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Grant awarded to GroundUp
After a relatively quiet summer here at Indigo, the pace is picking up and this is the first of a series of blog posts concerning newly awarded grants. The others will follow shortly. We’re delighted...
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Grant awarded to Siyakhona
Substance abuse and addiction are common the world over, but in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg the problem is particularly pressing. School pupils are at risk of failing or dropping out due to...
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Grant Awarded to Livity Africa
In the recent referendum on Scottish independence, 16 and 17 year olds were allowed to vote for the first time. With a registration rate close to 100% any generalised remarks about politically...
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Making the most out of social media
Being on Facebook or Twitter doesn’t mean you understand how to make the most out of social media for your charity. That’s why we recently supported Sarah Hartley to undertake some training with our...
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Grant awarded to The Black Sash
In 1955, The Black Sash set out to challenge the removal of people of colour from the national voters’ roll. 60 years on, the organisation is still going strong and has expanded its work considerably...
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Code4SA and the School of Data
As part of our efforts to increase the amount of transparency and accountability work we support in Africa, a few months ago we announced a grant to Code4SA to support their School of Data Fellowship...
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Grant Awarded to Daily Maverick
Within a short space of time South Africa’s digital newspaper, Daily Maverick, has become a trusted, go-to resource for insightful journalism and interesting commentary. Their most famous moment came...
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Grant Awarded to Ground Source
Readers of this blog will be aware that we have made a number of grants to South African organisations in recent months as part of a push to increase our work there in the transparency and...
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A Review of the Year in Grants
Morris dancers. Credit: Jon Pinder, Flickr The UK is no stranger to bizarre rituals and arcane institutions (see cheese rolling, Morris dancing and swan upping) and the British tax year is no...
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Code4SA Press Release: Mapping Cape Town’s Budget
The following is a press release provided by one of our grantees, Code4SA. The original press release can be found here. Despite the Constitution of South Africa promoting community involvement in...
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Platformtastic! How to Reach your Target Audience
The list of things you can now do over a web or mobile platform is vast and continues to grow. For many, the days when a phone was for – you know – phoning people are a bygone age, a quaint and fading...
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Media representation in South Africa… What you don’t see
In a city like Cape Town, getting your voice heard can be a real challenge. Without the money, the connections or the social standing, it is easy for the media – and in many cases the government – to...
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Want a tough job? Make parliament interesting
Back in November, we announced that we had awarded a grant to Livity Africa towards the costs of their young parliamentary reporter programme in South Africa. The job of these young reporters was to...
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Radio is not dead yet
For many of our grantees, radio remains a vital tool to reach people who may not ordinarily subscribe to an SMS list or who may lack the time to become civic activists. As a trusted and widespread form...
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iPhone 6 vs. South African Parliament
Almost anybody with a website wants to know how to get more views and users. This is as true of the charitable sector as it is of the commercial sector. In the same way that Apple or Microsoft want to...
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Corporate corruption, data journalism for social justice and working with...
It’s rare to come across a gem like Code4SA, a Cape Town based organisation which uses data and technology to change lives. They combine strong developer skills with an impressive ability to bring...
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South Africa, Journalism & Dim Sum Digital
The following post is reproduced with the kind permission of Dim Sum Digital, about some work Indigo is funding with them and partners in South Africa. A new month – and the beginning of some new...
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How to… encourage people to read
The internet is awash with people offering advice and tips on how to do all manner of things. To prove this point, I have conducted a rigorous test under controlled conditions. Typing ‘how to + [letter...
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SA Data Journalism Course – Apply Now!
Starting in February 2016, Code for South Africa will be hosting Africa’s first data journalism school. To find out more and learn how to apply, keep reading… The three-month-long training programme...
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Supporting Community News in South Africa
Growing up, I always assumed community news to be a mixture of the banal (‘Local Man Eats Sandwich’), the bizarre (‘Woman Marries Budgie) and the barely believable (‘Dog learns Swedish watching Nordic...
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