Media Party Africa is hosted by the continent’s largest data journalism and civic technology federation, Code for Africa, in partnership with Hacks/Hackers Africa. Together, we’re gathering some of the world’s most exciting civic technologists, digital journalists and other social justice watchdogs from across the world for three days of workshops and talks.
We have speakers confirmed from Vox, ProPublica, ESPN, Buzzfeed Labs, Quartz, Huffington Post, Zeit Investigativ, Google, Jigsaw, First Draft News, the Gates Foundation, the Mozilla OpenNews Fellowships, and many more, talking everything from drone and sensor journalism, to how they’re pioneering 360˚and VR journalism, investigative technologies, geojournalism, verification, chat apps and the rise of the bots.
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An African solar powered mobile cinema that fits in a box, that can screen everywhere & anywhere, taking media where it matters.
Turning solar power into social impact, we take media to diverse communities with limited access diverse content. We have screened to 6000 direct audience members since 2013, in South Africa, Zambia and Zanzibar and we are passionate about community dialogue that promotes local active citizenship - the screenings become a soapbox for networking and exchange. We focus on health, environment and political advocacy initiatives, producing and screening media content & powerful films, through partnerships with the likes of Green Peace, The Childrens' Radio Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Right2Know Campaign & Red Bull Amaphiko to foster audience engagement whilst celebrating innovative and immersive forms of storytelling.
