“Wearing my ‘serial founder exploring starting a company’ hat, I advanced on multiple fronts on my passion project KIP in the past year. ”
If you’re not aware, I’ve been tapping into my track record of products and education focused on social content, information literacy and digital life skills, and understanding of social platforms and user experience.
WHAT STORY ARE YOUR NEWS INFLUENCERS TELLING
As you may know, I'm the independent creator of a pro-democracy sense-making framework to organize the Fifth Estate (nontraditional media, bloggers, civic participators, influencers) as it holds power to account in a complex system of global dynamics. Plus, building an interface for the rest of us to follow current events and build trust.
WE’RE NOT GREAT WITH INFO & THE COST IS HIGH
No Way To Connect Current Events To The Bigger Picture Or Take Collective Action For Our Survival. People who can’t follow what’s happening can’t adequately think or act in this crucial moment for democracy.
“I developed KIP’s entrepreneur pitch deck with my venture mentor from UC Berkeley Law School’s Pitch Lab. See some slides here.”
A NEW PLAYING FIELD FOR NEWS & INFO
KIP Platform Connects Fifth Estate & Independent Parties To Vet, Frame & Generate Discussion, Games, Research, Education, Commerce
This is a snapshot of the information ecosystem that KIP aims to connect, showing data flow and network actors to technologies and end user interfaces and opportunities.
“KIP (or “Knowledge is Power”) is a sensemaking framework for social media content. It aims to connect the Fifth Estate with trusted parties like journalists, education, democracy orgs to vet, frame, and generate discussion, games, research, education and more, recognizing the best civic influencers. Think of it as a “Wikipedia” for investigative, analytical, and memetic social media content.”
KIP MATCHES MARKET REALITIES
KIP Will Organize The Fifth Estate Holding Power To Account While We Build Trust & Play The News Together
This isn't politics, it's an information war. Meanwhile, a generation gets its news from influencers, journalism fails continue in format, business models and trust, and gaming is the new social.
“I post exclusively on my Mastodon account KIP topics of disinformation, journalism, media literacy, civics, democracy, climate crisis. It’s our crucible.”
STAYING ON TOPIC IN THE FEDIVERSE
I also validated what I’ve built by participating in a ‘disinformation in elections’ masterclass at the ICFJ (International Center for Journalists).
“47 international journalists investigating elections disinformation confirmed they are interested to collaborate and develop stories using KIP. ”
47 international investigative journalists confirmed they are interested to collaborate using KIP. Twenty journalists have since onboarded to my beta framework to begin using it for strategic longterm research and story development.
VALIDATING THE CONCEPT WITH JOURNALISTS FROM 18 NATIONS
“I started a YouTube channel. ”
I’ve started a KIP YouTube channel. I’ve cobbled together my first iMovie of narrative quotes describing the global dynamics at play today, using quotes from civic participators I want to elevate. You can see that, among other videos.
SHARING THE NARRATIVE EMERGING FROM KIP
The Bigger Picture narrative KIP is tracking, see The Bigger Picture video for more and credits.