We are pleased to announce that one of our team at Dataphyte will (alongside other 40 fellows) be participating in the 2024 Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Fellowship.
The Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Fellowship, coordinated by DUBAWA, “is inspired by the need to tackle and curb the rapid spread of mis- and dis-information and further expand the art and reach of verified and accurate information to rural and urban societies, institutionalise a culture of fact-checking across the globe, and to build knowledge around the menace of information disorder in Africa.”
The 2024 cohort of the Kwame Karikari Fellowship will train journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers to become vanguards of truth in their respective niches. Fellows will be taught how to use advanced fact-checking tools and their application in news verification.
The fellowship will run for six months, from March 1 through August 30, 2024.
During this program, fellows are expected to produce fact-checking articles to verify claims and debunk misleading news.
As Nigeria’s foremost Data Journalism organisation, Dataphyte dissects and transforms data into accessible formats, producing insights and interactive visualisations for better decision-making.
At the centre of this is the principle of establishing fact and verification. This aligns us with the Dubawa’s mission of fact-checking.
In the coming months, our website will be co-hosting the Factcheck articles from the fellowship.
The Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking Fellowship is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).