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Kenya's hotly contested 2013 presidential election saw a record turnout. This peaceful transition of power contrasted dramatically with the violence that followed the 2007 election.
ICFJ, together with the African Media Initiative and the World Bank, is bringing journalists and technologists together across Africa to improve flows of information through data journalism bootcamps like this one in Nairobi.
Kenyan Technologist Steve Mutinda displays the app he developed for the interactive mapping platform Ushahidi. Photo courtesy of Eric Hersman via Flickr.
Twenty African media innovators will receive a total of $1 million to develop digital projects that improve the quality of news across the continent, as part of the first African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC).
The Exchange Program for Media Professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States, is a four-part, two-way media program run by ICFJ and funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Fact-checking the media, drone journalism and journalists' security were among the topics on the minds of more than 500 innovators vying for startup capital to disrupt African media.
