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Global AI Summit on Africa: my experience

As promised, here s my thoughts on the Global AI Summit on Africa which occurred earlier this month. By the numbers (as provided by the organizers) — 2,000+ Delegates 1,000+ International Delegates 400+ Students and and Young Innovators 97 Nationalities represented Transformative announcements, engaging conversations, inspiring startup pitches The delegates included [ ]

The Ethos of Open Source

A couple of months ago I started posting about how I want to build a better world through technology and how I’ll be doing that outside of Mozilla going forward. The original post has many references to “open” and “open source.” It’s easy to think that we all understand open source and we just [ ]

Global AI Summit on Africa

I’m on my way to the Global AI Summit on Africa in Kigali on April 3 and 4, thanks to an invitation from the Ministry organizing the event. I’ll be speaking, but mostly listening and learning and hopefully connecting with people who are drawn to approaches that are open and creative. If you know someone [ ]

Topic Areas for Building a Better World Through Technology

I recently posted about how I want to build a better world through technology and how we can build technology that promotes opportunity, agency, and public benefit. I’ve been thinking a lot about how we need to shape our collective understanding of the ethos of open source, and how to use business as a tool [ ]

Building a Better World Through Technology

I am driven to build a better world through how we build technology that promotes opportunity, agency, and public benefit. I have pursued this mission through Mozilla for more than 25 years first as a Netscape employee, then as a volunteer leader of Mozilla, then as the co-founder and leader of Mozilla Foundation and [ ]

A Quarter Century of Mozilla

March 31, or “three thirty-one,” is something of a talisman in the Mozilla community. It’s the date that, back in 1998, Mozilla first came into being — the date that we open-sourced the Netscape code for the world to use. This year, “three thirty-one” is especially meaningful: It’s Mozilla’s 25 year anniversary. A lot has [ ]

Expanding Mozilla’s Boards in 2023

As Mozilla reaches its 25th anniversary this year, we’re working hard to set up our ‘next chapter’ — thinking bigger and being bolder about how we can shape the coming era of the internet. We’re working to expand our product offerings, creating multiple options for consumers, audiences and business models. We’re growing our philanthropic and [ ]

Expanding Mozilla’s Boards in 2020

Mozilla is a global community that is building an open and healthy internet. We do so by building products that improve internet life, giving people more privacy, security and control over the experiences they have online. We are also helping to grow the movement of people and organizations around the world committed to making the [ ]

In Memoriam: Gervase Markham

Gerv was Mozilla’s first intern. He arrived in the summer of 2001, when Mozilla staff was still AOL employees. It was a shock that AOL had allocated an intern to the then-tiny Mozilla team, and we knew instantly that our amazingly effective volunteer in the UK would be our choice. When Gerv arrived a few [ ]

Busting the myth that net neutrality hampers investment

This week I had the opportunity to share Mozilla’s vision for an Internet that is open and accessible to all with the audience at MWC Americas. I took this opportunity because we are at a pivotal point in the debate between the FCC, companies, and users over the FCC’s proposal to roll back protections for [ ]