Research ICT Africa is advertising a final call for applications from prospective Google Policy Fellows.

The Google Policy Fellowship programme was inspired by Google’s Summer of Code with a public policy twist. The programme offers undergraduate, graduate, and law students interested in Internet and technology policy the opportunity to spend the summer contributing to the public dialogue on these issues, and exploring future academic and professional interests.

Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organisations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright and creativity, consumer privacy, open government, government surveillance, data security, data innovation, free expression and more. More detail on RIA’s fellowship focus areas may be found here.

Fellows will be assigned a lead mentor at their host organisation and will have the opportunity to work with several senior staff members over the course of the summer. Fellows will be expected to make substantive contributions to the work of their organisation, including conducting policy research and analysis; drafting reports and analyses; attending government and industry meetings and conferences; and participating in other advocacy activities.

Your application should reach us on or before the 15th of November 2014, and may be submitted at this link.

For additional information please contact admin@researchictafrica.net.