Learning/Staging
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Phase 1
The Web is Evolving
Its estimated that by 2025, there will be close to 5 billion users on the web.
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The open Web - as we know and love it - is in danger. The web is moving towards closed, isolated ecosystems that limit and restrict the users' imagination and creativity, and ultimately the potential of the web for all.
A glaring example of this was brought to light when Quartz recently reported that millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet.
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See our research here. <Insert reference to research reports>
If we do nothing, more people will come online, but they will use it passively. They will believe that a handful of apps or a social media platform is all there is to the web. They will not be able to utilize the full potential of the web to improve their lives.
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"People end up viewing the Web less as a life-changing resource, and more like a television" - Mark Surman
Protecting the Open Web
It is going to become more important than ever before to protect the web as a global public resource.
See the Mozilla Manifesto for our guiding principles.
Web Literacy
We also believe that it will be equally important to teach critical web literacy skills to promote meaningful participation online in the future.
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More from this Phase:
- High-level summary of our thinking in Phase 1
- Universal web literacy
- More on Web Literacy:
- Web Literacy Map https://teach.mozilla.org/teach-like-mozilla/web-literacy/]
- Digital-Age Skills for the 21st Century http://bit.ly/1GkdDLV]
- 21st Century Skills Badging Framework https://blog.webmaker.org/21st-century-skills-badging-framework]
Phase 2
Leadership Development
Where we are
Starting with Drumbeat in Barcelona, we’ve become skilled at convening people and building networks.
We now have a rich and diverse global network of over ~5,000 community leaders closely tied to Mozilla.
Evolving the networks we’ve already built, we will: Grow a global network of highly talented leaders who want to tackle the big issues of the web (‘hills’) and sustain the internet as a global public resource.
Some of the analysis we did in this phase:
- Survey of Mozilla Foundation's Leadership Development offerings. Link
- A SWOT analysis of all Leadership Development offerings. Link
- Analysis of types of Leaders we engage through our offerings. Link
Many of our programs already provide leaders with an opportunity to participate and contribute, while learning valuable skills along the way.
Advocacy
Where we are
We’ve developed a real ability to mobilize people, tapping into growing concern about internet issues.
We have a strong relationship with Mozilla policy team in MoCo. Our shared policy + advocacy model seems to be working.
Also, we’ve gotten on the public radar as an advocacy brand. We have ~1.7M people on our advocacy and fundraising list.
Building on the mobilization capacity we have now, we will: Grow a global network of millions of people who want to protect the open web and sustain the internet as a global public resource. We need to invest in new staff and infrastructure to do this.
We tackled some questions on enabling our work through software:
- Do we need software to connect people to each other? Link
- Do we need software to help people teach web literacy and web skills at scale? Link
- Do we need significant software engineering and design resources to more effectively do mass engagement? Link Link
- Do we plan to use software as a method of change? Link
We also answered some specific questions regarding our Advocacy offerings and capabilities:
- How do we get alignment with marketing / brand voice people? Link
- Collaboration / needs with Mozilla marketing. Link
- How do we build relationships outside the email channel? Link
- How do we structure our service offerings to be more internationally / globally sensitive? Link
We are capable of building a movement and create a center of influence. See a detailed synthesis here.
