Fellowships
Find your fellowship in civic tech or a related field. We track over 40 paid and unpaid fellowships around the world. You can share any fellowships we're missing here.
Governable Space-Makers Fellowship
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...
Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI)
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...
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development.
O'Brien Fellowship In Public Service Journalism
Aspen Policy Academy
We equip experts and community leaders with the resources they need to speak up, be heard, and have an impact.
The Reporters’ Collective investigative reporting fellowship
The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) is excited to announce the 3rd TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship
London College of Political Technology 2025/26 cohort
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.
Keseb Democracy Fellowship
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 B...
John S. Knight Journalism 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.
Civic Story Lab Fellowship
Where student voices shape the narrative of democracy.
Congressional Technology & Policy Fellowship
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-wo...
Civic Tech Scholars
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...
BFI Fellows
Encouraging talented individuals to advance their research in the areas of data science, public policy, demographics, digital art, creative industries, and economic development.
Datasphere Fellowship Program
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.
Georgetown Federal Alumni Fellows and Digital Service Alumni Fellows
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 In...
Atlantic Council Democracy + Tech Initiative
The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative centers human rights and democracy in technology and policy debates.
Reporters in Residence (Omidyar)
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.
AISA Governance Academy
A 12-week fellowship in AI Safety and Governance for junior researchers and government staff in Southeast Asia
Connecticut Governor's Fellowship
The Connecticut Governor’s Fellowship Program offers a unique opportunity to serve at the forefront of public innovation.
Fritz Family Fellowship at Georgetown University Tech & Society
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 o...
Portugal Digital Fellowship at United Nations University
The envisaged participants of this Capacity Building Programme are high-level officials from developing countries.
Migration and Technology Monitor Fellowship
Our THIRD annual fellowship program to support work from-the-ground-up on border and migration technologies is open!
Fellowship for Maintainers
A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies.
The AI Governance Fellowship
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.
Civic Changemakers Fellowship
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 civ...
The Democracy Machine
Eyebeam artists fellowship
Engaged Athlete Fellowship
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 broad...
Digital Impact Alliance Research Fellowship
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 exper...
AI Accountability Network
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...
OSLabs
OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.
The Landecker Democracy Fellowship
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 spa...
Municipalism Cohort Fellowship
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 organizer...
AI Accountability 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...
The Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Fellowship program is essentially a 5-month incubator program to support democracy tech entrepreneurs. Our fellows are selected through hackathon, ideathon and pitch-competitions locally in Ukrain...
JournalismAI Fellowship Programme
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 journ...
Newspeak House Residency
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...
Movement School
We aim to translate activist power into political power by changing how we develop campaign leadership.
Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship
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.
Sovereign Tech Agency
Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest
Advancing Democracy Fellowship
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 th...
The Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship
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 c...
Judicial Innovation Fellowship Program
The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.
SMEX Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights
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...
Green Web Fellowship
The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.
Fuse Corps
FUSE increases the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone.
Hurford Youth Fellowship
The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosts democracy activists, scholars, and journalists for five-month fellowships, bringing fresh insights and perspectives to Washington, DC.
Information Futures Lab Fellows Program
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 re...
African Digital Democracy Observatory Resident Fellows
The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use...
Emerson Collective Fellowship
Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.