Data about Africa for Africa

Supporting journalists to tell the stories that matter with the data they need.

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Climate Observer

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa

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Inflation Observer

A tool that allows for ease of access and visualisation of inflation rate data in an interactive way.

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Mapped Data

Our mapped data are shown using Wazimap which is an interactive data tool designed to help journalists get reliable factual information to back up and give context to stories.

Toolkit

Accessing the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for Africa

March 30, 2023

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The Africa Climate Observer: Historical climate data for the continent

March 23, 2023

Insights

How did African newsrooms report about the pandemic? We have data from 8 newsrooms

March 1, 2023

Toolkit

How to find and use climate data about Africa for journalists

January 26, 2023

Insights

Everyone’s journey into data journalism is different. An interview with Patricia Andago

December 13, 2022

News

2022: Year in Review!

December 15, 2022

Data resources

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Data repository

We utilise CKAN, the world’s leading open source data portal platform as our data management system.

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Mapped Data

Our mapped data are shown using Wazimap which is an interactive data tool designed to help journalists get reliable factual information to back up and give context to stories.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker

Learn which African country has distributed the most vaccines and what types of vaccines are available.

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A reputable and up-to-date source for COVID-19 related data on the African continent.

What we do

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up an array of data-related challenges. Across the continent, important datasets are either inaccessible to the public, or are difficult to locate, retrieve and analyse. In some cases, the data simply does not exist yet. The Africa Data Hub serves to fill this gap by providing a free one-stop-shop for newsrooms, researchers and the public to access near real-time COVID-19-related data in user-friendly formats.

In so doing, the Africa Data Hub seeks to support and promote quality data-driven journalism and in turn, facilitate evidence-based decision-making about the pandemic across the continent.

About the team

Our project team consists of Open Cities Lab (OCL), a transparency non-profit based in Durban, who are leading this project in cooperation with four other key organizations: the civic tech organization OpenUp in Cape Town, the data visualization company Odipo Dev in Nairobi, the data visualization company Orodata in Nigeria, and the South African data journalists’ group Media Hack Collective. Media Monitoring Africa is the fifth partner who is contributing most significantly to the monitoring and evaluation aspects of the project.

Who supports us

This work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.

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Africa Data Hub seeks to lower the barriers that African journalists face to access and use data in their storytelling around health and development.

This work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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