Code Africa was a fringe event at this year's Times CEO Summit Africa. More about it here: The Times Code Jam
De-Code Africa allows users to find out more about Africa through an interactive interface that overlays any country on Africa for comparison, to shed light on the true size of the under-reported continent. Anurag Kapur, a digital engineer at News International, Tom Woolway from Twitter, Andrew Mugoya from Asilia Creative, Anibe Agamah from The Telegraph, and Felix Greaves, a public health registrar at the NHS and co-founder of Medicine Africa - an online learning platform that connects doctors from the continent - worked on the prototype.
Source: [Anurag's Blog](http://blog.anuragkapur.com/post/52100563449/code-africa-hack-weekend-the-times "Anurag's Blog")The web app is deployed on Google App Engine and can be viewed here Uses:
- Java 1.6
- App engine datastore (GAE NoSQL Database)