VoxUkraine NGO
Host Organization: VoxUkraine
Website: https://voxukraine.org/en/
Organization Profile: Organization has 25 employees (mostly analysts) and a number of volunteers around it. The volunteers include the Editorial Board, Supervisory Board, and International Advisory Board. VoxUkraine is an NGO with the mission of modernizing Ukraine via better-quality economic policies. The main project of the organization is the blog (online journal) where we write about economic, social and political developments in Ukraine. Other projects include Reform Index (tracking of reforms since 2015), a fact-checking project (VoxUkraine is the third-party fact-checker for Facebook in Ukraine), Media Ecosystem (AI analysis of the largest Ukrainian online media), and ad-hoc research projects (e.g. evaluation of SDG progress or the development of nursery in Ukraine). Our competitive advantage is the quality of publications (all of them are reviewed by two members of the Editorial Board that includes highly qualified economists and lawyers).
Fact-checking project educates 70-80 interns per year, other projects take 2-3 interns per year on a long-term basis.
City: Kyiv
Internship format: Virtual/remote or In-person (pending Stanford, host country, and host organization travel policies)
Project description: VoxUkraine has a database of fakes (conspiracy theories, falsified news etc) that are distributed via Facebook and media. An intern can analyze this database and write a summary article describing any regularities found in the data.
Closer to the time of internship we can come up with another project – for example, involving a summary of Ukraine’s reforms (this depends on what projects VoxUkraine as an organization will be implementing at that time).
An intern can also suggest a project idea that would involve data analysis and would be relevant for Ukraine.
Number of Opening(s): 1 or 2
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 20– August 12, 2022): Full time/five days and 35-40 hours a week. We are flexible in terms of time. Our organization works in a hybrid format – partially from home, partially from the office. We also are oriented on the result rather than on the time spent on a certain task.
Local Language: Ukrainian
Not required: Local language is not required
Additional desired intern qualifications:
This assignment will be interesting for a person who has some data and/or text analysis skills. A person who is interested in media market and media operations will benefit from working with fact-checking data.
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