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

• Political Influencers for hire in Kenya—featuring fellow Brian Obilo on BBC Trending
• A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World—featuring fellow Tarcizio Silva in Data & Society
• Setting the records straight: The rise of Africa's fact-checkers—featuring fellows Brian Obilo and Odanga Madung in The Republic
• Solar Protocol network explores the potential of a solar-powered internet—featuring Creative Media awardee Tega Brain in Dezeen
• New artificial intelligence tries to eliminate bias from technology – featuring senior fellow Abeba Birhane in Terra
• It’s time to rethink how we fight election misinformation —featuring senior fellow Brandi Geurkink in The Verge
• The unseen Black faces of AI algorithms—featuring senior fellow Abeba Birhane in Nature
• Sorry you went viral—featuring fellow Odanga Madung in Washington Post
• We risk another crisis’: TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation—featuring fellow Odanga Madung in The Guardian

Fellowship and Awardee Alumni News

• Exploring the AI Frontier with “Afro Algorithms”—featuring Creative Media alum Anatola Araba in Kweli News
• Here are the first 25 Black creators who will receive $10,000 per month from Snap—featuring Creative Media Awards alum Anatola Araba in TubeFilter

Program Updates

• The Data Futures Lab Call for Proposals is open. Take a look here to learn more and find out details on how to apply. Deadline for applications is November 11th.
• The IRL Fund Call for Proposals is open. The In Real Life (IRL) fund is a grant making mechanism that is part of Mozilla’s Africa Innovation Mradi work. Africa Innovation Mradi is a program that aims to leverage Mozilla’s role as stewards of the open web to promote models of innovation that are grounded in the unique needs of users in the African continent. Please visit our website to learn more about the application process.
• The 2023 Creative Media Awards Call for Proposals is open. We are seeking creative artists to examine the importance of responsible design in AI — and how the concept of responsible design applies across different geographies and sociocultural experiences. Visit our website to learn more about CMAs and details on how to apply.
• The Responsible Computer Science Challenge in Kenya is now open for applications. Through the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, USAID and Mozilla are supporting the conceptualization, piloting, and scaling of curricula that integrate interdisciplinary perspectives with computer science training. You can learn more about the Call for Proposals here.
• Our Tech+Society cohort has finished their two-year fellowship. Fellows and host-organization representatives met in Berlin this September with Mozilla and Ford Foundation to share insights and learnings from their experience in the program. We were grateful for the valuable opportunity to gather and meet in-person for the first time, and are looking forward to expanding our alumni network. To learn more about the Tech and Society cohort experience, check out our reflections blog posts series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. To meet each of the Tech and Society Fellows, visit this series of profiles being published throughout the end of the year.
• Mozilla's IRL podcast has been shortlisted for a Shorty Impact Award! As a finalist, we are eligible for the audience honor, which is decided by votes from the public. Voting is open NOW through November 9 and everyone can vote once a day, so please vote early and often!