The Common Voice project is a Mozilla effort meant to make speech recognition and voice-based AI more inclusive. Users donate their voice by sending in clips that, in turn, helps voice-based apps recognize a wider array of user voices. The team’s latest foray takes things to the next level with Spontaneous Speech. Learn more about it here.
A paper by Mozilla Awardee Esther Mwema and Mozilla Senior Advisor Dr. Abeba Birhane highlights the extractive nature of Alphabet’s Equiano and Meta’s 2Africa undersea cables
Kristophina Shilongo is a Mozilla Senior Fellow working on recommendations for participatory governance models to African states for the formulation, adoption and/or evaluation of AI policies and legislation.
Apryl Williams is a Mozilla Senior Fellow advocating for an increase in equity, harm reduction, transparency, and accountability around marginalized identities in machine learning technologies, such as dating apps.
In 2024, Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab is hosting a speaker series exploring a more equitable data ecosystem in the era of generative AI. We’ll feature builders, legal experts, and researchers who identify issues and propose concrete solutions.
In preparation for the launch of the next phase of the Responsible Computing Challenge in South Africa, the team held a series of in-person meetings with universities in the Western Cape and Gauteng to discuss regional topics and focus areas relating to education and responsible technology.
