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HealthTools.KE-theStarHealth

HealthTools is a suite of data-driven web and SMS-based tools that help citizens check everything from medicine prices and hospital services, to whether their doctor is a quack or not. The toolkit …

JavaScript 21 16
GotToVote

GotToVote is a toolkit of simple web and SMS services that help citizens get to the ballot box informed and ready to vote. Kenya version accessible at https://kenya.gottovote.cc

JavaScript 151 70
openAFRICA

openAFRICA aims to be largest independent repository of open data on the African continent. This repo contains the primary deployment scripts and files. Accessible at https://openafrica.net/

Dockerfile 13 5
sourceAFRICA

Forked from documentcloud/documentcloud

sourceAFRICA is the continent's largest repository of documentary evidence and other "actionable documents" from investigative journalists and civic watchdogs. Forked from DocumentCloud.org, and bu…

Ruby 7 7
GenderGap.AFRICA

GenderGap.AFRICA is a tool designed to help users calculate the gender pay gap in any African country. Accessible at https://gendergap.africa/

JavaScript 5 2
africanCOMMONS

africanCOMMONS is a platform to showcase re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organisations building them. Accessible at https://commons.africa/

JavaScript 11 8

Repositories

upptime

Uptime for monitoring CFA projects

uptime-monitor status-page upptime

MIT 0 0 0 0 Updated Jun 19, 2021
PromiseTracker

Promise Tracker is a tool designed to help journalists and civil society watchdogs track campaign/promises/pledges by government officials. Accessible at https://promisetracker.dev.codeforafrica.org/

tracker graphql promises trello development politics reactjs

JavaScript GPL-3.0 1 1 0 3 Updated Jun 18, 2021
actNOW

A public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement.

Python GPL-3.0 0 0 0 1 Updated Jun 18, 2021
sensors.AFRICA-Dashboard-KE-HAP

JavaScript GPL-3.0 0 0 0 3 Updated Jun 18, 2021
covid19-in-africa

Daily Update on Covid-19 Cases Reported for Countries in Africa.

africa covid19-data

Python MIT 9 4 1 0 Updated Jun 18, 2021
HURUmap-UI

HURUmap UI React chart and visualisation components powering geo-data platforms across Africa. Accessible at https://codeforafrica.github.io/HURUmap-UI/

react charts material-design reactjs graphs data-visualization storybook

JavaScript 2 4 0 3 Updated Jun 16, 2021
sensors.AFRICA

The sensors.AFRICA website showcasing work from across the continent to use hardware to track air quality, blast fishing, and water pollution. Accessible at https://sensors.africa

air-quality sensors africa nairobi kenya tanzania nigeria

JavaScript GPL-3.0 2 8 0 4 Updated Jun 16, 2021
sensors.AFRICA-SeaSensors-Map

Sea Sensors is an acoustic data project that falls under the sensors.AFRICA umbrella. SeaSensors Map is implemented using Mapbox GL JS

TypeScript GPL-3.0 1 1 0 10 Updated Jun 16, 2021
DebunkBot

A bot that debunks claims shared on social media by sharing a fact check. Powered by Google Sheets and the rains in Africa. Accessible at https://debunkbot.codeforafrica.org/

python bot africa socialmedia claims factcheck debunk

Python GPL-3.0 0 1 0 2 Updated Jun 14, 2021
WhereMyMoneyDey

All mining companies in Ghana are supposed to pay 3% of the revenues they generate back to local residents. Accessible at http://wmmd.codeforafrica.org

PHP 1 1 0 0 Updated Jun 11, 2021
gmmp

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the largest and longest longitudinal study on the gender in the world’s media. It is also the largest advocacy initiative in the world on changing the representation of women in the media. This is the survey tool used by GMMP researchers in over 114 countries.

media gender media-monitoring gmmp

Python Apache-2.0 1 3 0 0 Updated Jun 11, 2021
sensors.AFRICA-api

The sensors.AFRICA API receiving, storing, and processing data received from sensors across the continentent. Accessible at https://api.sensors.africa/

sensor django-rest-framework air-quality open-data api-rest africa air-quality-data

Python 7 12 0 2 Updated Jun 10, 2021
wds-headless-wordpress
Forked from WebDevStudios/wds-headless-wordpress
Turn WordPress into a headless CMS.

