Pollicy Fellowship 2025: Applications Now Open to Shape Africa’s Digital Future

Application Deadline: August 4, 2025

The Pollicy Fellowship is back for 2025—bolder, broader, and more impactful than ever.

Since 2017, this transformative program has empowered Africa’s rising thinkers, builders, and advocates in the civic tech, digital rights, and data justice space. It’s more than a fellowship—it’s a launchpad for individuals who want to create a fairer, safer, and more inclusive digital world.

Whether you’re a student, creative, technologist, researcher, or community organizer, this is your opportunity to make a real impact. The Pollicy Fellowship gives you the tools, mentorship, and platform to turn your ideas into action.

What’s New in 2025?

This year’s fellowship offers three powerful tracks, each aligned with Pollicy’s strategic priorities. These tracks are designed to help you grow your expertise, build real-world solutions, and shape policy that centers African voices.

Civic Tech Innovation Track

Use technology to strengthen governance, transparency, and civic participation in local communities.

Digital Rights & Justice Track

Advocate for digital access, privacy, and freedom of expression while promoting a rights-based approach to technology.

Feminist Data Futures Track

Explore how inclusive, feminist approaches to data can drive equity and empower marginalized communities.

Why You Should Apply

The Pollicy Fellowship is a unique experience that blends learning, leadership, and community co-creation. As a fellow, you will:

• Work on high-impact civic projects
• Collaborate with an inspiring network of changemakers across Africa
• Receive mentorship from experts in civic tech, policy, and data justice
• Contribute to policy conversations that shape digital futures
• Learn how to use data and technology for social good

This is your chance to do meaningful work that creates lasting change—not just for your community, but for the continent.

Who Should Apply?

We’re looking for passionate, purpose-driven individuals who want to use tech and data to improve lives. You should apply if you are:

• A student or recent graduate
• A digital rights advocate or civic innovator
• A community organizer or creative interested in social justice
• Someone with ideas, curiosity, and a drive to lead change

Whether you’ve launched a tech project, led a campaign, or simply want to learn, the fellowship is open to anyone ready to make a difference.

What You’ll Gain

• Practical experience working on real-world civic tech or policy projects
• Exposure to research, advocacy, and design thinking
• Connections to a growing pan-African network of digital leaders
• A deeper understanding of how to drive inclusive change with technology

Join a Movement of Digital Changemakers

Alumni of the Pollicy Fellowship have gone on to lead influential campaigns, develop civic apps, publish groundbreaking research, and shape digital rights discourse across Africa. Now it’s your turn.

Be part of a program that’s bold, inclusive, and unapologetically African. Apply to the Pollicy Fellowship 2025 today.

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