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MozFest House: Kenya was nothing short of extraordinary, featuring over 35 sessions packed with powerful conversations, inspiring Dialogues and Debates, and innovative art experiences.

At the Data Futures Lab, we work to shift power in the data economy from a few companies to many users, builders, and communities across the technology spectrum. This year, through our Prototype Fund, we set out to explore how data donation initiatives were modeling alternatives to top down or exploitative data relationships.

Tidepool is an incubatee of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab — which this year, is funding selected projects to develop data donation initiatives for public interest innovations. Through its Big Data Donation Project, Tidepool has been supporting the advancement of diabetes research by sharing anonymized data from people living with diabetes with researchers.

A civic tech organization in India, Tattle, is buckling up to grant users more agency over how to protect themselves and report online abuse. Tattle’s latest product Uli, enables users to block and report hateful content on their social media feeds.

This is a profile of DataKind, a Mozilla Data Futures Lab awardee

This is a profile of Data Futures Lab awardee, Posmo. Posmo is a data cooperative in Switzerland and an incubatee of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab rethinking ways in which public mobility data can be leveraged to support active mobility planning, such as walking or biking.

This is a profile of the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a Mozilla Data Futures Lab awardee

We're supporting five new projects building crowdsourced datasets for the public good