At Africa’s Voices, we deal with unstructured digital data from diverse and often marginalised members of East African societies. We are able to reach these citizens through interactive media and mobile technology, and analyse their input to help media and development organisations understand, engage with, and respond to their needs....
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...
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...
We’re happy to announce Africa’s Voices has officially opened our East Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya. Currently based at The Garage//Westlands, our permanent presence in Nairobi will allow us to deepen our partnerships and enhance our impact in the region. George Kaburu, Africa’s Voices Head of Performance, is managing and...
Africa’s Voices presented the first in a series of workshops about the ethics of big data at the Centre of Social Sciences and the Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge. We discussed data protection principles and how these apply to the development sector, as well as our own data protection procedures. At...
Kavita Ramakrishnan, an Africa’s Voices researcher, helped Well Told Story to analyse thousands of text messages that the Kenyan media company had received from their fans on the topic of contraception. Here, Kavita reflects on a framework developed for this project that ensures unique voices don’t get lost in big data, and are considered a valuable...
