Kampala, Uganda, 2017

Our first sprint on the African continent, supporting human rights organisations from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

KAMPALA BY THE NUMBERS

Applications from creatives

529

Nationalities represented

13

Value of pro bono work donated

$123k

OVERVIEW

There were so many amazing firsts about our Kampala sprint. It was our first time on the African continent, the first time we had more than 500 people apply, the first time we introduced Team Leaders from our alumni network, and the first time we were able to offer bursaries to finalise and launch all of the prototypes realised during the sprint.

The sprint took place between 12-16 September, 2017, at Design Hub Kampala, a collaborative workspace where many of East Africa’s leading tech and design for good organisations are based. Participants came from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Italy, UK, India, Sweden, and the US.

We supported our civil society representatives with additional data skills training during the sprint. At the end of the five days, they produced their own interactive multimedia data-led stories using Shorthand, Infogram, and RAWGraphs.

MEET THE CSOS

Icebreakers’ mission is to inform all gay Ugandans about their human rights. Together with SMUG, they collect data on violence against LGBTI Ugandans.

Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) advocates for policy reform, while supporting and coordinating the efforts of 18 LGBTI organisations in Uganda.

The Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies is a research centre based in Kenya that conducts policy research on security, policing, violence, and terrorism.

HAKI, which means “justice” or “human rights” in Swahili, works to improve livelihoods and enhance the progressive realisation of human rights in Kenya.

This organisation remains anonymous for security reasons. #IamBinadam (“I am human”) is a campaign for LGBTI Tanzanians based on survey data they collected.

PROJECTS

Featured

See The Invisible

Double taboo, a campaign about mental health amongst LGBT people in Uganda.

I Am Binadam

"I Am Human" is an anonymous social media campaign in English and Swahili tackling LGBTQ discrimination in Tanzania.

TEAM LEADERS

Jacopo Ottaviani
Is Code for Africa’s chief data officer. With his team, Jacopo produces cross-border journalism and develops digital tools for media and civic engagement in Africa and beyond. He was an ICFJ Knight Fellow in 2016-19 and won the Data Journalism Award in 2014 with The Migrants’ Files.

Piero Zagami
Is an information designer. He’s the co-founder of Encode, a conference about data journeys in design, journalism and education, and Market Cafe Magazine a zine about data visualisation. He’s an Associate Lecturer in information design at University of the Arts London and Ravensbourne University.

Sarah Aoun
Is a data activist, operational security trainer, and programmer. Her work lies at the intersection of tech, transformative justice, ethical data and privacy, and human rights. In 2017-2018 she was a Ford Mozilla Open Web Fellow, she now works as the Technology Director for the Open Technology Fund.

Max Harlow
Is a newsroom developer at the Financial Times where he leads on data-led stories and graphics. Before joining the FT he worked on software and stories at The Guardian. He also hosts Journocoders, a community of journalists and media workers interested in developing technical skills for use in their reporting.