Last year, we selected 21 projects from 13 countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Turkey, and the UAE.
In South Africa, online news publisher Daily Maverick developed a “relevancy engine” for small and medium publishers to help them better understand reader insights and increase relevancy and increase subscriptions. Ringier Africa Digital Publishing in Nigeria was awarded funding to increase personalisation across its platform using a blend of prediction, recommendation and local information pages to increase user engagement. Kenyan awardee
Africa Uncensored is aggregating news from members of the public to produce at scale.
You can find out more about all of last year's recipients in this Keyword post.
Round 1 recipients Food for Mzansi showing their support
