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Exciting Opportunity: Information Controls Fellowship Program 2025 | Funding available
Information Controls Fellowship Program 2025
About Information Controls Fellowship Program 2025
Applications are now available for the 2025 Information Controls Fellowship Program. The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) promotes research, production, and creative collaboration on issues including coercive internet filtering and surveillance.
The ICFP supports researchers investigating how governments in countries, regions, or areas of core focus for the Open Technology Fund (OTF) are restricting the free flow of information, limiting access to the open internet, and implementing censorship mechanisms, threatening global citizens’ ability to exercise basic human rights and democracy; work aimed at mitigating such threats is also encouraged.
Areas of Focus
- Development and refinement of tools and techniques to continuously monitor internet interference on a global scale.
- Investigation of information controls, security, and privacy in popular applications such as search engines, social media platforms, and instant messaging applications.
- Leveraging open data to analyze the types of information controls being carried out and what they are targeting.
- Testing creative methods and new protocols for censorship circumvention and analyzing network interference measures, including all forms of internet filtering.
- Examination of the impact of internet censorship and use of circumvention tools.
- Experimental techniques to limit pro-government manipulation of online discussions.
- Researching emerging, state-sponsored surveillance patterns and analysis of targeted digital threats against civil society organizations and/or human rights defenders, such as denial of service attacks, social engineering, and phishing attacks such as malware.
- Studying the roles of machine learning and artificial intelligence in digital surveillance practices in repressive environments.
- Investigating how the traits of quantum computing implicate the realm of Internet freedom and exploring opportunities to employ this leap in computing power to evade censorship.
- Other novel ideas and approaches relating to the study of global and regional information controls.
Benefits
- Monthly stipend of $7,000 USD
- Travel stipend of $1,250 to $5,000 USD, depending on the fellowship length
- Equipment stipend of $1,250 to $5,000 USD, depending on the fellowship length
Information Controls Fellowship Program 2025 Eligibility
- Open to experienced researchers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines and can include students and junior to mid-career practitioners with demonstrated ability and expertise.
- Typically, ICFP fellows have experience in fields such as computer science, engineering, information security research, software development, social sciences, law, and data visualization, among others.
Application
It is a two-stage process:
- Stage 1: Submit a concept note via OTF’s online application system.
- Stage 2: Highly competitive concept notes will be invited to submit a full proposal together with the proposed host organization via the online application system.
Deadline: February 28, 2025
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