📦 We are streamlining our platforms and parking this account, @CodeForNigeria_ 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. #relocated
#HHBNI How can you use your media skills to make money💰? Join our #BeninCity@HHAfrica meetup on Friday, 26 July to learn about the exciting opportunities currently flooding through the media sector. You can RSVP for free here: https://t.co/vY2YfbkDLK
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
👓#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 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
👓 "Telling a story using data gives it more credibility and makes the audience to understand better." Here is a detailed round-up of our Hacks/Hackers June meetup in Lagos by a community member, @Mediacareerngr’s @ibnamoo: https://t.co/7KBe4TvVlj #ddj
#HHLOS Producing stories using data and visualisation requires a particular set of skills. Join us for @HHAfrica#Lagos on 22 June where we'll train attendants on how to use interactive infographics in a story to create and sustain engagement. RSVP here: https://t.co/vY2YfbkDLK
🎉 Congratulations to CfA's lead Academy trainer @AimLEGEND_, who's been selected as one of the @ObamaFoundation Leaders in Africa. One of our Innovation Fellows, Blaise is also the founder of @Orodata Science.
"Act like a lady"
Language often promotes gender bias and stereotypes, and this is no different in Nigeria. From a data desk we've established at @GuardianNigeria, #WanaData's @Torinmo reports on language's role in promoting gender inequality in #Nigeria: https://t.co/FPwM0bRu1o
Tools to identify fake news:
Tineye
Google image search
The 1st draft toolbox
Google earth pro
Google maps
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Way back machine
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A fact is an event, item of information or state of affairs existing, observed/known to have happened &which can be validated/confirmed to such events
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