Foundation/Program/Net Effects
Overview
Mozilla, the global community behind the Firefox web browser, has a goal that we need your help with. We want you to help make openness, participation and distributed decision-making common experiences in Internet life.
To do this, millions of people around the world must understand, embrace and share these values. You, me, our families, our neighbor down the street, our political representatives – millions of us from every walk of life in every wired country can help to protect the Net and make it better.
Net Effects is an experiment working towards this goal. It is a program coordinated by the Mozilla Foundation that asks people to share multiple short video statements of how the Net has changed their life. Each statement should be a simple and personal answer to the question, "What is one way that the Internet has changed my life?"
Along with the videos, we'll ask people to share a little bit of information about themselves and to give their permission to let others use the videos. We want to make it so that creatives, academics and others around the world can use these videos and the background information to create stories, build case studies, illustrate presentations, create art, promote the Net and much more.
We are working with a small group of people (who speak some 20+ languages between them) to test the idea more completely before we make a general call for participation. If you want to be a part of this testing group, please write to zak@mozillafoundation.org.
Finally, a few days ago, I made test videos to explore some of the ideas. I'm hoping that others (perhaps even myself) will record much better videos in the future. :) If you want to see the low-quality rough videos, visit http://flickr.com/photos/zak/sets/72157612984690925