Open Leadership & Events Blog
The Open Leadership and Events team supports a series of programs and events designed to build and protect a healthy internet — and our best online lives.
Sadik Shahadu (@Sadike25) and Greg Mcverry (@jgmac1106) are working to address the global injustices that affect education in Ghana. They’re building an open leadership program focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) in Ghana. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Sadik and Greg as they prepare to launch IndieWeb and OER Ghana during Open Leaders X.
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
In 2019, we gathered in London to celebrate our 10th Anniversary MozFest — and our last in this city, as the Festival will be moving to a new location in 2020.
Zannah Marsh
Emmy Tsang (@eLifeInnovation / @emmy_ft) is the Innovation Community Manager at eLife, a non-profit organisation with the mission to accelerate research…
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Esther Mwema (@hadassahlouis) and Uffa Modey (@Fafa416) are passionate about engaging youth in internet problems. They founded Digital Grassroots in 201…
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Brian Obilo (@brian_obilo) and Maurine Chepkoech (@Basoimauryne) joined forces to work on an open leadership program for digital safety in Kenya. Over t…
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Four open hardware advocates joined forces to work on Open Hardware Leaders: Jose Carlos Urra Llanusa (@jurra), Alexander Kutschera (@alexwastooshort), …
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
This October 2019, I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Mozilla Festival, hosted in London at Ravensbourne University, for the first time. After…
Since its inauguration in 2016, the Mozilla Open Leaders programme has inspired hundreds of open enthusiasts and empowered them to work and lead openly …
Takiwātanga. The Māori word for Autism, which translated means ‘In His or Her own time and space’. This beautiful reflection of identity and being was t…
At last year’s MozFest, Mark Surman proposed an idea for a MozFest book to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Would you be interested in helping me create something like this?
Kristina Gorr
If you’ve been to MozFest before, you know it’s different from other conferences. If you haven’t… well, it’s hard to describe the whirl of people and id…
Zannah Marsh
Miss the Open Leaders X launch party at MozFest last month? We got you! After some audio issues streaming at the festival, the inaugural community-run …
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes