impactAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for data-driven storytelling.
We offer $500,000 in support for pioneering data journalism and innovative reporting that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
Our support goes beyond cash. We also provide technology assistance from our civic labs in all six countries, as well as one-on-one editorial mentoring, digital skills training, and content syndication services. The initiative is intended to spur newsroom experimentation and innovative storytelling, while also encouraging more evidence-based public discourse.
Worth
- The support consists of more than just cash prizes. Impact Africa will offer support from Code for Africa’s software labs in all six participating countries, to help finalist build digital/mobile prototypes of their projects
- Finalist will also get access to data analysts and design experts to help them transform their projects into dynamic interactive multimedia stories
- Finalist will be flown to the pan-African MediaParty in Cape Town in May 2016 for an intensive StoryCamp to help show their projects
Eligibility
- The new impactAfrica initiative will seek to support pioneering data journalism that tackles development issues, such as public healthcare, in six initial African countries.
Deadline: April 15, 2016
To apply and for more information visit here
