What I’m Building

DataBridge came out of Shape Your Data Career, an initiative I had led the same year. One edition had drawn 150 applications for 20 places, so the demand was not in question. What I wanted was to make something lasting out of it, rather than leave it as a one-off event.

The Learning Hub holds my data and business intelligence courses. Registration is open to anyone, and I approve access myself. 250+ learners so far, all of them students from my last two cohorts at HEI.

Marina ve? means “Is it true?” in Malagasy. I designed it as a Data Values Advocate with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, and run it inside DataBridge with Factivistes.

It rests on one method, DATA: decode the claim, analyse the context, trace the source, act responsibly. Four steps, and the simplicity was deliberate. The aim was never to turn people into fact-checkers, but to help them ask better questions and see the limits of what they know.

The first workshop ran in Antananarivo on 9 May 2026. What stayed with me was not in the survey results. During a group exercise, the conclusion was not “true” or “false” but: here is what we can say, here is what we cannot, and here is where the evidence stops.

Nine youth clubs and civil society organisations were involved across Antananarivo. A two-minute documentary and a citizen guide to public data sources came out of it. Self-paced modules for the Learning Hub are in progress.

It came out of my own difficulty in 2021, when I moved into data and could not tell the roles apart.

One edition: 150 applications for 20 places. It has not run since.