Chatbots, Local Weather Reports, and a Boon for Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers

Strathmore University is the recipient of a Mozilla Common Voice grant. Its project combines data collected from mini-weather stations with a new chatbot to offer smallholder farmers real-time digital climate information in both English and Swahili.

Dope Puffer for Pope: How AI Risk Database is Building a Case for Proper AI Auditing

This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee Responsible AI Collaborative, which records and classifies AI harm events known as "incidents".

Meet Jessica Chemali: Using Technology to Make Lebanon’s Parliament More Transparent and Accountable

This is a profile of Jessica Chemali, a Mozilla Fellow in the Tech and Society Fellowship program.

Mozilla Technology Fund Seeks People, Projects Auditing AI Systems with Open-Source Approaches

The second cohort of the Mozilla Technology Fund will fuel projects building much-needed auditing, evaluation, and accountability mechanisms for AI.

New Technologies like AR, VR, and AI Help Emerging Artists in Africa Tell Original Stories

Electric South, a Mozilla IRL Fund Awardee, uses immersive media to help artists across Africa tell their stories with new technologies.

Mozilla Fellow Brandi Geurkink Joins the Coalition for Independent Technology Research as Inaugural Executive Director

The Coalition for Independent Technology Research’s Board has announced that Brandi Geurkink will lead the Coalition as its inaugural Executive Director beginning in 2024. Geurkink is also a Senior Fellow in Policy at Mozilla.

Fellow Research: Reform Exploitative Digital Advertising to Safeguard Women's Health and Digital Rights from Deteriorating

The UK’s Billion-pound online advertising industry is thwarting women’s reproductive rights, according to a new study by Mozilla’s Senior Tech Policy Fellow Lucy Purdon.

Award-Winning Short Film ‘Afro Algorithms’ Premiers Online, Explores Urgent Issue of AI Bias

Viewers around the world can now watch the animated Afro-Futurist short about the possibilities and perils of artificial intelligence

Join Upcoming Discussion in Spanish about Feminist Perspectives on Content Moderation, Starting August 22, 2022

You can join the discussion here: www.eureka.club/cycle/21

Mozilla Common Voice Receives $3.4 Million Investment to Democratize and Diversify Voice Tech in East Africa