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Civic-tech projects that empower our vision.

Our projects aim to remove the barriers that prevent citizens from accessing information or understanding that could improve their lives or the lives of those in their community.

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Our projects & tools

South African Lottery Explorer

Explore SA Lottery Grants

Whose Vote Counts?

Explore Party Funding Data

Open Justice

Opening Up NPA Accountability

Codebridge Newlands

Technical Skills Community

Employment Stimulus

Rollout dashboard

Procurement Literacy

Guide to Procurement

Africa Data Hub

Portal for African Data

Case Management

Assisting Advice Offices

Evictions Project

Empowering Tenants

Open Gazettes

Free, open, available

Municipal Money

Monitor Municipal Spending

Youth Explorer

Youth Focused Data Explorer

Vulekamali

SA Budget Portal

Wazimap

Multi-region exploration

Codebridge Youth

Youth-led Participation

PMG

Parliamentary Monitoring

Living Wage

Calculate A Fair Wage

MPR

Medicine Price Registry

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ParliMeter launch: a ground-breaking parliamentary oversight tool
March 7, 2025
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Data
Journalism & Media
Government
Tools
Better data (recommendations) for a more transparent and effective parliament
March 6, 2025
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Data
Government
Journalism & Media
Tools
Tracking progress: The data issues facing South Africa's BRRRs
March 6, 2025
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Data
Government
Journalism & Media
Tools
Nothing to declare: The Illusion of Transparency in South Africa’s Parliamentary Disclosures
March 6, 2025
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Tools
Data
Whose Vote Counts: A project in political transparency
October 4, 2023
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Tutorials & Training
Tools
Data
Supercharging Google Sheets with the Power of ChatGPT
March 7, 2023
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Citizen Empowerment
Data
Tools
Making IDPs more accessible with technology
February 22, 2023
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Evictions
Citizen Empowerment
Tools
Mapping out justice: why we built a free legal resource repository
January 30, 2023
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Evictions
Tools
Eviction Guide South Africa launches a new tool to help tenants find free legal support closest to them
January 23, 2023
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Data
Tutorials & Training
Tools
How to select all geographies at a given level in one go using StatsSA's SuperWEB2
January 16, 2023
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Civic Tech
Journalism & Media
Tools
Simple tech tool helps to expose huge Lottery corruption
August 6, 2021
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Codebridge Youth
Tools
Civic Tech
The Age of the Webinar: So much to get right
December 8, 2020
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Civic Tech
OpenUp
Tools
How to measure the impact of OpenUp’s Civic Tech Tools
August 26, 2020
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Civic Tech
Tools
Research
Tax Clock 2020: How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?
May 8, 2020
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Data
Tools
Tutorials & Training
Webflow: Making things a ‘piece of cake’
April 9, 2020
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Wazimap
Tools
Vulekamali
Making SA’s census data (even more) accessible
April 2, 2020
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Civic Tech
Data
Tools
Opening up human rights
March 31, 2020
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Opinion
Tools
Civic Tech
OpenUp
No-one told me how to run a civic tech organisation
September 6, 2019
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Tools
Civic Tech
Law
Citizen Empowerment
Tenants’ Relationship Status with Eviction Law: It’s complicated.
August 4, 2019
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Civic Tech
Tools
Journalism & Media
Pocket Reporter
Reporting tool gets a facelift in time for elections
April 28, 2019
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Data
Tools
Tutorials & Training
How to use OpenRefine to unpivot columns
September 9, 2018
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Data
Tutorials & Training
Tools
How to use OpenRefine to calculate aggregates on facets
August 28, 2018
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Law
Government
Tools
Cape Agulhas's by-laws are now easier to find, read and share
August 13, 2018
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Civic Tech
Opinion
Tools
Civic technologists - stop using the word ‘solve’ dammit
August 8, 2018
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Opinion
Tools
Is Agile really this chaotic?
July 31, 2018
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Tools
Opinion
Tutorials & Training
Setting yourself up for failure
June 18, 2018
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Civic Tech
Tools
Data
Youth Explorer
Youth Explorer goes national
June 15, 2017
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Civic Tech
Data
Tools
Wazimap
Wazimap updated with 2016 Municipal Election results and new municipalities
May 12, 2017
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Data
Tools
Government
Wazimap
What we do when a municipality changes shape
May 12, 2017
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Data
Civic Tech
Tools
MPR
A deep dive into the medical profession
February 16, 2017
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Data
Journalism & Media
Tools
Youth Explorer
Data explores the story of Western Cape Youth
November 3, 2016
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Data
Tools
Tutorials & Training
How we built opengazettes.org.za
October 20, 2016
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Journalism & Media
Tools
Citizen Empowerment
Pocket Reporter
Pocket Reporter: A News Editor in your Pocket
October 18, 2016
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Law
Government
Tools
Civic Tech
Read all about it, use Open Gazettes
October 6, 2016
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Government
Law
Citizen Empowerment
Tools
Data
Get access to your government gazette online - for free
October 5, 2016
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Data
Citizen Empowerment
Tools
Youth Explorer
Fresh Data - Police District Population Estimates
September 27, 2016
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Tools
Tutorials & Training
Journalism & Media
Creating an interactive story with CartoDB and Leaflet.js
June 22, 2016
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Tools
Tutorials & Training
Quick and Dirty Map Viz
May 11, 2016
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Civic Tech
Citizen Empowerment
Tools
Tutorials & Training
Wazimap
Build your own Wazimap
April 15, 2016
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Data
Journalism & Media
Tools
Living Wage
Award-winning story shows impact, potential of data journalism tools
December 15, 2015
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Data
Tools
Civic Tech
Wazimap
Building great data tools is not enough
November 23, 2015
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Data
Tutorials & Training
Tools
How to use OpenRefine to calculate aggregates on facets
October 20, 2015
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Tutorials & Training
Tools
Data
Five steps in OpenRefine that can save hours of time
October 9, 2015
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MPR
Tools
Cheaper medicines - an unexpected user
September 22, 2014
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Citizen Empowerment
Data
Tools
MPR
How much should you be paying for your medicines?
October 15, 2013
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