CJID AI for Civil Society Workshop 2025 for CSOs in Nigeria – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications are open for the CJID AI for Civil Society Workshop 2025 for CSOs in Nigeria. The Nigeria AI Collective is worked up to ask civil society organisations (CSOs) throughout Nigeria for a six-month engagement to strengthen AI capability, improve advocacy competence, and foster accountability in the evolving AI ecosystem. This workshop is applied by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), with assist from Luminate.

From capability constructing on AI fundamentals and moral concerns to AI technique improvement and integration assist, chosen CSOs might be higher geared up to interact with the alternatives, dangers, and coverage implications of those applied sciences in Africa.

Benefits

Selected organisations will obtain:

• Training on AI fundamentals, information governance, algorithmic accountability, and moral concerns in AI adoption.
• Advocacy and technique improvement assist to combine AI-focused campaigns into their work.
• Peer studying alternatives via convenings with different CSOs, media actors, technologists, and policymakers.
• Financial assist for CSOs in working AI advocacy campaigns, integrating AI instruments into their operations, or strengthening already developed AI fashions that align with inclusive and moral AI use
• Connection to a rising neighborhood of civil society actors working to form equitable AI governance throughout Africa.

Eligibility

Open to:

• Registered Nigerian CSOs, non-earnings, or advocacy organisations working inside the tech, governance, or civic engagement ecosystem.
• Organisations actively partaking with AI, whether or not via advocacy on AI coverage, digital rights work centered on AI techniques, or tasks that promote moral and inclusive AI governance.
• Organisations at the moment constructing or utilizing AI fashions/instruments in their work, or these exploring tips on how to strategically undertake AI to strengthen their mission.
• Organisations with clear curiosity in scaling their AI capability, significantly to information future interventions or affect AI-related choice-making in their sectors.
• CSOs with a monitor document of neighborhood engagement, advocacy, or digital innovation, seeking to drive AI advocacy or combine AI to drive social influence, enhance accountability, or improve public service supply.

Expectations

Selected organisations might be anticipated to:

• Take part in scheduled workshops, studying periods, and check-ins over the six-month interval.
• Engage with peer organisations and contribute to joint studying.
• Design and implement a small-scale intervention (advocacy marketing campaign and/or neighborhood coaching, and so forth) that promotes consciousness and accountable AI use or governance.
• Develop an AI answer or improve an present device to higher assist your organisation’s work in advocacy, service supply, or neighborhood engagement.
• Submit temporary reviews and updates as required all through this system.
• Develop an AI advocacy toolkit.

Application

To apply, organisations ought to submit:

• A brief cowl letter (most 1 web page) introducing your organisation, stating your curiosity in AI capability-constructing, and highlighting what you hope to achieve from this initiative.
• A 1-web page idea word describing a proposed advocacy or AI answer intervention your organisation may implement throughout the interval of engagement.
• Links to earlier work showcasing your organisation’s previous or ongoing engagements in tech-associated tasks, digital rights, or coverage advocacy.
• Evidence of registration as a authorized entity in Nigeria (CAC certificates or equal doc).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to AI for Society Workshop.