Six Nigerian journalists, from various news media, including two freelancers, have been named as 2017 BudgIT Media Fellows.
The journalists include Hannah Ojo – The Nation Newspaper; Mercy Abang – Freelance journalist; Eromo Egbejule – Freelance Journalist; Lanre Lasisi – Channels television; Ayodeji Rotinwa – ThisDay Newspaper, and Ruth Oluronbi – Nigerian Tribune.
BudgIT is a civic organisation that employs the use of technology to breakdown government policies for easier understanding and assimilation by the populace with the aim of facilitating societal change. The organisation uses an array of tech tools to simplify the budget and matters of public spending for citizens, so as to encourage transparency and accountability in government.
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The #BudgITMediaFellows will be supported by the BudgIT team in the course of the program to write stories on focus areas and will receive funding support to investigate their stories as well as monthly stipends to support them throughout the fellowship.
BudgIT specializes in deploying refined data mining skill sets to creatively represent data and empower citizens to use the resulting information in demanding improved service delivery.
At the end of the programme, the fellows will convene a media roundtable discussion to share experience and present a compilation of their stories.
