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 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.

innovateAFRICA

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.

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.

sourceAfrica

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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

The Press Award

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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