Iuif Fellowship

The social, political and ecological movements of the recent years have reaffirmed the potential of young people as the key drivers of societal change. This creates a need to provide young leaders with a better understanding of the complex social systems of India and challenges faced by the marginalized. In this age of information and new media,it is further important to gain a nuanced understanding of how India is being shaped politically, socially and economically. The IUIF Fellowship enables young fellows to gain insights and recognize how multiple forms of inequalities like caste, class, race and gender overlap and operate together to exacerbate marginalization. The Fellowship also enables fellows to recognize how media shapes and is shaped by this social and political architecture. The C4SC and Media Rights Fellowship program is designed to take young Indians through an intense leadership journey that sets them on a path to understand communication and media from the perspective of human rights and intersectional feminism. They learn to leverage the power of communication to discover new pathways for information creation,access & sharing; while questioning hegemonic technologies and powerrelations. The Fellows are mentored to become socially conscious leaders and are equipped with communication skills that help them amplify the voices and stories of the marginalized,thereby catalyzing positive social transformation. The Ideosync-UNESCO Information Fellowship (IUIF) aims to create and sustain a learning platform and network of young Indians, and guide them through an intensive journey of discovering their leadership potential, to evolve as next-generation leaders who are committed to knowledge equity, freedom of expression, media freedoms, communication rights and intersectionality.