Our collaboration with Well Told Story has led to the development of a unique new tool, which helps to analyse online conversations with ever-growing precision. Already we’ve gained insights into exactly how collective discussions can lead to normative shifts among youth in East Africa. For example, we found that during Well Told Story’s pro-contraception campaign, more...
Africa’s Voices’ Sharath Srinvasan and Claudia Lopes have contributed a chapter, titled ‘Africa’s Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement through Interactive Radio’, to the ‘Voice and Matter‘ anthology. The volume brings together research that was presented at the fourth Ørecomm Festival in September 2014, and makes “important contributions to how we think about...
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) is an open, multi-stakeholder network that harnesses the data revolution for sustainable development. Africa’s Voices recently joined this unprecedented network as a ‘Data Champion’. We commit to sharing our learnings with the GPSDD partners on how best to gather, analyse and amplify citizen-generated data. See more Data Champion...
Organisations that have taken up the challenge of eradicating polio share ideas and successes on The Polio Network. This is a sub-community of The Communications Initiative Network, which brings together communication and media development, and social and behaviour change actors. Africa’s Voices project with UNICEF Somalia was recently featured in the forum: “the pilot project demonstrates the value...
Africa’s Voices’ Director led a panel at The Hay Festival 2016 with Well Told Story‘s Rob Burnet and iamtheCODE founder Mariéme Jamme. When this century began, one per cent of Africans had mobile phone subscriptions. Only 15 years later, it’s 40 per cent. “Big changes in communications parallel big changes in society, in economics and in politics,” Sharath began,...
The annual ICT4D Conferences in Nairobi are an opportunity to share experiences in using ICT to increase the impact of development programmes. This year, 750 individuals from 76 countries and 320 organisations explored ways to harness digital solutions to achieve the SDGs. Our Head of Research & Innovation, Dr. Claudia Lopes, presented two sessions at...
The Responsible Data Forum recently launched an e-newsletter, which delivers curated links and updates from the responsible data community. The latest edition featured a blog post by Africa’s Voices about getting data protection right, and our lessons learned along the way. “In being candid about what we do and the challenges we face, we hope to open...
The Communication Initiative is a network of more than 90,000 individuals and organisations from the international development community and anyone interested in communication for social development and change. Africa’s Voices’ projects that gathered citizens’ views on oil and gas developments in Turkana, for Oxfam Kenya, have been featured on their website! Read the summary
Africa’s Voices was invited to present at the Oxford Internet Institute‘s ICT4D series, which is reflecting on the influence of new communication technologies on development processes. Claudia Abreu Lopes and Sharath Srinivasan presented on where Africa’s Voices’ strengths and weaknesses lie in terms of avoiding key pitfalls of power and knowledge hierarchies in Big Data and Human Development. Watch the video...
As part of the King’s College and Cambridge-Africa seminar series, Claudia Abreu Lopes presented the method and insights from our research project in Uganda. Recruiting interactive radio and SMS technology, Africa’s Voices collected and analysed citizens’ beliefs on the causes of complications during pregnancy and at delivery, to help shape context-specific health interventions for Ugandan women. Event details
