Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.
Act Hub Africa is a civic-tech NGO that works to promote good governance, democracy, ensure openness and transparency in the local governments by making their fiscal data available in a simplified, easy to understand form and engage people in the local government areas on how to use them in engaging their political officeholders
The purpose of this guide is to standardise accessibility features and ensure accessibility compliance across Code for Africa’s projects. Please feel free to copy and adapt it for your organisation.
Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.
AFRICA INTEGRITY IS THE LEADING PROVIDER OF INVESTIGATIVE DUE DILIGENCE, RISK MANAGEMENT AND ESG-ADVISORY SERVICES IN AFRICA
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.
LightBox provides “Solar-Home-Systems” solutions that use photovoltaic (Solar-Electric or PV) cells and rechargeable batteries to provide electrical power away from the main grids. LightBox's mission is to procure high quality Pico-Solar-Home Systems with a price-winning product quality of German Origin.
The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa). The 24-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies. The key focus is the impact of digital technologies (internet and mobile) on journalism and the media and, by extension, society.
Open Secrets is a non-profit organisation which exposes and builds accountability for private sector economic crimes through investigative research, advocacy, and the law.
Code for Africa is a people-driven movement that aims to empower active society and strengthen civic watchdogs to help government shape and improve its services to people.
Yiaga Africa is a non-profit civic hub of change makers committed to the promotion of democratic governance, human rights and civic engagement.
Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.
It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.
Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.
MedAfrica is your direct access to health information and services. With this app you can search, filter and view health information and services near you even when offline as well as connect with doctors on the go. Other services include Hospitals, Diagnosis, Symptoms, Nutrition, Drugs, First Aid, Insurance and Fitness. Med Africa personalizes your health services by frequency of use.
The Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.
The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) runs the Data.gov.za web platform which catalogues and links to existing open data sets on external websites but also hosts data on behalf of government departments and agencies. These datasets can be used in commercial and non commercial ways.
innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.
openAFRICA aims to be the largest independent repository of open data on the African continent
Building relationships between government and citizens, and interested in how new technologies could enable better services, communication and accountability
DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.
KYR ARICA ensures public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
GenderGap.AFRICA is a tool designed to help users calculate the gender pay gap in any African country. The tool uses Estimated Earned Income data from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2020. The calculator isn’t designed to give breakdowns for each industry: it instead captures the average gender gap across all sectors within a country. Gender Gap here represents the gap between men and women in pay. It is supplemented by Series of data-driven stories on gender gap and gender equality in African countries
We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
The Municipal Barometer is a web-based portal that provides municipalities and people with local level data so municipalities can make informed and resolute decisions to deliver on their mandates. The portal provides people information on local demographic trends, social development, economic growth and development, environment and municipal finances graphs and tables from 1996 to 2016. The information provided is from government categories including districts, local municipalities, provinces and metros.
MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.
With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.
debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.
The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.
Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.
Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.
The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.
The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.
Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.
Electric South collaborates with artists across Africa in emerging storytelling, through labs, production and distribution.