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Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Penplusbytes, as part of its mission to promote civic engagement and participation in the democratic process, is implementing the “Optimising Audience Engagement for AU-ECOSOCC” project, which is being co-funded by the European Union, to improve the digital engagement strategy of the AU-ECOSOCC.
Website: www.penplusbytes.org/projects/optimising-audience-engagement-for-au-ecosocc/
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Penplusbytes with funding from STAR Ghana Foundation is implementing the “Yen Somu Bi” (translates as “Let’s lend a helping hand”) project, which seeks to throw light on domestic philanthropic giving by building an innovative research linked fund-raising and advocacy platform.
Website: www.penplusbytes.org/projects/giving-for-change-yen-somu-bi-project/
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: The Climate Crisis Journalism Project aims to fill the gap in Ghanaian newsrooms around climate change reporting through building the capacity of journalists in community radio stations, print media, television and freelance to better tell compelling stories around the impact of climate change and the science at the heart of the crisis.
Website: www.penplusbytes.org/projects/climate-crisis-journalism-project/
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Penplusbytes in partnership with Africa Confidential with funding from the European Journalism Fund will produce journalistic and research pieces that will track African states’ negotiating strategies at the UN COP climate summits: awareness of the technical issues; challenges among diplomats and parliamentarians; and coordination between its national governments, NGOs, commercial and financial entities and pan-African organizations.
Website: www.penplusbytes.org/projects/climate-journalism-project/
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Penplusbytes, through its African Elections Project, is implementing the Voters’ Compass project in collaboration with VoteSwiper e.V., a German-based civic tech organization. Supported with German Federal Foreign Office’s funds by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), zivik Funding Programme, the project seeks to empower Ghanaians to form objective voting choices in the 2024 national elections, and provide verified information about political party promises, candidate profiles, and election procedures.
Website: www.penplusbytes.org/projects/voters-compass-for-project/
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Penplusbytes through the Action for a Holistic Electoral Approach for Democracy (AHEAD) Africa Project, is implementing this innovative intervention to combat disinformation and strengthen democratic processes. This project, co-funded by the European Union, aims to combat disinformation and strengthen democratic processes across the continent.
Website: www.penplusbytes.org/projects/disinformshield-defending-democracy/
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) is an African not-for-profit organization registered in Ghana. It is dedicated to building the capacity of African Parliaments, elected representative bodies at all levels of governance, and Civil Society Organisations.
Website: www.acepa-africa.org
Year Founded: 2003
Type: Civic Tech
About: Civic Response is a leading Natural Resource and Environmental (NRE) governance policy advocacy organisation working to entrench resource rights. Founded in 2003 in Accra, Ghana by a group of activists with experience in resource rights campaigns both locally and globally, Civic Response undertakes activities which address the policy needs of communities who depend directly on natural resources, particularly forests.
Website:
www.civicresponsegh.org/wp/about-us/
Year Founded: 2008
Type: Civic Tool
About: Ushahidi is a global not-for-profit technology company that develops integrated tools and services to enable people to generate solutions and mobilize communities for good. They build their open-source software to strengthen communities and improve lives, empowering users to rapidly and purposefully gather, analyze, respond, and act on data and information.
Website: www.ushahidi.com
Year Founded: 2012
Type: Gov Tech (Tool)
About: Ghana’s Open Data Initiative is a government platform to ensure public accessibility of all data that they collect, subject to ensuring that we consider the privacy rights of individuals.
Website: www.data.gov.gh/about
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Africa’s Virtual Reality firm from Ghana, specializing in the creation of custom, interactive 360o virtual tours and movies. VR solutions merge different media types into a single file, transforming static images and movies into immersive and interactive content. Dobiison assists businesses in transforming their online presence and providing a better client experience. For example, if a person wants to buy a house, they may go to the platform, investigate the property in 360 degrees, and then buy it without going on the field.
Website: www.dobiison.com
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) is a non-partisan, non-profit civil organization addressing corruption. GII is the Ghana Chapter of Transparency International (TI), the global, non-governmental, non-profit civil society organization leading the fight against corruption.
Website: www.tighana.org
Year Founded: 2021
Type: Fin Tech
About: Paylater by motito allows its users to pay for goods and services in installments. The user can shop online or in-store at any Motito Paylater retail partner, and spread the cost over a maximum period of 3months for the user. It’s just that little extra breathing space to make buying easier. Pay later platform provides interest-free credit at point-of-sale. Motito — A better way to finance your next asset.
Website: motito.io
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Mobile Web Ghana is a technology and entrepreneurship hub that is dedicated to empowering the youth to develop mobile and web applications and open data solutions to solve local problems.
Website: mobilewebghana.org
Year Founded: 2001
Type: Civic Tech
About: They focus is on leveraging technology and knowledge to enhance good governance, empowering the media, civil society, and other stakeholders with cutting-edge digital tools and innovations. They strive to build a dynamic community of technology-savvy advocates, all dedicated to promoting good governance and driving positive change.
Website: penplusbytes.org
Year Founded: 2016
Type: Tech Tools
About: GotToVote Ghana is designed to help citizens find their nearest voter registration centre so that they can ensure they are eligible to vote.
Website: ghana.gottovote.cc
Year Founded: 20–
Type: CivicTech
About: CURACEL is an AI-driven platform that fast tracks claim processing and detects fraudulent claims for health insurance companies in Nigeria and Ghana. Curacel’s vision is to build a connected healthcare ecosystem for low-income economies, to optimize the use of scarce resources, and improve patient outcomes. It is a web and offline application that transforms paper records into a searchable, updatable digital format and manages appointments and other patient communications. Curacel-Health clinics can also access a financial dashboard that allows for the collection of digital payments, cash flow reporting, and transparency into the status of all billings.
Website: www.curacel.co/about-us
Year Founded: 20–
Type: CivicTech
About: Yarysa EMR’s is building a robust and efficient operating system for medical facilities and patients. We are using blockchain technology to accelerate the transistion of the health sector to a digitalize system.
Website: www.yarysa.com
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: It’s a non-profit organization that uses data journalism, storytelling, and policy advocacy tools, iWatch Africa is shaping the national and regional discourse to deepen transparency and accountability, as well as to encourage citizen participation in the governance process in Africa.
Website: www.iwatchafrica.org
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Code for Ghana is a civic tech organization that develops digital tools and platforms to address social challenges and promote government transparency and accountability.
Website:
www.codeforghana.org
Year Founded: 2012
Type: Civic Tech
About: Odekro monitors parliamentary debate proceedings and makes (Hansards) freely accessible to the citizens of Ghana. The goal of Odekro is to promote transparency, provide online access to public records, and empower citizens to keep an eye on public officials, especially parliament.
Website: www.odekro.org
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Rim Startup is a Mauritania-based platform that promotes young, innovative businesses with growth potential. This platform compiles all innovative businesses (PME and startups) in Mauritania. It contains information about Mauritius’ startups and the latest news from incubators and accelerators and articles dedicated to the creation of startups and tips to succeed in the field of entrepreneurship. Rim Startup also highlights the startups success stories (in Mauritania and all over the world).
Website: www.citizenlabmauritanie.org
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Rim Startup is a Mauritania-based platform that promotes young, innovative businesses with growth potential. This platform compiles all innovative businesses (PME and startups) in Mauritania. It contains information about Mauritius’ startups and the latest news from incubators and accelerators and articles dedicated to the creation of startups and tips to succeed in the field of entrepreneurship. Rim Startup also highlights the startups success stories (in Mauritania and all over the world).
Website: www.rimstartup.com
Year Founded: 2015
Type: Civic Edu
About: #TAXAWTEMM, is a joint initiative, carried out in partnership with Internews and AfricTivistes, which aims to proactively combat online violence targeting girls and women in Senegal. The toolkit, available to Internet users on the Taxaw Temm! Aar Sunu Bopp website, is a wealth of information offering detailed advice on how to protect yourself against cyber-bullying, and in particular gender-based harassment.
Website: www.taxawtemm.net
Year Founded: 2015
Type: Civic Edu
About: “MOOC, AfricTivistes is an open and massively accessible distance learning program on the themes of democracy, good governance and elections.
The program provides educational and teaching content on democracy, good governance, elections in Africa, citizen participation, human rights, gender, peace and security, etc.”
Website: www.mooc.africtivistes.org
Year Founded: 2015
Type: Civic Tech
About: AfricTivistes is a pan-African organisation based in Dakar, Senegal. AfricTivistes is the union of bloggers and web-activists of the continent to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital platforms.
Website: www.africtivistes.com/en
Year Founded: 2009
Type: Civic Tech
About: GIVE1PROJECT is a global organization that aims to engage youth as leaders in creating and building strong and healthy communities. The project achieves this goal through the successful operation of a network of civic engagement, leadership, entrepreneurship, job training, women’s empowerment and educational programs.
Website: www.give1project.net
Year Founded: 2010
Type: Civic Tech
About: Makesense creates tools and programs for collective mobilization to enable everyone to take action and build an inclusive and sustainable society.
Website: www.makesense.org/en
Year Founded: 2004
Type: Civic Tech
About: “RAES is a Senegalese NGO that works with the populations of Africa to address major social issues.
To do this, RAES creates or relies on innovative strategies for behavior change in Africa and acts as a hub for connecting international partners and programs, the media and local civil societies.
RAES trains, supports and assists local actors and communities to have access to information and to implement solutions adapted to their problems.”
Website: www.ongraes.org
Year Founded: 1991
Type: Civic Tech
About: Tostan, established in 1991 and headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, works to empower rural and remote African communities to bring about positive social transformation and sustainable development through a holistic empowering education program. Our human rights-based program has reached more than five million people across eight African countries.
Website: www.tostan.org
Year Founded: 2003
Type: Civic Tech
About: Our mission is to work with armed actors and civilians in conflict to develop and implement solutions to prevent, mitigate and respond to civilian harm. We call on and advise international organizations, governments, militaries, and armed non-state actors to adopt and implement policies to prevent civilian harm. When civilians are harmed we advocate for the provision of amends and post-harm assistance. We bring the voices of civilians themselves to those making decisions affecting their lives.
Website: www.civiliansinconflict.org
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: A fact-checking column on the news website Le Jalon. The team processes and verifies videos, photos, texts, voice messages, speeches, faked or taken out of context to mislead public opinion.
Website: www.odil.org/initiative/malicheck
Year Founded: 2016
Type: Civic Tech
About: The Doctix platform allows patients to make an apointment with their doctors online. Thanks to a smartphone or a computer, patients connect to the platform and make appointments with doctors that are partners with Doctix, listed according to their speciality. On the platform, resumes are listed, as well as timetables, tarifications and patients’ testimonies. When it was launched, Doctix benefited from a 25 000 dollars subvention originating from their financial partner, the US African Development Foundation (USADF).
Website: www.docflix.com
Year Founded: 2018
Type: Civic Tech
About: A platform from Mali that catalyzes the emergence of sustainable and inclusive innovation by merging high-tech and local knowledge. Its mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to a desirable and sustainable future by providing locally relevant and transformative learning experiences. Trained and monitored by a network of international coaches from professional and academic backgrounds, Kabakoo learners progress in areas such as digital fabrication, design thinking, or rapid prototyping.
Website: www.kabakoo.africa
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: A complete real-time election monitoring tool OpenESR Conqueror is a web and mobile election monitoring application. It helps Organizations of all types to observe the process on election day and report information in real time through SMS. The application performs automatic data analysis and adapts to any type of election. Tuwindi implemented OpenESR with financial support from the Open Society Foundation
Website: www.openesr.org
Year Founded: 20–
Type: Civic Tech
About: Xensa is a platform for civic engagement and citizen control of government and parliamentary action. It allows citizens to follow the implementation of the presidential program, to co-develop laws with the National Assembly, to question the public authorities and to verify the speeches of opinion leaders. It is a database of legislative and regulatory texts in Mali.
