Fighting Epidemics With CivicTech: Lessons From West Africa
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of […]
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of […]
Year Founded: 2013
Type: Civic Tech
About: ICT innovation, a guarantee of economic automation in the digital age, The international French-speaking network Women & ICT aims to create a regional synergy of actions for women in favor of their responsible digital autonomy and their economic empowerment through ICT.
Website: https://femmes-tic.org/
Year Founded: 2009
Type: Civic Tech
About: PLAC BillsTrack is an online platform for tracking the status and progress of bills going through the legislative process in the Nigerian National Assembly.It aims to make legislative information open and available to the public for personal use and research purposes.
Website: .p.placbillstrack.org/
Year founded: 2007
Type: Civic Tech
About: Voz di Paz is a Guinea-Bissau NGO focused on peacebuilding and conflict resolution. It operates through Regional Dialogue Spaces, promoting conflict mediation, civic education, and inclusive governance. The organization empowers youth, women, and vulnerable groups to foster lasting peace and sustainable development.
Website: vozdipaz.org
Year Founded: 2025
Type: Civic Tech
About: Bimi is an AI-powered chatbot that simplifies access to government data, allowing users to compare budgeted vs. actual spending and fostering accountability. It integrates tools like Govspend.ng to track federal expenditures and shed light on public fund usage.
Website: bimi.budgit.org
Year Founded: 2013
Type: Civic Tech
About: PHC Tracka is a civic tech platform developed by BudgIT to enhance accountability in Nigeria’s primary healthcare system. It enables citizens to monitor and report on the condition of Primary Health Centres (PHCs) nationwide, track the implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), and access reliable data for advocacy and improved service delivery. Users can submit reports, upload images, and provide feedback on PHCs in their communities, fostering transparency and encouraging government responsiveness.Â
Website: www.phctracka.org
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Civic Tech
About: The “Niger: Smart Villages” project by the World Bank enhances digital connectivity and infrastructure in rural Niger, fostering economic growth and digital inclusion to bridge the digital divide.
Website: projects.worldbank.org
Year Founded: 2023
Type: Civic Tech
About:Citoyens227connectes is a civic tech platform promoting citizen engagement and transparency in Niger. It likely provides tools for accessing government information, reporting issues, and participating in governance.
Website: citoyens227connectes.org
Year Founded: 2020
Type:Civic Tech
About: Novissi is a social protection platform in Togo that provides emergency cash transfers to the most vulnerable populations using machine learning and mobile money. By analyzing satellite imagery and household data, the platform identifies the poorest areas. It then uses machine learning algorithms, powered by mobile phone metadata, to prioritize individuals for support.
Website: https://worldbank.org
Year Founded: 2018
Type: Civic Tech
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 by 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: 2023
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: 2023
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: 2024
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: 2024
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: 2015
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: 2016
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: 1999
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: 2010
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: 2012
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: 2017
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: AfricTivistes CitizenLab Benin is a citizen factory with the objectives of supporting, accompanying, and equipping civil society actors in Benin through training and the development of innovative tools.
Website: https://citizenlabbenin.org/a-propos
Year Founded: 2018
Type: Civic tech
About: Bidofi, a startup from Benin, provides for organizations and companies a simple mapping solution that allows them to quickly create interactive maps with data to tell a story through visualization. With Bidofi, you can add many locations on visualization and for each of them, provide data that the public can easily explore.
Website: https://bidofi.com/about/
Year founded: 2007
Type: Civic Tech
About: Voz di Paz is a citizen reporting platform in Cape Verde that allows citizens to report incidents, concerns, or feedback on various issues, including corruption, public services, and community development. It aims to empower citizens to participate in governance and hold authorities accountable.
