CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: TECH POLICY FELLOWSHIP, 2024-25

Our work at Tech Global Institute is rooted in advancing equity for the Global Majority on the Internet. We focus on the design, governance and processes that underpin modern technologies, and have a profound impact on Global Majority communities. Past efforts have focused on specific harms. We are primarily interested in why these harms happen in the first place. We investigate the assumptions underlying policies, products and processes shaping the Internet and explore the systemic issues that lead to downstream online experiences.

The past decade has witnessed tremendous technological progress. However, much of the debate on the policies governing them have excluded Global Majority communities. As a result, these policies are disconnected from lived realities, undermine fundamental rights, exacerbate the opportunity gap, and risk harming people.

Thematic Areas

Applicants may submit a project proposal that responds to one or more of the following thematic areas within Global Majority contexts:

• Platform accountability, particularly in the areas of:
  • Privacy
  • Content moderation
  • Algorithmic transparency
  • Policy creation
  • User experience and access to complaints/recourse
• Global Internet governance
• National or international regulations and laws defining citizens’ online lives, including intermediary liability
• Digital infrastructures, including public digitisation initiatives
• Digital rights, and/or surveillance
• Responsible and inclusive AI with a Global Majority focus

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION VISIT, TECH POLICY FELLOWSHIP