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.

• Civic hacking meetups

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

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.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

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

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Code for Africa partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Ayin Network to offer a combination of training, professional mentorship and story grants to journalists in Nigeria and Sudan, to enable them to produce digital storytelling around issues of religious freedom, so as to improve understanding of tolerance versus militancy and extremism.

• trainings

• Media

An initiative from Code for Africa and ICFJ for Journalists to Help Citizens Overcome Barriers to Religious Freedom

• religion

• Media

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

• indigenous

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors