data journalism tools for south african citizens and activists

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A presentation I gave in Johannesburg a while ago on cool tools based on open data.

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People Power - Digital Tools for Citizens and

ActivistsIs that an election in your country or are you just

happy to see me?

Jason Norwood-Young

so…

why are we here?

To make the world a less-crap place

The only way I know how - with information

Open Data Small Data

Data JournalismData Demand

Advocacy Training

FellowshipsDevelopment

APIsWhat-the-what-now?

maps.code4sa.org

iec-v2.code4sa.org

wards.code4sa.org

News Apps

bills.pmg.org.za

pa.org.za

http://za-new-import.popit.mysociety.org/api/v0.1

http://hot-or-not-api.demo4sa.org/index.html

That’s nice, but…

www.indigotrust.org.ukTwitter: @indigotrustLoren.treisman@sfct.org.uk

Jason Norwood-Youngjason@code4sa.org

084-680-3445

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