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Africa Data Leadership Initiative

Africa Data Leadership Initiative

United Nations Foundation

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

AfricaOSH

The African affiliate of the global Open Science Hardware community, plus its global summit

African AI Observatory

African AI Observatory

Cape Town, South Africa

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

Africa Data Hub Climate Observer

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

Africa Data Hub

Africa Data Hub

South Africa

Data about Africa for Africa

African Elections Project

The African Elections Project : your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent

African Leadership Institute

The African Leadership Institute (AFLI) focuses on building the capacity and capability of visionary and strategic leadership across the continent.

African Legislatures Project

African Legislatures Project

Centre for Social Science Research, Room 4.29, Robert Leslie Social Science Building, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa

Africa i-Parliaments

Africa i-Parliaments

Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, PO Box 8-00606, Nairobi, Kenya

African Digital Democracy Observatory

ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens. The Medium publication covers disinfo trends, provides micro-grant funding to research fellows, and publishes investigations, as well as tools and resources for fighting disinformation.

African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting iLAB

ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.

African Digital Democracy Observatory Resident Fellows

The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.

African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)

The African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA) is a network of media and civil society organizations that work to counter misinformation. The network supports fact-checking missions to debunk dangerous content, including conspiracy theories and misinformation.

African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI)

The initiative will empower investigative media and watchdog NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal.

Africa Regional Ambassadors Programme (RAP)

A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.

Africa No Filter

Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa.

African Drone Forum

African Drone Forum

Kigali, Lake Kivu 0000, RW

Accelerating new, clean and safe infrastructure models

africanDRONE

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge. In addition, we aim to use our collective muscle to get better access to markets (for our work), better prices on hardware / software / insurance (through collective bargaining), and share resources (for everything from drones to data-crunching computer servers).

Africa Check

Africa Check

South Africa

Africa Check is an independent, non-profit fact-checking organisation that aims to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa.

African Media Initiative

African Media Initiative

Africa Media Initiative, 6th Floor, Fedha Plaza, Mpaka Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya, PO Box 51366, Nairobi, 00100

The African Media Initiative strengthens Africa’s media sector through advocacy, investments, technology, and training.

African Technology and Transparency Initiative

APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). We work to build a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies.

AfricanSpending

How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions. AfricanSpending maps out the ways in which public data can be used to improve the way we understand how governments spend our money.

africanCOMMONS

Showcasing re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organisations building them. Civic technologists do not need to reinvent the wheel. Civic software solutions to pressing developmental challenges already exist elsewhere in the world, and often simply need be customised or adapted to local requirements. Locally developed software solutions are also appropriate for reuse elsewhere on the continent, and the wider world. The challenge is discovery: end-user organisations and technologists are seldom aware of existing solutions elsewhere and/or struggle to find credible recommendations that are sensitive to local operational requirements. africanCOMMONS is a platform to showcase re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organizations building them.

Digital Rights Fund for West Asia and North Africa

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

Digital Society of Africa

Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.

Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

The state of Civic Tech Research in Africa: An Evidence Map

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

PolicyLab Africa

PolicyLab Africa uses Human centered design to imagine sustainable futures.

Southern African Parliamentary Forum

Southern African Parliamentary Forum

ERF 578, Love Street off Robert Mugabe Avenue, Windhoek, Namibia

Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

PromiseTracker (Code for Africa)

Promise Tracker is a tool designed to help journalists and civil society watchdogs track campaign/promises/pledges by government officials

Code for Africa Slack

Do you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?

Fake Watch Africa

The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.

BBC News Africa COVID-19 Misinfo Hub

To combat what the World Health Organization has called an "infodemic" around Covid-19, BBC News Africa has launched a searchable library of fact-checks debunking popular myths and misinformation about coronavirus in Africa.

My Constitution South Africa

This edition of the South African Constitution has been specially created to be easy to access, read, print and distribute.

Media Monitoring Africa

A non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.

ICT Evidence Portal Africa

Research ICT Solutions Ltd. is a boutique consultancy based in Canada and South Africa. Started in 2013, we have built a select list of clients who need simple but effective tools to make better decisions. RIS targets the policy and regulatory intersection between policy makers, regulators and the private sector. Our clients range from country regulators, international donor organisations to multi-national companies like Facebook.

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