Media Indaba Africa is hosted by the continent’s largest data journalism and civic technology federation, @Code4Africa.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined March 2016
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MediaIndabaAfrica retweeted
👨🏫 @superlinearza unpacking #SouthAfrica's political activity on Twitter. Focussing on how misinformation has been spread by SA political factions over the last few months can help us predict how things will play out in the months leading up to the elections. #MI_x #Elections
MediaIndabaAfrica retweeted
HAPPENING NOW: An election manipulation workshop with @benimmo + @superlinearza. Can't make it? 📹 We're live streaming from 3.30pm - watch the entire workshop here: youtu.be/q8LpcU_sRFg
With SA elections around the corner, bots + trolls are coming out of the shadows. Join us on 28/2 in CT as @benimmo shares his experience identifying election manipulation across the world + how exposure of disinfo has changed news cycles bit.ly/MiXelections #MI_x #Elections
Join us from 4.30pm this afternoon. There's still time to sign up: goo.gl/aCW1LC #HacksHackersCT #WanaData #MI_x #OurLand
Calling Cape Town Hacks + Hackers! There's still time to sign up for this evening's event. @benimmo from @DFRLab will be training us on how to spot #bots and #misinfo. Our data ninja @triciagov will also run training on how to use land data tools. RSVP: goo.gl/aCW1LC
.@afrobarometer is working with @Code4Africa on sharing data. Find the full survey dataset on land.hurumap.org
.@afrobarometer's @sibusisonkomo has surveyed citizen perceptions in South Africa. Unemployment, crime and housing featured in the top three concerns, whereas land was at number 13.
MediaIndabaAfrica retweeted
What do surveys tell us about the land debate in #SouthAfrica?
@SibusisoNkomo unpacks this question at @MediaIndaba this afternoon with a focus on citizen perceptions in South Africa.
Follow the hashtags #MI_x and #OurLand for more highlights.
Dr Aninka Claassens from @LarcUCT is here to speak about communal land dispossession.
4 Mbeki era laws work together to dispossess people in the former homelands to lands according to Prof Anika Claassens #OurLand #MI_x @MediaIndaba
We'll be running a few more trainings with SA journalists on how to spot bots. One is on Thursday at 16:30 in the Cape Town office. RSVP here for the #HacksHackersCPT #WanaData event: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Using comparative satellite imagery of an area would offer evidence of development over time if you know what you're looking for, says @jrstupart. #OurLand #MI_x
There are some free tools to use and @jrstupart says Google Maps is a good start for basic searches. Another is Project Oya. (Newsrooms can get free access via @africandefence) #MI_x #OurLand
.@rstupart from @africandefence demonstrates the value of satellite imagery to tell land stories. #MI_x #OurLand
We're back from tea and @Code4Africa's senior data wrangler @triciagov is demonstrating how to use some land tools we've developed with partners. #minealert #OurLand #MI_x @OxCIEJ mine-alert.oxpeckers.org/
When we say whites own 79% of the land, it's based on less than 40% of the land audit data, says @bencous67245641 #OurLand #MI_x