Civic Hive 2022 Innovation Fellowship for Early-Stage Civic Innovators

Published: 03 Feb 2022 1,531 views

The fellowship is a 20-week bootcamp and implementation program designed for early-stage Civic innovators with tech-enabled ideas that can solve social problems.

The incubation program will focus on bringing more players into the civic tech space. The Civic Hive project, under the fellowship program, seeks to raise a new set of civic tech leaders that transform governance. Civic Hive will put out a call for application for innovative civic ideas and solutions. Successful applicants will be taken through a series of training on financial, business, website, and social media management. The fellowship program will be sustained throughout the project to incubate 12 new innovative and creative solutions in the civic space.

Civichive Innovation Fellowship

Application Deadline	February 28, 2022
Funding Type	Fully Funded
Country to study	Nigeria
Type	Fellowship
Sponsor	Civichive
Gender	Men and Women

Benefits of Civichive Innovation Fellowship

• Fellows will be placed on a monthly stipend of N200,000 and provided a working space throughout the fellowship. 
• The fellows will be given a platform to project their works, leveraging BudgIT’s network to meet with prospective donors and mentors.

Requirements for Civichive Innovation Fellowship

• Open to early-stage Civic innovators with tech-enabled ideas that can solve social problems.
• They look for solutions that advance transparency, accountability, and civic engagement in thematic sectors.
• They will embrace different levels of ideas, irrespective of the scale – local or hyperlocal – and they will be open to the diverse use of technology  – radio, text, print, IoT, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or social media – as a channel.

Selection Process

Selection Criteria

They will also focus on the impact the ideas will have on the people and the civic spaces, the sustainability of ideas to deliver value, and the unrelenting spirit of the participants. 

Application Deadline

February 28, 2022

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Civichive on docs.google.com to apply