Cheikh Fall

Cheikh Fall, 35 years, is a web project manager, web developer and blogger living in Senegal. He is a prominent blogger and Cyberactivist who initiated the #SUNU2012 (an online participative democracy project. ) platform to promote the transparency of the country’s presidential elections through media coverage and citizen reporting. He created the country’s first youth citizen web portal en 2010 Ruepublique.net. He was nominated to the Prix Net Citoyen NETIZEN2013, organized by Google and Reporters without borders. In 2014, I was also nominated by the Deutsch Welle for the Best Of Online Activism. He initiated the League of African activists and bloggers, AFRICTIVISTES, which brings together people from the African continent and Diaspora who use the internet to act for democracy on the continent through four main areas of intervention: Transparency, Good Governance, Anti-Corruption and Participatory Democracy. It brings together more than 150 people across the African continent. Africtivistes.org, is a civic tech and lab project that uses social media and ICT to promote democracy in Africa with african Blogger and web activist. He use its knowledge in these three areas namely data journalism, digital security and privacy and digital investigation his work. He use their knowledge in these three areas namely data journalism, digital security and privacy and digital investigation in his work. He is a trainer on new media for journalists, communication specialists. He is the most influential blogger and web activist in west africa. My quote : “In some countries, the president is the strong man. He decide of all and for all. A president of the republic has much power. It would be a shame to choose him unwisely”