Datasphere Fellowship Program

The Datasphere Initiative Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for graduate students and young professionals to work on novel research and dialogue related to data governance. Fellows are invited to bring their own knowledge and research agenda to the Fellowship, working on case studies of countries or initiatives that build on their research, while contributing to advance the Datasphere Initiative goals of promoting awareness-raising, capacity building, and policymaking. The work of the first cohort of fellows (2021-2022) focused on disciplines ranging from data quality, the metaverse, and health data, to new norms emerging from Europe, platform transparency, and data governance literature. They presented their research at a virtual event in October 2022. The second cohort of fellows (2022-2023) centered its research on cross-border data flows, data standardization, health data, data governance boards, and data embassies, among others. The third cohort of fellows (2023-2024) explored themes such as data governance in Africa, sustainability, AI policy, and regional approaches to data cooperation.