Learn Announcing The Africa Intelligence Invention Challenge Winners
Digital tools are an increasing impetus for invention across African newsrooms. From crowdsourcing content to using infographics to tell stories, journalists are finding novel ways to study the news. We're excited to survive supporting these innovators through the $1 1 G m Africa News Innovation Challenge, announced inwards May this year—the latest inwards a serial of projects to spur invention inwards African journalism.
Run past times the the African Media Initiative, other partners include Omidyar Network, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the John S. together with James L. Knight Foundation, the U.S. State Department, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and the World Association of Newspapers together with News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The answer to the challenge was actually enthusiastic, alongside to a greater extent than than 500 proposals submitted.
The twenty winners are all exciting digital journalism projects that volition contribute to solving about of the biggest challenges facing the African media industry. They attain from mobile apps to mobilise citizens against corruption together with improved infographics to communicate complex issues, to developing novel platforms for sharing content on buses together with taxis. Key themes amid the projects include a growing concern most manipulated online content, the safety of communications alongside whistleblowers together with sources, together with the need to amend appointment alongside audiences.
The projects convey the potential to survive replicated past times media elsewhere inwards Africa, or to survive scaled upward across the continent, to practise broad together with sustained impact. Some projects volition also prepare novel tools to back upward newsrooms together with boost media revenues to back upward sustainable journalism. Winners volition have cash grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000; applied scientific discipline back upward from a squad of 4 developers at AMI’s jAccelerator lab inwards Kenya, together with delineate of piece of job organization evolution back upward from exceed media strategists affiliated alongside the World Association of Newspapers & News Publishers. Ten of the winners volition also survive flown to the Knight Foundation’s annual M.I.T. Civic Media Conference inwards the U.S., piece the residue volition survive showcased at other of import manufacture events.
The ANIC winners are:
You tin hand notice acquire to a greater extent than most the winners’ projects on the ANIC website.
We can’t hold off to run into how these innovations unfold together with nosotros hold off frontward to working alongside to a greater extent than African journalists to assistance them role technologies to tell of import stories.
(Cross-posted from the Africa Blog)
Run past times the the African Media Initiative, other partners include Omidyar Network, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the John S. together with James L. Knight Foundation, the U.S. State Department, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and the World Association of Newspapers together with News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The answer to the challenge was actually enthusiastic, alongside to a greater extent than than 500 proposals submitted.
The twenty winners are all exciting digital journalism projects that volition contribute to solving about of the biggest challenges facing the African media industry. They attain from mobile apps to mobilise citizens against corruption together with improved infographics to communicate complex issues, to developing novel platforms for sharing content on buses together with taxis. Key themes amid the projects include a growing concern most manipulated online content, the safety of communications alongside whistleblowers together with sources, together with the need to amend appointment alongside audiences.
The projects convey the potential to survive replicated past times media elsewhere inwards Africa, or to survive scaled upward across the continent, to practise broad together with sustained impact. Some projects volition also prepare novel tools to back upward newsrooms together with boost media revenues to back upward sustainable journalism. Winners volition have cash grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000; applied scientific discipline back upward from a squad of 4 developers at AMI’s jAccelerator lab inwards Kenya, together with delineate of piece of job organization evolution back upward from exceed media strategists affiliated alongside the World Association of Newspapers & News Publishers. Ten of the winners volition also survive flown to the Knight Foundation’s annual M.I.T. Civic Media Conference inwards the U.S., piece the residue volition survive showcased at other of import manufacture events.
The ANIC winners are:
- actNOW (Ghana)
- AdBooker (South Africa)
- Africa Check (South Africa / Nigeria)
- skyCAM (Kenya / Nigeria)
- Africa’s Wealth (renamed NewsStack) (Nigeria / Namibia)
- Citizen Desk (Mozambique)
- Code4Ghana (Ghana)
- ConvergeCMS (Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda)
- CorruptionNET (South Africa)
- DataWrapper (Nigeria / Senegal / Tanzania)
- End-to-End (renamed LastMile Crowdmapping) (Liberia / Republic of Ghana / Kenya)
- FlashCast (Kenya)
- Green Hornet (South Africa)
- ListeningPost (South Africa)
- MoJo: Keeping media honest past times monitoring online journalism (South Africa)
- openAFRICA (Kenya / Nigeria / Rwanda / South Africa)
- ODADI (renamed Code4SouthAfrica) (South Africa)
- Oxpeckers (South Africa)
- Wikipedia Zero (Cameroon / Cote d'Ivoire / Tunisia / Uganda)
- ZeroNews (pan-African)
You tin hand notice acquire to a greater extent than most the winners’ projects on the ANIC website.
We can’t hold off to run into how these innovations unfold together with nosotros hold off frontward to working alongside to a greater extent than African journalists to assistance them role technologies to tell of import stories.
(Cross-posted from the Africa Blog)
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