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Call for Fellowships: Research into Online Gender Based Harassment

Call for Fellowships: Research into Online Gender Based Harassment

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

Do you want to take an active role in combating coordinated online abuse that targets African women journalists, election candidates or other human rights defenders? Code for Africa (CfA) in partnership with Jigsaw, is offering research grants and technical support for evidence-driven analysis into how malign actors coordinate harassment and complaints against African women journalists and fact-checkers across 21 African countries.

The research fellowships come with a financial stipend, along with access to CfA’s in-house research desk, as well as forensic analysts, data scientists and open source intelligence (OSINT) researchers, and machine learning tools for social listening or data/network analysis.

The research fellows will compile evidence about online gender-based harassment into substantive public research reports that shines new light on the actors, networks and motives behind the online harassment and how it undermines public participation of marginalised groups on the African continent. Selected fellows will be invited to share their research at seminars or international events.

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Eligible Countries

The countries covered in this programme are: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

Eligibility Criteria

For more information, visit Code For Africa.

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