Website: https://www.vozdipaz.org/quem-somos
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Civic Tech
About: Faso Civic is a youth-led civic tech organization based in Burkina Faso that aims to promote responsible citizenship and community development by leveraging technology and innovation. The organization focuses on reducing uncivil behavior, fostering civic entrepreneurship, and empowering youth to develop solutions tailored to the country’s needs.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: BOALA is an anti-terrorism alert button that notifies law enforcement in case of danger.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: TOGSEÂ is a platform dedicated to promoting and showcasing Burkinabe art and culture both nationally and internationally.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: Citizen Alert is a platform enabling anonymous, real-time reporting of acts of incivility.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: Winig’Mam is a solution designed by Faso Civic to enhance the addressing culture in Burkina Faso.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: Citoyen Responsable (Responsible Citizen) is a free app by the FASO CIVIC association that aims to foster a peaceful and just Burkina Faso by reducing uncivil behavior. Through engaging illustrations and educational content, the app raises awareness to promote security and sustainable development.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: JAGOKELA is a platform that connects producers, processors, and consumers of agricultural products.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: Song-Koobo is a platform developed by Faso Civic which serves as an integrated alert and response system for combating crop pest attacks.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: N/A
Type: Civic Tech
About: PELGA is a platform designed by Faso Civic to evaluate the performance of public structures.
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: 2020
Type: Civic Tech
About: DiagnoseMe is a mobile app designed to detect COVID-19 symptoms, guide users to testing and care, and support real-time epidemiological monitoring. The app also provides prevention tips, maps suspected cases, and tracks pandemic statistics.Â
Website: fasocivic.org
Year Founded: 2010
Type: Civic Tech
About: Open Burkina is a Burkina Faso-based organization that promotes data-driven development through participatory and innovative approaches. It collaborates with government, civil society, and citizens to enhance transparency and informed decision-making. Open Burkina’s work includes research, advocacy, training, technical assistance, and the development of digital tools to improve data governance and public service delivery.
Website: openburkina.bf
Year Founded: 2010
Type: Gov Tech
About: iCivil is a digital civil registration system providing real-time birth registration via encrypted SMS using a unique “bubble code” and smartphone app. It ensures legal identity for children, reducing unregistered births and improving access to rights and services in Africa.
Website: icivil.org
Year Founded: 2011
Type: Civic Tech
About: InfoLib is an independent platform launched by iLab Liberia and the Liberia Freedom of Information Coalition to enable citizens to request and access public information from government and accountable bodies. Using Alaveteli software, it promotes transparency by facilitating Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and responses online.
Website: www.infolib.org.lr
Year Founded: 2013
Type: Gov Tech
About: The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) is the national agency responsible for collecting lawful revenues and facilitating legitimate trade in Liberia. Established by an Act of the National Legislature in 2013, the LRA replaced the Department of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance, including the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs & Excise.
Website: www.reveue.lra.gov.ir
Year Founded: 2023
Type: Civic Tech
About: AfricTivistes CitizenLab Mauritania is a citizen factory whose goal is to support , accompany and equip actors in Mauritanian civil society through training, development of tools and support for innovation and co -creation .
Website: www.citizenlabmauritanie.org
Year Founded: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: Anfani is a powerful platform for beneficial ownership transparency, enabling users to connect budget, contract, and audit data with corporate sector actors.
Website: anfani.org
Year Founded: 2023
Type: Civic Tech
About: The interactive Election Map simplifies and presents data on Nigeria’s presidential elections, offering past results and enabling users to create projections for upcoming elections to promote voter education.
Website: liveresults.civichive.org
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Civic Tech
About:#WatchingTheVote is a citizen-driven election observation initiative that leverages technological tools, such as SMS, to promote the integrity of elections in Nigeria.
Website: watchingthevote.org
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Gov Tech
About: The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) promotes transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s oil, gas, and mining sectors. Aligned with the global EITI, NEITI conducts audits to ensure responsible management of revenues, reduce corruption, and foster equitable resource distribution. Recently, NEITI partnered with the Auditor-General’s Office to enhance data sharing and strengthen oversight of extractive revenues.
Website: eiti.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: https://www.odekro.org
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: 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: 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: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: Launched by Yiaga Africa in 2022, The Election Result Analysis Dashboard (ERAD) is an innovative platform designed to support Nigeria’s election management body by offering the public near real-time access to analyzed election results from polling units. As the sole independent source of accurate election results uploaded to the INEC Result Viewing Portal, ERAD also serves as a tool for auditing and assessing the integrity of INEC’s results management system.
Website: erad.ng
Year Founded: 2020
Type: Civic Tech
About: Open Nigerian States is designed to facilitate public access to open government data while supporting policy publishers in preserving their data. Beyond serving as a data repository, the initiative strives to make policy data meaningful and accessible to the public through the extensive use of charts and articles.
Website: openstates.ng
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Civic Tech
About: Corruption Anonymous is designed to build public trust and support for the Nigerian government’s Whistleblower Initiative. The project leverages citizen involvement to combat corruption and promote accountability in public offices by offering a reliable, credible, and effective platform for anonymous reporting.
Year Founded: 2010
Type: Civic Tech
About: Legal Naija is a platform dedicated to simplifying access to legal information, connecting individuals with lawyers, and providing tools for legal research and practice. It focuses on educating the public about their rights while supporting legal professionals with valuable resources.
Website: legalnaija.com
Year Founded: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: YVoteNaija, an initiative by Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative, focuses on enhancing voter education through data-driven engagement. It seeks to educate young Nigerians on the importance of participating in the electoral process, particularly at the grassroots level.
Website: yvotenaija.org.
Year Founded: 202o
Type: Civic Tech
About: Urban Alert is a youth-driven civic initiative that uses technology to highlight issues such as social vices, environmental and public facility degradation, and the need for open governance. It holds government agencies and private service providers accountable to serve the public effectively.Â
Website: urbanalert.ng
Year Founded: 2021
Type: Civic Tech
About: GovSpend is a platform created by BudgIT, leveraging data from the Open Treasury portal to enhance transparency and enable researchers, citizens, journalists, and CSOs to analyze government spending effectively.
Website: govspend.ng
Year Founded: 2020
Type: Civic Tech
About: Policy Shapers is a youth-led, open-source platform for sharing and showcasing impactful policy ideas to address global challenges. It emphasizes the importance of including young people in policymaking, recognizing that their futures are most affected by policy decisions. The platform aims to inspire the next generation of policymakers by providing a space to share ideas and collaborate for meaningful change.
Website: policyshapers.wordpress.com
Year Founded: 2005
Type: Civic Tech
About: KnowYourRightsNigeria is a project of Constitutional Rights Awareness and Liberty Initiative (CRALI). It is an app that provides comprehensive information on your legal rights in Nigeria, empowering you with the knowledge needed to protect yourself against any violations.
Website: knowyourrightsnigeria.com
Year Founded: 2005
Type: Civic Tech
About: Invictus Africa is a non-profit organization advancing human rights and gender equality through data-driven advocacy, digital technology, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building.
Website: invictusafrica.org
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Civic Tech
About: The Electoral College Nigeria is a non-partisan organization focused on promoting democracy by empowering young Nigerians with political knowledge. It aims to bridge gaps in political understanding and encourage active youth participation in shaping the country’s future.
Website: electoralcollng.org
Year Founded: 2019
Type: Civic Tech
About: Stears Election is an initiative by Stears which utilizies an interactive map and dashboard to display election results in near real-time as announced by INEC. Launched during the 2019 elections, it was the first platform of its kind for tracking election results in Nigeria, Africa’s largest democracy.
Website: www.stears.co/elections
Year Founded: 2018
Type: Civic Tech
About: Hope Behind Bars Africa is an organization committed to creating a just and equitable society in Africa, particularly in Nigeria. It focuses on addressing human rights issues and ensuring fair and dignified treatment for all individuals.
The organization’s primary focus is on criminal justice reforms, working to promote a balanced and comprehensive approach to the justice system. Through research, advocacy, and collaborations with stakeholders, Hope Behind Bars Africa addresses systemic challenges and drives positive changes in Nigeria’s justice system.
Website: hopebehindbarsafrica.org
Year Founded: 2018
Type: Civic Tech
About: THR MEDIA is a social development consultancy focused on integrating gender perspectives across various sectors, such as media, agriculture, health, and climate. Their work encompasses research, media advocacy, and the creation and management of impactful programs.
They also develop and execute initiatives to support survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), trafficking, and related exploitation. They solutions aim to help them escape harmful situations, find shelter, and rebuild their lives.
Website: thrmedia.org
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Gov Tech
About: The Nigeria Open Contracting Portal (NOCOPO) enhances transparency in public procurement by publishing details of projects, including costs, vendors, methods, and implementation statuses. Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) upload procurement plans, while citizens can provide feedback and monitor projects. The platform also tracks contract execution to ensure proper fund usage.
Website: www.nocopo.bpp.gov.ng
Year Founded: 2016
Type: Gov Tech
About: Government contact centre (CGC) s a platform that allows citizens irrespective of their location, literacy level or language to get access to government services/information through calls.
Website: www.fmcide.org
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Civic Tech
About: Eduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.
Website: www.eduplana.org
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Civic Tech
About: Citizens’ Common is a citizen action organisation, committed to empowering everyday citizens to take social action targetted at solve small and big societal challenges using the power of community, collaboration, innovation and technology.
Website: www.citizencommons.org
Year Founded: 2016
Type: Civic Tech
About: Ymonitor is an initiative of The Future Project which highlights crucial accountability and governance issues at the State and Federal level.
Website: www.ymonitor.org
Year Founded: 2023
Type: Civic Tech
About: Kuram is the product of research, engagements with women and minority groups, and offers Resources on what online gender-based violence is and how it might present opportunities to access justice where violence has occurred.
Website: www.kuramng.org
Year Founded: 2023
Type: Civic Tech
About: Orodata Science and Civic Tech combine data science, technology, design, and research to improve institutional reforms, foster media innovation, bolster health systems, and facilitate access to inclusive and rich data.
Website: www.orodata.org
Year Founded: 2013
Type: GovTech
About: A Central Case Management System (CCMS) is a software application that allows multiple organizations and paralegal offices to access, input, and modify a central database of case records, facilitating efficient tracking, organization, and management of cases.
Website: [No website available]
Year Founded: 2013
Type: GovTech
About: The Integrated Tax Administration System (ITAS) is a tax administration initiative in Nigeria aimed at simplifying and automating all tax administration processes – such as filing tax returns and paying taxes online through the ITAS portal.
Website: www.google.com/search
Year Founded: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: GRAP is a civic-tech initiative for budget participation by PROMAD—using tech to document the NEEDS of Nigerian communities for adoption into the annual budget.
Website: www.grap.org.ng
Year Founded: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: Balm Health uses Artificial Intelligence for analyzing and recommending mental health solutions.
Website: www.balm.ai
Year Founded: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: Civily facilitates social impact by connecting individuals, organizations, governments, and causes by providing a platforms for causes, community building, and communication.
Website: www.civily.africa
Year Founded: 2022
Type: Civic Tech
About: LOGIN is an emerging civic hub aimed at launching strategic cum calculated design-thinking civic action melded with tech premised on Open Governance System for tracking / monitoring projects, budgets, expenditures & financial flows as well as elections.
Website: www.loginaija.com
Year Founded: 2024
Type: CivicTech
About: Reshaping the legal landscape through innovative technology, connecting unprivileged individuals and organizations with pro bono lawyers all from your mobile device.
Website: www.podus.org
Year Founded: 2018
Type: Civic Tech
About: UDEME is a social accountability platform designed to hold the Nigerian government accountable for funds released for developmental projects.
Website: www.udeme.africa
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Civic Tech
About: Gavel is a not for profit/non-governmental organization with the aim of increasing the pace of justice delivery through access to justice, digital technology and citizens’ engagement.
Website: www.citizensgavel
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Civic Tech
About: Gender Mobile Initiative was established to complement the program and policy efforts of government in advancing intersectional gender quality and eliminating all forms of sexual and gender-based violence which undermines women’s potential, agency, and freedom.
Website: www.gendermobile.org
Year Founded: 2017
Type: Civic Tech
About: Civic hive was set-up to create an innovative virtual and physical space for partnerships and to raise new civic tech leaders/solutions in Nigeria, it was also set up to improve the capacity of existing NGO’S and media orgnanisation thereby making a huge impact within the Nigerian space.
Website: www.civichive.org
Year Founded: 2016
Type: Civic Tech
About: Budeshi is a dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS).
Website: www.budeshi.ng
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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