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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.

THIS SCHEDULE WILL BE UPDATED AS NEW SPEAKERS SIGN ON: PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR CHANGES.  

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Greg Kempe

Code for South Africa
Principal Technologist / technologue principal
South Africa / Afrique du Sud
Websitecode4sa.org
Greg Kempe is Principal Technologist at Code for South Africa, a civic technology lab that promotes informed decision-making as a means for social change. Code for South Africa drives both the supply and demand for open data through partnerships such as PMG.org.za (releasing over 17 years of parliamentary monitoring data via an API with a CC-BY license), websites such OpenByLaws.org.za (free access to local legislation), Wazimap.co.za (for exploring census and election data), MPR.code4sa.org (to help patients understand how much their medicines should cost), and by helping civic organisations find, understand and use datasets to increase their impact. Prior to Code for SA, Greg spent six years helping to build Amazon EC2.---

Greg Kempe est technologue principal à Code for South Africa, un laboratoire de technologie civique qui fait la promotion de la prise de décision éclairée comme moyen de progrès social. Code for South Africa s’occupe à la fois de l’offre et de la demande en matière de données ouvertes au moyen de partenariats comme PMG.org.za  (Parliamentary Monitoring Group) qui donne accès au-delà de 17 années de données de surveillance parlementaires par l’intermédiaire d’une interface de programmation d’application au moyen d’une licence d’attribution (CC-BY), OpenByLaws.org.za (accès gratuit à la législation locale), Wazimap.co.za (pour explorer des données sur le recensement et les élections), MPR.code4sa.org (pour aider les patients à comprendre combien leurs médicaments devraient coûter) et en aidant les organisations civiques à trouver, comprendre et utiliser les ensembles de données pour augmenter leur impact. Avant de se joindre à ce laboratoire, Greg Kempe a travaillé pendant six ans à aider à bâtir le service Web Amazon EC2.