African Academy for Open Source Investigation (AAOSI) Fellowship 2025 in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal – YOA

Deadline: February 12, 2025

Applications are open for the African Academy for Open Source Investigation (AAOSI) Fellowship 2025. Code for Africa (CfA) is providing African Academy for Open Source Investigation (AAOSI) Fellowships to mentor newsrooms/organisations in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.

The programme goals to equip journalists from investigative media and watchdog NGOs with open-supply intelligence (OSINT) and SOCMINT forensic evaluation abilities to supply proof-pushed evaluation of data manipulation and interference (IMI) and coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB), in addition to to help entry to credible info. The AAOSI is part of the joint initiative by CfA’s CivicSignal AI/machine-studying crew, iLAB forensic analysis crew, and PesaCheck reality-checking crew.

Programme Details

The Fellowship goals to boost info integrity in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal by tackling misinformation, hate speech, and propaganda, whereas additionally strengthening native media and civil society resilience.

The programme will encompass:

• Financial help: The chosen newsrooms or organisations will obtain a modest grant to cowl eligible actions and prices.
• Technical help: CfA will supply arms-on technical coaching, adopted by one-on-one undertaking mentorship, together with help from CfA’s knowledge technologists, knowledge analysts, multimedia producers, and editors. 
• Publishing help: The newsrooms or organisations will publish content material packages generated underneath the undertaking on their respective media platforms and will even obtain help to publish internationally. 
• Growing attain: CfA will supply amplification/progress help, together with scaling/syndication help.

Eligibility

• The newsroom/CSO have to be registered as a media organisation or digital outlet in  Côte d’Ivoire or Senegal, with an specific concentrate on audiences in Africa.
• The newsroom/CSO should have a minimal of 1 yr of expertise in journalism, with a robust desire for investigative or knowledge journalism.
• The newsroom/CSO should have proof of studies produced and revealed, with the newest no more than two months in the past.
• The newsroom/CSO should decide to well timed and open communication from the administration and assigned journalists.
• The applicant have to be connected or affiliated to a media home or digital information outlet or related organisation the place content material produced through the undertaking will likely be revealed. This additionally applies to freelance journalists.
• The applicant should decide to publishing/disseminating their work on an acceptable public platform. CfA will help with partnerships/syndications the place acceptable.
• The applicant should decide to agreed-on weekly on-line coaching and mentorship periods.
• The applicant have to be prepared to share their new abilities and data inside their organisation, by presenting their initiatives and methods to their friends.
• The applicant have to be fluent in both of the languages of tuition and mentorship: English or French.

Application

If your organisation is eligible, apply by no later than Wednesday, 12 February 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to AAOSI Fellowship.