Projects

Africa Data Hub

Africa Data Hub (ADH) is, at its core, a data platform that exists to lower the barriers that African journalists face in trying to access and use data in their storytelling around health and development.

Databasing & portals
System deployment
Research

Dexter

Dexter is a natural language processing platform that evaluates online news articles to improve transparency, equal representation and veracity of published news. Dexter is a collaboration between OCL and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA).

Natural language processing
Data science & machine learning
User engagement

MyCandidate

MyCandidate is a web-based application that helped South African voters see which candidates were contesting in their ward for the 2021 Local Government Elections. This information was scraped from PDFs and had never been made so accessible before.

Mapping
Databasing & portals
System deployment

Narratives of Home

Narratives of Home is a research project that explores how state housing models shape the social landscape of South Africa, looking specifically at eThekwini. The larger project consists of 9 sites, of which OCL participated in the research at the Blackburn Village site, as well as creating the website for the project.

Research
Mapping
Web development frameworks

Planning for Informality

Planning for Informality (P4I) is a tool that shows the summary of progress made by the eight largest municipalities across five areas: the informal settlement upgrading strategy, forward planning and land, progress towards medium-term expenditure framework targets, participation and empowerment, backyarder support plan. This tool is updated yearly to reflect overall progress made.

Dashboards
Data analysis
Web development frameworks

SCODA – South African Cities Open Data Almanac

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a platform that improves access, analysis and insight into current and comparable information about South African cities through various tools. SCODA is a collaboration between OCL and South African Cities Network (SACN).

Databasing & portals
Dashboards
System deployment
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