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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>We have roughly 6 Kenyan teams... <br><br><span style="font-size:18px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">40 Finalists Emerge in $1 Million African News Innovation Challenge</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Forty (40) pioneering digital journalism projects have been shortlisted as finalists in the inaugural $1 million African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC).<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break">The initiative is the largest fund for digital journalism experimentation in Africa, and is designed to spur solutions to the business, distribution and workplace challenges that face the media industry.<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break">In all, 513 applicants were carefully screened by a technical review panel that evaluated which projects have the best potential for strengthening and transforming African news media.<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break"> Projects were also assessed for their potential to be replicated by media elsewhere in Africa, or to be scaled up across the continent, to create wide and sustained impact.</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">

“We are thrilled with the broad range of innovation and ideas among the finalists,” says ANIC manager,</span><a href="http://www.icfj.org/about/profiles/justin-arenstein"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Justin Arenstein</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Arenstein is a</span><a href="http://www.icfj.org/our-work/knight"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Knight International Journalism Fellow</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, who leads the initiative as part of a wider digital innovation program with Africa’s largest association of media owners and operators, the</span><a href="http://www.africanmediainitiative.org/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">African Media Initiative</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (AMI). “The teams with the strongest links to newsrooms and technology partners had an advantage, as did those that could already point to some proofs-of-concept.”</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break">Short-listed finalists include proposals to improve data-driven investigative journalism and the security of journalists or their sources, as well as improve audience engagement, mobile news distribution, data visualization, new revenue models and workflow systems.<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break"> “The finalists are also all projects that haven’t lost sight of the core focus for the initiative: quality journalism,” says Arenstein. “There is a danger in any innovation program that we get blinded by gadgets and hype. The technical review panel therefore focused on projects that demonstrated a keen commitment to journalism itself.”<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break">Finalists will attend a TechCamp in Zanzibar, in partnership with the Tech@State program. ,There they will have the opportunity to refine and defend their proposals in consultation with some of the world’s leading media technology strategists, including experts from the U.K. Guardian’s data team, Mozilla’s OpenNews initiative, Google, previous Knight News Challenge winners, and the World Association of Newspapers.<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break">A separate jury of international media strategists, technology innovators, and funding experts will evaluate the revised project plans and will select an estimated 20 winners. They will be announced at the continent’s largest annual gathering of media executives, the African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF), in Dakar, Senegal, on November 10.<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break">Winners will receive cash grants ranging from $12,500 to $100,000, as well as additional technology and business development support. They will also have access to a dedicated AMI CivicTech code lab, for technical advice, start-up support and one-on-one mentoring from the world’s top media experts.<br class="kix-line-break">

<br class="kix-line-break">ANIC’s founding partners include</span><a href="http://www.omidyar.com/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Omidyar Network</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><a href="http://www.google.com/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the</span><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the</span><a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John S. and James L. Knight Foundation</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the</span><a href="http://www.state.gov/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">U.S. State Department</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the</span><a href="http://www.kas.de/wf/en/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS)</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and the</span><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applicants were encouraged to enter their submissions in the “open” public category, so that they could receive public comments and reviews. The technical review panel and the international jury give preference to applications in this category. A “closed” category was provided for projects with proprietary trade or technology secrets. We put an asterisk next to the closed entries.<br class="kix-line-break">

