Updating notes from presentation by Justin Arenstein.
Apps for Africa looks to build projects which have tangible outputs. Support a range of projects everything from journalism drones to data visualisation, fact-checking sites, reporting apps and map-based story telling.
90 projects live and available for newsrooms to use.
GotToVote project, which cost just a few hundred pounds to build, credited with increased voting levels.
In Kenya a ‘dodgy doctor’ checker which checks against a spreadsheet of qualifications and any cases against them. Very simple tools driven off a spreadsheet. Every time the paper runs a story about a dodgy doc, they embed the tool for people to be able to check their own doctors.
“Databases like this are evergreen. They have an impact by amplifying news.”
Dim Sum Digital 