Migration and Technology Fellowship Program 2025 (Up to $30,000)

Deadline: December 31, 2024

Applications are open for the Migration and Technology Fellowship Program 2025. Through the third 12 months of the Migration and Technology fellowship program, Migration + Tech Monitor goals to proceed creating alternatives for folks with lived expertise of migration to meaningfully contribute to analysis, storytelling, coverage, implementation of know-how and advocacy conversations from the beginning, and not as an afterthought.

Among their goals is a collaborative, mental, and advocacy group dedicated to border and migration justice. They prioritize alternatives for participatory work, together with the power to pitch distinctive and related initiatives by affected communities themselves.

Fellows to date have labored on initiatives starting from the utilization of WhatsApp and social media for useful resource sharing, to a chatbot designed to facilitate entry to authorized providers, analysis and reporting on the surveillance of cellular and occupied communities, academic packages on digital rights and ICT expertise, technical assist for folks on the transfer at borders, a social media platform devoted to the recollections of individuals on the transfer, and social media data providers for migrant employees, amongst others.

Stipend

• Up to $30,000 for 12 months for profitable candidates.

Eligibility

• You are presently in an energetic scenario of compelled migration, displacement (externally and internally), or occupation.
• You have arrived in your host group and discover it exhausting to get entry to assets for the implementation of an concept.
• Your lived expertise of migration or displacement impressed you within the growth of a venture that can have a constructive affect on cellular or migrated communities.

Technology already has and could have an ever-increasing affect on the lifetime of all folks. They are concerned with a variety of concepts that heart the intersection of know-how and migration, comparable to:

• Research: Do you want monetary assist for a analysis venture that offers with the affect of know-how on cellular, migrated, or occupied communities? They need to know extra.
• Journalism: Are you a displaced, migrated or presently migrating journalist? Or are you a member of a group below compelled occupation? Do you need to report on how know-how is used within the discipline of migration? Explain how. 
• Culture: As an individual with lived expertise of migration, displacement or occupation, would you like to make using know-how in these communities seen by means of a cultural venture? Very fascinating. What do you keep in mind?
• Education: Do you need to use your story of migration, displacement, or occupation to train future generations how to use and to defend themselves in opposition to know-how? Do you need to use the intersection of migration and know-how so as to create consciousness in an academic setting? Tell them what you need to do.
• Tech-in-use: Do you could have first-hand expertise with how know-how has made the life of individuals on the transfer or below occupation harder? Are you impressed to develop programs and initiatives that need to use know-how in assist of cellular communities?
• Tech and the Environment: Are you an individual with lived expertise of migration and/or occupation and have you ever witnessed how the event of know-how for the worldwide North is inflicting environmental points with severe repercussions to your group? Do you witness the exploitation of employees in mines producing supplies which are wanted for the manufacturing of know-how? Kindly share. 

Application

Rough concepts are greater than welcome and they appear ahead to workshopping them with you. Copy/paste the next construction right into a phrase doc (ideally in English, however be at liberty to write in your native language).

• Project plan (up to 1200 phrases in whole) 
  • Project discipline (select one) 
Research I Journalism I Culture I Education I Tech-in-use I Tech and Environment / Other (fill in): 
  • What is your venture about? Please give us a short description of what you keep in mind?
  • What is the supposed impact of your venture? Let them know.
  • Where, how, and probably with whom would you like to implement your venture? Just a few phrases, nothing has to be set in stone but. 
  • What would you utilize the cash for? Give us a obscure concept of how to spend your grant. Traveling? Equipment? Personnel? Additional Education? Living bills can be factored into this calculation. A tough estimate is sufficient, we don’t want an express price range. 
  • How will cellular or migrated communities profit out of your venture? Let us find out about your imaginative and prescient. 
• Personal assertion (500 phrases in your language or video): Explain how your lived experiences impressed you to provide you with your concept, what permits you to flip your venture imaginative and prescient into actuality, how and why you establish as a member of a cellular, migrated, or occupied group, and why you assume the MTM ought to choose you.

Submit all supplies (+ questions) to [email protected]

For extra data, go to Migration and Technology Fellowship.