Bolsa Digital e Inovação da União Africana (UA) 2024

Deadline: 28 April 2024

Applications are now open for the African Union (AU) Digital and Innovation Exchange 2024 . AfriLabs is currently recruiting 16 exceptional African tech talents and innovators to participate in the African Union's Digital Innovation and Innovation Fellowship Programme. The fellows will be deployed to various African Union departments/agencies to identify key areas that can be strengthened by digitalisation, technology and innovation.

The African Union Digital Innovation and Innovation Fellowship Programme is a robust 12-month programme that aims to identify and deploy highly competent technology innovators from the African continent to units and organs within the African Union headquarters as 'resident fellows' to understand the system within those units, identify data management challenges within the systems and solve the identified challenges by co-creating and building innovative and customised products and processes that improve data management processes and the overall work of the AU, while ensuring the sustainability of the products and processes developed after the fellowship calendar, strengthening the internal capacity of AU staff in these units.

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Benefits

Take part in various capacity-building training courses that will be taught by top experts from the African innovation ecosystem.
Receive mentoring support from experienced industry experts from the AfriLabs community.
Network and benefit from various peer learning opportunities.
Receive monthly stipends for the duration of the scholarship.
Embark on various all-expenses-paid trips to ecosystem events, integration/offboarding, study/learning tours, etc.
Take part in a grand graduation ceremony where certificates will be presented to the scholarship holders.
Be recognised as a scholar/student of the African Union's Digital and Innovation Scholarship Programme.
During the fellowship, all the fellows' travelling expenses for deployment in Addis Ababa, events, learning tours, dismissal, etc. will be fully covered by the fellowship.

Eligibility

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Be based in Africa and be a national of an African Union member state;
Be under 34 years of age at the time of enrolment;
Have a university degree or equivalent;
Have the ability to gather comprehensive information on complex problems or situations and to assess and analyse information accurately in order to identify key issues and offer solutions;
Have experience and technical expertise in designing innovative technological products/solutions;
Be available to travel to take part in an induction workshop;
Be available and willing to dedicate 12 months. Fellows will be required to take a break from their current duties and move to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Candidates who speak more than one official AU language (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili) are strongly advised to apply.

Application

At the end of the application period, all eligible entries will be assessed by independent reviewers and the top scorers will be chosen for the next stage of the selection process as finalists.
The finalists will undergo rounds of interviews by AU departments/bodies and the top 16 will be confirmed as fellows. The selected fellows will be required to participate in the Fellow Induction Workshop and a virtual pre-deployment training before travelling to Addis Ababa and being seconded to AU departments/bodies.

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