Foundation/Mozilla Education
About Mozilla Education
Vision: The future of education is inclusive, creative, and lifelong, empowering learners everywhere to imagine a more ethical and human-centered AI world.
Mission: Mozilla Education builds the knowledge, skills, and community needed for the next generation of technologists to design more ethical, human-centered technology. Through the Responsible Computing Challenge, Education Assemblies, and Compute program, Mozilla Education trains learners and faculty at the intersection of computing and the humanities, embedding responsible computing as foundational to the practice of building technology rather than optional.
Mozilla Education is positioned to fill a gap no other organization does: a globally connected, field-building, responsible computing program operating simultaneously in the US, South Africa, Kenya, and India, with local faculty leadership. Mozilla uniquely contributes:
Global brand trust and a clear values framework, giving faculty confidence that their work will be recognized professionally and their institutions credit for the association Convening power that brings together universities, governments, funders, and practitioners in the same room, a combination that no single institution or sector actor can replicate
Open opportunities
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Team
We currently sit within the Grants Team, led by Lindsey Dodson (Director of Global Grants), in the Operations vertical and aligned with the “Imagine” component of the flywheel.
The education team is led by Steven Azeka (Senior Program Officer), with program support from Jaselle Edward-Gill (Program Manager).
The team also draws on the expertise of Chao Mbogho (Senior Fellow, leading our Kenya portfolio and overall MEL), Jibu Elias (Fellow, supporting our Kenya work), and Kofi Yeboah (Program Officer, leading our Compute portfolio).
Current Programs/Activities
Education Assemblies
Education Assemblies (2026): As Mozilla Education enters its next chapter, we are grappling with the profound impact of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on education systems. In response, we are launching a global listening tour, “Education Assemblies,” in partnership with organizations working closely with students, faculty, administrators, community members, and industry leaders. Insights from these convenings will inform the prototypes we choose to invest in and ultimately shape our future grantmaking strategy.
- Example Assembly: We co-hosted a hackathon with partners to align universities and industry around the future of personal AI in education. Builder teams created prototypes that were interoperable, person-centric tools—such as portable memory systems and privacy-preserving frameworks—that prioritize user agency, trust, and consent.
History of Mozilla Education
Mozilla Foundation’s mission is to build a good technology future that serves and is shaped by the people who use it. Since 2010, Mozilla Education has advanced this mission by equipping the next generation with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to realize that vision. Our early efforts focused on building a global ecosystem of programs, tools, and networks to promote web literacy and support educators in fostering meaningful participation online. In 2018, we launched the Responsible Computing Challenge to transform how ethics and responsibility are integrated into computer science education. This impact was made possible by Mozilla’s unique ability to engage and mobilize a global community, resulting in strong brand recognition among partners and trusted leadership from education experts guiding the work.
Responsible Computing Challenge (RCC)
Responsible Computing Challenge (2018 - Current): Since 2018, the Responsible Computing Challenge (RCC) has awarded # grants to faculty members to innovate their classroom to … We are currently running in Kenya, India, South Africa, and the United States reaching 400+ faculty and staff and 60,000+ students.
- Funders: Mellon Foundation (Current), Newmark Philanthropies, Omidyar Network, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Schmidt Futures, United States Agency for International Development
- Sample Impacts:
- In India, Jerit Baiju created WebEase in his RCC class at Marian College, an open-source accessibility widget that helps make websites easier to use for people with disabilities. Since launching in 2025, it’s been loaded over 1.1 million times.
- In Kenya, RCC faculty from four of the eight universities have used the experience and outcomes of the RCC pilot and scaling phases to spearhead university level responsible computing policies such as RC and AI policy at Dedan Kimathi University and Technology that guide how students and staff at the whole institution use and design technologies.
- In the US, RCC students are building social justice tech tools. Adelphi University created a two-course program called “Spatial Justice as a Bridge to Responsible Computing.” In these classes, students create and analyze digital maps to tell stories about community issues, such as the gender wage gap and the burden of high rent prices.
Africa Compute Initiative
Africa Compute Initiative (2025 - Current): In 2025, Mozilla Foundation received a grant from IDRC and FCDO, and working alongside GIZ, and the Gates Foundation, to collectively work on advancing the design and implementation of the EQUAL Compute Network, aimed at bridging the AI compute divide between the Global South and North. Starting with Africa over the next three years, Mozilla Education will be collaborating with University of Cape Town to design, test, and scale an equitable, sustainable, and interoperable compute-infrastructure model that enables African researchers and innovators to access, share, and utilize advanced computing resources for responsible AI research and development.
Funders: The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) 2025 Activities:
Convened Ecosystem: Co-hosted 2 hybrid convenings with key compute demand and supply actors alongside two major global and pan-African AI convenings - AI Action Summit and Global AI Summit on Africa. This brought together together about 90 individuals from across Africa, North America and Europe within key industries and sectors Designed the network model: Designed the compute network model, indicating how the demand and supply actors can collaborate to ensure equitable distribution. Demonstrated Viability: Showed that multi-sector collaboration on compute redistribution can work when convened around shared principles rather than market dynamics alone; work recognized at Global AI Summit on Africa panel. 2026 Activity: Inception Workshop | 6-8 May 2026: This inception workshop provides an opportunity to refine the model, avoid insular decision-making, and ensure that the ACI design is robust, future-oriented, and responsive to the continent’s diverse needs.