Joshua Olufemi is the Founder and Publisher of Dataphyte. Joshua Olufemi is a media innovation and development entrepreneur who believes that the media can recreate itself as a viable and sustainable pillar of good governance and global development.
Joshua has built an enviable career in the African media development and non-profit management sector. He was the pioneer Program Director of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, where he launched the leading social accountability and capacity development platforms in West Africa. These include UDEME (Budget Accountability), DUBAWA (Factchecking) in Nigeria and Ghana, LeaksNG (Whistleblowing and Collaborative Investigative Journalism), PHC Tracker (Primary Health Care Accountability), ElectionsNG (Electoral Accountability) PressAttackNG (Media Freedom), CampusReporterNG (NextGen Media Leadership) SpoorAfrica (Media and Terrorism), PriceBoardNG (Public Procurement Accountability), FAACFacts (Natural Resource Accountability).
Joshua also doubled as the Knowledge and Innovation Lead for the Premium Times online newspaper. There, he launched the Premium Times Data Management Services, Data Service subsidiary of Premium Times. He was the only data journalist in the Premium Times Team that published the multiple award-winning Panama Papers and Paradise Papers in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He has consulted for international organisations including the Publish What You Pay (Norway), The Facility for Oil Sector Transparency in Extractive Sector (FOSTER), Code for Africa and Natural Resouce Governance Institute (NRGI) among others.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Education and a master’s degree in Measurement and Evaluation. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria. Joshua is an alumnus of the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School where he bagged a Certificate in Global Fintech Program. He is also a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow
Mr Olufemi has facilitated several trainings on Fact-checking, Solutions Journalism, Investigative and Data Journalism, Media Advocacy and Media Entrepreneurship.
