Africa Media Lab

Afrique MédiaLab is a project under the Africtivistes 2019–2022 four-year programme. It is a series of training and capacity-building sessions in digital technology for African media.

The sessions will cover the following modules:

• Web writing techniques
  • New writing tools
  • New publishing tools
• Digital investigation
  • Advanced search | Carrying out highly precise searches
  • Reverse image search | Verifying the source of photographs
  • Google News Lab alerts | Free resources at your fingertips
  • Google News Archive | A day in history
  • Google Scholar | Accessing trial records and academic articles
  • Verification and fact-checking | Emerging technology, Chrome plug-ins and extensions
  • Investigating through social media
  • Access to metasearch engines
  • Access to the dark web
• Data journalism
  • Advanced Google Street View search | Verifying images
  • Google My Maps | Creating interactive maps and geolocating your articles
  • Public Data Explorer | Accessing a world of data
  • Data extraction
  • Working with datasets
• Multimedia storytelling
  • Infographics
  • Landing-page content
  • Blogs
• Investigative tools
  • Digital support: a toolbox for Journalism 2.0