Mozilla and 37,380 YouTube users conducted a study to better understand harmful YouTube recommendations. This is what we learned.| Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla’s Common Voice now features 60 hours of speech datasets in eight new Indigenous languages. Meet the Taiwan Language volunteers at RightsCon on February 27, 2025, in Taipei --- As thousands of languages face extinction, linguistic and heritage preservation has never been more critical. In Taiwan, a grassroots volunteer community is utilizing Mozilla’s Common Voice platform — the world’s largest public participation open speech dataset, to preserve Indigenous languages and help ...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
The Common Voice team is honoured to be able to announce that the 20th version of our multilingual, open speech dataset is now available. This dataset release sees Aragonese, IsiNdebele (sometimes also known as Southern Ndebele), Southern Sotho and Tupuri to the dataset for the first time. The dedicated language activists, translators and contributors for these new languages have done amazing work creating open speech data for their languages that anyone can build on. These new languages brin...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
For over a decade, Mozilla Fellowships have sought to nurture talent at the intersection of technology and society. Launched in 2011, our fellowships program has grown into a recognized catalyst for some of the most celebrated leaders in open source innovation, public interest tech, and tech policy. From debunking myths about AI to exposing targeted disinformation campaigns in Kenya, our 200+ Mozilla Fellows have been at the forefront of some of the most critical conversations about technolog...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
In order to better support a globally distributed community of dataset users, developers, language activists and voice contributors the Common Voice team is launching a Discord server. You can join the Discord community now by clicking here. Why Discord? The team wanted to balance using a communications tool that was already in widespread use with what technologies are being used and supported by other Mozilla teams. By using Discord we hope to allow community members from Mozfest, MDN, MozAI...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
MozFest House Zambia took place on November 20-21, 2024 at the Lusaka International Conference Center. Over 500 technologists, activists, funders, and creators gathered to explore the transformative potential of collective action towards ethical, open, and equitable AI that serves communities across Africa. MozFest House Zambia was a testament that joy, imagination, and solidarity are a critical part of the equation of how we get there. In today’s interconnected and complex systems, the pro...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
At MozFest House Zambia, Skoll Foundation brought together technologists, policymakers, and activists who are implementing AI solutions on the continent to provide a ground-up perspective on the technology’s impact. The discussion illuminated the nuances of AI’s role in Africa. Practical Implications The conversation kicked off with examples of AI’s practical applications. Bright Simons from mPedigree explained how his organization uses AI tags to provide quality control for drugs as th...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
Grounded by our own open source roots, Mozilla has long funded open source technologies that help to untangle thorny sociotechnical issues. From the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program’s funding of critical building blocks of the open source ecosystem to the Data Futures Lab’s support of new data governance models, and the Mozilla Technology Fund’s cohort of projects employing AI to address environmental impacts, we’ve fueled a broad and impactful portfolio of technical project...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
Study of booming market shows how sharing and exploitation of health and biometric data fuels everything from insurance hikes to workplace discrimination (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, NOVEMBER 20) — Health-related cybersecurity breaches and ransom attacks have skyrocketed more than 4000% – from 18 incidents in 2009 to 745 in 2023 in the United States only, targeting a booming market of body-centric data expected to exceed $500 billion by 2030, according to new research from Mozilla Fellow, Júlia ...| Mozilla Foundation Blog
An ethnographic research into the datasets powering maternal healthcare app “DawaMom” used across Zambia and other Southern African countries (LUSAKA, ZAMBIA | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2024)— Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to strengthen access to quality healthcare, offering new opportunities to improve maternal health. In Zambia, where a newborn dies every 30 minutes and a stillbirth occurs every hour in certain regions, AI-driven solutions are perceiv...| Mozilla Foundation Blog