How to access the $500 000 impactAFRICA fund for data-driven stories

impactAFRICA is looking for 10 editorial projects in a variety of fields to support with financial, technical and learning resources (http://impactafrica.fund/faq) – and at this stage all you need to start your application for a share in those resources is an idea. The fund is incredibly well resourced – to the tune of half a million dollars – and is backed by Code For Africa, the International Center for Journalist, The World Bank, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and more.

So it you want to tell better stories about Africa using data-driven journalism and innovative reporting techniques, but get frustrated at the lack of resources your newsroom has to offer why haven't you entered your ideas forward for this year's impactAFRICA fund yet?

If the answer is that you didn't know about it, or weren't sure how, then you should join us – Hacks/Hackers Johannesburg – next Tuesday 1st March for a special event focussed on the opportunities this presents.

If you're keen to find out more, and why wouldn't you be, project manager Haji Mohammed Dawjee will be in Johannesburg on Tuesday 1st March to chat through the aims of impactAFRICA and explain how to submit an entry. If you've been putting off that big piece of data research because you couldn't get your editor interested, you've got no excuse now.

There's no charge for this meet-up, and refreshments will be provided.

In addition to a presentation and talk from Dawjee, Hacks/Hackers Johannesburg will also be holding a mini-AGM with feedback on an project we've been invited to join by a partner chapter in the UK, and inviting members to join the ExCo for the Joburg branch.

Join us next Tuesday at 6.30pm at JCSE's Digital Innovation Zone. This is on Smit Street, with parking on Eendracht Street (if you take the Smit exit from the highway towards Braamfontein, it's the first left hand turn, DIZ is on the corner).