URGENT > invite to Ghana's 1st hands-on Data Journalism Bootcamp (3-days)
4 views
Skip to first unread message
Justin Arenstein
Oct 22, 2012, 8:37:18 AM10/22/12
to ghana...@googlegroups.com
Want to learn hardcore data wrangling skills and revolutionise Ghana journalism at the same time?
Ghana's 1st data journalism bootcamp kicks off in Accra on October 24 (Wednesday) with a team of international experts from Google, the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in the UK, the Open Knowledge Foundation in Germany, and Upande in Kenya.
Ghana's 1st data journalism bootcamp kicks off in Accra on October 24 (Wednesday) with a team of international experts from Google, the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in the UK, the Open Knowledge Foundation in Germany, and Upande in Kenya.
The bootcamp is open to journalists, developers, digital creatives (UI / UX, web design, infographics, etc), and hacktivists. Participants will be in line for other planned civic tech initiatives in Ghana, including a planned Code4Democracy hackathon and DataLiberation scraperthon.
The three-day bootcamp feature hands-on learning (each participant will have their own workstation) on data journalism, including where to find high-value data, scraping, cleaning, visualizing, and crafting narratives from the data. The bootcamp will include collaborative group sessions, in which you'll develop data-driven story proposals (and app designs), the most successful of which will win $2,000.
There are 60 seats, 40 of which have already been filled. We've reserved the 20 remaining seats for the best applicants from the gGroup.
You can take a look at the full programme, as well as the trainers and resource materials on the bootcamp website. If you're interested in attending, you should register here by no later than 12noon on Oct 22 (Tuesday).
Applicants will be screened, and only those who receive a confirmation will be able to attend the bootcamp.
To qualify, you will need to commit to participating on all 3 days of the Bootcamp. Your complete participation will make you eligible for a $2,000 prize to help build out successful project ideas which emerge from the Bootcamp. Also, certificates will be awarded on Day 3 for those participants who are with us for the duration.
Hope to see you on Wednesday!
Very best wishes,
Justin Arenstein (Google + African Media Initiative)
Craig Hammer (The World Bank Institute)
Eric Akumia (Ghana's National Information Technology Agency)
The three-day bootcamp feature hands-on learning (each participant will have their own workstation) on data journalism, including where to find high-value data, scraping, cleaning, visualizing, and crafting narratives from the data. The bootcamp will include collaborative group sessions, in which you'll develop data-driven story proposals (and app designs), the most successful of which will win $2,000.
There are 60 seats, 40 of which have already been filled. We've reserved the 20 remaining seats for the best applicants from the gGroup.
You can take a look at the full programme, as well as the trainers and resource materials on the bootcamp website. If you're interested in attending, you should register here by no later than 12noon on Oct 22 (Tuesday).
Applicants will be screened, and only those who receive a confirmation will be able to attend the bootcamp.
To qualify, you will need to commit to participating on all 3 days of the Bootcamp. Your complete participation will make you eligible for a $2,000 prize to help build out successful project ideas which emerge from the Bootcamp. Also, certificates will be awarded on Day 3 for those participants who are with us for the duration.
Hope to see you on Wednesday!
Very best wishes,
Justin Arenstein (Google + African Media Initiative)
Craig Hammer (The World Bank Institute)
Eric Akumia (Ghana's National Information Technology Agency)
timothy essien
Oct 22, 2012, 8:51:47 AM10/22/12
to ghana...@googlegroups.com
l really need to paticipate in this program,this is my ID for
registration Timothy kweku Essien, assistant system analyst Ekoict,
ekoict.com.willing to be part.
On 10/22/12, Justin Arenstein <justina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Want to learn hardcore data wrangling skills and revolutionise Ghana
> journalism at the same time?
>
> Ghana's 1st data journalism bootcamp kicks off in Accra on *October 24*
>
>
>
registration Timothy kweku Essien, assistant system analyst Ekoict,
ekoict.com.willing to be part.
On 10/22/12, Justin Arenstein <justina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Want to learn hardcore data wrangling skills and revolutionise Ghana
> journalism at the same time?
