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== Programs == | |||
Our programs sit within our strategy flywheel of Imagine - Co-create - Mobilize. | |||
* Our imagine programs are a thesis development engine surfacing what should exist | |||
* Our co-create programs are part of a proof-of-concept engine demonstrating it can exist, while cultivating a repeatable playbook of how (product-community fit). | |||
* Our mobilization activities are adoption & feedback infrastructure illustrating and cultivating demand. | |||
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=== Imagine Programs === | |||
Our Imagine aligned programs seek to surface unexpected insights. This part of the flywheel is a thesis development engine surfacing what should exist. | |||
==== Creative Futures ==== | |||
Creative Futures is a Mozilla Foundation initiative that sparks community imagination and makes it real. | |||
We convene the most imaginative communities – artists, cultural innovators, technologists, and open-source builders – to articulate bold new visions for the future of the internet. Guided by the belief that cultural imagination is essential to shaping technology for the public good, Creative Futures then partners with creative technologists and developers to prototype these visions into reusable assets: open-source tools, cultural frameworks, and infrastructures. | |||
Through commissions, convenings, and funding collaborations, Creative Futures develops a new field of cultural R&D – amplifying pro-social design principles, serving as a community-led prototyping lab, and offering Mozilla and its partners durable assets that anticipate and shape the next wave of digital technologies. | |||
Creative Futures collaborates closely with the grantmaking, community and strategic communications teams. | |||
==== Fellowships ==== | |||
Mozilla Foundation is building a better technology future – powered by people, open by design, fueled by imagination. We make, inspire, and mobilize to build a better technology future that serves and is shaped by the people who use it. We are defiantly optimistic that the future of technology can be good, and our Fellowship program is one way this optimism becomes action. By investing in rising technologists and established innovators, we position ourselves at the center of every major technology debate while gaining frontline intelligence on the issues that matter most to our communities—from AI ethics to data governance to platform accountability. | |||
Our 2026 Fellowship Program will support up to 10 visionary technologists, researchers, creators, and advocates who share our belief that a better tech future is not only possible – it's ours to create. | |||
The Fellowship Program is led by Lindsey Dodson, Director, Global Grants in close collaboration with the grantmaking and strategic operations team. | |||
==== Nothing Personal Magazine ==== | |||
Nothing Personal is the editorial arm of Mozilla Foundation, to tell better stories and cultivate an engaged, younger audience funnel beyond email. Its goal is to: | |||
* Highlight human-first stories about tech’s impact, the stakes | |||
* Showcase how we can literally build the world we want by supporting user-first software, tools, and services | |||
* Amplify Mozilla people, products, and ideas | |||
* Build community and creativity through commissions. | |||
Nothing Personal includes three formats: | |||
* Feature Story: An ambitious monthly commission of longform journalism with media rich experiences. | |||
* Product Reviews: Consumer reviews are at the core of the brand – a utility for our readers to understand the tech in their lives (previously known as PNI). | |||
* Advice Column: A humor story where our Human columnist will make fun of a feature of the tech world. Edited by The Onion. | |||
Nothing Personal is led by Bourree Lam, Executive Editor in close collaboration with the strategic communications and tech platforms teams. | |||
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=== Co-create Programs === | |||
Our Co-create aligned programs transform the visions from our 'Imagine' work into working prototypes through our co-creation efforts, where our Incubator optimizes for "product-community fit." Our co-create programs are part of a proof-of-concept engine demonstrating it can exist, while cultivating a repeatable playbook of how (product-community fit). | |||
==== Incubator ==== | |||
Mozilla Foundation's Community Tech Incubator helps mission-aligned technologies navigate the critical transition from prototype to sustainable product by connecting them with the community they need to thrive. | |||
Rather than chasing market dynamics that compromise core values, we help project teams achieve product/community fit by connecting them with the users, contributors, and funders they need to create sustainable technologies built with care, powered by people, and open by design. | |||
The Community Tech Incubator is led by Lindsey, Director, Global Grants in close collaboration with the grantmaking and strategic operations team. Learn more about the initiative here. | |||
==== Common Voice ==== | |||
Common Voice is the world's most linguistically diverse open-source voice dataset. Built by Mozilla Foundation, it invites people everywhere to record and validate speech in their own language — creating freely available, ethically sourced training data for speech AI. All data is released under a CC0 license: open to any developer, researcher, or institution. | |||
It is Mozilla Foundation's strategic bet on AI: that the path to equitable, accountable artificial intelligence runs through open data — and that communities, not corporations, should be the ones who build it. | |||
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=== Mobilize Programs === | |||
Building a community of mission-aligned people. Our mobilization activities are adoption & feedback infrastructure illustrating and cultivating demand for pro-social technology and a better tech future. | |||
==== Mozilla Festival==== | |||
The Mozilla Festival is the Mozilla Foundation's annual global festival for a healthy, open, and trustworthy internet, serving as a unique convergence of art, tech, and society. It is a gathering of technologists, activists, researchers, artists, and policymakers who participate in hands-on, community-led sessions, installations, and workshops to collaboratively address critical issues like privacy, and AI ethics, ultimately working to shape a more inclusive digital future - our theme for 2025 was "Unlearning." | |||
Led by Zeina Abi Assy, Director, Mozilla Festival, the team includes experts in curation, community management, federated design, and production. Learn more about the team here. | |||
==== Mozilla Education ==== | |||
From 2018 to 2025, the Responsible Computing Challenge (RCC) directly invested in future responsible tech builders – awarding over $6.9 million in grants to over 60 academic institutions worldwide to revise, expand, and share responsible computing curricula. To date RCC cohorts have been active in the USA, Kenya and India. | |||
Since 2025, the Responsible Computing Challenge team has expanded to become Mozilla Education – exploring the ways in which responsible computing principles can be accessed by the general public through the Education Hub and creating a network of equitable compute infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. | |||
Led by Steve, Program Lead, RCC. The team includes experts in education, policy, and computer science. Together, we cover everything from higher education training to implementing compute. Learn more about the team here. | |||
==== Development ==== | |||
Our Development team focus on growing a community of people who believe tech should work for everyone — and back that belief with real resources, from grassroots donors to major funding partners. Every contribution fuels the work: the research, the advocacy, the builders, and the movements shaping a better tech future. | |||
== Strategy Archive == | == Strategy Archive == | ||