The Mozilla Technology Fund (MTF) supports open source technologists whose work furthers promising approaches to solving pressing internet health issues.
2024 Cohort: Open Source AI + Environmental Justice
The newest cohort of the Mozilla Technology Fund will use open-source AI tools to track methane emissions, expose harmful mining operations, monitor air quality, and more.
Project Name | Awardee | Location
- AI-Driven Air Quality Forecasting for Asunción | Fernanda Carlés |Paraguay (website)
- AIG SMS for Environmental Justice among the Mau Indigenous Community | L. Lusike Mukhongo | U.S. and Kenya
- Amazon Mining Watch | Rainforest Investigations Network, the Earth Genome, and Amazon Conservation | U.S. (website)
- CodeCarbon | France (website)
- Estimating and Validating PM2.5 Levels Using Satellite and Ground Observations in Selected African Cities for Environmental Justice | AirQo | Uganda (website)
- Leveraging AI for Environmental Justice and Environmental Impact Assessment for Advocacy on Nuclear Energy and Policy | Center for Justice Governance & Environmental (ACTI) | Kenya
- MethaneMapper | EyeClimate | U.S. (website)
- Public Utility Data Liberation | the Catalyst Cooperative | U.S. (website)
- Zeus: Deep Learning Energy Measurement and Optimization | Jae-Won Chung | U.S. (website)
2023 Cohort: Auditing Tools for AI Systems
Doubling-down on our investments in the AI transparency space while leveraging the learnings and community of the Open Source Audit Tooling (OAT) Initiative, this cohort of the Mozilla Technology Fund is made up of eight projects focused on building tooling and resources to grow, support, and better coordinate the community of AI auditors.
Project Name | Awardee | Location
AI Forensics | Tracking Exposed | France (website)
AI Risk Checklists | Responsible AI Collaborative | U.S. (website)
Countering Tenant Screening | Wonyoung So | U.S. (website)
Crossover | Check First | Finland (website)
Evaluation Harness | Big Science | U.S. (website)
Gigbox | The Workers’ Algorithm Observatory (WAO) | U.S. (website)
Reward Reports | GEESE | U.S. (website)
2022 Cohort: Bias and Transparency in AI Awards
The Mozilla Technology Fund’s first cohort focused on working to expose elements of how artificial intelligence (AI) systems work, in order to reduce bias in and increase the transparency of AI systems.
Project Name | Awardee | Location
Algowritten | Naromass | U.K. (website)
Fair EVA | Wiebke Toussaint | South Africa (website)
MAKHNO | Hermes Center, OONI and Tracking.Exposed | Italy/Multiple locations (website)
TheirTok | Tomo Kihara | Japan/Netherlands (website)
TikTok Observatory | Tracking.Exposed | Netherlands (website)
Learn more about their work
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Fellowships & Awards June 6, 2024Leveraging Satellite Data and Machine Learning for Air Quality Prediction in Africa
AirQo, a research initiative at Makerere University and 2024 Mozilla Technology Fund Awardee, is sharing results from their recent AirQo African Air Quality Prediction Challenge.
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Fellowships & Awards March 20, 2024Mozilla Technology Fund Awardee AirQo Announces African Air Quality Prediction Challenge
AirQo, a research initiative at Makerere University and 2024 Mozilla Technology Fund Awardee, has announced the AirQo African Air Quality Prediction Challenge. The competition invites data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts worldwide to use satellite data to create innovative models predicting air quality (PM2.5 levels) across Africa.
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Fellowships & Awards July 12, 2023There’s Something Fishy in Our (Google) News Feed: Algorithmic Disinformation
This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee CheckFirst. Through their CrossOver project, they have been investigating disinformation peddled through algorithmic content recommendations on platforms such as Google News, Twitter, and YouTube in eight French-speaking countries and regions.
Tracy Kariuki
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Fellowships & Awards July 17, 2023AI Forensics: The Detectives Researching AI Harms
This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee AI Forensics. A non-profit which investigates influential algorithms. It was previously known as Tracking Exposed, a project which had been pioneering new methods to hold big tech platforms accountable since 2016.
Tracy Kariuki
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Fellowships & Awards June 7, 2023Zeno: An Interactive Tool For AI Model Evaluation
This is a profile of Zeno, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee
Shandukani O. Mulaudzi
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Fellowships & Awards May 24, 2023Reward Reports: An audit tool to better document AI
This is a profile of Reward Reports, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee.
Shandukani O. Mulaudzi
