MozFest 101

Learn about MozFest and opportunities to participate, as well as what it means to be an attendee, Facilitator, Wrangler, or Volunteer.

Update: the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA)

When large tech companies remain gatekeepers of the internet, it threatens our access to alternatives, including more secure, privacy-minded options. An…

Sharing our Machine Learning Model for YouTube Video Similarity

The models are highly effective (~93% accuracy) at identifying whether two videos are similar, according to our policy. We hope that these models will prove valuable to other researchers investigating YouTube.

Mozilla’s Common Voice Dataset Reaches 100 Languages

Widely spoken in Ghana and other West African countries, Twi is the latest addition to the Common Voice open source language dataset.

MozFest 2023: The Collective Power Of People

In 2023, MozFest is harnessing our collective power to better our digital landscape, build transformative systems, and sustain momentum within our community towards positive human and digital rights progress. It is through the collective power of the people that we can actualize Trustworthy AI.

Common Voice for Everyone: Enabling Voice Data Donation in Low Internet Contexts - Mozilla advances platform inclusion with NVIDIA

A Telegram chatbot that enables voice contributions and an Android app that can be used offline — Two projects developed by voice technologists from Ethiopia and Italy are making Mozilla’s Common Voice platform more accessible for those in low and no internet environments.

Meet Nadine Moawad: Fighting for Artists’ Rights in Digital Spaces

This is a profile of Nadine Moawad, a Mozilla Fellow in the Tech and Society Fellowship program.

Open Call: The Second Edition of Common Voice’s Kiswahili Essay Writing Competition

The essays will be used to help expand Mozilla’s Common Voice Kiswahili open-source data set, enabling the inclusion of local African languages in tech use and development.

Award-Winning Short Film ‘Afro Algorithms’ Premiers Online, Explores Urgent Issue of AI Bias

Viewers around the world can now watch the animated Afro-Futurist short about the possibilities and perils of artificial intelligence

The Mozilla <> MozFest Connection: Get Involved Today

Mozilla and MozFest work in concert with one another, creating opportunities for the internet health movement to reach our goals of Trustworthy AI and a better web. You're invited to join us!

Mozilla Technology Fund Seeks People, Projects Auditing AI Systems with Open-Source Approaches

The second cohort of the Mozilla Technology Fund will fuel projects building much-needed auditing, evaluation, and accountability mechanisms for AI.

Robots, Rights, and Regulation: Q&A with Aída Ponce Del Castillo

Our interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo from the European Trade Union Institute for the IRL podcast episode, When an Algorithm is Your Boss.