Catching up with the Responsible Computing Challenge: Winter/Spring 2023

Dispatches from recent conferences and community gatherings

What If Young People Could Design a Better Internet?

Creative Media Awardee Fix the Code helps youth reimagine digital technology where data extraction isn’t the status quo

Auditing AI: Announcing the 2023 Mozilla Technology Fund Cohort

These six projects — all focusing on auditing tools for AI systems — comprise the second-ever Mozilla Technology Fund (MTF) cohort

January 8th and the Information Crisis in Brazilian Democracy

This piece was edited and a longer version appears in Tech Policy Press.

Mozilla Welcomes Five New Senior Fellows in Tech Policy

We’re excited to announce our newest cohort of Senior Tech Policy Fellows who will join the Senior Trustworthy AI Fellows.

Meet Julie Ricard: Building a Better Social Media Platform

Julie Ricard watched the 2018 election unfold in her native Brazil with concern, realizing the country was heading into new, unsettling territory.

Mozilla Awardee Imagines a More Youth-Inclusive Internet

Creative Media Awardee ‘No Minor Futures’ explores how youth and digital tech collide, using art for and by children

The Proposed EU AI Act and The Case of Biometrics

Biometrics in the proposed EU AI Act have been primarily considered from the perspective of face recognition technologies. The proposal thus does not consider the specific contexts and associated risks of voice-based systems differently to those of facial recognition systems.

Meet Odanga Madung: Holding Tech Platforms Accountable in Kenya

As a Mozilla Fellow, Odanga Madung has exposed a flourishing disinformation industry in Kenya, and pushed social media platforms to confront it. But Madung’s fellowship almost didn’t happen.

New tool Makhno Will Expose Geographic Social Media Censorship