Code for Africa (CfA) AI Ethics Fellowship 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: April 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Code for Africa (CfA) AI Ethics Fellowship 2025. Code for Africa (CfA), via the Digitalise Youth consortium, is providing two fellowships to mid-profession professionals with expertise in digital governance, coverage and rights who need to make an affect in Africa’s AI panorama. They are looking for consultants based mostly within the Sahel, in addition to neighbouring nations in West and East Africa.

Under this fellowship, chosen candidates will develop analysis and coverage suggestions for the moral adoption of AI instruments in governance and civic know-how sectors, preserving the safeguarding of people on the centre of the work. Candidates will do that by analysing regional rules (e.g., AU Cyber Security Convention, ECOWAS knowledge legal guidelines) and international requirements (GDPR, OECD AI Principles) whereas designing methods to mitigate bias and advocate for inclusive AI insurance policies.

Fellows will produce key deliverables reminiscent of AI office insurance policies, culturally knowledgeable affect assessments, regulatory studies, and threat evaluations. Applicants ought to, subsequently, have expertise in coverage/regulation drafting or assessment in addition to privateness or digital legal guidelines and frameworks. Candidates with expertise in areas reminiscent of AI ethics, know-how ethics, or the societal affect of know-how, significantly regarding weak populations could have a bonus.

Selected fellows will obtain help from CfA’s TechLab, DataLab, and AI Sandbox, alongside the Digitalise Youth consortium’s coverage advisors and international moral AI networks. Partners embrace digital rights organisations, assume tanks, and democratic governance consultants. Fellows will achieve strategic assets to refine their frameworks, from technical steerage to coverage advocacy platforms.

Benefits

• Stipend: $500/month 
• Mentorship – Guidance from CfA’s TechLab and help from associate establishments at Digitalise Youth consortium. 
• Training: Access to related programs and coaching on info integrity and digital safety. 
• Real world affect: OPPORTUNITY to share suggestions and interact in international discussions on AI ethics in Africa
• Networking: Collaborate with the consortium and its regional networks.
• Showcasing: Present capstone initiatives to native, nationwide, continental, and international companions and at occasions.

Eligibility

They search coverage consultants and ethicists with:

• Governance Expertise – Background in coverage improvement, regulatory compliance, or digital rights associated to know-how, knowledge or innovation.
• Policy Drafting – Skill in creating tips, authorized briefs, or advisory studies.
• Global Frameworks – Knowledge of GDPR, OECD AI Principles, or UNESCO’s AI ethics suggestions.
• Privacy & Security – Familiarity with knowledge safety legal guidelines and human rights issues.
• Bias Mitigation – Experience conducting equity audits or moral threat assessments.
• Technical Collaboration – Ability to translate moral rules into actionable technical specs for builders.
• Advocacy Skills – Track file of influencing coverage or company AI practices.
• Cultural Sensitivity – Understanding of AI’s socio-cultural impacts on marginalised teams.
• Experience working with African civil society or multilateral establishments.
• Fluency in both English/French/Arabic (multilingual candidates most popular).
• Location: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia.
• Applicants should reveal a dedication to African communities.

Application

Eligible candidates are invited to fill the application type by April 14, 2025 to affix a transformative cohort of innovators addressing the Sahel’s most urgent challenges via moral AI.

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For extra info, go to CfA AI Ethics Fellowship.