 </span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The finalists, in alphabetical order, are</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26919239666/actnow-an-app-to-allow-audiences-to-act-on"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">actNOW</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A proposed mobile application that empowers audiences to act on investigative reportage, by petitioning government or corporations, in response to televised, radio, or print exposes.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2.) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AdBooker *</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A streamlined workflow management system for generating quotations, managing artwork production, and placing advertising in print media, while also serving as a staff / personnel management tool.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26823095918/africacheck-non-partisan-crowdsourced-fact-checking"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AfricaCheck</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A proposed pan-African, non-partisan and crowdsourced fact-checking website that systematically verifies claims made in media reports. </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26931343616/africartoons-com-creating-a-platform-to-promote"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AfriCartoons</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A proposed pan-African syndication portal for editorial / news cartoons and news infographics, as well as other editorial illustrations.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26930491381/africandrone-journalistic-eyes-in-africas-skies"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">africanDRONE</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A proposed network of three journalistic ‘eye in the sky’ drone teams at TV stations in east, west, and southern Africa.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26778973618/africanspending-improving-watchdog-journalism-by"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AfricanSpending</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An African data portal, supported by an intensive fellowship programme, that improves watchdog journalism by “mapping the money” through aggregation, analysis and visualisation of government budgets from across the continent.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26930410682/budgit-news-in-interactive-and-infographics"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BudgIT</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An infographic service that produces financial literacy materials for newsrooms using both static and interactive graphical explanations of State budgets and other public finances.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26929459444/the-local-content-market-bloggingghana"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BloggingGhana</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A centralised aggregator and syndication market for Ghanaian blogs, to showcase the best local writers / content producers for republication in legacy media.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">9.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26931191253/code4ghana"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Code4Ghana</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A fellowship programme to strengthen media’s watchdog powers by embedding coders into public interest newsrooms to kickstart data-driven journalism, by harnessing newly available open government data and by sensitising Ghana’s tech tech community to media’s needs.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26909089944/citizen-desk"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Citizen Desk</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A validation toolkit, to help news organisations run mobile-optimised platforms for aggregating, verifying, publishing and rewarding citizen journalism.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">11.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26903556215/circle"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Circle</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Circle provides newsrooms with a toolkit for creating citizen / audience organised ‘circles’ of advocacy groups or stakeholders around news events or issues. </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">12.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26823985235/corruptionnet-crowdsourced-citizen-reports-exposing"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CorruptionNET</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A ‘5w&H’-driven journalistic template system for crowdsourced / citizen-based corruption reporting projects, in partnership with Africa’s largest social mobile network (MXit), to help newsrooms solicit verifiable and actionable information, while still protecting the identity of the source.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">13.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26903673395/version-of-churnalism-com-for-africa"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Churnalism for Africa</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Extend the UK-based <a href="http://churnalism.com">churnalism.com</a> to work with African news sources, press releases and Wikipedia to help combat plagiarism and ‘churning’ of press releases in African media.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">14.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26822904522/convergecms-a-cross-platform-workflow-management"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ConvergeCMS</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An open source and data-optimised, cross-platform workflow management and publishing system to help streamline and professionalise African newsrooms.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">15.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26896085998/checkdesk-a-digital-newsroom-where-journalists-and"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CheckDesk</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An ‘open news’ diary, content editing and fact-checking platform to allow audiences into the newsrooms, to help shape media content through collaborative co-creation of news.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">16.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26825106095/datadesk-a-helpdesk-for-investigative-data"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DataDesk</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A ScraperWiki outpost and helpdesk in Cape Town’s HacksHackers chapter to provide free data mining and coding assistance to investigative, data, and other digital journalism pioneers.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">17.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26827482702/datawrapper-free-open-source-creation-of-interactive"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DataWrapper</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A partnership with African newsrooms to implement the new open source DataWrapper visualization tool, to help newsrooms publish interactive infographics as quickly as possible with minimal technical skills.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">18.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26926831406/end-to-end-traceability-for-the-cocoa-supply-chain"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">End-to-End </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An investigative demonstration of “supply chain” mapping and social network analysis, into the cocoa industry, using the SourceMap platform to help show newsrooms how to present complex investigative stories in an interactive yet simple way.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">19.) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FlashCast</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  *</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A platform using smart, location-aware LED displays to transmit local news, with audience ‘conversation’ responses around current events, to passengers in public transit / taxis.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">20.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26910449994/green-hornet-tools-to-protect-journalistic-sources"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Green Hornet</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A user-friendly plug-and-play toolkit for African journalists to protect whistleblowers, and sources in collaboration with the Tor Project and Al Jazeera.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">21.) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ImpimpiTagz </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A cross-platform citizen reporter app that allows citizens to report the abuse of public facilities or trust by government officials and elected politicians.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">22.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26923910504/invstg8-net-microcollaboration-for-journalists"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">INVSTG8.NET Microcollaboration for journalists</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A community-driven platform to enable journalists to surmount structural barriers to news-gathering, through micro-collaboration, by linking them to data and information via social tools/technologies.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">23.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26898893922/landquest"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LandQuest</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A toolkit of interoperable resources for data extraction / data scraping to help newsrooms find, collect and then structure information into datasets for journalistic analysis, with the prototype pilot project creating an online, open, and location-driven database of Kenyan land ownership.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">24.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26903287121/listeningpost-actionable-intel-from-social-media"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ListeningPost</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Africa’s proposed first social-media driven newsroom that produces actionable intel from citizen reporters, by establishing a Storyful listening post and a ScoopShot-type citizen reporter app calibrated for poorer communities.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">25.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26922506818/digital-platform-for-health-investigations"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MicroScope</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A transnational platform for team-based collaboration by data-driven investigative journalists from a coalition of legacy media to track toxic and fake medicines being dumped and sold in African countries, through information sharing, data wrangling, and shared reporting.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">26.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26898415019/mojo-keeping-media-honest-by-monitoring-online"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">moJO - keeping media honest by monitoring online journalism</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A plug-and-play toolkit of analytical software tools for African journalism observatories to keep the media honest and help improve media professionalism.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">27.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26625094138/mekooa-feel-the-pulse-of-your-local-community-from"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mekooa: feel the pulse of your local community from miles away</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A platform for creating personalised news from subscribers’ home regions, for migrant workers or Africans in the diaspora, keeping them informed about important events and issues back home.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">28.) </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mapping Africa’s Wealth </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An investigative toolkit for media in African countries with little open data, showing media how to mine offshore data troves for locally relevant information, as well as tools for transforming offline information into actionable digital data, using a transnational investigation into Africa’s extractive industries by a network of newsrooms and technology partners as the proof-of-concept showcase.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">29.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26551792398/using-mbanking-and-ivr-to-increase-revenue-and"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mWallet</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An integrated IVR and mWallet system to provide community radio stations with new revenue streams from social listings, announcements, and audio ‘classified’ advertising. </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">30.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26896009530/newsbooks-africa"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Newsbooks Africa</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A streamlined workflow management platform to help journalists and media organisations write, collaborate, publish and sell print and digital books based on reportage. The system will be piloted at a number of African media partners.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">31.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26841620976/newsapi-a-developer-api-for-ugandas-vision-media"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">newsAPI</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An API (Application Programming Interface) that will give 3rd party developers licensed access to editorial and other content at Uganda’s largest media house to help create new ways to share and monetize news.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">32.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26922477022/openafrica-a-semantic-toolkit-for-analysing"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">openAFRICA</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A digital document and knowledge management toolkit for African freedom-of-information organisations and investigative journalists, using a pan-African semantic document repository, to improve insight into and analysis of public knowledge.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">33.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26903258532/code4democracy-liberating-public-data-to-strengthen"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ODADI - liberating public data to strengthen African watchdog media</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An incubator for watchdog journalism in South Africa that embeds data wranglers and coders into newsrooms, with support from an external development team, for improving evidence-based reportage and investigative journalism.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">34.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26220694015/ourhealth-mobile-monitoring"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OurHealth</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A mobile-optimised citizen reporting tool for soliciting reports at specific venues, with the prototype project deployed at hospitals and clinics in 52 districts in South Africa for patients, nurses / doctors, and news correspondents to report on service standards and related issues.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">35.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26825112012/oxpeckers-rooting-out-africas-ecological-parasites"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oxpeckers</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A “newsroom stack” of interoperable social network analysis, source document management, and other digital analysis and data management tools for investigative newsrooms, with the prototype toolkit piloted in an environmental “CSI team” at Africa’s leading investigative newspaper.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">36.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26686049870/starlive-giving-citizens-a-voice-at-press-conferences"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">StarLive</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A real-time web and mobile channel for ordinary citizens to participate and ask questions, via connected reporters, at press conferences and public meetings.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">37.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26909075939/sauti-ya-mtaa-geo-located-citizen-news"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sauti ya Mtaa: Geo-located Citizen News</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A location-driven publication platform that uses geo-fencing for hyperlocal news, commentary, video and data, to allow communities to share news.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">38.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26896836277/truthguage-org-keeping-em-honest"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TruthGauge - Keeping ‘em Honest!</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A platform for the media to rate the accuracy of claims made by politicians, so as to keep the electorate well-informed and the politicians honest.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">39.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26220072540/wikipedia-mobile-informing-millions-of-new-readers"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wikipedia Mobile </span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A campaign to boost, by hundreds of millions, the number of Africans reading Wikipedia in 37 African languages on mobile devices.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">40.) </span><a href="http://africannewschallenge.tumblr.com/post/26917994719/community-empowerment-information-across-liberia"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">QuestionBox</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A public booth and audio notice board system for deep rural villages, with mobiles in them, to allow citizen activists and community radio to inform communities about social projects and collect and broadcast feedback.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CONTACTS</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact: Justin Arenstein, ANIC Fund Manager<br class="kix-line-break">

