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Cash for algorithms

Looking for someone to back your next big machine learning project? The African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) has a whopping $1.7m dollars of funding for PhD scholarships availabile, and ICTWorks has all the details about who is eligible to apply.

a month ago

Put yourself forward for a Sigma award

Got a data-journalism project you are particularly proud which you published during 2020? Then get your application in for a Sigma Award. Be quick though, you have until Monday 1 Feb to put put together an entry, and while the prize money isn't huge, just getting your work in front of the some of...

3 months ago

Grants and fellowships for female data journos up for grabs

WanaData, the network of female data journalists from around the African continent, is "ending the year on a high" as it puts it, by launching a series of grants and fellowship programmes to help members old and new out with story-telling resources. The range of opportunities is truly impressive,...

5 months ago

Want EUR 10 000 funding for your startup?

It's time for my gratuitous annual self-plug. One of my jobs involves giving money and support to startups who are developing innovative, often data-led solutions to access to justice problems. If you're reducing the cost of legal services, preventing financial fraud, helping to reduce crime or r...

10 months ago

Data journalists: Queen Elizabeth wants YOU!

There's a pretty cool-sounding job from the UK's Office for National Statistics -- two senior data journalists are needed to play with the biggest government datasets, produce lovely data stories, and even get to play with that greatest of public datasets, the National Census penciled in for 2021...

Jason Norwood-Young

10 months ago

Equal Access wants dataviz experts

Want to use your dataviz powers for good? Equal Access International is looking for someone to help it out for a few months producing visualisations for its Voices for Peace (V4P) project in the Sahel. It's project based work with some pretty gruelling deadlines in the brief, but can be done enti...

10 months ago

Wapo is hiring data journalists

In a sign of just how important visual reporting is to newspapers Stateside, the Washington Post has posted a job ad looking for coders and data storytellers to bolster its team. According to GIJN, Wapo is looking to fill 14 new positions with tech literate folks, at a time when other newsrooms a...

10 months ago

Ten million dollars for data science!

Data.org is slapping down a very large load of cash -- $10,000,000 to be precise -- in order to help drag the world into a better state with data science. Its "Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge" is open to anyone over 18, (almost*) anywhere in the world, who reckons their data science solut...

Jason Norwood-Young

11 months ago

The Engine Room wants you for its Africa team

This is one of those vacancies that is almost painful to talk about because I'd so like to apply myself (if I wasn't already doing three or four jobs). The Engine Room is looking for a sub-Saharan Regional Manager (and a global Senior Leadership Consultant) who can help it build its mission to su...

a year ago

Trainers wanted! Apply within

Can you teach the fine art of data-driven storytelling to journalists and folks from government? The Human Sciences Resource Council (HSRC) in South Africa is looking for up to three part-timers to deliver workshops over the course of a year. Applications open for a short period now.

a year ago

Win 10 grand from the treasury

We may have mentioned Vulekamali just once or twice when we talk about government budgets, like after Tito Mboweni's speech last week. It is excellent, and should be used more. To this end, the curators of this excellent window in to spending by the National Treasury are encouraging folk like you...

a year ago

Happenings, Stack

Hack of the Year

The ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award is open for nominations, and the good news is that you can nominate yourself, should you feel deserving. It doesn't matter if you're a hard-core hack, a hoity editor or a nerdy techie, they're specifically looking for coverage and innovation that has...

Jason Norwood-Young

a year ago

CfA looking for a “bullshit detector”

Wanna join the ever expanding Code for Africa and help to seek out and destroy government propaganda wherever it hides? Good news, a position for a digital sleuth doing just that has opened up. CfA calls it a Research Assistant, who will work alongside the famous bot hunters of the Digital Forens...

a year ago