The DDISA Fund is now on LinkedIn! Follow us for grant news, beneficiary updates and digital democracy innovation across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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OpenUp’s newly-tendered Municipal Money dashboard: See how your municipality is spending your tax money | OpenUp Blog OpenUp has been awarded a new tender to keep Municipal Money running, so you can see exactly how your municipality spends your tax money. Visit Municipal Money today.

OpenUp was awarded a new tender to keep Municipal Money running. SA's dashboard for municipal spending data lets you see exactly how your municipality spends your tax money ahead of the 2026 Local Government Elections. 🏛️

🔗 openup.org.za/blog/newly-t...

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More time, same opportunity. DDISA Fund Cohort 1 applications now close 30 April 2026.

Over R8 million (about USD 444,000) in grants for civil society organisations doing democracy work across Sub-Saharan Africa. Cohort 2 follows in June 2026.

👉 ddisafund.org

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New WaterCAN system: Join the national campaign for water safety | OpenUp Blog Map your water, protect your community. WaterCAN's rebuilt app features improved maps, better data capture and admin tools – with all your old data intact.

💧 The WaterCAN Map My Water app just got a complete overhaul – all designed to help South Africans take water safety into their own hands.

65% of 2025 samples were unsafe. Time to know your water. 👇
openup.org.za/blog/new-watercan-system

#WaterSafety #OpenData #SouthAfrica #CivicTech #Techforgood

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Learn about digital democracy challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa with leading DDISA partners, Gabriella Razzano, OpenUp’s Executive Director, and Zukiswa Kota, Programme Manager at CTIN.

Visit ddisafund.org to apply now!

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Gabriella Razzano, OpenUp’s Executive Director, and Zukiswa Kota, Programme Manager at CTIN, share their insights and hopes for the DDISA Fund.

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Did you know? You can apply for the DDISA Fund, a support network for digital democracy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Swipe to find out more, or visit our website at ddisafund.org

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We were delighted to host the launch of the Digital Democracy Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa Fund today! The DDISA website is now LIVE at ddisafund.org and grant applications have officially opened. Be the first to sign up! @civicusalliance.bsky.social

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We've got exciting news! Stay tuned for more...

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How South Africa’s population has changed since 1996 — and why it matters where you live | OpenUp Blog

A generation comes of age: children born in South Africa's 1996 census are turning 30 and reshaping our workforce. But national growth figures hide the real story. Where did people move? How did communities age? Why does location determine access to jobs, housing, and healthcare? buff.ly/JaMdk3M

Municipal Money An initiative of the National Treasury, which has collected extensive municipal financial data over several years and aims to share it with the public.

🚀 Another three years for Munimoney! We are happy to announce that, after a brief hiatus, we have been awarded a new agreement to co-create South Africa's premier municipal data service with Treasury. We will being updating features and data to advance government transparency: municipalmoney.gov.za

#WomenForChange #PurpleForChange #WomenShutdown #unburythetruth #DeclareGBVFANationalDisaster #StopFemicide

Policy Brief: Responsible Use of AI in the South African Public Sector | OpenUp Blog

As our governments across Africa invest in digital infrastructure, the question isn't just what we build, but how we build it to advance sustainable development. Our new policy brief explores responsible AI adoption in South Africa's public sector, drawing on real-world experience:

bit.ly/4hnqcAZ

All the DPI elephants (and how they can trumpet a good future) There are some elephants in the rooms that are discussing Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiatives in South Africa, which leave me wondering how we all find the space to breathe. I have been in...

We have some thoughts on the #DPI #digitalpublicinfrastructures conversations y'all might be interested in, based on experience, healthy snippets of cynicism, but overall an overwhelming sense of hope for Africa's sovereign digital future www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-dp...

PowerMapper by Open Secrets Discover the PowerMapper by Open Secrets: An interactive tool that maps and profiles key power players benefiting from the climate crisis and the transition to renewables in South Africa

Who really runs South Africa’s power?

With Open Secrets, #OpenUp created the PowerMapper — an interactive map showing where power stations are, how much electricity they produce, who owns and operates them, and associated controversies.

🔗 Explore the data here: powermapper.opensecrets.org.za

SA Parliament Assessment (Indicators of a Democratic Parliament) These assessments have been compiled by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) as an independent civil society evaluation of South Africa parliament, based on the IDP framework. This assessment…

Parliament should be the engine of our democracy — but is it delivering?

In our latest blog, we unpack the Indicators for Democratic Parliaments to see how South Africa measures up on effectiveness and accountability.

Read the full assessment on ParliMeter:

Women in Parliament 2025 Report We take a look at recent PMG data around gender to assess the representation of women in South Africa's parliament.

A recent article written by our partners at the Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) shines a light on evolving gender dynamics in the Seventh Parliament.

See the full story on #ParliMeter: www.parlimeter.org.za/post/women-i...

Eastern Cape farmers are being left behind.

Only 31% rely on municipal water, compared to 55% nationally.
69% say water reliability stats “don’t apply to them” — because the system doesn’t serve them at all. Read more: www.foodformzansi.co.za/drought-and-...

Story: @Food For Mzansi | Data: @OpenUp

The Angle Podcast EP 25 | Digital Colonialism & Civic Tech | Power, Platforms, Policy YouTube video by The Angle

The Big Kahuna* of OpenUp, @jablet.bsky.social, discusses digital colonialism, sovereignty and global forces that shape our experience of the digital public on this episode of @the-angle-africa.

youtu.be/tznxbUxXYJA

*She wrote this #transparency

Scaling data skills: its own science? | OpenUp Blog

Scaling data skills in Africa isn't just about numbers—it's a science. We've grown from 160 to 450+ participants across the region in our latest data science training program. Our digital classroom walls are stretching, but so is our understanding of what might make training scale: bit.ly/42QbEnN

OpenUp | Civic Technology & Open Data Specialists We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and help communities and governments work better, together.

We're currently only working on the South African Parliament, but have done collaborations in other African countries and with international partners (we are members for instance of the Code for All Network) on a broad variety of social impact tech: openup.org.za

Bill tracker is our Directors favourite :)

ParliMeter | The Parliamentary Performance Dashboard Quality data, insights and resources that help South Africans better understand the work done, in their name, by their representatives in Parliament.

We have just launched our new parliamentary monitoring dashboard, Parlimeter: www.parlimeter.org.za. We led development in partnership with our colleagues at OUTA and PMG, and are proud to continue leading the charge on collaborative open government in South Africa #innovation #opendata #opengov

You are not alone | OpenUp Blog Navigating an unstable funding environment, in solidarity.

For all of our colleagues impacted by the #USAID funding freeze, we see you and are here for you. Some thoughts from us on becoming less donor reliant as an act of solidarity: openup.org.za/blog/you-are...

Apologies, we forgot we were here...To welcome in the NY, how about we play a game? We are happy to announce our new collab #GreenConnection, "Gaslit": a gamification of the corruption at #PetroSA, which helps explain the context of South Africa's energy problems: game.thegreenconnection.org.za/en

OpenUp Annual Report 2023-2024 OpenUp celebrated a decade of work by implementing a considered pivot in funding, and growing a network of collaborators for impact in the 2023-2024 period.

We're still learning about the @bsky.app community; but if you want to learn more about us - and our African social impact innovation - you can read our just released Annual Report for 2023-2024 here: openup.org.za/annual-repor...

Marking the end of a wonderful three day Anti-Corruption Data Hackathon with RSA civil society groups and Chapter 9 institutions. All our activities have been fully funded by the European Union Delegation to South Africa through the great people at Enhancing Accountability, TAF.

OpenUp Turns 10! As we celebrate our 10th birthday, we take a look back at the journey thus far. People, partners and projects that have made us who we are today!

To introduce ourselves in this new world, you can read about our 10 year plus journey to social impact greatness at our 10 year anniversary microsite: 10.openup.org.za