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Tackling Disinformation Challenges in Bulgaria

Introduction

CoDE Project Overview

Identrics stands as a technology partner within the CoDE project, an ambitious initiative focused on scrutinising Bulgaria’s information landscape. This collaborative venture brings together a consortium of notable institutions, with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” leading the charge as the coordinating entity.

In tandem with Identrics, esteemed collaborators include:

  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - coordinating partner
  • Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
  • Institute "Big Data for Smart Society" (GATE) at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
  • Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • "European Software Institute - Center for Eastern Europe"
  • Webcentric
  • Contipso

Representatives from diverse sectors of society actively contribute to this collective effort.

The Goal

CoDE Project Impact and Beneficiaries

The CoDE team foresees that the project’s execution will make a substantial contribution towards strengthening society against detrimental elements in the information landscape, thereby nurturing a safer and more enlightened community. The efforts undertaken within the project in Bulgaria carry significant weight in safeguarding public opinion.

Who could benefit:

  • Media Organisations
  • Academic Institutions
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
  • Business Sector Representatives
  • Government Institutions
  • Society at Large
Funded by

America for Bulgaria Foundation

Sponsored by the America for Bulgaria Foundation, the CoDE initiative unfolds over a three-year timeline, spanning from 2023 to 2026. With a primary aim to consolidate and deploy optimal methodologies for analysing the information landscape and societal dynamics, the project places significant emphasis on tool development, training initiatives, and collaborative frameworks to cultivate a thriving ecosystem.

Over its course, the project will mobilise teams from both the university and partnering organisations to cultivate a robust network for collaboration and innovation within the domain of information analysis. Progression through distinct stages including analysis, conceptualisation, rationalisation, and result demonstration will mark the project’s trajectory.

Identrics’ Role

Technology Partner

Today, the fight against disinformation in Bulgaria moves too slowly - analysis takes time analysts don't have. The tools Identrics builds for CoDE give the people on the front line faster reporting, faster detection, and a clearer view of the propaganda narratives shaping public discourse.

In this regard, Identrics’ role is to provide technological support for:

  1. 01Data Aggregation Framework
  2. 02Data Annotation & Dataset Design Platform
  3. 03Data Discovery Platform
  4. 04Event Tracking and Measurement Tool
  5. 05Propaganda Techniques Annotation Platform
  6. 06AI-generated Text Detection
  7. 07Disinfo Datasets & Models
  8. 08Research and integration of open-source OSINT tools
  9. 09Knowledge Extraction (hate speech detection, sentiment analysis, social engagement analysis, entity extraction, topic annotation, article abstraction)
Identrics Team

Get to know the key members of our dedicated team

Nesin Veli, Chief Executive Officer at Identrics

Nesin Veli

Chief Executive Officer

Simeon Martev, Chief Technology Officer at Identrics

Simeon Martev

Chief Technology Officer

Martin Evtimov, Software Developer at Identrics

Martin Evtimov

Software Developer

The support for the Funding Party and each project partner individually is provided by the America for Bulgaria Foundation. The statements and opinions expressed here are solely those of the Funding Party or the respective project partner and do not necessarily reflect the views of the America for Bulgaria Foundation or its partners.

The America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF) is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonpolitical American grant-making foundation working in partnership with Bulgarians to strengthen the country’s private sector and related democratic institutions.

ABF builds on the success of the Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund, an investment fund created in 1991 by the U.S. Congress with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development. For more information, please visit www.us4bg.org.

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