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