Code for Africa is a civic organisation which has since 2015 been at the forefront of various data - driven practices and projects within and outside news organisations . It has branches and partnerships with 15 civic organisations ( as of May 2018 ) that include Cameroon , Ethiopia , Ghana , Kenya , Morocco , Nigeria , Sierra Leone , South Africa , Tanzania and Uganda . Its operations involve working with newsrooms to train data journalists or aggregation of data in digital platforms for investigative journalism and fact - checking purposes . A successful example is a joint partnership with Kenya 's Star newspaper to create a doctors ' database and a public platform - dubbed Dodgy Doctors - to weed out quacks in the medical profession ( see : https://health.the-star.co.ke/ ) .