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...
Radio forums, both national and local, are powerful tools for discussing issues affecting people’s lives. Many listeners participate using SMS texting – a rich source of data which, if analysed with care and using sophisticated techniques, can provide invaluable insights into changes in the audience’s beliefs and opinions. These changes can be...
Interactive radio allows for new voices to be amplified across Africa. But, how can we listen carefully and make sense of these unstructured conversations? Further, any audience data that is collected will be skewed – because the voices are also skewed. Firstly, radio audiences are skewed in comparison to the population. In addition, those...
The availability of large datasets, and the tools to link and analyse them, offer huge potential to improve the delivery and implementation of public services. A new publication from Cambridge’s Centre for Science and Policy presents 10 perspectives on this potential, as well as the associated practical and ethical challenges. Featuring Africa’s Voices’...
