Documenters.org (Documenters Network)
People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.
Chicago, IL
local
This project has been put to rest.
https://sourceafrica.net/
Source Africa
It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.
Since 2015
Africa, Asia
Open source: Yes
sourceAFRICA is a web platform that can be used as an investigative tool, it was developed and is maintained by ANCIR. On SourceAFRICA people have access to 115 126 documents (as of October) from 47 organisations. The platfrom has about 137 contributors including the Mail & Guardian, Oxpeckers, Daily Trust and Pesa Check. People have access to documents ranging from cancellation of family planning in Tanzania, the South African Mining Charter and Kenya Data Protection Bill 2018 and many more.
Evidence of this project's impact
COLLECTION OF 115,126 Documents from 47 organizations (Source)
- Org. type
- Non-profit / charity / foundation
- Project type
- Tool or platform
- Project stage
- Ongoing
- Country
- Asia
- Founded
- 2015
- Language(s)
- English
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Archives, Civic data, Crowdsourcing, Fight disinformation, Media, Research tools, The Tech
- Tags
- free speech
- Added
- 2021-06-22
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:44:05.000Z
Additional details
- Number of integrations
- 0
- Metrics of success
- COLLECTION OF 115,126 Documents from 47 organizations
- Issues addressed
- free speech / anti-censorship
- Geographic focus
- East Africa, Tanzania, United Republic of (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) 🇹🇿, Uganda 🇺🇬
- Geographic focus — country
- "Tanzania, United Republic of (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) 🇹🇿", Uganda 🇺🇬
- Source
- [Database of Informational Interventions](https://counteringdisinformation.org/interventions)
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