What does a citizen-led look like? How do we leverage technology to help us fulfill the vision of a citizen-led democracy? How do these technological tools help us manifest the African Charter on Democracy Election and Governance?
Dear South Africa (DearSA) is a non-profit organisation that facilitates public participation to help shape legislative policy at a municipal, provincial and national level
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Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases is an international award-winning civic tech initiative advocating courtroom openness, data transparency and judicial accountability. The initiative tracks and evaluates corruption cases
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This session invited those in the African civic tech space to share their regional perspectives and experiences and explore key trends, challenges and opportunities.
The State of Civic Tech Initiatives on the African Continent Read More »
“Civic Tech in Africa has the potential to consolidate our democracies, promote quality governance, bridge digital divides, and change citizens’ behaviours. It has the ambitious prospect of supporting growth in all facets of African lives and economies”economies”. – Abbas Inuwa, TransparencIT
Citizen Engagement at the forefront of Democracy with DearSA and TransparencIT Read More »
In this episode, we talk about an initiative aimed at boosting civic participation in issues of democratic governance on the African continent. Justin Arenstein spoke to us about the recently launched Charter Project Africa initiative. We talk about how the Civic Tech landscape in Africa and some initiatives doing great work on the continent.
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This study analyses the efforts of BudgIT, Nigeria’s creative start-up, in making the Nigerian budget simple and accessible to every citizen. This includes its classification of citizens
Tracka is a platform designed by BudgIT to enable citizens to follow up on budgetary capital expenditure and constituency projects in their respective communities to enhance service
Tracka: Take the extra mile on public projects around you! Read More »
The Veza (a colloquial term for ‘reveal’ or ‘expose’) online tool is an open data platform developed by Corruption Watch with the goal of improving transparency and
Veza – Empowering public to hold South African Police accountable Read More »
Open Cities Lab was earlier called Open Data Durban and it started out as a meet up of its founders who desired to serve common good through
OCL – People-centered informed decision making for participatory democracy Read More »
