During the session, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism will be demonstrating how to incorporate data into environmental investigations. They will introduce the organisation and the way they work, and showcase some of their digital tools, including #PowerTracker (renewable energy), #WildEye (wildlife trafficking) and #MineAlert (mining licences) to show how data can uncover hidden environmental harms. An Oxpeckers journalist, Andiswa Matikinca, will also walk participants through her award-winning investigation into lithium smugglers as a real-world example of data in action.

On Wednesday, 18 February, at 17:00 CET connect here

Agenda :

• Introduction by the host, Agnès Vernet
• Introduction Oxpeckers + our tools, Roxanne Joseph
• Real world example of using our tools + incorporating data into environmental investigation, Andiswa Matikinca
• Q&A
• Close

The speakers :

Andiswa Matikinca joined Oxpeckers in September 2018 to manage their extractives digital tool, #MineAlert, and has worked as an associate journalist across all the unit’s mobile and web-based tools. In 2025, she won an International Anti-Corruption Excellence (ACE) Award for her groundbreaking work in the Oxpeckers collaboration investigating cross-border lithium smuggling. She is a graduate of Rhodes University, where she majored in journalism, media studies and sociology, and in 2025 she started pursuing a postgraduate diploma in Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch University.

Roxanne Joseph heads up the Oxpeckers Academy, training journalists, academics and conservationists from across the globe. She has been working with Oxpeckers since 2018, inter alia managing the unit’s environmental crime programme and digital tool #WildEye, and their #PowerTracker programme. She graduated from Wits University with an honours degree in journalism and media studies.

Agnès Vernet is the president of EFSJ. She is a French freelance journalist.