Have You Met Dexter?

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A free and fair media is critical in a healthy democracy, though while the data age has dramatically enhanced our ability to generate and share news, it has similarly enabled the rise of fake news, programmatic agendas, and media echo-chambers. The Dexter project seeks to leverage modern computational paradigms to monitor and analyze Southern Africa's digital media.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1" style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Listen or watch to understand:</strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>This episode is presented in partnership with</strong> <a href= "https://opencitieslab.org/"><span class="s1"><strong>Open Cities Lab</strong></span></a></span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Background on guests William Bird, Director of Media Monitoring Africa and Matthew Adendorff , Data Lead at Open Cities Lab.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What exactly is Dexter and what does it do?</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How <a href= "https://opencitieslab.org/"><span class="s1">Open Cities Lab</span></a> and <a href= "https://mediamonitoringafrica.org/"><span class="s1">Media Monitoring Africa</span></a> got involved in the project.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How Dexter can be used for a focussed subject: To track elections or COVID reporting in Africa.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The elections work that the Dexter project is currently underway with.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The biggest challenges they’ve overcome to date and how they did it.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Application of Dexter beyond news media.</span></li> <li class="li3"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The key steps to a more free and fair media.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">See all episodes: <a href= "https://futurecitiesafri