Telephone: +27.82.374.0812, </span><a href="mailto:justinarenstein@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">justinarenstein@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact: Sonja Matanovic, ICFJ Communications Director<br class="kix-line-break">

Telephone: +1.202.349.7624, </span><a href="mailto:smatanovic@icfj.org"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">smatanovic@icfj.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact: Roukaya Kasenally, AMI Communications Director<br class="kix-line-break">

Telephone: +254.20.269.4000, </span><a href="mailto:rkasenally@africanmediainitiative.org"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">rkasenally@africanmediainitiative.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">THE PARTNERS</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About ICFJ<br class="kix-line-break">

</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The International Center for Journalists is a non-profit organization that advances quality journalism worldwide. Its programmes include the Knight International Journalism Fellowships, and combine the best professional standards with the latest digital innovations. ICFJ believes that independent, vigorous media are crucial in improving the human condition.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About AMI<br class="kix-line-break">

</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The African Media Initiative is the continent’s largest umbrella association of African media owners, senior executives and other industry stakeholders. AMI’s mandate is to serve as a catalyst for strengthening African media by building the tools, knowledge resources and technical capacity for African media to play an effective public interest role in their societies. This mandate includes assisting with the development of professional standards, financial sustainability, technological adaptability and civic engagement. <br class="kix-line-break">

 <br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About Google Inc.</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top Web property in all major global markets. Google's mission in Africa is to make the Internet an integral part of every day life in Africa, by increasing its relevance and usefulness, eliminating access barriers for potential users, and developing products that are meaningful for countries in the region. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.google.com/africa">http://www.google.com/africa</a>, see our Africa Blog, <a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/">http://google-africa.blogspot.com/</a> or follow us on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/googleafrica">twitter.com/googleafrica</a></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About Omidyar Network</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, the organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic and social change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $500 million to for-profit companies and non-profit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, property rights, consumer Internet, mobile and government transparency. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.omidyar.com">www.omidyar.com</a>.<br class="kix-line-break">

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