Internet Society Mid-Career Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Internet Society Mid-Career Fellowship 2026. The Mid-Career Fellowship is a novel OPPORTUNITY that provides 15 Fellows unparalleled entry to world-class academic establishments and consultants in a seven-month program, from June by December. It equips world mid-profession Internet champions with the information, abilities, and instruments to allow inclusive, progressive, holistic, and strategic management.

The fellows work all through 5 modules which have reside lectures and assessments and culminate in a symposium to showcase the work they’ve accomplished. The program additionally consists of seminars on developments, comparable to digital geopolitics, management in VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) environments, and advocacy and communications, sensible case research and cross-sector networking.

The core content material areas lined are: the Internet Critical Properties and Enablers, Digital Transformation and Key Internet Issues, Digital Futures and Strategic Foresight, Systems and Design Thinking, and Leadership and Decision-making.

Eligibility

Candidates should be mid profession professionals in management roles, working within the Internet ecosystem in a technical, coverage, financial, or social capability. They are welcome to apply in the event that they:

• Have a minimum of 10 years of related expertise, together with main or managing groups and/or tasks, within the Internet house in a technical, coverage, financial, societal, or different capability.
• Currently work able/group that’s addressing digital challenges or going through digital disruption and transformation.
• Want to resolve issues, work in multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary groups, and purchase new information and abilities.
• Want to make sure that the Internet stays open, globally linked, safe, and reliable.

In addition, candidates should:

• Have dependable entry to broadband Internet connection and related units.
• Be in a position to totally take part within the seven-month expertise which requires a dedication of roughly six hours every week.
• Have a proficiency degree in verbal and written English.

They strongly encourage candidates from Least Developed Countries (LDC), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Asia Pacific (APAC).

Application

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For extra info, go to Internet Society Mid-Career Fellowship.