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      • Code for Africa CheckDesk Fellowship 2024

      • Are you a newsroom based in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Togo, Uganda, or Zambia, and interested in strengthening the capacities of your CheckDesk? Apply for the Code for Africa CheckDesk Fellowship 2024. Code for Africa, through its African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA), is off ... read more and apply
      • Code for Africa (CfA) CivicTech Fellowship Program 2023

      • Following our pilot in 2022, Code for Africa (CfA) is offering a second set of 4-6 month CivicTech Fellowships for mid-career digital strategists, digital creators, technologists, data scientists and UX strategists/designers to support open government advocates and partners in 55 African U ... read more and apply
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Code for Africa (CfA) is the continent’s largest network of digital democracy laboratories, with over 90 full-time data scientists, forensic researchers, technologists and digital storytellers working in support of investigative media and watchdog CSO partners in 21 African countries. CfA builds digital solutions that provide actionable information to citizens to encourage informed decisions, while also amplifying voices to strengthen civic engagement for improved public governance and evidence-driven accountability. 
CfA provides the technology/data support for Charter Africa. CfA will give fellows access to support from its openAFRICA data team, commons.AFRICA open source team, its source.AFRICA evidence research team, and a string of wider communities that CfA manages including the africanDRONE community of civic drone/mapping pioneers, the sensor.AFRICA community that uses remote sensors to monitor air/water/radiation and other environmental information, the PesaCheck fact-checking team that debunks misinformation, the iLAB forensic investigation team that tracks and exposes hate speech or other toxic content, the CivicSignal media monitoring and content analysis team, and the WanaData network of women data scientists/storytellers who liberate and amplify feminist data.