We’re excited to announce that the festival will begin March 8, 2021. Our Call for Proposals (CFP) for sessions will open October 26, 2020. On the surface, this re-imagined festival will be the same MozFest we know and love: community curated sessions, art exhibitions, partnered events and plenty of opportunity to meet new people over a beverage of your choice. However it will all be online.
Leena Haque, MozFest Facilitator, Wrangler, and Neurodivergent advocate shares her story about creating positive environments for those with cognitive differences and how she brings her work to MozFest, a unique digital rights and technology gathering in Europe.
Acknowledging the important differences between diversity, equity, and inclusion is a baseline for accountable systemic change. To truly embody these values, we must understand and embrace each of them uniquely and enthusiastically.
Inspiring work is happening around the world to raise up underrepresented and marginalised communities online. We’ve compiled a few resources that inspire us to take action and cause radical disruptions in current systemic norms.
Even during a global pandemic, racism against black people persists. These injustices aren't new, but the technology available to us is. Smartphones and social media have unearthed these horrible acts to those who, otherwise, may not have seen it. At the same time, technologies like facial recognition and surveillance networks powered by Ring cameras continue to put black individuals at a disadvantage in society. Our latest Dialogues & Debates, discusses exactly how technology helps and harms the black community.
