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

• How AI is resurrecting dead Indian politicians as election looms — featuring senior fellow Amber Sinha in AlJazeera
• African Creativity is the Key to Getting Data (and Innovation) Right on the Continent — featuring senior fellow Kiito Shilongo in Tech Policy Press
• When AI brings ‘ugly things’ to democracy — featuring senior fellows Amber Sinha and Apryl Willams in Coda Story
• When Love and the Algorithm Don’t Mix — featuring senior fellow Apryl Williams in Time Magazine
• Evaluating LLMs Through a Federated, Scenario-Writing Approach — a blog post by senior fellow Bobi Rakova
• A Public Administration Route to Algorithmic Transparency — a series of blog posts by senior fellow Amber Sinha, read Part I, Part II and Part III
• Building Positive Futures for Generative AI Adoption in Healthcare — a blog post by senior fellow Bobi Rakova
• Project Launch: Are Well-Being Apps Actually Harming Us? — Well-being Struggle is a 2023 Mozilla Creative Media Awardee and part of a cohort investigating AI and responsible design
• Project Launch: The Best Way to Understand an Algorithm? Help Test One — The Algorithm is a 2023 Mozilla Creative Media Awardee and part of a cohort investigating AI and responsible design
• Book Launch: ‘Not My Type’ Exposes the Tangle of Romance and Racism in Dating Algorithms — a new book by senior fellow Apryl Williams exposes how race-based discrimination is a fundamental part of dating algorithms
• The Many Questions About India's New AI Advisory — featuring senior fellow Amber Sinha in Tech Policy Press
• An App for Better Governance and Civic Engagement in Kenya — a conversation with Diana Gichengo, the National Coordinator at The Institute for Social Accountability in Kenya (TISA), a Mozilla IRL Fund Awardee
• Southern Africa Faces Three Key Challenges to Positive AI Adoption — new research conducted by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and supported by Mozilla
• Mozilla 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 in collaboration with Zindi.
• Making the Law Accessible to Everyone in Mozambique — a profile of Equip Mozambique, a Mozilla IRL Fund Awardee
• Creating a Continent-Spanning Civic Tech Network — a profile of Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN), a Mozilla IRL Fund Awardee
• ‘Algorithmic Frontiers’ Explores the Collision of Art and Algorithms — a project of Valentine Goddard, a 2023 Mozilla Creative Media Awardee

Alum news

• ‘Hoop Dreams’ Helmer Steve James Teaming With Alex Gibney On AI Docuseries ‘Mind Vs. Machine’ — featuring alum Deb Raji in Deadline
• Forget the Turing Test. AI needs to pass the Summer Camp Test before it can take over the world — featuring alum Kathy Pham in Fortune
• Justice committee to hear evidence on facial recognition law — featuring alum Abeba Birhane in Irish Legal
• 13 key influencers within the world of AI — featuring alum Abeba Birhane in Silicon Republic
• Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations — featuring alum Deb Raji in Washington Post
• How can the UN's new advisory body on AI help drive gender equality? — featuring alum Abeba Birhane in DevEx
• AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed? — featuring alum Abeba Birhane in Nature
• Kenya tells TikTok to show it is complying with privacy laws — featuring alum Odanga Madung in Reuters

Program Updates

• Mozilla introduced the 2024 Mozilla Technology Fund finalists, read more about the Open Source AI for environmental justice cohort here
• Mozilla launched Privacy for All, a campaign to raise data privacy standards worldwide and lay the groundwork for successful AI regulation
• Early Bird Tickets Now Available for MozFest House Amsterdam! We're thrilled to announce that our early bird tickets for MozFest House Amsterdam, happening 11-13 June in Amsterdam, Netherlands, are officially up for grabs!
• Mozilla releasedAccelerating Progress Toward Trustworthy AI, a follow-on from our 2020 Trustworthy AI paper. This paper lays out how we see the AI ecosystem, and how we’ve seen it become increasingly closed to the public and consolidated in the hands of a few. The paper lays out a path forward for tackling these structural issues that underpin many of today’s AI harms and prevent us from realizing AI’s full potential
• Read Building Our Community in South Africa — a Responsible Computing Challenge update
• The Data Futures Lab welcomed its 2024 Infrastructure Fund awardees. Read more here
• Applications are now open for the 2024 Senior Fellowship cohort — a program that empowers change-makers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and society. Learn more and apply here