Tanzania

JamiiAfrica

How to stop reporting on your community and start working with them (feat. JamiiAfrica)

Maxence Melo is an economist-turned-information architect. He leads JamiiAfrica, a regional non-profit entity on a mission to create a well-informed citizenry, promote responsive governance, and encourage active citizen participation. He has played an enormous role in revolutionising digital democracy while promoting transparency and accountability. Maxence was recognised by the African Union as one of the top 3 Leading African Innovators for Change in 2018 for strengthening the viability of whistleblowing policy tools in Africa.

United Kingdom

Good Commons

How to stop reporting on your community and start working with them (feat. JamiiAfrica)

Madeline Earp helps people and societies express themselves safely and effectively in the digital age. She promotes infrastructure designed for healthy, informed communities as part of the public interest tech team at International Media Support, and shares community-building resources via Good Commons, an IMS collaboration with Splice and JamiiAfrica.

She has 18 years of digital and media rights experience in Europe and North America, including roles on the Asia and Tech desks at the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York, and managing Freedom House's Asia portfolio for Freedom on the Net. Earp has an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard and a BA in English literature from Cambridge.