Pan-African #ddj

Jacopo Ottaviani - @JacopoOttaviani

ICFJ-Knight Fellow – data editor @Code4Africa

What's a cross-border data journalism project?

It's a journalism project built by an international team of journalists, designers and developers around a shared dataset

More on Columbia Journalism Review

​http://bit.ly/cjr-tmf

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www.generatione.eu

Ingredients...

• Cross-border journalism team
  • 2 or 3 (or more) friends from other African countries
• Media coalition
  • Media from multiple countries
• Common interests + common passion
  • Water, health, development issues... issues that hit a number of countries (not just yours!)

More ingredients

• Tech and data support
  • ​Maps, dataviz, packaging, crowdsourcing? Make them with me and Code4Africa
• Coordination
  • Connect journalists, media, designers and developers
• Virtual office
  • Slack!

Outputs

• Publish series of stories (yours + your colleagues')
• Reach wider audiences
• Make data visualisations
• Share a #hashtag (run a campaign around a topic)
• Trigger pan-African debate around topics of interest

It's an efficient and fun way to:

http://bit.ly/go-pan-african

Do you like the idea?

Get to know other pan-African data journalists and pitch projects:

http://bit.ly/go-pan-african

Get in touch and join the pan-African #ddj network:

Thanks!

@JacopoOttaviani