We are an impact accelerator with a pan-African approach on a mission to accelerate change through data-driven initiatives.

Africa's largest network of civic tech and open data labs

The Best Award

The Academy brings face-to-face and online training into partner newsrooms, organisations and universities across Africa, and hosts public workshops at monthly Hacks/Hackers and WanaData meet-ups. The Academy offers online courses and webinars, designed to teach just one tool or technique at a time, so participants can upgrade their skills at their own pace.

World Bank

Donors

academyAFRICA

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Google News Initiatives

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The World Bank

Partners

Giving African newsrooms access to the world’s best digital experts and storytelling technologies.

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Tolulope Adeyemo

Senior Programme Manager

Jacopo is CfA’s chief data officer (CDO) leading the Knowledge portfolio which includes the Academy, DataLab and StoryLab. He works with a pan-African team of 18 data analysts, designers and data-driven storytellers to give the public actionable information. His digital storytelling has been published globally, from Al Jazeera and Der Spiegel, to El País, De Correspondent and Internazionale.

Jacobo Ottaviani

Chief Data Officer

Team

A Pan-African Partnership

The Press Award

This award-winning initiative works to give citizens a new perspective on their lives. Using drone technology, africanDRONE empowers local pilots through a self-help network that offers seed funding, skills development, resource sharing, advocacy, and networking opportunities for members. The goal is to support the evolution of a vibrant and diverse drone ecosystem across Africa.

Drone Deployed

innovateAFRICA

africanDRONE

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Code for All

AfricanDRONE brings together communities of drone operators, enthusiasts, journalists, activists, and entrepreneurs in Africa who use drones for good.

Johnny Miller

Co-Founder africanDRONE

Empowering citizens through drone technology

We give you actionable insights to help you navigate Africa’s media ecosystem and emerging civic technology sector. Our insights are based on analysis by human experts, using machine learning tools and ‘big data’ resources.

CivicSignal

ICJF

Understanding Africa's Digital Democracies

The African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting builds technologies and expertise that enables media and civic watchdogs to generate information about illicit relationships and financial flows, and to make that information available to citizens in useful formats.

iLAB

iLAB fights disinformation equipped with world-class knowledge on forensic investigations, data analysis and visualisations.

Allan is CfA’s senior investigations manager at the iLAB &amp; ANCIR, managing a team of forensic data scientists/analysts and technologists in eight African countries. He also leads the iLAB team which conducts network analysis investigations into disinformation and influence operations, including Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) and organised crime networks.

Allan Cheboi

Senior investigations manager

Anita Igbine is an investigative data analyst working with the iLAB team at Code for Africa. She has a background in engineering and has contributed to two dossiers tracking coordinated inauthentic behavior across Africa. She has also trained journalists to utilize data and social media for stories. Anita is currently based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Anita Igbine

Investigative data analyst

Christian is an investigative data scientist at iLAB, conducting network analysis investigations to track and map online disinformation, influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior and organized crime. He is skilled in NLP techniques and computer vision models and&nbsp; has been involved in a number of projects which have helped uncover foreign influence operations in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire.

Christian Ngnie

Investigative data scientist

Forensic research and data liberation

openAFRICA is not a government portal. Instead, it’s a grassroots initiative, maintained by Code for Africa, as a public service. The platform is available as a free resource for ordinary citizens, civil society organisations, civic activists, the media, and government agencies.

openAFRICA

openAFRICA aims to be the largest independent repository of open data on the African continent

Emma is a data analyst with the Knowledge team and has worked in media and communication for 14 years. She is a Uganda National Journalism Awards (UNJA) 2017 nominee and has been a part of various award-winning projects. Emma has a strong interest in Early Childhood Development and is a co-founder of Usoni Kids, an answer to childhood literacy in rural Eldoret.

Emma Kisa

Data analyst

Keziah is a data science specialist, currently working as a deputy product manager at CfA. She coordinates CfA’s data analysis work and co-manages DataLab projects and teams. Prior to joining CfA, Keziah worked as data scientist at NCBA Group and the Nation Media Group. She holds a Master of Science degree in Statistics from the University of Nairobi.

Keziah Kinuthia

Deputy product manager

Christine is a data analyst with CfA and has previously worked with the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics as a junior statistician. She has also had stints with the World Bank as a short term consultant on data cleaning, extraction and analysis. She is skilled in mining, interpreting, analysing and visualizing data with hands on experience in coding using R and Python languages.

Christine Kandeo

Christelle is a data analyst, academy trainer and community coordinator at Code for Africa, and regional mentor&nbsp; for Central Africa Women Techmakers Community. She has a wide experience in community management, data analysis, research and visualisation, data management, SQL and Python,R.