PHP GPL-2.0 7 0 0 0 Updated Jun 10, 2021
COMMONS-UI

This library packages React components used to develop various UIs.

javascript material-ui storybook

JavaScript GPL-3.0 1 0 1 1 Updated Jun 10, 2021
outbreak.AFRICA

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Edition

JavaScript GPL-3.0 2 1 0 1 Updated Jun 9, 2021
wazimap-ng-ui
Forked from OpenUpSA/wazimap-ng-ui
User interface for Wazimap next generation

CSS Apache-2.0 11 0 0 0 Updated Jun 7, 2021
wazimap-ng
Forked from OpenUpSA/wazimap-ng

Python Apache-2.0 13 0 0 4 Updated Jun 7, 2021
Moyo.WEB

Moyo Website Application

PHP 3 1 1 13 Updated May 27, 2021
sensors.AFRICA-SeaSensors

SeaSensors is a website showcasing recorded blasts from dynamite fishing off Tanzania’s coast and uses the data (location, time, magnitude of blasts) to inform the public and officials through maps and data-driven stories. Accessible at https://alpha.seasensors.africa/

react js sensors africa underwater-acoustics tanzania gatsbyjs

JavaScript MIT 0 1 0 13 Updated May 27, 2021
MSDDrugs.API

MSD Drugs API

HTML 3 1 0 24 Updated May 27, 2021
HealthTools.API

HealthTools API to retrieve, structure and return data being used by the health tools. Accessible at https://api.healthtools.codeforafrica.org/

memcached doctor health africa kenya healthtools healthtools-api

Python MIT 17 12 25 (21 issues need help) 2 Updated May 24, 2021
web-tools
Forked from mediacloud/web-tools
The shared repository for Media Cloud web apps (Explorer, Source Manager, Topic Mapper)

JavaScript Apache-2.0 23 0 0 0 Updated May 11, 2021
email-templates
Forked from mediacloud/email-templates
Templates for emails that CivicSignal sends.

HTML 1 0 0 0 Updated May 11, 2021
Dominion.AFRICA

Dominion gives journalist and civic activists useful facts and data about land ownership in Africa. Accessible at https://dominion.africa

gh-pages single-page-app reactjs africa dominion data-driven-journalism land-data

JavaScript GPL-3.0 0 0 0 7 Updated May 10, 2021
GenderGap.AFRICA

GenderGap.AFRICA is a tool designed to help users calculate the gender pay gap in any African country. Accessible at https://gendergap.africa/

calculator gender-equality africa kenya tanzania south-africa nigeria

JavaScript GPL-3.0 2 5 0 9 Updated May 10, 2021
nextjs-wordpress-starter
Forked from WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter
WebDevStudios Next.js WordPress Starter

JavaScript GPL-2.0 43 0 0 1 Updated Apr 26, 2021
HURUmap-PostGraphile-Dokku

Dokku deployment for PostGraphile. Accessible at https://graphql.hurumap.org/

Dockerfile GPL-3.0 0 1 0 0 Updated Apr 14, 2021
HURUmap-Dashboard
Forked from TakwimuAfrica/Dashboard
Wordpress-powered backend for HURUmap powered applications. Includes chart creation tools, snippets manager, Gutenberg blocks for WYSIWYG editorial interface, and elasticsearch integration. Main site accessible at https://hurumap.wpengine.com/

hurumap hurumap-dashboard hurumap-wordpress hurumap-charts

PHP GPL-3.0 1 0 0 2 Updated Apr 7, 2021
mapit
Forked from mysociety/mapit
A web service to map postcodes to administrative boundaries and more

Python 84 0 0 0 Updated Mar 30, 2021
Data4SDGs-AQ-Dashboard

Dashboard of air quality data from citizen science networks around Africa consolidated into a private repository that updates in real-time.

sensor air-quality

JavaScript GPL-3.0 0 0 0 2 Updated Mar 24, 2021

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