Twitter and the Protection of Information Bill Black Tuesday Protests
Zoom in to areas on the map to see how South Africans are pushing the #Blacktuesday campaign on Twitter
On the march: Follow ANCYL march as mapped via twitter
Monitor the ANC Youth League march against poverty between Johannesburg and Pretoria as it is covered and commented on twitter via this map below. Zoom in for tweets closer to the action and zoom out to monitor broader commentary or coverage. Use the Map Wiki tool below the map to add your own material and edits.
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Do you want to make a difference? If so, welcome....so do I.
Yesterday I tweeted looking for people who may be interested in contributing to a web project for the public good but with 140 characters there's not much you can say about it. So here is my idea.
But, first let me make something clear. This is not funded, will never make a cent, and will be driven by people who care, like I do, about information and its power in society.
If you're still interested, this is what it is about.
A murder map of South Africa [interactive]
I've long wanted to experiment with mapping crime in South Africa but this has largely been impossible since the police statistics don't give us much to work with. Crimes are reported at policing district level and at provincial level making it pretty impossible to do anything particularly useful with them.
This week I asked the incredibily helpful Lizette Lancaster, the project manager of the Institute for Security Studies Crime and Justice Hub, if she could assist my Media24 Investigations team with producing a special query on the police statistics which would show various crime categories at a precinct level by population.
I thought it would be interesting to see which were the most dangerous places in South Africa for murder and so on. The idea came to me from the insanely brilliant Crimehub site that the ISS have built which allows you to see crime information at a very local level and which tracks stats going back to 2004. I highly recommend this site for any journalist who is serious about data; it is probably the best implementation of this concept I have seen anywhere on the web.
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