Code4SA Media Fellowships at Power reporting - October 2013
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Presentation on the Code for South Africa Media Fellowship Programme presented at the Power Reporting Workshop
Code4SA Media Fellowships at Power reporting - October 2013
- 2. Using data to make medicines more affordable Image 息 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/
- 3. Code for South Africa is an NGO that supports informed decision making in society through the use of technology and the promotion of access to information. Image 息 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilri/
- 4. Media Fellowship Programme: We support media to explore how data journalism can improve newsrooms ability to report and commentate.
- 5. Visualisation: Most South Africans dont believe that granular data exists - and even if it does, they believe it is too complex for ordinary citizens to use meaningfully. http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/
- 6. Local Context: People relate to what they can see. Local information has more impact than national statistics. http://dotspotting.org/u/980/sheets/2279
- 7. Not just pretty pictures: Data journalism is about telling stories in new ways http://za.okfn.org/files/2013/03/wards.png
- 8. Data isnt the story: It can help you find it but it wont tell it for you. http://za.okfn.org/files/2013/03/sample.png
- 9. How it works: - 6 month long fellowships with technical and project managerial support. - Week long iterations with a focus on experimentation and rapid turn-around - Long term sustainability
- 10. Hacks/Hackers Code4Democracy The larger community: Fellows dont exist in a vacuum. They will start to take an active role the HacksHackers chapters and other open data communities