

    CO-CHAIR AND PROJECT LEAD

    The Misinformation Village is a community of practitioners at the intersection of disinformation, cyberspace, and cybersecurity disciplines. The Village was launched at DEFCON 30 in 2022, with additional satellite events and presentations in 2023 at RightsCon and other venues.

     

    Website: https://misinfovillage.org

    Truth and Trust Online Conference Series

    OPERATIONS MANAGER, CONFERENCE PRODUCER

    The Truth and Trust Online conference series is a prominent annual event focusing on building a more trustworthy and safer digital environment. It brings together leading experts from industry, academia, and policymaking to discuss a wide range of topics, such as platform governance, fact-checking automation, gender misinformation, and the impact of technology on trust and safety online.

    Website: truthandtrustonline.com

     

    MisinfoCon Summit Series

    RESEARCH LEDAD, PARTNERSHIPS, CONFERENCE LEAD

    MisinfoCon is a global community-driven initiative and a conference series that aims to bring together stakeholders from different fields to discuss and address the challenges of misinformation and disinformation, focusing on intersectional aspects of the issue, such as health misinformation, election integrity, content governance, and open knowledge infrastructure.

     

    Websites:

     

     

    WikiCred Grants

    PROGRAM MANAGER, PARTNERSHIPS

    Since its launch in 2020, WikiCred Grants has funded various innovative projects, including improving the reliability of medical content on Wikipedia, increasing access to diverse sources of information, and promoting the use of open data and knowledge on Wikimedia platforms.

     

    The program has also piloted a series of multilingual webinars and campaigns on Wikipedia's information (sources) reliability to increase awareness and engagement among the broader Wikimedia community.

    Website: Wikicred.org

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