Website: www.—.org
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Civic Tech
About: MonEelu mobile application enables Malian citizens to directly contact their constituent elected official and le them know their very own concerns, as well as proposing new ideas to improve governance in their locality or catch their attention on a particular matter.
Website: www.do4africa.org
Year Founded: 2020
Type: Civic Tech
About: BudgIT Sierra Leone is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement to facilitate societal change.
Website: www.sierraleone.budgit.org
Year Founded: 2011
Type: Civic Tech
About: InfoLib is a website that helps people request information from the Liberian Government and publicly accountable bodies. infoLib is NOT a government body or affiliated organisation, it is an independent website run by iLab Liberia and LFIC.
Website: www.infolib.org.lr
Year Founded: 2011
Type: Civic Tech
About: iLab Liberia is a non-profit local tech hub that provides access to information, open and geospatial data, research, web technologies and expert ICT assistance through a community of volunteers leveraging technology for the good of Liberia.
Website: www.ilabliberia.org.lr
Year Founded: 2020
Type: Gov Tech
About: To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.
Website: www.dsti.gov.sl
Year Founded: 2020
Type: Civic Tech
About: Code for Sierra Leone is a non-partisan civic data and civic technology ‘change agent’.
Website: www.codeforsierraleone.org
Year Founded: 2016
Type: Civic Tech
About: Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI) is a Nigerian non-profit organization, PLSI uses a combination of research, policy advisory, advocacy, civic-tech, public sensitization and multi-stakeholder dialogue and collaboration to achieve social change.
Website: www.plsinitiative.org
Year Founded: 2007
Type: Civic Tech
About: DIYlaw is Nigeria’s foremost legal technology company, it is a platform that creates access to legal services and information enabling simple and convenient legal service based on user preference.
Website: www.diylaw.ng
Year Founded: 2015
Type: Civic Tech
About: Uzabe is an election monitoring tool that identify gaps in the Nigerian electoral processes and provides a feedback mechanism that gives citizens real-time situational reports on election processes targeting specific locations within different parts of the count
Website: www.uzabe.org
Year Founded: 2014
Type: Civic Tech
About: Tracka is a community of active citizens who track the implementation of government projects, participate in the governance process, and advocate for development in their communities.
Website: www.tracka.ng
Year Founded: 2012
Type: Civic Tech
About: Policy Alert is a Nigerian non-profit working for improved development outcomes in the areas of economic governance, environmental justice and agrarian livelihoods.
Website: www.policyalert.org
Year Founded: 2012
Type: Civic Tech
About: Connected development is focused on empowering marginalized communities to demand goods and services by creating platforms for dialogue and building citizens’ capacity to hold their government accountable through it’s Follow The Money (FTM) initiative.
Website: www.connecteddevelopment.org/
Year Founded: 2011
Type: Civic Tech
About: BudgiT uses creative technology to simplify public information, stimulating a community of active citizens and enabling their right to demand accountability, institutional reforms, efficient service delivery and an equitable society.
Website: www.budgit.org
Year Founded: 2011
Type: Civic Tech
About: EiE is an organisation commited to changing the dynamics of accountability to citizens by public officials with the use of technology as a tool of education and mobilization that enhances citizens engagement and promote good governance.
Website: www.eie.ng
Year Founded: 2010
Type: Civic Tech
About: Cchub is a leading pan-African creative and innovation ecosystem enabler and they accelerate the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity.
Website: www.cchub.africa
Year Founded: 2007
Type: Civic Tech
About: Yiaga Africa was launched as a student organization in 2007 at the University of Jos, Nigeria and has since established itself as a leading civil society organization in Africa. Since its inception, it has carved a niche for itself as one of Africa’s frontline non-profit organizations promoting participatory democracy, human rights and civic participation.
Website: www.yiaga.org