Media Indaba Africa: Recent Episodes
SABC News and Current Affairs
Hosted by Code 4 Africa in conjunction with Hacks/Hackers Africa, the Media Indaba Africa 2017 conference held talks and workshops from 23-25 November in Cape Town, bringing together technologists, digital journalists and practitioners from around the world.
Themed “Continental Shift: the invention of the new”, some of the areas the conference focussed on included data-driven investigative journalism and the war against truth.
Missed the conference? Listen to the speakers here.
African Defence Review (https://www.africandefence.net/) Editor, John Stupart, discusses Project Oya.
Data scientist Chris Orwa (https://blackorwa.com/) shares his insights (and methodologies) on what makes a great data story.
International Centre for Journalists' (ICFJ) Senior Program Director Jerri Eddings and ICFJ lead Knight Fellow in India Nasr ul Hadi share highlights from ICFJ's state of digital innovation in newsrooms report.
ICFJ Knight Fellows H. R. Venkatesh, Ritvvij Parrikh, Meera K and Ravi Bajpai discuss how data journalism can work for low bandwidth.
Human Rights Watch Deputy Executive Director - Media, Nic Dawes, on combating the War on Truth.
ICFJ Knight Fellow for Latin America, Fabiola Torres Lopez, on investigative health journalism cross border initiative, The Big Pharma project.
Design and research lead at SlashRoots, Denique Ferguson, discusses the emerging civic tech ecosystem in the Caribbean.
SA Media Innovation Programme's (SAMIP) Program Manager, Bilal Randeree, on the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF).
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) producer, Sarah Murphy, discusses the powers and perils of social video.
In this talk, Webber Wentzel's Okyerebea Ampofo-Anti speaks on fake news and free speech.
Assistant Editor: News and Investigations at City Press, Nicki Gules, provides an overview of Ezolwaluko (http://app.ezolwaluko.org.za/en) - an initiation watch web tool - in this lightning talk.
In this lightning talk, junior health reporter from Bhekisisa, Joan van Dyk, provides insight into the first online database of government approved abortion facilities in South Africa called SizaMap (http://bit.ly/SizaMap).
ICFJ Knight Fellows H. R. Venkatesh, Ritvvij Parrikh, Meera K and Ravi Bajpai discuss how data journalism can work for low bandwidth.
Ben Nimmo from the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council on online disinformation, how it spreads and how it works.
Vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, Jennifer 8 Lee, discusses the emoji proposal process and much more.
In this lightning talk, Ralph Borland discusses his project, African Robots. African Robots
Johnny Miller and Chris Onyando launch africanDRONE at Media Indaba Africa. africanDRONE
Lily Kuo shares how they approach work at Quartz as well as some of the lessons learnt from her experiences as a digital journalist in Africa.
Viral videographer Nuseir Yassin of Nas Daily on how you can spread real, factual stories.