Let’s make a nutrition label for information

An Xiao Mina is co-founder of the Credibility Coalition and co-chair of the W3C Credible Web Community Group, where they are building web-wide standard for content credibility through rigorous research.

What if you could make a nutrition label for quality content that could be displayed in browsers, search engines and news feed? Can we map the building blocks of useful information online? What would a nutrition label look like? What kind of information would go on it, and would we need to do to make it successful? In this live workshop, we’ll look at a few articles and stories online and talk about what its components are. Then, we’ll break up into groups (or, come together as a large group) and start developing a nutrition label or map of its components that can help people understand how they should assess it quality. Finally, we’ll think about rollout strategies: what does this look like on a platform? How about in a school? What policy strategies will we need to make it effective? Afterward, I’ll draft a blog post with findings to advance the conversation and share with the broader Credibility Coalition and W3C community.