NCDMB lists achievements, tasks media, youth on social responsibility - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Thursday in Port Harcourt organized a workshop for media stakeholders and youth groups, providing profound insights into the structural organisation, internal workings, accomplishments and operational targets of the agency after 15 epochal years as an effective driver of local content and regulator in the oil and gas industry.

Billed as a signature event of the NCDMB, having been held regularly since the beginning of the Board in 2010, the workshop also acquainted participants with procedures for registration for employment or training programmes in industry-related skill sets, engagement as industry contractors or vendors, and also the Board’s ‘Community Content Guidelines,’ designed to ensure integration of host communities into the oil and gas industry value chain.

ICT centres: 2,500 Lagos pupils to benefit @Dangote Cement infrastructure rehabilitation - ITREALMS

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Estimated 2,500 Lagos pupils are to benefit from the Educational Support programme under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), of the Dangote Cement Plc, as they deploy Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centres, reports ITREALMS.

The company commissioned these centres at the weekend and handed over several multi-million naira rehabilitated educational infrastructure in Lagos Island, Lagos State.

Tackling plastic pollution: Collective responsibility for sustainable future by Elvis Eromosele - ITREALMS

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The world is in a struggle with plastic. It can't seem to do without it and definitely can't live with it. It litters the landscape, cloaks the drains and gutters and fills the canals, rivers and oceans. The UN says 'the world is choking on plastic' and National Geographic says 'the world is drowning in plastic'.

Plastic is in almost everything. It is nearly everywhere. It is the true definition of ubiquitous. Experts concede that plastic waste is one of the major challenges to the environment and human existence. Indeed, plastics hold the world in a vice-like grip. It is impossible to escape plastic. Plastic waste is a plague.

For The Records: EPR, key to end-of-life responsibility - ITREALMS

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Curbing fake news is social responsibility says Amolo – ITREALMS

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Fact checking on suspected fake news has been described as a social responsibility of every stakeholders in the news industry, which requires the understanding of its implications by any news manager in this era, says Emmanuel Caine Amolo, reports ITREALMS.

Speaking at the one-day workshop held recently by The Republic Media in Lagos, Amolo, an editor with The Beat99 fm charged media practitioners especially journalists to make efforts at understanding the implications of fake information and guard against sharing same as news.

“We all need to understand the implications of fake information and guard against sharing them as news,” he declared, urging that the positive change of checkmating this for every well-meaning media practitioners.

Dwelling on ‘Fact-Checking Tools to curb fake information’ Amolo said some fact-checking tools handle specific aspects of fake information such as plagarised texts, altered images, manipulated audios and videos as well as websites and individual accounts on social sites.

Decrying the fact that fake information purveyors are getting ever more sophisticated with their so-called ‘craft,’ Amolo pointed out that is for news persons to check them, “require a mix of traditional journalistic meticulousness, and up-to-date procedures in engaging with internet software.”

Some of the fact-checking tools for altered or recycled images, he listed to include TinEye, Google Reverse Image Search, Yandex, Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer, and FotoForensics.

And tools for fact-checking videos, GeoSearchTool, Amnesty International: YouTube DataViewer, InVid, and Mapping.

Tools for checking plagarised texts, he listed to include Who Tweeted It First, Grammarly, NoPlag, Plagiarism Checker and CopyLeaks.

While other fact-checking tools, he said comprised of Inteltechniques.com, Adobe Audition, Foller.me, Weaather underground, Who.is, Graph.tips for Facebook, to name but a few.

Amolo highlighted that TinEye, for instance, creates a “unique and compact digital signature” and compares it with its enormous 26 billion image dataset. Stressing that Google Reverse Image Search, visit and upload or drop your image by clicking on the camera icon. You can also use this on mobile using the browser menu and selecting ‘request desktop site.’

He also explained that Yandex, for instance, is similar to Google Reverse Image Search, and could download or drop any image into the search box. Just as Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer, is handy to find out particularly if “you are unsure when a photo was taken from,” noting that most social media platforms strip metadata from images.

In addition, FotoForensics, put in an image Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or drag a photo into this free tool to see how much editing has been done to it, describing it as a “Great tool for fact-checking fake photos” among others.

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