Deadline: 31-Oct-23
The Green Web Foundation is calling for five practitioners in digital rights and climate justice for the next cohort to build bridges across these movements.
This fellowship builds on the findings and opportunities identified by the Green Screen coalition and the landscape analysis it commissioned about this intersection.
Fellows will dedicate half a day per week to work on their fellowship project. In weekly cohort calls, they will collaboratively learn from each other; and they will also learn from other practitioners in the field. Fellows will write a monthly blog post about their experience, and will present their projects in a mid- and end-term presentation to a wider audience.
Benefits
- Fellows receive:
- A stipend of €6,000 to compensate their time
- A project budget available upon request for collaborators, materials, travel and other expenses for the proposed project
- Mentorship from experienced practitioners in greening the internet, climate justice, digital rights and facilitative leadership
Responsibilities
- Fellows will:
- dedicate 5 hours a week to their fellowship for 6 months
- design and deliver a fellowship project that contributes to digital rights and climate justice
- participate in weekly cohort calls and regular self-directed learning while documenting their experience in the open
- write monthly blog posts about their experience and learnings during the fellowship
Criteria
- A successful fellow:
- Is an active practitioner in the movements for digital rights and/or climate justice and is eager to explore how these movements can learn from and support one another
- Has a clearly articulated project that i) serves a community that the fellow is a part of and ii) bridges the movements for digital rights and climate justice in a practical way. Some areas for projects could be: open data for climate justice; digital security for environmental land right defenders; digital sustainable infrastructures; fossil-free internet; building open source technology to tackle the climate crisis; combating climate mis- and disinformation; or countering digital and environmental extractivism.
- Takes action towards more just and sustainable futures, holds collaborative space for their communities, and is dedicated to self reflection in their practice.
- Is affiliated with an organization or works independently
- They understand that the effects of climate change will be felt disproportionately by the global south, especially people of color, indigenous and traditional people, local communities, and specific ethnic-racial groups. This is why they especially encourage people who identify as Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) to apply, and they also encourage projects that are built by affected communities or in close partnership with them. They also acknowledge that proposed projects may be at different levels of maturity and readiness, so they therefore invite you to self-assess how achievable your proposal is or what would help make it happen.
For more information, visit Green Web Foundation.