Name of the Event: Digital Rights and Inclusion Learning Lab (DRILL) Fellowship
Date: 10 August 2024 - 10 December 2024
Mode: Online
Last Date of Application: 19 July 2024
Link to Apply:
Primary Purpose:
To build expertise on digital rights topics among digital rights actors in the Global South.
To increase advocacy skills among digital rights actors for effective policy influencing in the Global South.
To build a network of digital rights advocates in the Global South
Eligibility:
Region Focus: Africa and India
Target Audience: Potential candidates must be early-career individuals with at least two years of experience as technology or social innovators, media practitioners, researchers, policy experts, and/or entrepreneurs.
Qualifications: Fellows must have relevant undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications and be exceptional individuals who will bring new learnings and innovations and gain exposure to the digital ecosystem.
Fellows’ Responsibilities:
Fellows will be expected to dedicate at least 10 hours per month to the fellowship spread across two meetings and assigned activities during the fellowship.
The fellows will be expected to publish research and deliver an advocacy campaign on digital rights or digital inclusion in Africa and India.
Fellows may have an opportunity to travel to the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) in April 2025 in Lusaka, Zambia and host a session.
The fellowship will end with a closing ceremony on 11 December 2024. The fellowship is open to potential fellows living in Africa and India.
Fellowship Benefits:
PIN will provide a US$1000 stipend to the selected fellows, covering participation in the Fellowship.
Fellow submissions will be published on PIN’s website and shared with the digital rights community.
Fellows will be connected to industry experts who will lead sessions.
Fellows will have an opportunity to join the Net Rights Coalition for continuous engagements.
PIN will cover communications costs associated with fellow activities and provide opportunities for fellows to be embedded within the digital rights ecosystem.
The fellowship will provide editorial and technical support for reports/Policy Briefs and guidance on advocacy campaigns.
We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers at - drill@paradigmhq.org
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