Pollicy Fellowship 2025 for Emerging African Thinkers (Deadline: 4 August, 2025)

Applications are open for the Pollicy Fellowship 2025. Since 2017, the Pollicy Fellowship has been a launchpad for emerging African thinkers, doers, designers, and dreamers. They bring together students, creatives, technologists, researchers, and community organizers to explore how civic technology, digital rights, and feminist data practices can reshape our collective future boldly, creatively, and on African terms.

This is not just a learning opportunity. It’s a chance to be part of something larger than yourself. Fellows co-create real, impactful work that strengthens communities, influences digital policy, and sparks lasting change. If you are driven by purpose and powered by curiosity, they want to hear from you.

Pollicy aims to recruit and empower 3 fellows to support its various data initiatives for the 2025 fellowship program, which will include:

• Francophone Community Engagement Fellow
• Grants & Growth Fellow
• Games Design Fellow

Benefits

• Stipend: USD 500/month + internet allowance
• Direct contribution to real Pollicy projects
• Weekly mentorship and learning sessions
• A platform to publish your work (toolkits, blogs, campaigns, games)
• A final public-facing project
• Access to a growing community of alumni and collaborators

Eligibility

They encourage applications from:

• Students, early-career professionals, activists, creatives, technologists, and researchers;
• Those with experience in community organizing, civic tech, research, storytelling, policy, or design;
• Individuals from underrepresented groups and communities;
• People based in Africa especially East, West, and Central Africa.

Application

For more information, visit Pollicy Fellowship.