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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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Safeeyah Kharsany

GIJN
Africa Editor
Johannesburg, South Africa
Websitegijn.org
Safeeyah is a South African journalist with a particular interest in Africa and the potential of digital media.

She has worked in Qatar at Al Jazeera English, in Italy at United Color’s of Benetton’s Colors magazine and in South Africa, at Media24. In Qatar, at Al Jazeera she co-headed an Africa project aimed at creating a platform for African coverage.