The Tax Clock, an online tool developed by OpenUp, a civic tech organisation that promotes informed decision-making for positive social change, offers an interesting view of your tax contrib... Read more
Most citizens have a reasonable idea of the basic services municipalities should provide and don’t look too closely at their municipality, its budget and spending until something goes wrong.... Read more
The Tax Clock is an online tool developed by Code for South Africa and shows users how much of their work day is spent working to pay tax and how much is spent working for themselves. For ta... Read more
Sometimes the best story ideas come from a random discussion that sparks a light bulb moment. And so it was with Living on the Edge, a data-driven multimedia story by Kim Harrisberg, which r... Read more
It is meant to be the key to great investigative journalism but what is the big deal about data journalism and how is it done? Melina Meletakos finds out. Data journalism is the much-touted... Read more
Cape Town has become the first city in South Africa to introduce an open data policy, but critics say that it has “flaws” that could result in it having the opposite effect to what is intend... Read more
