Decentralised Data Marketplace and Workforce for Fair Data Economy
Empowering African youth through Data, Digital and Green skilling for high-quality localised datasets, driving access to decent job opportunities, climate action, and inclusive socio-economic growth.
FEATURES
Here is why you should choose Wadata
Data Quality Assurance
Built to ensure data collected, verified and shared for use is credible and of high‑quality and integrity.
Reduced Cost of Data Acquisition
Optimised to lower the costs of hiring, training, and acquiring localised, context-specific and high-quality datasets.
Verified, Skilled & Ethical Data Workforce
On-demand access to verified, skilled and ethical Data Talents (Collectors, Monitors, Annotators, Contributors, etc) focusing on dignified job placements.
Learn-As-You-Earn
Self‑paced micro‑courses with incentivised Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) to upskill/reskill, boost career development, and job‑readiness.
Job Matching & Income Optimisation
AI‑driven job curation, matching, and success probability assessment for equitable placements, optimised decent earnings, and inclusion of underserved demographics.
Fair Data Monetisation
Increased fair earnings from tokenised microtasks and datasets contributed for real-time decision-making by Data Consumers.
Plug n' Play Data Resource Hub
Decentralised, ready‑to‑use data resource and workforce—reducing recruitment duration by 80%.
Inclusive & User-Friendly Data Access
Data exchange is democratised, inclusive and presented in user-friendly formats for real-time decision making, impactful programming, and local innovations in Africa.
Data Security & Regulatory Compliance
Advanced cybersecurity and decentralised data governance to ensure full compliance with data policies and industry standards.
SERVICES
What Wadata can offer you
Data, Digital & Green Skilling
Curate market-driven microlearnings to upskill and reskill local data talents on data, digital, and green skills for sustainable development.
Data Collection & Verification
Sector-specific data collection and verification for research studies, third-party M&E, beneficiaries tracer surveys, mapping, and impact tracking.
Localised Quality Data for Climate Action
Providing localised, credible and quality data collection and monitoring for Community-Led Climate Actions and Adoption of Green solutions/practices.
Community-Led Data Monitoring & Reporting
Community-based tracking and real-time reporting of SDG progress and development interventions.
Community Data Empowerment
Empowering local communities to own, value and use their data for socio-economic benefits.
High-Quality AI Data Annotation
High-quality data annotation, labelling and validation for AI localisation, machine learning, and local innovations.
Decentralised Data Marketplace
Access to high-quality, localised, credible datasets that is crowdsourced by verified, skilled and ethical community-based data contributors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Digital marketplace where you can find and hire Verified, Skilled and Ethical Data Talents "Data Champs" based in their communities to deliver high-quality, localised and context-specific data tasks/datasets at fair compensation/earnings. Data Champs include Data Collectors, Enumerators, Research Assistants, Data Monitors, Data Contributors, AI Data Annotators and Labellers, Data Transcribers, Data Verifiers, Data Storytellers, Data Verifiers).
Be part of a network of young Africans creating meaningful change and unlock exciting opportunities in data for growth and impact.
1. Verified, Skilled and Ethical Data Workforce
- Q: Are you excited about data and desire to become a Young Data Changemaker “Data Champ” today to drive Africa’s future starting with your local community?
- A: Wadata grants you early access as Data Champ to benefit from on-demand hiring of verified, skilled and ethical Data Talents (Data Collectors, Monitors, Annotators, Contributors, etc) with main focus on job placements.
2. Learn-As-You-Earn
- Q: Do you desire to acquire/build gainful skills in data, digital, and green economies while fairly earning from dignified job opportunities?
- A: Wadata offers self-paced and personalised microlearnings with incentivised Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) to upskill/reskill, boost career development, and job-readiness.
3. Job-Matching and Income Optimisation
- Q: Do you continuously feel like there is a mismatch of your skills and available job opportunities which you find undesirable and offers lower incomes?
- A: Wadata is designed with AI-driven job curation, matching and success probability assessment to reduce job-market entry barriers, optimise decent earnings, and promote inclusivity for underserved demographics (i.e. youth, women and PWDs).
4. Fair Data Monitisation
- Q: Have you previously felt like you earned less than you deserved from a data job/task you delivered well?
- A: Wadata is built to ensure increased fair earnings from tokenised microtasks and monetised datasets contributed for real-time decision-making by Data Consumers.
Creating an inclusive digital platform offering opportunities for African youth in underserved communities (both rural and urban settings) is core to Wadata’s mission. Therefore, Wadata seeks to minimise entry barriers in offering entry-to-advanced level job-ready skills that can empower Data Champs to start earning a dignified and decent income while they actively contribute their growing data, digital and green skills to tackling local-to-global challenges from where they live. Thus, the minimum requirement for a Data Champ to join Wadata as:
- Aged between 18 - 35 years
- Ability to quickly learn new skills and adapt?
- Very passionate about continuously learning/upskilling, building careers, and creating social impact for their community through data, digital or green skills (sustainable practices to tackling climate issues).
- Literate (can read and write) in their Local Dialect, Swahili, and/or English
- Good communicator (can speak and translate fluently) in their Local Dialect, Swahili, and/or English)
- Active citizen who understands their local community context (Geographical area, issues, and language)
- Owns a smart device (phone, tablet or laptop)
- A minimum KCSE certification (or its equivalent) will be an added advantage
The minimum requirements may vary from country-to-country depending on local contexts.
Successfully joining Wadata follows the below seven (7) steps:
The table below gives a summary of the four (4) short-courses currently offered on Wadata with corresponding estimated duration and requirement.
| Course Title | Estimated Duration | Requirement |
| Course 1: Quality Data Collection Skills for Sustainable Development | 3 -4 Days (Full Day) | Mandatory (Instructor-paced): Before platform full onboarding/listing |
| Course 2: Sector-specific Quality Data Collection and Use | 2 weeks | Self-paced: Online microlearning with to be taken after being verified on Wadata. |
| Course 3: High-Quality Data Annotation for AI Localisation in Africa | 2 weeks | Self-paced |
| Course 4: Lean Practices in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) | 4 weeks | Self-paced |
Each course has corresponding number of short modules curated for specific skills such as:
- Understanding and applying ethical consideration in research and data collection.
- Understanding and applying data protection and privacy practices while collecting and handling data.
- Effective skills for gathering quality data for both individual interviews and facilitating group discussions.
- Understanding various digital data collection tools and how to effectively use them for quality data collection.
- Sampling techniques commonly used for selecting the right survey participants to interview.
- Key knowledge and skills required for collecting quality data for specific industries/sectors such as health, agriculture, etc
- Key knowledge and skills required for collecting, labelling, and validating high-quality and context-specific datasets for training and testing localised AI models.
- Crucial Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) best practices for organisations, startups and businesses, industries, etc.
Modules are detailed on Wadata Learning platform here: https://skilling.wadata.africa/
Upon completion of the training and verified as skilled and ethical Data Champ, you can be hired or look for jobs opportunities such as:
| Wadata Courses | Relevant Job Opportunities |
| Course 1 Modules | Data Enumerator/Collector Research Assistant Data Monitor Data Contributor (for Data Marketplaces) Data Transcriber/Translator Data Entry Operator Data Verifier Data Storyteller |
| Course 2 Modules | |
| Course 3 Modules | Data Annotator Data Labeller AI Data Validator |
| Course 4 Modules | Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Assistant/Officer |