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.
Mozilla Festival House: Kenya to explore local approaches to AI, data governance; event will take place September 21 - 22, 2023 at Nairobi’s Shamba House Cafe.
This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee AI Forensics. A non-profit which investigates influential algorithms. It was previously known as Tracking Exposed, a project which had been pioneering new methods to hold big tech platforms accountable since 2016.
This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee CheckFirst. Through their CrossOver project, they have been investigating disinformation peddled through algorithmic content recommendations on platforms such as Google News, Twitter, and YouTube in eight French-speaking countries and regions.
Tidepool is an incubatee of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab — which this year, is funding selected projects to develop data donation initiatives for public interest innovations. Through its Big Data Donation Project, Tidepool has been supporting the advancement of diabetes research by sharing anonymized data from people living with diabetes with researchers.
New research by Mozilla Fellow Dr. Abeba Birhane and others reveals how expanding AI training datasets leads to disproportionately more bias and discrimination
