The Best Award

The Press Award

The News Award

WanaData is a Pan-African network of female data scientists, journalists and technologists working to change the digital landscape by producing and promoting data-driven projects while applying digital technologies in storytelling. It has grown from an initial 6 members in Nigeria to more than 400 women across the continent.
WanaData members have collaborated on cross-border reporting projects that incorporate data visualisation, artificial intelligence, audience engagement strategies, social videos, drone journalism and other innovative approaches, to enhance news content on the continent.

World Bank

innovateAFRICA

Donors

WanaData

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Deutsche Welle

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Pulitzer Center

Partners

The WanaData community drives collaborative work and supports members in achieving their professional goals.

Jacopo is CfA’s chief data officer (CDO) leading the Knowledge portfolio which includes the Academy, DataLab and StoryLab. He works with a pan-African team of 18 data analysts, designers and data-driven storytellers to give the public actionable information. His digital storytelling has been published globally, from Al Jazeera and Der Spiegel, to El País, De Correspondent and Internazionale.

Jacobo Ottaviani

Chief Data Officer

Team

Uplifting women in Africa with a focus on data-driven projects

Clemence Kyara

Stories

International Women’s Day: WanaData tackles gender stereotypes

PesaCheck

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Code for All

The World Bank

PesaCheck, a pioneering verification initiative, debunks misleading claims with full-time fact-checkers in 15 African countries.

Justin is the CEO at Code for Africa (CfA). He is an investigative data journalist and civic technology strategist and works across Africa, and also in the Caucasus region (currently based in Tbilisi). Justin serves on a number of digital democracy and civic data/tech bodies, including the Code for All governing board, and the&nbsp; World Bank/IMF’s Data to Development advisory board, amongst others.

Justin Arenstein

CEO of Code for Africa

Doreen is PesaCheck’s managing editor and has previously worked with Nation Media Group’s Business Daily. Doreen is also a Global Reporting Program Fellow and was previously a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford University. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Banking from Nazarene University.

Doreen Wainainah

Managing editor

Africa’s largest indigenous fact-checking organisation

PesaYetu is a tool that gives Kenyan Citizens access to information on how money collected from taxpayers is allocated. With this information, they can ask what their elected officials are doing with it, and from there the discussion can proceed towards how money is spent in the future to better their lives.

PesaYetu

ICJF

PesaYetu helps storytellers and campaigners use data to add context and depth to stories.

Christelle is a data analyst, academy trainer and community coordinator at Code for Africa, and regional mentor&nbsp; for Central Africa Women Techmakers Community. She has a wide experience in community management, data analysis, research and visualisation, data management, SQL and Python,R.

Christelle Pandja

Data analyst

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Tolulope Adeyemo

Senior Programme Manager

Stephane Njoki is a data analyst and an experienced researcher with a specialisation in big data analytics. She trains CfA partners and helps to galvanise CfA communities. She is also the co-founder of Faniki Community Based Organisation.

Stephane Njoki

Arame is a data analyst with CfA’s Knowledge Team running&nbsp; the Wanadata Senegal community of&nbsp; women journalists and data scientists. She also runs a learn-by-doing training initiative at CfA partner newsrooms, universities and other partner organisations as well as supporting data and design production to research, scrape, refine, verify and interpret data.

Arame Thiam

Megan is a copywriter at Code for Africa. She has worked in content teams, marketing roles and website creation departments for more than eight years.

Megan Deane

copywriter

Kiprotich is the copy editor with Engagement and has over 10 years of experience in media and communication. He has worked as a journalist, writer and editor for various brands and publications. His skills include developing communication strategies, coordinating and managing media projects and creating high impact communication material.

Kiprotich Koros

Copy editor

Discover the stories behind the data

sensors.AFRICA is a pan-African citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities.&nbsp;The air quality sensors use open source technology from theLuftdaten project. The initiative was seed-funded by innovateAFRICA and is being incubated by Code for Africa.

sensors.AFRICA

sensors.AFRICA is a pan-African citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities.

Constant Cap is the senior product manager at Code for Africa’s ‘sensors.AFRICA citizen science program. He has a deep interest in sustainable mobility, urban resilience and inclusive planning and sits on the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group. He is also involved in the Equitable Mobility for City Health and Wellbeing research project.

Constant Cap

Senior product manager

Gideon is a senior IoT engineer at Code for Africa, CfA and is responsible for spearheading the development and deployment of sensors within the sensors.Africa team. Prior to joining CfA, Gideon worked with various companies as an electrical engineer and full-stack developer. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the JKUAT.