Code for Africa, a data journalism and civic technology organization, Data journalism and civic technology organisation Code for Africa has gotten US$4.7 million investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Announcing the development, the head of Code for Africa, Justin Arenstein, said the money would be spent on the organisation’s civic technologists work with newsrooms across Africa.
“The three-year programme at Code for Africa (CfAfrica) initially targets newsrooms in three regional ‘hub’ nations, in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa,”Arenstein writes. “It will expand to include Tanzania in 2016, and will also tap into CfAfrica’s digital experimentation in newsrooms elsewhere in Africa”.
“In many places, the media has lost touch with real people. Our aim is to make journalism relevant again to ordinary people. Journalism needs to tackle the issues that keep people awake at night: like how to keep your children safe, healthy, and educated,” says Arenstein. “To do that, media organizations have to discover what their audiences really care about and then develop journalism that gives the audience actionable information.”
