The Mozilla Technology Fund (MTF) supports open source technologists whose work furthers promising approaches to solving pressing internet health issues.
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 year's 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
AI Risk Checklists | Responsible AI Collaborative | U.S.
Countering Tenant Screening | Wonyoung So | U.S.
Crossover | Check First | Finland
Evaluation Harness | Big Science | U.S.
Gigbox | The Workers’ Algorithm Observatory (WAO) | U.S.
Reward Reports | GEESE | U.S.
Zeno | Carnegie Mellon University | U.S.
About the Awardees
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Fellowships & Awards May 24, 2023
Reward Reports: An audit tool to better document AI
This is a profile of Reward Reports, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee.
Shandukani O. Mulaudzi
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Fellowships & Awards July 17, 2023
AI 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, 2023
Zeno: An Interactive Tool For AI Model Evaluation
This is a profile of Zeno, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee
Shandukani O. Mulaudzi
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.
Fair EVA | Wiebke Toussaint | South Africa
MAKHNO | Hermes Center, OONI and Tracking.Exposed | Italy/Multiple locations
TheirTok | Tomo Kihara | Japan/Netherlands
TikTok Observatory | Tracking.Exposed | Netherlands
About the Awardees
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Fellowships & Awards March 28, 2022
Access Denied! This Doesn’t Sound Like You
You have probably heard this before, “This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance and training purposes”. You were probably calling a customer service center of a bank, an insurance company, or any other service provider. While this might have sounded like a standard procedure, the unknown factor is your voice might have been used to identify and authenticate your credentials.
Tracy Kariuki