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

• What you should know this data privacy day featuring fellow Brian Obilo in Mozilla blog
• Baltimore startup Melalogic wins grant from Mozilla fund exploring the effects of AI on racial justice featuring awardee Melalogic in Technical.ly Baltimore
• An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini. featuring fellow Deborah Raji in MIT Technology Review
• Why secure data tokenization should scare the hell out of Big Data featuring fellow Richard Whitt in Coin Telegraph
• It’s Too Easy to Hide Bias in Deep-Learning Systems featuring fellow Umang Bhatt in IEEE Spectrum
• At-Large Capacity Building Webinar - IoT featuring fellow Sarah Kiden in ICANN
• This is how we lost control of our faces featuring fellow Deborah Raji in MIT Tech Review
• 9 scary revelations from 40 years of facial recognition research featuring fellow Deborah Raji in Mashable
• Does Deep Learning Fuel Loss of Privacy In Facial Recognition Technology? featuring fellow Deborah Raji in Analytics India Magazine
• Hacking the seams: Elevating digital autonomy and agency for humans by fellow Richard Whitt in Colorado Technology Law Journal
• Uganda’s election is a key moment for the splinternet in Africa by fellow Odanga Madung in Quartz Africa

News from fellowship and awards alumni

• Danielle Robinson’s Code for Science & Society has released its second request for proposals to support virtual research-driven open data science events! Applications are due March 29. International applicants welcome!
• Cori Zarek wrote for Slate on why The Biden Administration Needs to Revamp the Federal Tech Workforce
• Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Caroline Sinders was interviewed in this video by Mashable on the rise of AI fueled bots and concierge services on dating apps and the huge privacy and safety concerns these bots pose to users.
• Youth and the News in Five Charts by Ayden Ferdeline in CIMA
• Averting a Cyber Pandemic featuring Clara Tsao in the World Economic Forum
• WhatsAlt: The Messenger Alternatives featuring Divij Joshi in Forbes India
• Agenda and Reading List: Data and Artificial Intelligence; Jan 28 #Ad featuring Frederike Kaltheuner in Medianama
• DAVOS 2021: IT experts warn the world is vulnerable to a cyber-pandemic featuring Clara Tsao in Yahoo! Finance
• They left Mozilla to make the internet better. Now they’re spreading its gospel for a new generation. featuring Amba Kak in Protocol
• In Tanzania, Community Network Cooperative Society Brings Affordable Connectivity featuring Jabhera Matogoro on the Mozilla blog
• How the Pandemic Turned Refugees Into ‘Guinea Pigs’ for Surveillance Tech featuring Petra Molnar in OneZero
• WhatsApp's privacy update: To flee or not to flee featuring Divij Joshi in Forbes India
• #NAMA: Does Artificial Intelligence threaten privacy? Do the government’s data protection laws have adequate safeguards? featuring Frederike Kaltheuner in Medianama
• The Perilous Power Of Social Media Platforms featuring Guillaume Chaslot in NPR Boston

Events

• MozFest! Starting March 8, dozens of current and former fellows, awardees, and partners will be presenting panels and leading discussions at the annual Mozilla Festival. People who want more access to discuss pressing threats to internet health with these leaders should register for a ticket.

Program Updates

• Introducing Two New Fellows to Reshape the Economics of the Web by Janice Wait
• Announcing 3 New Awards to Fuel Better Data Stewardship featuring new awardees Consumer Reports, Platform Info Exchange, and SignalBoost
• Building Stronger Fellowships and Awards by Hanan Elmasu
• Black Interrogations of AI: Announcing Our 8 Latest Creative Media Awards featuring new awardees Melalogic, Future Wake, Afro Algorithms, Hope, Dark Matters, Binary Calculations Are Inadequate to Assess Us, Points of View, and Black Arts + Culture: Generative Traditions with AI and Design in Carnival

Recent posts from fellows + awardees

See more posts from fellows on Mozilla Pulse