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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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Princely Ona Stories

Ona Story Network
Founding Editor & Mobile Content Producer
East Africa
With Ona Stories, Princely is exploring the intersection of "Africa" "Mobile Tech" and "Communications" - Ona create Africa-first, Mobile-first, Video-first content in Swahili for an underserved yet increasingly more demanding market

Princely works for Nabaki Afrika Ltd, looking after Marketing, Communications and Design for a multimillion dollar Tanzanian company

He has varied experience and insight in the East African communications space, working as an editor in Kenyan production house X-Media and as the Head of Communications for NLF, an international NGO based in Kilimanjaro

He has won awards for his writing, photography, design and film

Talk to me about:
- Design Thinking
- Mobile Video in Africa
- Digital Media in Swahili (and African Languages)
- Brand Storytelling
- "Content is Chief!" - content strategy for Africa markets
Friday, October 21
 

8:00am SAST

9:00am SAST

9:30am SAST

10:00am SAST

10:30am SAST

11:15am SAST

11:45am SAST

11:50am SAST

11:55am SAST

12:30pm SAST

2:30pm SAST

3:30pm SAST

4:30pm SAST

4:50pm SAST

5:00pm SAST

 
Saturday, October 22
 

9:00am SAST

9:30am SAST

10:00am SAST

10:30am SAST

11:10am SAST

12:20pm SAST

12:40pm SAST

2:00pm SAST

2:30pm SAST

3:30pm SAST

4:50pm SAST

5:00pm SAST

 
Sunday, October 23
 

10:30am SAST

11:40am SAST

12:00pm SAST

1:15pm SAST