They don’t often make the nightly news, but these trailblazing individuals are active around the world, shaping the future of the web for the public good
| | | | | | | | | Hello there, We don't email you very often about our Mozilla Fellows — but their contributions are among our most important and groundbreaking investments. Every day, these leaders are on the front lines of the healthy internet movement around the globe, confronting emerging threats facing today's web. They're activists, open-source researchers, engineers, and technology policy experts, whose deep-dive projects (often lasting a year or more) focus on topics like trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI), connectivity and web access in rural areas, alternative data governance models, and public interest technology. The end results include better laws and policy, more trustworthy products, and privacy-centric web technology. Here are just a few examples of their work — and the ways they're making the internet better for you, and for all of us. Karolina Iwańska (Poland) is fighting the dominant, surveillance-based online advertising model by developing a set of criteria for advertisers that respects human rights and data protection principles. (more info) Julia Reinhardt (U.S.) is exploring how policy decisions around trustworthy AI in Europe are affecting products in Silicon Valley, and the potential for civil society to use those decisions to support consumers worldwide. (more info) Sylvie Delacroix (U.K.) is working on the issue of "data trusts" (alternative data governance models) with a goal of reducing the problems that result from the systematic collection of personal data. (more info) Chenai Chair (Zimbabwe) is promoting digital rights — specifically around privacy and data protection — in the context of African governments championing artificial intelligence. (more info) Steve Song (Canada) is using his expertise in telecommunications policy in developing countries to identify and help remove regulatory and policy barriers to connecting the currently-unconnected. (more info) Divij Joshi (India) is helping strengthen democratic mechanisms for accountability in machine decision-making systems, to ensure that these systems are compatible with legal and constitutional rights in India. (more info) Jonathan McCully (U.K) is developing two resources — one for lawyers and another for technologists and digital rights activists — designed for effective collaboration in strategic litigation against AI-driven human rights violations. (more info) Projects like these that protect a healthy web are fueled by donations from Mozilla supporters like you. If you’d like to see this work continue and expand in 2021, we humbly ask you to consider a generous donation to the Mozilla Foundation today. Yes, I'll Donate We also invite you to learn more about the Fellows' contributions to a healthy internet on our Mozilla Fellowships home page. Thanks so much, – The Mozilla Fellowships and Awards Team P.S. You can also hear directly from some of the Mozilla Fellows about their projects to create a more human-centered internet in this short video. | | |
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