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🚀Registrations Are Open!
The 2025 Media and Development Conference will be held in Abuja, Nigeria, under the theme “Reimagining Democracy, Development, and Data for the Next Decade.”
The four-day gathering will convene around 500 participants, including journalists, policymakers, civil society leaders, researchers, technologists, donors, and students.
📅 Conference dates: Monday 24th to Thursday 27th November, 2025.
Seats fill up quickly, so REGISTER NOW! 🔗mdc.thecjid.org
Yes, you guessed it. The Media and Development Conference is back, bigger and coming soon!
What can you expect from this year's edition?
🔹 Exciting panel discussions and technical workshops.
🔹 A spotlight on Nigeria's first-ever Openness Index, launched by CJID in July.
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It aims to address major challenges faced by newsrooms, media platforms, and freelance journalists by helping them reduce information overload, achieve quality content discovery, fact-check, prevent plagiarism, and increase audience engagement.
JournalistsLab is an AI-driven tool that aids journalistic practices and promotes ethical conduct in the media ecosystem.
JournalistsLab optimizes your newsroom
JournalistsLab (Newslab) went public on the 27th of November 2024.
The team led by @KejiOnabajo made a demo at the @CJIDAfrica Media and Development Conference 2024 which convened media professionals, academics, policymakers, civil society leaders, and technology experts.
Demo/Case Study: Successful Integration and Adoption by @CJIDAfrica's 2024 AI-in-Journalism Fellowship Team:
Team 1 – Oluwakeji Onabajo (Presenter)
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