During his speech at CEPA roundtable, ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik presented major challenges to cognitive resilience in the Baltic states.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik gave a kick-off speech on information manipulations in the hybrid conundrum.
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ICDS Chief Director Dmitri Teperik was invited to make a keynote speech at the international conference entitled “Digital communications in the post-truth era: realities and challenges”, held at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine on 16-17 May 2019.
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On 8 May, Head of ICDS Security and Resilience Programme Dr Ivo Juurvee participated in a workshop ‘Social Media and Conflict Escalation’ organised by King’s College London (KCL).
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In the ‘global village’, we are facing industrial scale lying, toxic narratives to produce serials of fake news, originating from Russia. However, debunking fake news doesn’t help in the long run although it is essential to check facts. It’s important to disclose false stories, scenarios, tools, and identify targets. Putting more effort into media literacy is also part of the solution.
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In early March 2018 there were mass demonstrations in several Russian cities.
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No serious Western conference on security or international relations could take place these days without admiring the problem of disinformation.
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The ICDS has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Mykolaiv City Council and Kherson Regional State Administration in south-eastern Ukraine to conduct jointly a comprehensive study aimed at identifying vulnerabilities in information, communications and cybersecurity. The study will be managed within the framework of the “Resilient Ukraine” programme supported by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Dmitri Teperik, Ivo Juurvee and Grigori Senkiv of the ICDS “Resilient Ukraine” team developed, together with some 20 Ukrainian and Estonian experts, a research tool for identifying gaps in and threats to information, communications and cybersecurity during a workshop in Odessa, Ukraine on 26–27 January.
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“Since disinformation is very systematic by nature, our response must also be systematic, not sporadic or project-based. We should admit that debunking fake news does not work,” stressed Dmitri Teperik, Chief Executive of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), at the Europe-Ukraine Forum 2019 “Ukraine After 2019: A Change or a Continuation?” in Rzeszow, Poland on 24–25 January.
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