ALGORITHMIC LITERACY FOR EFFECTIVE TRANSPARENCY IN THE EU

Digital mediators and helpers strive to make digital technology accessible to every individual and support EU citizens’ digital skills to enhance their digital, social and economic inclusion. The ...

Digital mediators and helpers strive to make digital technology accessible to every individual and support EU citizens’ digital skills to enhance their digital, social and economic inclusion. The ALGO-LIT project aims at at improving the algorithmic literacy skills of more than 5,000 digital mediators to better support citizens, including the most vulnerable, to understand algorithmic-based decisions and effectively exercise their right to transparency and information.

ALGO-LIT aims to map, connect, train and equip digital mediators and helpers on the topic of algorithm transparency. Building on prior research and experience, an action-research methodology will document mediation needs and practices in the field of algorithmic literacy ; share practices and train digital mediators and helpers ; co-construct and adapt mediation tools with the community ; promote and institutionalise mediation skills in the field of algorithmic transparency across the EU.

ALGO-LIT will provide the first comparative Barometer of algorithmic mediation practices across 3 EU countries; structure a network of 5,000 digital mediators around the challenge of algorithmic transparency; make available an Algorithmic Transparency Mediation Kit to support their work; establish an Algorithmic Literacy Competency Framework to enrich and build future certifications and trainings; and offer policy recommendations to improve policy responses to algorithmic literacy needs.