Christelle Pandja

Africa's Largest Volunteer Driven Open Data Platform

PesaCheck is a pioneering verification initiative that is kickstarting fact-checking across Africa. Initially focused on verifying the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, PesaCheck is now Africa’s largest with full-time fact-checkers in 15 countries in both east and west Africa, as well as across the Sahel.
PesaCheck fact-checks in two international languages (English and French), as well as major African languages such as Kiswahili and Amharic. Our network helps track political promises by politicians (through our Wajibisha/PromiseTracker toolkit), helps unpack budget and census data (through our PesaYetu and TaxClock platforms), and builds machine learning/artificial intelligence tools (such as DebunkBot) to help automate verification.

PesaCheck

Pulitzer Center

PesaCheck, a pioneering verification initiative, debunks misleading claims with full-time fact-checkers in 15 African countries.

Justin is the CEO at Code for Africa (CfA). He is an investigative data journalist and civic technology strategist and works across Africa, and also in the Caucasus region (currently based in Tbilisi). Justin serves on a number of digital democracy and civic data/tech bodies, including the Code for All governing board, and the&nbsp; World Bank/IMF’s Data to Development advisory board, amongst others.

Justin Arenstein

CEO of Code for Africa

Doreen is PesaCheck’s managing editor and has previously worked with Nation Media Group’s Business Daily. Doreen is also a Global Reporting Program Fellow and was previously a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford University. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Banking from Nazarene University.

Doreen Wainainah

Managing editor

Africa’s largest indigenous fact-checking organisation

PesaYetu is a tool that gives Kenyan Citizens access to information on how money collected from taxpayers is allocated. With this information, they can ask what their elected officials are doing with it, and from there the discussion can proceed towards how money is spent in the future to better their lives.

PesaYetu

PesaYetu helps storytellers and campaigners use data to add context and depth to stories.

Stephane Njoki is a data analyst and an experienced researcher with a specialisation in big data analytics. She trains CfA partners and helps to galvanise CfA communities. She is also the co-founder of Faniki Community Based Organisation.

Stephane Njoki

Arame is a data analyst with CfA’s Knowledge Team running&nbsp; the Wanadata Senegal community of&nbsp; women journalists and data scientists. She also runs a learn-by-doing training initiative at CfA partner newsrooms, universities and other partner organisations as well as supporting data and design production to research, scrape, refine, verify and interpret data.

Arame Thiam

Megan is a copywriter at Code for Africa. She has worked in content teams, marketing roles and website creation departments for more than eight years.

Megan Deane

copywriter

Kiprotich is the copy editor with Engagement and has over 10 years of experience in media and communication. He has worked as a journalist, writer and editor for various brands and publications. His skills include developing communication strategies, coordinating and managing media projects and creating high impact communication material.

Kiprotich Koros

Copy editor

Discover the stories behind the data

The News Award

sensors.AFRICA is a pan-African citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities.&nbsp;The air quality sensors use open source technology from theLuftdaten project. The initiative was seed-funded by innovateAFRICA and is being incubated by Code for Africa.

sensors.AFRICA

sensors.AFRICA is a pan-African citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities.

Constant Cap is the senior product manager at Code for Africa’s ‘sensors.AFRICA citizen science program. He has a deep interest in sustainable mobility, urban resilience and inclusive planning and sits on the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group. He is also involved in the Equitable Mobility for City Health and Wellbeing research project.

Constant Cap

Senior product manager

Gideon is a senior IoT engineer at Code for Africa, CfA and is responsible for spearheading the development and deployment of sensors within the sensors.Africa team. Prior to joining CfA, Gideon worked with various companies as an electrical engineer and full-stack developer. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the JKUAT.

Gideon Maina

Senior IoT engineer

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water, sound and radiation levels.

sourceAfrica

WanaData is a Pan-African network of female data scientists, journalists and technologists working to change the digital landscape by producing and promoting data-driven projects while applying digital technologies in storytelling. It has grown from an initial 6 members in Nigeria to more than 400 women across the continent.
WanaData members have collaborated on cross-border reporting projects that incorporate data visualisation, artificial intelligence, audience engagement strategies, social videos, drone journalism and other innovative approaches, to enhance news content on the continent.

WanaData

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Deutsche Welle

The WanaData community drives collaborative work and supports members in achieving their professional goals.

Uplifting women in Africa with a focus on data-driven projects

We have teams in all corners of Africa, with our main offices in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Senegal.
With staff distributed across 20 countries, we are perfectly positioned to tackle issues facing African citizens.

Our pan-African team is spread across the continent

Clemence Kyara

Stories

Battle for gender equality in African media continues

What we learned as technical partner on largest gender study

An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact-checkers

New tool to aid storytellers in Kenya with budget and census data

News and stories

Unesco

Our partners include

From fact-checking to research, each of our projects work to empower citizens.

Initiatives

In just a few years, our team has grown to over 80 staff members across Africa.

Staff

Our team makes an impact in more than 20 countries where members are present.

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