A major loss.
@Musembi_Mutisya trained 100s of fact-checkers across Africa, while helping us build data-driven systems to better monitor elections & debunk #misinfo.
"Building #opensource movements isn't about software code. It's about building human ecosystems ... with projects that solve real-world problems for real people," @Code4Africa chief technologist @DavidLemayian tells #GitHubUniverse.
It is also about amplifying others work. 🚀
Want to kill clichés & amplify #African voices globally?
@EverydayAfrica is recruiting a hub coordinator in #Nairobi, to grow its continental 📷 network + its 🌍 audience on https://t.co/8yxAvCL3Bc
Details here https://t.co/RSUpLFmXDG
@Code4Africa is incubating EverydayAfrica
📢 OPPORTUNITY #1: want to use ur investigative skills to nail #disinfo puppet-masters + fight organised crime?
@Code4Africa is recruiting an investigative manager to run its iLAB forensic data team in #Nairobi supporting watchdog newsrooms
Details here: https://t.co/alBYFHBbaT
📦 We are streamlining our platforms and parking this account. @CodeForKenya news and updates will now be shared from Code for Africa’s main account. This Twitter page will be inactive from 14 August 2019 so follow @Code4Africa to keep receiving our updates.
Through @sensorsAFRICA, we're deploying low-cost sensors to measure #airquality in key African cities in order to monitor life-threatening pollution and provide watchdogs with the info they need. ✉️ You can join our mailing list for project updates here: https://t.co/LNUbw5wzES
👏🏿 Well done to #WanaData Tanzania’s @JoyceShebe for winning an award in the data journalism category at the Excellence in Journalism Awards in Tanzania (EJAT): https://t.co/2iOyVBnNwJ
Watch Shebe's award-winning investigation for @CloudsMediaLive here: https://t.co/XrobRzcQv5
#FactCheck: According to info tweeted by the official #Kenyan State House Twitter account in June, the Kenyan government created over 840,000 new jobs in 2018. #Misinfo experts @PesaCheck have looked into the claim 🕵🏿 and found it to be FALSE. Here is why: https://t.co/PbNWBdfNZ8
👓#WanaData South Africa's @KimHarrisberg meets the Somali women of Mayfair, #Johannesburg, who are working against odds to create a life for themselves in SA by buying and renting property out to fellow refugees. Read her piece for @thisisplace here: https://t.co/0SOwzPGUub
What is a quick way for hundreds of thousands of people to engage with your fact-checking? Hear from our U.S. #TruthBuzz Fellow @mriley500 on a collaborative approach to audience engagement to make fact-checking go farther, faster. Watch: https://t.co/kygYdIrLQP @craignewmark
👓 What would happen if female genital mutilation ‘surgeons’ were brought together to meet their #FGM victims, learn about its dangers and come up with ideas on how to stop it? #WanaData Nigeria’s @nonyeaghaji explores the idea in this @Independent piece: https://t.co/yfHSAZY76a
#FactCheck: Do only one in ten Ugandan youth complete secondary school? Is it true less than 10 percent of youth in Uganda complete secondary school education? @PesaCheck investigated this here https://t.co/1aTRGpusDC
According to a recent article published on the New Vision Website (@newvisionwire), forest cover in Uganda reduced from 24% in 1990 to 10% currently. Is this true? @PesaCheck investigated this here https://t.co/gLwBCrynhJ