Internet Society Peering Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: May 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Internet Society Peering Fellowship 2025. In right now’s world, the place challenges are intertwined, navigating the complexities of the Internet requires a deep understanding of the dynamics of peering and site visitors trade. The Peering Fellowship helps people making Internet entry reasonably priced, dependable, and resilient by enhancing native Internet interconnection infrastructure and advocating for an enabling coverage setting that helps a thriving Internet ecosystem.

This participating six-month program is designed to equip 15 peering and interconnection professionals with abilities, information, and instruments to handle interconnection and peering challenges whereas maximizing alternatives that develop the Internet and develop the group at peering occasions. This fellowship is among the ways in which the Internet Society is supporting reasonably priced and dependable entry efforts. 

Benefits

This program brings the OPPORTUNITY so that you can:

• Join a community of educated Internet leaders who proceed to develop their abilities and competencies, actively assist Internet Society’s mission, and advocate for an open, globally linked, safe, and reliable Internet.
• Deepen your topic experience via coaching from skilled peering professionals
• Benefit from sharing networks, studying from one another’s approaches, working collectively, and forging relationships that can considerably improve peering and interconnection efforts in your group, nation, and area throughout related peering occasions.
• Contribute to creating Internet entry reasonably priced, dependable, and resilient by enhancing native Internet interconnection infrastructure and advocating for an enabling coverage setting that helps a thriving Internet ecosystem.

Peering Events

These are in-particular person occasions the place regional peering stakeholders come collectively to handle challenges, have a good time wins, and join with one another. Each fellow attends one assigned regionally related occasion over the course of the fellowship.

Travel assist for one peering occasion:

• A spherical-journey air ticket to 1 peering occasion.
• Hotel lodging in the course of the occasion.
• A set stipend for extra wants.
• Note that the Internet Society doesn’t supply monetary assist for visa-associated prices, and journey preparations are particularly fastened for the calendarized workshop dates solely.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be people actively engaged in Internet coverage, enterprise, and/or technical growth associated to peering and transit.
• Based or residing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Africa, or the Asia-Pacific (APAC) area.*
• Have a passport legitimate till June 2026 to have the ability to journey to the occasions.
  • LAC, legitimate till April 2026
  • APAC, legitimate till June 2026
  • Africa, legitimate till February 2026
• Are in a position to attend classes and journey to considered one of these occasions:
  • AfPIF, 19-21 August 2025
  • LACNOG, 6-10 October 2025
  • Peering Asia, 4-6 November 2025
• Have no less than 3 years of expertise within the Internet business.
• Availability to totally take part within the six-month expertise.
• Be obtainable for digital conferences between 11:00-15:00 UTC.
• Have dependable entry to broadband Internet connection and related gadgets.
• Have a working proficiency degree in verbal and written English. (This fellowship can be delivered in English).
• Be in a position to totally take part within the six-month expertise which requires a dedication of roughly 4 hours every week.

* Participants from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States are inspired to apply.

Application

All functions can be reviewed anonymously in two rounds by two separate overview committees. This is finished through blind choice, so committee members won’t entry demographic knowledge i.e. identify, area and many others.

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For extra data, go to Internet Society Peering Fellowship.