Cheikh Fall

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https://africtivistes.net/en/africtivistes-en/

AfricTivistes's own English "About" page — primary source for Cheikh Fall as President of AfricTivistes since the November 2015 Dakar founding, alongside Vice-President Cyriac G. Gbogou, and for the organisation's origin as "the union of bloggers and web-activists from across the continent to promote and defend democracy"; already cited in org-africtivistes

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https://africtivistes.com/en/home/

AfricTivistes's own English homepage — primary source for the organisation's present-day self-description and headquarters (Liberté 6 extension villa N°263, Dakar, Senegal); supports Fall's current Dakar base as President; already cited in org-africtivistes

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https://www.boell.de/en/2021/09/22/senegal-if-i-dont-know-i-ask-if-i-know-i-share

Heinrich Böll Stiftung 22 September 2021 long-form feature "Senegal: If I don't know, I ask – if I know, I share" — independent canonical secondary source for Cheikh Fall's politicisation following the 2007 Senegalese presidential election; the chronology of his Sunu2012 platform deploying citizen e-observers with mobile phones to polling stations during the February–March 2012 Senegalese presidential election and delivering preliminary results by 9 p.m. on election day; his organising of cyber-activist cohorts across the continent after 2012; his role co-founding AfricTivistes at the November 2015 Dakar summit with 150 participants; and Fall's canonical framing of AfricTivistes at founding as a network of "200 cyber-activists from 35 different countries on the continent"

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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1094673/cheikh-fall-reve-afrique-africtivistes

Radio-Canada feature "Cheikh Fall rêve l'Afrique" — independent secondary source for Fall's 2010 launch of the "Citoyen au Sénégal" participatory platform, his 2011 launch of the Senegalese election-monitoring platform, his Dakar base, and his framing of the African digital-democracy movement as a "soft revolution" enabled by software; corroborates the founding chronology and the West-African-cohort scale that AfricTivistes records on its own site

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Fall_(expert_num%C3%A9rique)

French Wikipedia article on Cheikh Fall — primary biographical source for the 31 August 1981 birth date in Diourbel, Senegal; the online pseudonym Cypher007; the bachelor's degree from Université de Picardie Jules-Verne (2008–2012) and master's from Université Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée (2012–2014); the 2006–2016 tenure as Regional Programme Coordinator for the West Africa office of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF); the 2016–2017 tenure as Director of Digital at Groupe Futurs Médias; the 2010 ruepublique.net participatory platform; the 2014 membership of UNESCO's "Youth Civic Engagement" expert group; the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Net-citoyen Prize nomination; the 2014 Deutsche Welle "Best Online of Activism" nomination; and the 2019 Intelligences Magazine ranking among the fifty most influential young people in Senegal; already cited in org-africtivistes for the AfricTivistes founding chronology

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http://www.socialnetlink.org/2016/07/consolidation-democratique-en-afrique-par-les-tic-le-web-activiste-senegalais-cheikh-fall-honore

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Socialnetlink 5 July 2016 report — independent secondary source for Fall's 2016 Diakonia Prize (diploma awarded by the Swedish humanitarian organisation Diakonia at AFRICAPACITES 2016 in Burkina Faso for "democratic consolidation in Africa through ICT") and for his prior position as Coordinator for distance-learning programmes at the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie; corroborates the AUF affiliation that the French Wikipedia article records as the 2006–2016 Regional Programme Coordinator role

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https://africtivistes.com/en/ai-in-elections-and-the-challenge-to-information-integrity/

AfricTivistes's own English-language report on its joint study with Democracy Reporting International testing the reliability of five major chatbots on the 17 November 2024 Senegalese legislative elections — primary source for AfricTivistes's published positions on AI-and-elections, which Fall leads as the organisation's President; already cited in org-africtivistes

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https://africtivistes.com/en/speech-by-cheikh-fall-president-of-africtivistes-at-the-opening-of-the-fifafrica-forum-26th-27th-september-2024-dakar-senegal/

AfricTivistes 26–27 September 2024 record of Fall's opening speech as President of AfricTivistes at the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica24) in Dakar — primary source for his continuing presidency in 2024 and for his role as Africtivistes's principal public-facing voice on African internet-freedom and digital-democracy convening