Presentation on the Code for South Africa Media Fellowship Programme presented at the Power Reporting Workshop

1. Data Journalism
Fellowships
Adi Eyal
adi@code4sa.org
@soapsudtycoon

2. Using data to make medicines
more affordable
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3. 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.
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4. Media Fellowship Programme:
We support media to explore how data journalism can
improve newsrooms’ ability to report and commentate.

5. 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/

6. Local Context:
People relate to what they can see.
Local information has more impact
than national statistics.
http://dotspotting.org/u/980/sheets/2279

7. Not just pretty pictures:
Data journalism is about telling
stories in new ways
http://za.okfn.org/files/2013/03/wards.png

8. Data isn’t the story:
It can help you find it but it won’t
tell it for you.
http://za.okfn.org/files/2013/03/sample.png

9. 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

10. 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

11. Contact Us
adi@code4sa.org
@soapsudtycoon