1025 F Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004
Featuring
Ida Jooste
Internews
Craig Hammer
World Bank
Tara Susman-Peña
Internews
Moderated by:
Mark Nelson
Center for International Media Assistance
@MarkNelsonCIMA
About the Event
Over the last decade, the explosion of government and private data has sparked a revolution in transparency and accountability. From farmers in remote villages getting real-time prices to parents tracking teachers and patients rating medical care, digital technologies and the data they produce are transforming lives in developing countries. But with all this new data comes a challenge for the media development community. “Without media that can make sense of this growing mountain of data, the promise of the transparency revolution is likely to be lost,” as Tara Susman-Peña says in CIMA’s paper, Understanding Data: Can News Media Rise to the Challenge? News media is often the driving factor in both bringing data to light as well as helping people figure out what it all means. This event will examine how data journalism is transforming work in health, education, agriculture and other sectors of development, drawing on work from Internews in Kenya and the World Bank in countries across the world. Watch the event on Youtube as CIMA and Internews examine these and other questions about data journalism and open data.