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

• Privacy Tip #272 – To Get Up to Speed on Facial Recognition Technology Read This featuring fellow Deb Raji in National Law Review
• Meaning in mayhem: COVID death counts and a Black Lives Matter reckoning featuring fellow Deb Raji in Australian Broadcasting Company
• ‘This is bigger than just Timnit’: How Google tried to silence a critic and ignited a movement featuring fellow Deb Raji in Fast Company
• 8 Women in AI Who Are Striving to Humanize the World featuring fellow Deb Raji in KDNuggets
• Preventing bias in AI is hard. Bug bounties could point the way forward featuring fellow Deb Raji in ZDNet
• Using bug bounties to spot bias in AI algorithms featuring fellow Deb Raji in Computing
• Las políticas que pusieron en riesgo los derechos digitales en México en 2020 by fellow Alex Arguelles in Luchadoras
• Racismo algorítmico: impactos da cor no ambiente virtual featuring fellow Tarcizio Silva in Colabora
• A serviço do punitivismo, do policiamento preditivo e do racismo estrutural featuring fellow Tarcizio Silva in Diplomatique
• Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist? Featuring fellow Deb Raji in New York Times
• YouTube tackles TikTok featuring fellow Deb Raji in Platformer

Fellowship and Awardee Alumni News

• Digital activists defend Twitter's stand, but BJP's Malviya differs featuring fellow Divij Joshi in Times of India
• 8 Inspiring Women in AI Leading Advancements In the Field featuring fellow Terah Lyons in Dataconomy
• Analyzing AI's impact on society through art and film featuring former fellow Brett Gaylor in Practical AI
• Afrofeminist Data Futures report published by awardee Neema Iyer and fellow Chenai Chair
• No Funding is a creative collective and mutual aid network launched by fellow Amelia Winger-Bearskin
• Openscapes: Using "The Force" of Open Science in the Cloud is featuring fellow Julie Lowndes in NASA
• The New New Fellowship launched - co-led by fellow Julia Kloiber
• PREreview announces a partnership with eLife featuring fellow Daniela Saderi

Events

• March 31 - AI and the future of misinformation featuring former fellow Clara Tsao at Davos Lab Dialogues
• March 31 - A non-EU perspective on EU regulations featuring fellow Julia Reinhardt on Data Talks podcast
• March 4 Exploring legal mechanisms for data stewardship featuring fellow Sylvie Delacroix in Ada Lovelace Institute

Session recordings from MozFest

There were dozens of fellows and awardees from across the community and across the world who not only attended MozFest, but decided to facilitate sessions across a breadth of topics. Many of their sessions were recorded and are available to view here through June. MozFest ticketholders can still view content here and non ticket holders can view on our YouTube channel.

• Will new European AI regulation have GDPR-like impact worldwide? Featuring fellow Julia Reinhardt
• The Future of Micropayments - Q&A Featuring Fellow Amber Case
• Firefox Eco-Mode and 1000 More Ideas for a Sustainable Internet featuring fellow Fieke Jansen
• Hunting Biased Algorithms: A Dialogues & Debate conversation Featuring Fellows Deb Raji and Camille Francois
• Antiblack Racism, Technology and AI in Brazil with Tech + Society Fellow, Tarcizio Silva
• AI and mental health: revolutionary reboot or the rise of the “digital asylum”? Featuring alum, Piers Gooding
• The Roots of Algorithmic Injustice: Intersections of Colonialism, Systems of Oppression, and Technology
• Technological Testing Grounds: Migration Management Experiments and Reflections from the Ground Up
• How do you know? Creating a space for public discussions of information literacy and non-neutrality in data featuring alums Christie Bahlai and Bridget K. Mulvey
• Open Hardware Treasure Hunt! Navigate the open waters of hardware-making towards community and collaboration w/ awards alum Julieta Arancio
• Decentralised Data Unions for Others with awards alum, Tracey Bowen
• unbAIsed: reducing bias in AI for healthcare featuring awards alum, Athina Tzovara
• Anti-Surveillance Toolkit for the Remote Worker featuring CMA alum, Carrie Sijia Wang
• How To Get A Project Unstuck by awards alum, Sumana Harihareswara
• Stop Scaring People about AI by Fellow Alum, Brett Gaylor
• Openscapes Interview with Dr. Dawn Wright by Fellow Alum, Julia Lowndes
• Transforming academic peer review through mentorship: what we learned from Open Reviewers and ideas on where to take it next by Fellow Alum, Daniela Saderi
• Election integrity and platform accountability: Global lessons from the 2020 U.S. Elections with fellow alum, Alan Davidson
• Data Futures Lab: Applying Data Stewardship Concepts in the Wild featuring fellow, Anouk Ruhaak

Program Updates

• Fellowships & Awards Evaluation Community Workshop: Starting in November 2020, Mozilla Foundation started an evaluation of the Fellowships and Awards programs with the support of Simply Secure. The evaluation seeks to understand the program’s strengths and challenges with the goal of improving their efficacy and impact. Community input and guidance is critical to this process, and so as part of the evaluation, we engaged past participants in the programs, funders, host organizations, community members and other stakeholders.
• Mozilla Data Futures Lab Launch: In a world where data is only growing in importance, envisioning a healthier internet means rethinking dominant models of data governance to propose alternatives. The Data Futures Lab will connect and fund people around the world who are imagining and building such alternatives. Learn more.
• Exploring Internet Futures: What are alternative economic models for a better Internet: The interactions that create the internet economy shape the way we use the web and what we believe is possible online. We know the current economic ecosystem of the internet is unhealthy, potentially harmful, and unsustainable as well. Current business models are contributing to the centralization of power, fueling surveillance, and perpetuating inequalities in participation. A lot of people are already focused on how to make what we currently have ‘less bad.’ That’s important work, but we also need space to begin to imagine what else is possible.

Recent posts from fellows + awardees

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