The Global Fellows program has a single objective: to get ordinary citizens and stakeholders involved in decision-making.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Nous faisons face à une polycrise, c'est-à-dire une accumulation de crises systémiques qui s'amplifient et s'aggravent mutuellement.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Democracy organizations

Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting justice and equity in their communities.

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• Fellowships

The fellowship invited a team of three fellows to combine artistic, technical, and ethnographic methods to produce an interactive online space for exploring a particular aspect of self-governance, as well as a speculative ethnography detailing their the team's working process and the implications of their work in the context of an evolving landscape of where and how governance happens online.

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions
• Governance of AI

The summer institute is intended primarily for advanced PhD candidates, advanced law and medical students, post-docs, assistant professors and early career researchers seeking to better understand and address disinformation, but more senior scholars and practitioners who have recently moved into this domain are also encouraged to apply.

• Fight disinformation
• Academia
• Fellowships

Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development.

• Build something
• Find a job or hire someone
• Open source

• Journalism
• Fellowships

We equip experts and community leaders with the resources they need to speak up, be heard, and have an impact.

• Fellowships
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy

The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) is excited to announce the 3rd TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship

• Media
• Journalism
• Fellowships

Mid-career technologists developing a holistic understanding of the civic landscape in the UK and beyond, to found groundbreaking projects or seek strategic positions in key institutions.

• Fellowships

Beginning with an intensive 2-year Immersion, Keseb’s Fellowship provides ongoing support and community to a mosaic of leading and established national Democracy Entrepreneurs and organizations from Brazil, South Africa, and the United States.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships offer journalists an opportunity to step back from demands of daily work and spend an academic year at Stanford University reimagining the future of journalism.

• Journalism
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• Fellowships

Where student voices shape the narrative of democracy.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Narrative tech

The Congressional Technology & Policy Fellowship is a six-week professional development program designed specifically for key Congressional staff who want to ensure that their policies achieve real-world impact.

• The People
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

The Civic Tech Scholars [paid] internship program empowers emerging leaders in STEAM fields with practical skills and knowledge through real life social impact projects and a robust network of mentors.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Encouraging talented individuals to advance their research in the areas of data science, public policy, demographics, digital art, creative industries, and economic development.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Datasphere Initiative Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for graduate students and young professionals to work on novel research and dialogue related to data governance.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Data governance

New initiative brings nine experts with federal government experience to work with the FAS and Tech & Society’s Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, the Knight-Georgetown Institute, and the Institute for Technology Law & Policy.

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative centers human rights and democracy in technology and policy debates.

• human rights

• Fellowships
• Civil society research outfits

Since 2023, Omidyar Network’s Reporters in Residence program has empowered freelance journalists to pursue rigorous reporting that drives national conversations and informs policy debates.

• Journalism
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

A 12-week fellowship in AI Safety and Governance for junior researchers and government staff in Southeast Asia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Connecticut Governor’s Fellowship Program offers a unique opportunity to serve at the forefront of public innovation.

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Building on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.

• Academia
• Fellowships

The envisaged participants of this Capacity Building Programme are high-level officials from developing countries.

• United Nations
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Our THIRD annual fellowship program to support work from-the-ground-up on border and migration technologies is open!

• migration

• Fellowships

A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies.

• Get funding
• Fellowships
• Open source supply chain

The AI Governance Fellowship is a pioneering program dedicated to advancing the fairness and integrity of AI technologies in the Global South, with a focus on African nations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

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• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Pulitzer Center: Working with journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of the communities affected by AI technologies, the Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Fellowships

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Fellowships
• Accelerators

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

The Fellowship program is essentially a 5-month incubator program to support democracy tech entrepreneurs.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Newspeak House

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Find a job or hire someone

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Open justice

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

FUSE increases the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone.

• Fellowships

The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosts democracy activists, scholars, and journalists for five-month fellowships, bringing fresh insights and perspectives to Washington, DC.

• Media
• Fellowships

The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.

• youth

• Fellowships

The Information Futures Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the ongoing information crisis.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships