Penplusbytes, Star Ghana to offer data journalism training

The International Institute of ICT Journalism (www.penplusbytes.org) with support and funding from STAR-Ghana is seeking journalists with ample interest in reporting maternal healthcare issues in the Volta Region to train in data journalism skills and techniques.

Under a project dubbed “Open Ghana – Data Journalism for Improved Maternal Healthcare,” the training will equip beneficiaries to effectively report on all aspects of maternal healthcare especially maternal healthcare spending in the Volta Region.

“The aim of the project is to demand greater accountability and responsiveness from district health authorities in selected districts (Ho, Hohoe, Kpando, South Dayi) in the Volta Region of Ghana to ensure efficiency in the disbursements of health funds and thus help achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality by three quarters by 2015,” an invitation for applications issued by Penplusbyte