The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Global
Voices Advocacy (GVA) are jointly seeking two interns to work from EFF’s offices in San
Francisco for summer 2013. University students and recent graduates with excellent writing
skills and a deep understanding of free expression, openness, and privacy on the global
Internet are strongly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
Interns will focus on individual cases of bloggers, hackers, and social media users
facing threats of censorship, harassment, arrest, or worse because of their activities
online. Interns will work on a variety of projects through which they will document and
analyze these cases, developing a range of skills along the way. Interns will be charged
with:
Updating existing content and developing new content for Threatened Voices, a
crowdsourced platform that documents individual cases of harassment, arrest, imprisonment
and other threats as they are experienced by netizens around the world;
Investigating networks to discover at-risk or threatened individuals across the world,
including technologists working on combating censorship and surveillance.
Assisting with development of
OnlineCensorship.org, a crowdsourced platform for instances
of censorship on social networks.
Providing advocacy support for cases selected from Threatened Voices and
OnlineCensorship.
Assisting with blog posts to be published on EFF’s Deeplinks blog and GVA’s site. Posts
will cover topics such as developments in Internet policy, Internet censorship, netizen
harassment, and legal cases pertaining to digital rights. Interns with country- or
region-specific knowledge may be asked to develop more in-depth writing projects,
undertake translation, or assist in creating contact networks among communities in their
region.
Skills sought
Although we will consider applicants with a range of knowledge and skills, we are
particularly interested in those whose experience includes:
Persuasive writing
Digital rights advocacy
Data visualization and measurement tools
Interns will have opportunities to participate and contribute to organizational
discussions and strategy sessions at both EFF and GVA.
Requirements and desired qualities
All applicants must demonstrate a commitment to using fact-based reporting to defend the
exercise of human rights online. Other requirements include:
Knowledge of international Internet rights and human rights frameworks
Knowledge of politics and culture in countries outside North America
and the EU, particularly those where netizens are routinely under threat
Proven writing skills
Attention to detail
Ability to conduct efficient, effective online research
Experience using information-sharing platforms and tools
Fluency or high proficiency in one or multiple foreign languages
(particularly Arabic or Russian) is preferred but not required.
Details
Interns will be asked to work 15 -20 hours per week, and to commit 10 -12 weeks (June –
August, but this is flexible) to the project, depending on availability. Interns must be
able to work most days from the offices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San
Francisco. Internships are unpaid and, unfortunately, we are not currently able to
sponsor visas.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and two short writing samples
(ideally 1,000 words or less) to ellery [at] globalvoicesonline [dot] org. Position open
until filled. Any questions concerning the internship can also be sent to this address.