What is the Digital INJOT Community Fellowship?
The Digital INJOT Community Fellowship is for the Tea Tribe & Adivasi Community (TTAC) in Assam. The fellowship seeks to engage community youths as digital advocates who can reach out to their community in tea gardens with – Internet and mobile literacy; access to information, schemes, opportunities, and services; and create local SADRI dialect digital content on important information for community needs and usage. Through this fellowship initiative, it seeks to build and contribute to an enabling digital ecosystem for the TTAC communities living in remote and backward tea gardens.
Why the Fellowship?
The Tea Tribe & Adivasi Community (TTAC) is one of the most backward and vulnerable indigenous groups in the State of Assam. While they contribute to Assam’s economy and India’s 53% of total tea production, yet the community remains poor and backward in all of the social and economic indicators. With an increasing digital society, economy, and digital based services, opportunities, and access, the community is far from being an active participant and recipient of digital gains and benefits, due to a lack of digital devices, networks, skills, and capacities.
Through the fellowship initiative, it seeks to bridge the widespread digital exclusion and alienation of the community and mainstream them with increasing digital based access, participation, and services.
Who can apply?
Any youths from the Tea Tribe & Adivasi Community (TTAC) who are of 18-28 years of age can apply for the community fellowship residing in the tea majority districts of Assam. Both male and female youths are encouraged to apply. The education qualification should be 12th pass and above.
What does the fellowship involve?
The fellowship activities for the selected fellows involve:
● Provide mobile and internet literacy skills to youths, women, men of the community inside the gardens.
● Provide information, facilitation and support in schemes and opportunities to the locals.
● Produce digital content on key information needs of the community in SADRI dialect and share with the community.
What is the duration?
In this phase, the duration of the fellowship is 3-6 months.
What is the remuneration / stipend for the fellowship?
Selected fellows from the community will be provided INR 3000 per month.
What are the dates to apply?
The current phase of application process is from July 1 – July 20, 2023.
How and where to apply?
Applicants can visit https://csddindia.in/ for details (fill the online form and submit). Those who are shortlisted and selected will be contacted within 2 weeks after application submission date.
Any contact information?
For any information and communication, one can write at – csddindia2020@gmail.com