Data Journalism Fellowships

adi@code4sa.org

@soapsudtycoon

Adi Eyal

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Using data to make medicines more affordable

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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.

Media Fellowship Programme: We support media to explore how data journalism can

improve newsrooms’ ability to report and commentate.

Visualisation:Most South Africans don’t 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/

Local Context:People relate to what they can see. Local information has more impact

than national statistics.

http://dotspotting.org/u/980/sheets/2279

Not just pretty pictures:Data journalism is about telling stories in new ways

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Data isn’t the story:It can help you find it but it won’t tell it for you.

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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

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Hacks/Hackers

Code4Democracy

The larger community:Fellows don’t exist in a vacuum. They will start to take an active role the HacksHackers chapters and other open data communities

Contact Usadi@code4sa.org

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