Amnesty Tech International – Digital Forensic Followership 2025

Amnesty International

Amnesty Tech – a global collective of advocates, hackers, researchers, and technologists. Amnesty Tech’s investigations have uncovered large scale and well-orchestrated digital attacks against activists and journalists in countries such as Morocco, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Serbia, Mexico and Pakistan.

This innovative Fellowship is an opportunity for 5 – 7 human rights defenders (HRDs), journalists, and/or technologists working in civil society organisations around the world to receive training at Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab in order to develop skills and knowledge on advanced digital threats and forensic investigation techniques. This is a part-time Fellowship that will last 3-4 months and will come with a stipend.

Amnesty International

Objectives and Deliverables

Participants in the Digital Forensics Fellowship will be required to:

  • Attend a week-long in-person conference where the bulk of the training will take place. This training will take place in June 2025, with the exact location to be confirmed.
  • Invest approximately 10-12 hours per month in the fellowship, in addition to the conference, to deepen their understanding of the training topic by attending remote training sessions and performing independent work outside of the scheduled sessions.
  • Interact with the project team and the Security Lab during onsite and remote training sessions and in ad hoc discussion groups.

Application Instructions:

To apply, applicants will be required to submit the following via our recruitment system eArcu - please upload all relevant documents to the CV section of the application portal.

  1. A copy of your most recent CV.
  2. A cover letter explaining your motivation and interest in the Fellowship and outlining how you meet the essential requirements outlined in the job description.

Applications must be in PDF, Word, PowerPoint or Excel format.

  • Application Deadline: 23 January 2025 23.59 pm UK time
  • Programme: Amnesty Tech
  • Location: Flexible
  • Salary: A stipend of £500 per month totaling £2,000 for the duration of the Fellowship.

Essential Requirements

  • An understanding of the technical threats, digital attacks and challenges faced by journalists, HRDs, and civil society organizations in their local contexts.
  • Demonstrated interest in conducting investigations to identify digital attacks against civil society, with the goal of building resilience among civil society actors in the face of surveillance after the Fellowship.
  • Familiarity using command line tools and basic knowledge of scripting languages like Bash and Python to analyze data.
  • An understanding of how internet infrastructure works, for example the role of IP addresses, TLS certificates, and DNS queries.
  • Technical familiarity with GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as Android and iPhone systems.
  • Engaging with the English language as the primary language throughout the Fellowship.

For more information on this Fellowship opportunity, kindly visit the official website of the Amnesty Tech International Digital Forensic Fellowship.  

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