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.

AI and internet health

News from current fellows and awardees

• Project Management Institute lists six Africans among 50 standout rising leaders —featuring Common Voice fellow Kathleen Siminyu in Capital FM
• Senior fellow Lucy Purdon published the results of her fellowship project. The report called Unfinished Business: Incorporating a Gender Perspective into Digital Advertising Reform in the UK and EU can be found here.
• We Need A Policy Agenda for Rural AI—featuring senior fellow Jasmine McNealy in Tech Policy Press
• Why Regulations Will Help, Not Harm, Namibia’s Tech Ecosystem—featuring senior fellow Kristophina Shilongo in The Namibian
• São Paulo: 20,000 cameras incoming?—featuring senior fellow Tarcizio Silva in Context
• Engaging on Responsible AI Terms: Rewriting the Small Print of Everyday AI Systems—a recent blog post by senior fellow Bogdana Rakova
• Artificial Intelligence Practitioner's Guide: Kenya published by GIZ with contributions from the current Common Voice awardees Betsy Muriithi and Brian Omwenga as well as alum Linet Kwamboka
• Collective power and better auditing can help fix biased AI— featuring Solana Larsen and senior fellow Tarcizio Silva in Context
• Digitalwende, SZ Dossier Expert calls for reform of 'exploitative' digital advertising practices in femtech— featuring senior fellow Lucy Purdon in FemTech World
• Journalism can advance trustworthy artificial intelligence in Africa— featuring senior fellow Kristophina Shilongo in DW
• Creating a Virtual Lifeline for LGBTQI+ Youth in Africa— a profile of SameSame (SiyaFanaFana), a Mozilla IRL Fund Awardee
• Senior fellow Julia Keseru will be hosting a workshop on December 12th titled DataBody Futures: Imagining a digital world that centres our integrity. All are welcome—you can RSVP for this exciting session and see more details about this project here.
• Senior fellow Amber Sinha recently collaborated with Pollicy on Towards Afro-feminist AI: A Handbook for approaching Governance of AI in Africa. Read more here.

Alum news

• Building responsible AI models: The argument for less data—featuring alum Abeba Birhane in France24
• This is how AI generators see the world— featuring alum Abeba Birhane in Washington Post
• AI’s Present Matters More Than Its Imagined Future—featuring alum Deb Raji in The Atlantic
• Five AI Innovations Shaping the Future of International Development—featuring alum Abeba Birhane in ICT Works
• Alum Deb Raji was named among The AI 100 2023: The top people in artificial intelligence by Business Insider
• Alum Abeba Birhane was named to UN Secetary-General’s AI Advisory Body. Read more here.
• Artificial Intelligence and Your Voice — featuring alum Wiebke Hutiri in Tech Policy Press
• AI safety: How close is global regulation of artificial intelligence really? — featuring alum Deb Raji in BBC
• Protecting the Environment by Battling Climate Disinformation a profile of senior fellow alum, Lori Regattieri

Program Updates

• We announced nine judges who will select winners of the Responsible Computing Challenge in India. Read more here.
• Read the MozFest House Kenya Wrap-Up and see the highlights of the event here.
• Common Voice announced the winners of the “Wanawake Mashujaa'' Competition. The winners hail from Tanzania, Kenya and DRC and were selected by a panel of African linguists. Essays will be added to Mozilla's Common Voice text corpus to enrich its Kiswahili data set and broaden its gender diversity. Read more here.
• Mozilla’s Responsible Computing Challenge held a United States Summit at Harvard University. Together with partners and grantees we gathered for two days of community and critical engagement. Read more here.
• We announced 15 New Responsible Computing Challenge Awardees in the U.S. Together with partners, we are providing $2,225,000 in funding for college and university curricula that reimagine computing education. Read more here.
• Mozilla published itsAI Funding Principles — institutional lessons learned from five years and $75 million of trustworthy AI grantmaking around the globe. Read more here.
• Listen to the latest episode of the IRL podcast. In it, we dive into dilemmas of openness and speak with people who have ideas on how to approach it differently, including from our own Common Voice community. Listen in for perspectives on how AI voice tech can intersect with language as resistance, and how openness can help as well as hinder.