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You can now follow us @Code4Africa for news and events.
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Joined July 2012
🚨 A reminder that we're shutting down this account tomorrow! Follow @Code4Africa to stay updated on our latest news and events.
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A major loss. @Musembi_Mutisya trained 100s of fact-checkers across Africa, while helping us build data-driven systems to better monitor elections & debunk #misinfo.
Africa's fact-checking community has lost one of its pioneers, @Musembi_Mutisya, who was @PesaCheck's Anglophone editorial assistant. Colleagues remember Musembi, who died on October 6, as kind, helpful and meticulous. Read our tribute to Musembi here:
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"Building #opensource movements isn't about software code. It's about building human ecosystems ... with projects that solve real-world problems for real people," @Code4Africa chief technologist @DavidLemayian tells #GitHubUniverse. It is also about amplifying others work. 🚀
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Want to kill clichés & amplify #African voices globally? @EverydayAfrica is recruiting a hub coordinator in #Nairobi, to grow its continental 📷 network + its 🌍 audience on https://t.co/8yxAvCL3Bc Details here https://t.co/RSUpLFmXDG
@Code4Africa is incubating EverydayAfrica
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📢 OPPORTUNITY #1: want to use ur investigative skills to nail #disinfo puppet-masters + fight organised crime? @Code4Africa is recruiting an investigative manager to run its iLAB forensic data team in #Nairobi supporting watchdog newsrooms Details here:
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📦 We are streamlining our platforms and parking this account. @CodeForKenya news and updates will now be shared from Code for Africa’s main account. This Twitter page will be inactive from 14 August 2019 so follow @Code4Africa to keep receiving our updates.
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Through @sensorsAFRICA, we're deploying low-cost sensors to measure #airquality in key African cities in order to monitor life-threatening pollution and provide watchdogs with the info they need. ✉️ You can join our mailing list for project updates here: https://t.co/LNUbw5wzES
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With @A_Strydom from @Code4Africa taking us through ways in fighting fake news using digital tools for fact checking #ZimNewMedaSummit19 @nustzim @usembassyharare @InfoMinZW @263Chat @medialit #centre4media
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Thanks @RobinKiplangat for leading today's #WanaData Kenya meet-up on #DataScrapping giving our members tools to make their Data storytelling better.
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👏🏿 Well done to #WanaData Tanzania’s @JoyceShebe for winning an award in the data journalism category at the Excellence in Journalism Awards in Tanzania (EJAT): https://t.co/2iOyVBnNwJ Watch Shebe's award-winning investigation for @CloudsMediaLive here: https://t.co/XrobRzcQv5
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#FactCheck: According to info tweeted by the official #Kenyan State House Twitter account in June, the Kenyan government created over 840,000 new jobs in 2018. #Misinfo experts @PesaCheck have looked into the claim 🕵🏿 and found it to be FALSE. Here is why: https://t.co/PbNWBdfNZ8
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👓#WanaData South Africa's @KimHarrisberg meets the Somali women of Mayfair, #Johannesburg, who are working against odds to create a life for themselves in SA by buying and renting property out to fellow refugees. Read her piece for @thisisplace here: https://t.co/0SOwzPGUub
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Our deputy CEO @ChrisRoper 👨🏻⚖️ is a judge at this year's Africa Digital Media Awards. You can register for this premier digital news conference here: https://t.co/gycvHX6m9b
@NewspaperWorld #AfricanDigitalMediaAwards2019 #ADMA19
Serial entrepreneur Roy Mathieu Borole is the founder and CEO of @TeamThanga. Roy will be at #DMAfrica19 to share his experiences of using #WhatsApp to cover elections. Register for Africa's premier digital news conference here: https://t.co/NUYrJ2isGR
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Citizen Data Scientist Blaise Aboh of Orodata is our #BellaNaijaMCM this Week! https://t.co/6CGIa04mVb
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What is a quick way for hundreds of thousands of people to engage with your fact-checking? Hear from our U.S. #TruthBuzz Fellow @mriley500 on a collaborative approach to audience engagement to make fact-checking go farther, faster. Watch: https://t.co/kygYdIrLQP
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👓 What would happen if female genital mutilation ‘surgeons’ were brought together to meet their #FGM victims, learn about its dangers and come up with ideas on how to stop it? #WanaData Nigeria’s @nonyeaghaji explores the idea in this @Independent piece: https://t.co/yfHSAZY76a
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#FactCheck: Do only one in ten Ugandan youth complete secondary school? Is it true less than 10 percent of youth in Uganda complete secondary school education? @PesaCheck investigated this here https://t.co/1aTRGpusDC
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A focussed Team 'Jawabu' looking at the 'Air Assembly Tool Kit' @UNHABITAT @fablabnairobi @Naipolitans @Code4Africa #BeatAirPollution #hewayetu #actnowforqualityair
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According to a recent article published on the New Vision Website (@newvisionwire), forest cover in Uganda reduced from 24% in 1990 to 10% currently. Is this true? @PesaCheck investigated this here https://t.co/gLwBCrynhJ
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It is so good to see #WanaData from across the continent grow their skills and excel. #dataJournalism #FemaleJournalists
🎉Well done to #WanaData Nigeria's @Jojookojie, who's been awarded a 2019 fellowship with @theWCSJ. Josephine is in Laussane currently, where she’s attending @Wcsj2019Eu. More on Josephine's fellowship here: https://t.co/XDqsNEvLeb. Read her articles here: https://t.co/WHtuqr2Rrj
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