When Paul saw a tweet about MozFest moving to a new city, he enthusiastically tweeted back: “You should come to Amsterdam!” This festival advocate was the spark that kicked off many months of exciting conversations between the MozFest team, the city of Amsterdam, and key potential partners.

The role of “the city” is ever more powerful, as our urgency regarding the issues of the digital world grows. There are several cities with significant power to improve the health of the internet ecosystem, and Amsterdam is one city that is setting a model for other cities to follow.

Amsterdam exudes the MozFest spirit by championing digital rights globally, extolling solid principles to protect data transparency, privacy, and internet access for citizens.

Our partnership will tap into the local robust and eclectic community of creative thinkers to enhance the maker vibe, the creative energy, the organised chaos, and the unexpected and beautiful collaborations that define the festival.

To learn more about the work happening in Amsterdam and the power a city can have in the internet health movement, read more from The Power of Cities in Mozilla’s Internet Health Report.