Deadline: 14 April, 2025
Applications are now open for Code for Africa’s (CfA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Good Fellowship 2025.
Under this fellowship, technologists will support human rights-defending organisations to build on their existing AI-based initiatives and resources or develop new tools or solutions.
Benefits
- A $500 monthly stipend
- Mentorship from CfA’s TechLab and Support from partner institutions at the Digitise Youth Consortium
- Opportunity to work with human rights-defending organisations to implement solutions to existing challenges
- Present capstone projects to local, national, continental, and global partners at events
Eligibility
- Demonstrated experience in developing AI-driven solutions that enhance civic information, support human rights defenders or address societal challenges.
- Expertise in collecting, cleaning, and analysing socio-economic or environmental datasets
- Skilled in co-creating solutions with communities and CSOs
- Prototyping Experience – Track record of testing AI solutions in resource-constrained settings
- Ability to design tools for broad adoption across diverse regions
- Experience in AI modelling (NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics)
- Commitment to fairness, transparency, and inclusivity in AI design
- Experience working with policymakers or grassroots organisations
- Fluency in either English/French/Arabic
- Familiarity with open-source tools and open-data principles
- Applicants must demonstrate ties to African communities
- Must be from any of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia.
To apply and for more information, click here.
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