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Amanda Strydom is listed as Senior Programme Manager for @CodeForAfrica's CivicSignal 🤖 at Code For Africa, a company with 55 employees, based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at codeforafrica.org and a matched LinkedIn profile for Amanda Strydom.
Amanda Strydom previously worked as Senior Programme Manager: CivicSignal at Code For Africa and Programme Manager: Engagement at Code For Africa. Amanda Strydom holds Ba from Rhodes University.
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AMANDA STRYDOM is a Senior Programme Manager for CivicSignal.Africa at Code for Africa.Amanda manages CivicSignal, a programme within Code for Africa, which maps and offers insights into media ecosystems in Africa using research, natural language processing and machine learning tools. Her interests lie in digital policy and ethics and machine learning, with a focus on natural language programming.In 2022, she was a fellow at the London School of Economics’ JournalismAI programme. She sits on the Partnership on AI steering committee for synthetic media policy.As part of her role, she has trained journalists in a number of African countries on using open software to fact-check mis- and disinformation, digital security, and contributes to the CfA iLab misinformation dossiers.Previously, she managed the engagement department within Code for Africa to amplify awareness of the organisation's projects, products and partners, and to foster a growing tech-for-good community. She was managing editor for the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR). In this time, she supported a team of journalists across the continent to produce the Panama Papers in partnership with the International Consortium for Journalists. As one of the largest collaborative investigations, it was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.Other projects she coordinated included a cross-border investigation into HIV-drug smuggling, and an investigation of a bot network being used as part of a misinformation campaign in South Africa. Part of her role included creating a communication plan for ANCIR's digital security programme, editing articles and blog posts, and creating and editing social posts. Previously, she assisted with managing the editorial policies of Code for Africa, including for websites, journalism projects, social media and blogs, and helps various production teams with social media and syndication.Before joining Code for Africa, she worked as Online Night Editor for the Mail & Guardian as part of the team that relaunched the M&G's digital products, (including websites, social media and multimedia) resulting in the audience growing from under a million to 2-million in one year. As part of the brand building, she was part of a team that scripted and presented a weekly online radio show, as well as edited and often presented a weekly online video news digest.
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Amanda manages the new CivicSignal team, which maps media and emerging civic technology ecosystems. Using machine learning and NLP tools, we track and analyse disinformation and influence operations.
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Amanda headed up the Engagement team, starting a new department within Code for Africa to amplify awareness of the organisation's projects, products and partners, and to foster a growing tech-for-good community.As part of her role, she has also trained journalists in a number of African countries on using open software to fact check mis- and.
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As managing editor of Code for Africa's iLAB programme, Amanda coordinated cross-border investigations and project budgets, managed ANCIR's social media platforms, and built relationships with newsrooms. In this time, she supported a number of projects, including the African component of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Panama.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
As researcher, Amanda managed relationships in 19 countries across sub-Saharan Africa to collect and collate key data on cities. It also included mapping corporate activity in these markets and providing support to the various service lines.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
As deputy editor of a B2B magazine, Amanda wrote and edited features and in-depth interviews within a range of topics related to DIY. She managed the pagination, page designs and worked alongside the advertising sales manager to ensure clients were happy and editorial integrity was maintained.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Amanda started working at the Mail & Guardian Online as a subeditor in 2010, and in 2011 took on a more senior role as Online Night Editor. Here she oversaw the daily and weekly news diaries of the team's writers, editing original content and managing the publication's social media presence. She was part of the team that relaunched the M&G’s digital.
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
As weekend traffic reporter, Amanda compiled and presented traffic reports on 702 and CapeTalk. This involved monitoring various feeds, fielding phone calls from members of the public and writing the reports.As online reporter, she wrote online news stories from on-air reports, copy-tasted and edited newswire stories and cut sound for on-air news.
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