>
> (Wednesday)
> with a team of international experts from Google, the Center for
> Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in the UK, the Open Knowledge Foundation in
> Germany, and Upande in Kenya.
>
> The bootcamp is open to journalists, developers, digital creatives (UI /
> UX, web design, infographics, etc), and hacktivists. Participants will be
> in line for other planned civic tech initiatives in Ghana, including a
> planned Code4Democracy hackathon and DataLiberation scraperthon.
>
> The three-day bootcamp feature hands-on learning (each participant will
> have their own workstation) on data journalism, including where to find
> high-value data, scraping, cleaning, visualizing, and crafting narratives
> from the data. The bootcamp will include collaborative group sessions, in
> which you'll develop data-driven story proposals (and app designs), the
> most successful of which will win *$2,000*.
> with a team of international experts from Google, the Center for
> Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in the UK, the Open Knowledge Foundation in
> Germany, and Upande in Kenya.
>
> The bootcamp is open to journalists, developers, digital creatives (UI /
> UX, web design, infographics, etc), and hacktivists. Participants will be
> in line for other planned civic tech initiatives in Ghana, including a
> planned Code4Democracy hackathon and DataLiberation scraperthon.
>
> The three-day bootcamp feature hands-on learning (each participant will
> have their own workstation) on data journalism, including where to find
> high-value data, scraping, cleaning, visualizing, and crafting narratives
> from the data. The bootcamp will include collaborative group sessions, in
> which you'll develop data-driven story proposals (and app designs), the
>
> There are 60 seats, 40 of which have already been filled. We've reserved
> the *20 remaining seats* for the best applicants from the gGroup.
> There are 60 seats, 40 of which have already been filled. We've reserved
>
> You can take a look at the full programme, as well as the trainers and
> resource materials on the bootcamp
> website<http://www.ghana.databootcamp.org/>.
> You can take a look at the full programme, as well as the trainers and
> resource materials on the bootcamp
> If you're interested in attending, you should register
> here<https://sites.google.com/site/databootcampghana/register> by
> no later than 12noon on Oct 22 (Tuesday).
>
> Applicants will be screened, and only those who receive a confirmation will
>
> be able to attend the bootcamp.
>
> To qualify, you will need to commit to participating on all 3 days of the
> Bootcamp. Your complete participation will make you eligible for a $2,000
> prize
> to help build out successful project ideas which emerge from the Bootcamp.
> Also, certificates will be awarded on Day 3 for those participants who are
> with us for the duration.
>
> Hope to see you on Wednesday!
>
> Very best wishes,
>
> Justin Arenstein (Google + African Media Initiative)
> Craig Hammer (The World Bank Institute)
> Eric Akumia (Ghana's National Information Technology Agency)
>
> --
>
> Applicants will be screened, and only those who receive a confirmation will
>
> be able to attend the bootcamp.
>
> To qualify, you will need to commit to participating on all 3 days of the
> Bootcamp. Your complete participation will make you eligible for a $2,000
> prize
> to help build out successful project ideas which emerge from the Bootcamp.
> Also, certificates will be awarded on Day 3 for those participants who are
> with us for the duration.
>
> Hope to see you on Wednesday!
>
> Very best wishes,
>
> Justin Arenstein (Google + African Media Initiative)
> Craig Hammer (The World Bank Institute)
> Eric Akumia (Ghana's National Information Technology Agency)
>
>
>
>
Justin Arenstein
Oct 22, 2012, 8:58:26 AM10/22/12
to ghana...@googlegroups.com
Hi Tim,
Justin Arenstein
SA Mobile: +27.82.374.0812
US Mobile: +1.650.336.5878
Register on the website, & we'll see what the selection panel says.
Good luck.
Cheers,
Justin
Justin Arenstein
SA Mobile: +27.82.374.0812
US Mobile: +1.650.336.5878
KE Mobile: +254.707.156.150
Skype: JustinArenstein
Twitter: JustinArenstein
Web: http://www.linkedin.com/in/JustinArenstein
Skype: JustinArenstein
Twitter: JustinArenstein
Web: http://www.linkedin.com/in/JustinArenstein
>
> --
>
>
>
--
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages