Media development nonprofit doing cool stuff with data and tech.

We help journalists and NGOs worldwide do impactful projects with facts, human stories and robots.
Our team specializes in Data journalism • Open data • Graphics • Investigative journalism • Fact-checking • Web innovation • Machine learning • Security for journalists.

Since our launch in 2015

We’ve run over 20 programmes and initiatives in…

111

Teams

Teams

15

Countries

Countries

4

Continents

Continents

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What do we do ?

Data journalism and storytelling projects

We do data journalism and interactive storytelling projects with social, economical or environmental impact in collaboration with media organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, local communities and others.

Media development programme + Research and training

We thrive to imagine new models, experiment with the latest technologies and be an active player in the industry as well as share the fun with our community by organizing media development programmes, training programmes and bootcamps. Down the line we’d also like to put together research projects on the future of data journalism and innovative storytelling and publish the results openly via whitepapers and interactive guides.

Digital innovation for nonprofits

We can help NGOs and other nonprofit organizations identify new digital goals to structure data-driven and innovative projects accordingly, bringing support and insights they wouldn’t have come across otherwise.

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Recent projects

Global

Covering the Russia-Ukraine war with data, online conference

A virtual conference by The Sigmas and DataJournalism.com examining how data journalism and OSINT experts are exposing the truth about the conflict.

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Cameroon + Ivory Coast + Madagascar + Niger

MediaLab Pour Elles

In collaboration with CFI Médias, we helped 24 journalists, in 4 countries, put together 8 data journalism investigations tackling the role of women in French-speaking Africa.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Fact-checking, web and social media programme

This programme helped a team of radio and web journalists at Studio Hirondelle, based in Kinshasa, Congo, gain news skills in web journalism, build a strategy for social media, and get trained in fact-checking.

We believe that great work, done by great people, can reach great impact. And that everything is better when joining forces with others.

That’s why we partner with organisations and other media development nonprofits all over the world.

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HELP US OUT

Either monthly or just once, you’d help us grow and develop initiatives that empower news innovators and nonprofit organisations worldwide.

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Latest news

Mediterranean Urban Migration Forum (MUM Forum)

HEI-DA’s director, Marianne Bouchart, was invited to attend the Mediterranean Urban Migration Forum (MUM Forum), jointly organised by ICMPD, UCLG, UN-Habitat and FAMSI in Sevilla, Spain, in June 2022.

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Assises internationales du journalisme de Tours

Simon Malfatto (AFP), Julien Kostrèche (Ouest Media Lab) and Karen Bastien (Wedodata), joined Marianne Bouchart (HEI-DA) for a debate discussion on data journalism and politics, in Tours, France, on 10 May 2022.

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Assises internationales du journalisme de Tunis

HEI-DA held two workshops on “How to debunk fake news” and “How to use data to fight gender inequalities” at the Assises Internationale du Journalisme, a conference setup in Tunis, Tunisia, in March 2022.

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Bringing super powers to the table

We’re building a Unicorn Pool

We’re building a Unicorn Pool

gathering a network of incredibly talented people from all over the world to take on innovative projects with social impact. They have the editorial, programming and design skills needed to tackle big editorial projects and are so special that they are often referred to as “unicorns”.

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