Raza Dotani
I build the digital infrastructure that lets serious journalism, advocacy, and organizational voice work where it is hardest to sustain.
I have built and run independent media, managed bilingual news platforms, and now I build digital systems that organizations keep running after I leave.
Point of view
I don't build for portfolios. I build things that still work after I've moved on.
Live radio. A border newsroom. A platform with no ads. Constraint is the material. The work is whatever still runs when he is not in the room.
Every number here traces to a source.
The work is still paper before it is a system.
Notes, a table, a person who still writes things down. Then the systems other people can run.
Selected work
Three records. Each one is a door into the full write-up.
01
Aware Pakistan
A publishing platform with no ads, still running on process.
02
Tribal Post
A civilian newsroom on the border, built from inside the region.
03
Tribal News Network
Bilingual digital operations a team could run without him.
How important work gets done
- Understand the problem. Paid discovery. A fixed-scope proposal.
- Build against that scope. Documented decisions. Changes in writing.
- Hand off. Documentation, training, deploy, a short support window.
- Leave. No retainer required. The organization runs the system.
Credibility
- IVLP, U.S. Department of State, 2015
- Internews Small Media Grant, 2017
- Bytes For All, Training of Trainers, 2014
For
Media organizations, NGOs, civil society, serious founders who need a system they will own.
Not for
The cheapest gig. Values-misaligned work. Heavy custom applications as the main job.