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== June 8th, 2020 ==
* '''Smart Development Hack''' -- In April the EU along with several government and corporate partners [https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/news/coronavirus-eu-calls-smartdevelopmenthack_en announced] “[https://toolkit-digitalisierung.de/en/smartdevelopmenthack/ Smart Development Hack]”, a global hackathon to find and fund innovative solutions that could boost response to coronavirus. The ten winners out of over a thousand entries included “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0ikab5Gqg Mbaza - an AI Based COVID-19 Chatbot]”, which will provide access to valuable COVID-19 information in plain language on any phone at any time. Mbaza is the work of [https://digitalumuganda.com/ Digital Umuganda], a startup in Rwanda that has been working with us as part of our Common Voice and Deep Speech community. Using the [https://www.newtimes.co.rw/technology/rwandan-startup-wins-over-rwf3-billion-covid-19-hackathon award funding] Digital Umuganda will be able to develop speech recognition for under-represented languages Kinyarwanda and Swahili, and contribute to the broader impact of our voice work.
* '''ET Speaker Series''' -- We regularly host a series of timely and topical speakers to provide Mozillians with insights into research happening broadly in the world. You may not know that all of those talks are collected and shared as a [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRGhgZaGeBu_vwhJmaL953ZA8c5vuQ7h playlist] on Mozilla’s YouTube channel. Most recently we were delighted to host [http://www.baeza.cl/ Ricardo Baeza-Yates] to talk about Bias on the Web. His [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brr8cZHf2ec talk] takes a data scientist’s view of bias and talks about the responsibility to address bias in science, a topic that’s always of impact but understandably getting considerable increased attention today.
== June 1st, 2020 ==
* '''MDN News''' -- We have completed our work on a mobile UI redesign, significantly improving the user experience and performance of the mobile view, making it much cleaner and easier to use. This should help developers get the information they need even when traveling light or using a mobile device in their work. Content-wise, the new “[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_testing/Client-side_JavaScript_frameworks Understanding client-side JavaScript frameworks]” we mentioned a couple of weeks ago when it became available as a draft, is now complete and on-line. And the [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms MDN Web Forms learning module] now has a full set of assessments (for example [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/Test_your_skills:_Advanced_styling Test your skills: Advanced styling]).
