Collab Fellowship

The Collab Digital Fellowship is a Growing Data Foundation program that pairs skilled digital practitioners with community organisations to build local capacity in open data, IoT and digital tools.

Fellows work embedded within partner organisations for a defined period, delivering a specific digital project while sharing skills and knowledge with staff and volunteers. The program aims to reduce the digital divide between well-resourced organisations and smaller community groups.

The project

Each fellowship is scoped around a concrete deliverable — a sensor network, a data dashboard, a community app — that the host organisation can maintain and build on after the fellowship ends. Fellows are drawn from GDF’s network of technical volunteers and industry partners.

About

The fellowship model is inspired by similar programs internationally that embed technologists within civil society organisations. The Growing Data Foundation coordinates the program and provides fellowship support, mentoring and open-source toolkits.