Project presentation
The Safe Digital City is a digital analysis and concept-development program piloted by Nordic Safe Cities, Malmö Municipality, and the Swedish Center for prevention of Violent Extremism (CVE) in collaboration with researchers at Analyse & Tal.
The project aims at giving local actors a strengthened picture of the hate speech and threats circulating social media in Malmö. By creating a digital data map of online hate, we establish a foundation from which we then develop local intervention strategies to prevent hate, extremism, and racism online.
The intervention strategies are implemented in collaboration with the municipality and civil society actors, to ensure a central role for local knowledge and voices. The pilot project began in Malmö and has in early 2022 begun in Aalborg (Denmark) and Kristiansand (Norway).
The project aims at giving local actors a strengthened picture of the hate speech and threats circulating social media in Malmö. By creating a digital data map of online hate, we establish a foundation from which we then develop local intervention strategies to prevent hate, extremism, and racism online.
The intervention strategies are implemented in collaboration with the municipality and civil society actors, to ensure a central role for local knowledge and voices. The pilot project began in Malmö and has in early 2022 begun in Aalborg (Denmark) and Kristiansand (Norway).
Organization presentation
Nordic Safe Cities (NSC) is a thinkcubator consisting of an alliance of 19 member cities across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland. Together we build resilient local communities and help cities safeguard their citizens against polarisation, hate and extremism. NSC promotes and strengthens the values of democracy, freedom of speech, equality, mutual respect, and trust. We aim to make the Nordics a global pioneer in the prevention of extremist violence and hate.Follow the project leader on social media:
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Safe Digital City has given us a crucial insight into the digital landscape of our city. It has enabled a digital mindset across prevention professionals in Malmö, helping us transform our prevention efforts to capture the digital space.
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Marlin Martelius
Safety and Security Coordinator