June Opportunities: 6 Watchlists, 4 Events, 1 Call for Projects

June is filled with opportunity!?

Will you propose a project for our Trustworthy AI Working Groups? Attend a MozFest Fringe Event? Watch On-Demand Sessions on the Plaza??There is so much to do.

Last Chance For MozFest 2022 On-Demand

The MozFest Plaza – our virtual gathering space to engage with the festival on-demand – is closing on June 25. That leaves you with 24 days to get your free on-demand ticket, and read, watch, listen, and connect with the people and projects of MozFest 2022. Here is a list of topical watchlists to get you started:

• Bias & Gender
• Digital (Cyber) Attacks
• AI vs The World
• The Metaverse
• Sustainability & Climate Tech
• SWANA

Get Your Ticket Today

This Month’s Fringe Events

These events are free with an On-Demand MozFest ticket and ready for you to engage:

??????June 23?| Rhizome of Babel – The Rhizome of Babel is an interactive digital project created by Kosisochukwu Nnebe, in collaboration with Lucas LaRochelle, that re-examines the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel from an anti-imperialist and ecological perspective. The final product will be an interactive audio-visual environment in Mozilla Hubs (with spatialized audio) that envisions the abundance and diversity of human languages – an ecosystem in its own right – as an alternative vision of prosperity that privileges biodiversity over monoculture, opacity over transparency, relationality over hierarchy.

??????Week of June 20 | Movement Building From Home 2?– You’re invited to join the MozFest community for Movement Building from Home 2, a new series of community calls focused on facilitative leadership that will help you sustain the momentum for your project-based work, professional development, and participation in MozFest.

?????June 21 | Dialogues & Debates: Queerness is in multitude – Technology further codifies biases and categorizes personhood, not simply a reflection of the society that creates it but possibly an imperfect and flawed mirror of it. That has resulted in software and AI systems that are at odds with fluidity, that endanger the privacy and security of the LGBTQIA+ community, and often inferrs heteronormative assumptions and forces binary gender classifications. How does the queer community change this technology landscape? And what does it mean to queer the landscape, coopt these systems, and create safe, online spaces? And accordingly, how has technology made a global LGBTQIA+ movement possible?

??????June 23 & 24 | Building Long-term Momentum Post MozFest – for Participants and Facilitators who want to explore ways to build off of their MozFest Session to support long term goals.

Propose a Project for Trustworthy AI Working Groups

The work that has come out of our Trustworthy AI community has been inspiring. In fact, a few projects from MozFest’s Trustworthy AI cohorts have received funding to continue their work.?

We’re now looking for the next group of technologists, engineers, and activists to create and promote solutions to the most urgent issues in AI.?

Learn more & submit your project idea.

Keep The MozFest Momentum?

• Be Inspired! Tara Vassefi took ‘Truth as a Public Good’ from the MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Groups to the U.S Capital after landing her dream role after 2 years of searching. Read her story.?
• Be Aware. When it comes to protecting people’s privacy and security, mental health and prayer apps are worse than any other product category Mozilla researchers have reviewed over the past six years, according to Mozilla's latest *Privacy Not Included guide.
• Be In The Know. Mozilla’s Fellows and Awardees are hard at work bringing light to the dark places of the internet. Review their work.?
• Be informed. What are today’s most pressing data dilemmas? Which ones are we able to live with? And which ones scare us to the core? Over two days, the Ethical Dilemma Café hosted talks, workshops, and projects that addressed these questions and proposed ways of navigating them.