Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington DC Global Majority AI Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: Rolling Basis

Applications are open for the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington DC Global Majority AI Fellowship 2026. The Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC is happy to announce its Global Majority AI Fellowship, a brand new initiative to assist civil society consultants from the Global South to take part within the first session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, societies, and day by day life world wide, but the few present governance frameworks meant to information its growth stay overwhelmingly formed by the home pursuits of a small variety of nations and the firms headquartered inside them. The Global Dialogue on AI Governance (Global Dialogue) is a brand new multilateral, recurring discussion board established by the UN General Assembly in August 2025 fulfilling a dedication made within the Global Digital Compact. The goal of the Global Dialogue is to make sure that AI governance displays the priorities of all nations and that the advantages of AI are shared broadly. It will solely be by means of efficient civil society participation that the Global Dialogue will obtain these targets.

The first session takes place in Geneva from 6 – 7 July 2026, again-to-again with an ITU Summit and the WSIS Forum. A second session will observe in New York in May 2027. The fellowship goals to bridge the primary assembly in Geneva with the second assembly in New York.

Benefits

• Travel Costs: The Heinrich Böll Foundation will cowl the price of worldwide flights, transportation to and from airports, and as much as three nights of lodging in Geneva.
• Global Dialogue Registration: The Foundation will facilitate convention registration, accreditation, and entry.
• Visibility and Platform: Before the Global Dialogue, chosen fellows can be promoted on social media channels to create a visual on-line platform round their goals and to amplify essential political messages associated to the Global Dialogue.

Eligibility

• They search candidates who’re rising or skilled leaders and consultants engaged on AI governance, digital rights, information justice, environmental and local weather justice, or associated fields with a concentrate on the worldwide dimensions of AI coverage as activists, native officers, college students, researchers, or technologists.
• Regional background: They are in search of candidates based mostly in international locations receiving Official Development Assistance.

Application

Applications supplies despatched to the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC ought to include:

• Resume: use an ordinary resume or CV format. They suggest a most of two pages and never together with an image or marital standing. Include your nation of residence and gender.
• Motivational assertion: write a brief (max 300 phrases) reflection on the largest problem you see for AI governance proper now. How do you plan to deal with it and what are steps that you’re presently taking? How will your participation on the Global Dialogue allow you to in advancing these targets?

The Heinrich Böll Foundation AI Fellows can be chosen from those that each apply to the official UN AI Dialogue 2026 Call for Participation Support and ship application supplies to the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC through [email protected] and [email protected].

For extra info, go to Global Majority AI Fellowship.