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Project owner/Host organisation:
Code for Africa
Host organisation type:
Non-Profit
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Host organisation country/countries:
Kenya
Project objective categories:
Civic data
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PesaYetu
Post Status: Active
Initiative recipient country/countries: Kenya
Initiative dates: 2022 –
Last updated: 4 May 2022
Initiative Description
PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information. Get started now with datasets from Kenya.
The project was focused on helping journalists at Kenyan community-based radio stations adopt data-driven digital journalism tools and techniques to improve their evidence-driven analysis and multimedia reporting on development issues. The data portal was built to help them explore, visualise and interpret development data that impacted their own communities.
The initial project involved 14 community radio stations in eight Kenyan counties. The selected community radios are all an integral part of their local communities and broadcast not only in English and Kiswahili but also in various local languages (such as Kitaita, Borana, Samburu and Meru).
Their listeners are mainly marginalised groups in Kenyan society and the poor rural population. The ‘Our County: Our Responsibility’ project was a partnership between Code for Africa, KCOMNET and CAMECO, with support from the German Cooperation.
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