Coding for Africa
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In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at Code for Africa. Stephen Abbott Pugh, an ICFJ Knight fellow working with Code for Africa, talks about the initiative and how it aims to fund various open-data projects across Africa, enable data journalism and make more information available to the general public. This week's programme will also take a look at Southern Africa, where The Media Institute for Southern Africa released its yearly report titled “Most Open and Secretive Government Institutions in Southern Africa”.
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Published 01/14/17