Looking to learn more about or engage with Mozilla Fellows and Awardees around the world? Keep your eye on the Mozilla Foundation blog to stay up-to-date with regular updates about these leaders and their work by reviewing the current and upcoming news and announcements below. You can also see a directory of all Mozilla Fellows and Awardees here.

AI and internet health

News from current fellows and awardees

• BBC addresses facial recognition bias issues in new Click episode featuring fellow Deb Raji in Biometric Update
• Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence featuring fellow Deb Raji in Physics World
• Fellow Tarcizio Silva published an online course about Internet and Inequalities (in Portuguese)
• Ethics of AI: Benefits and risks of artificial intelligence featuring fellow Deb Raji in ZDNet
• Micropayments Are A Macro Opportunity featuring fellow Amber Case in Forbes
• The EU's proposed AI regulations and what that means for U.S. businesses - Episode 104 featuring fellow Julia Reinhardt in What the Dev podcast
• News from the Responsible Computer Science Challenge community:
  • Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Principal Investigator at the University of Utah) announces that he has taken an appointment with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to work on bias/fairness and a new CS/Data Science teaching position at Brown University (working with his current sub-grantee, Seny Kamara, to start a new center on Computing for the People.)

Fellowship and Awardee Alumni News

• Awardee Stephanie Lepp won two Webby's for Deep Reckonings (People's Voice and Jury). Check out her acceptance speech.
• Government aims to expand Ayushman Bharat through Aadhaar-based eligibility check, issue family IDs featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Medianama
• Report on blocking of FB hashtag ‘mischievous’ featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Times of India

Events and Launches (recent and upcoming)

• As part of the Responsible CS Challenge, 22 schools and universities have come together to create a playbook to help students bring ethics to the design of technology products.Learn more and contribute to the playbook
• Fellow Tarcizio Silva launched an online course “Internet and Inequalities” with Açao Educativo (in Portuguese)
• Algorithmic Discrimination: interdisciplinary challenges (“Discriminação Algorítmica: desafios interdisciplinares”) featuring fellow Tarcizio Silva May 5
• Fellow Sylvie Delacroix just published a paper: Computing Machinery, Surprise and Originality on the concept of “originality” in computing.
• Fellow Matt Mankins launched a blog Monetization Musings covering a variety of topics related to monetization, engineering, and design.
• Mozilla Dialogues and Debates panel about Big Tech and the German Elections on May 25 featuring fellow Julia Reinhardt, with Felix Kartte, Amber Sinha, and moderated by Julie Owono
• Fellows, including former fellow Guillaume Chaslot, will be presenting at RightsCon June 7-11. If you’re attending the online event, make sure to check out their sessions and say hello!

Program Updates

• Common Voice Kiswahili work officially launched. Announcement highlights funding from Gates/GIZ/FCDO and the purpose of focus for Kiswahili work. You can read more from Program Officer Chenai Chair in ZDNet: Mozilla expands effort to bring Kiswahili to voice assistants across 6 African countries and also on the BBC Digital Planet Podcast: The first African Voice Assistant
• Three new Common Voice fellows will also be joining the program - Kathleen Siminyu - Machine learning fellow; Rebecca Ryakitimbo and Britone Mwasaru - Community engagement fellows. The fellows will be starting the 1st of June. Read more about the new fellows in this week’s announcement.

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