These session proposals have not been confirmed to take place at the festival and are under review by our team of Wranglers.

“0.0146 seconds | Live interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

Giving 'Informed consent' is one of the foundations for collecting and using your data. But practically, that means thoughtlessly clicking 'agreed' to a privacy policy. What do you agree to? Often, that click doesn't permit one but hundreds of privacy policies all in one.

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 11”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 12”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 13”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 15”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 6”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

You can participate in this session by viewing the work at the live interaction and signing up here - https://www.wedonotaccept.com/idonotaccept/

“0.0146 seconds | We Do Not Accept”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media

For example, you accept 835 privacy policies with just one click on 'got it' when you visit dailymail.co.uk. It takes hundreds of hours to read these all. So, let's do it together.

0.0146 seconds is a collective read out loud performance in which people one by one recite a part of the conditions until all conditions are recorded, resulting in an auditory work of art.

Together, we create a movement against the exploiting and elusive mechanisms of the data industry. We read for better digital civil rights and control over our data.

Look in the schedule for the live performance times.

“0°N 0°E (2020)”
Deborah Mora, FIBER; Art and Media

0°N 0°E is an invitation into a collective, technologically mediated memory of nature.
It refers to the coordinates where the Null Island is imagined to exist. The null value is
attributed when data is absent, thus all those images, files, registrations that are uploaded online
without specified geo-position, are erroneously associated with the location “0,0” by the software.
In this way, the Null Island becomes an archive of objects that don’t belong to any specific place
anymore.
Moreover, the elements used come from archives from biologists, geologists, archeologists who
document specific locations and objects for survey and conservation. In this way, the work carries
as well an ecological question: how can natural environments be saved and preserved in a digital
format?

This work is presented in collaboration with FIBER; an Amsterdam based platform and festival operating at the intersection of audiovisual art, technologie, ecology and performances. FIBER supports and presents emerging artistic makers and thinkers whose work offers innovative and critical perspectives on our rapidly changing world.

“24h Sunrise/Sunset”
Dries Depoorter, Shishani Vranckx; Art and Media

24h Sunrise/Sunset is an installation that displays a real-time sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of unsecured CCTV. Work by Dries Depoorter

Music composed by Shishani Vranckx.

This work is presented in partnership with IDFA DocLab

“404: Planet B not found. (Try connecting to Mother Earth through Youth4DigitalSustainability)”
Elisabeth Schauermann, Raashi Saxena, Eileen Cejas, Noha Abdel Baky, Pedro Peres; Workshop

The objective is to get people of different ages and regional and thematic backgrounds to deliberate on strategies for digital sustainability that take into account that the Internet affects our environment, our societies, our economies, and governance structures. All of these aspects interlink in order to be more digitally sustainable going forward. The basis of this exchange is going to be the recently drafted Youth4DigitalSustainability Recommendations (https://yigf.de/news/12-youth-recommendations-for-a-sustainable-internet/), that were developed by young experts from all world regions and presented to the Internet Governance Forum. In the methodologies of “guerilla writing” and open deliberative exchange, the workshop participants will be asked to share their perspectives on the recommendations, and together define points of action and concrete advocacy. The session will be based on speech and collaborative writing so that people with different abilities and different communication styles can actively contribute.

“Abusability: Designing for Human-Centred Security”
Julia Slupska, Eleanor Goodman, Lesley Nuttall; Workshop

Each year, tech-facilitated abuse make millions of people vulnerable worldwide, particularly those who are already disadvantaged by discrimination due to gender, race, disability, poverty or other forms of marginalisation. Many have called for technology developers to be more proactive in addressing this problem. However, existing approaches, which often start by developing new apps or guides for survivors, are limited in that this solution shifts “safety work” onto survivors who already face significant cognitive, emotional and financial strains. One way to resolve this would be to start instead with “abusability” – the extent to which existing products, platforms, and features facilitate or enable abuse. In this workshop, we will brainstorm how product development teams could anticipate and mitigate abuse of their products, as well as potential obstacles. This session will be facilitated by researchers and practitioners from the Oxford Internet Institute and IBM’s Coercive Control Resistant Design project.

“Accessible Data Security”
Maurine Chepkoech; Discussion - Capped

Many have fallen victim to having their personally identifiable stolen or compromised. These pieces of information find their way to a black market for sale to the highest bidder. This leads to prevalent cases of identity theft, loss of funds among other heinous crimes.
In a 30 minutes discussion with the participants and thereafter question and answer session, we will focus on:
1. Highlighting the rapidly rising cases involving data theft.
2. Educating on the various forms that data theft could take.
3. Featuring case studies of these real live scenarios.
4. Real demos of such methods in action.
5. Ways to secure one's data from theft.
6. Technologies that assist in data security.
7. How to spread the word

Our aim is to significantly empower our communities with knowledge of how to secure their personal data and eventually stagnate the rapidly increasing cases of data breaches.

“Accessible Virtual Worlds”
Alexandra Tzanidou & Sami Abosaleh; Workshop

During the session, we will share our ongoing work with an inclusive theatre group around designing an immersive inclusive performance, the challenges we have faced and the ideas developed so far to tackle this issue. We will present the participants with some questions and themes which they will discuss in smaller groups and finally present their ideas to the group. This will, hopefully, initiate discussions around technical limitations and affordances of immersive technology, issues of representation and inclusion in immersive media tools and experiences.

“Achieving social transformation with decentralized infrastructures”
Dawn Walker; Workshop

Emerging decentralized peer-to-peer, and offline-first alternatives to existing digital communications infrastructure create the potential to redistribute power within online communities and radically rethink how our networks are built and maintained. As such, these alternatives provide a site to think about the social transformations of off/online spaces that lead to the world we want.

In a hands-on workshop, participants will imagine decentralized forms of social transformation through creating short speculative stories and collectively map those to existing tactics of social change, providing an opportunity to reflect on how to get from current decentralization practices to desired futures.

“A cornucopia of colourful cultural creation 🎨”
Harrison Pim, James Gorrie; Workshop

We’ve built an API for Wellcome Collection’s images, exposing millions of pictures from our medical museum and library.

We’ve got pictures of skeletons and syringes and strychnine and simulations. All of them are as openly licensed as possible, free for you to remix and reuse.

In this session we’re going to be creating and collaborating around the theme of colour.

Anything’s possible - Maybe you want to create a collage of red onions from the 1400s, or visualise the colour palettes of historical toothpaste adverts, or just collect inspiration for your next face tattoo. Whatever it is, we want to see all the weird and wonderful stuff you can create!

We’ll be on hand to help you make the most of the API, and we’ll give you time at the end of the session to show off what you’ve made!

“Activism through video games: how streaming and video games can help power-up your cause”
Micaela Mantegna (Abogamer), Javier Pallero; Workshop

With this workshop, we aim to show examples of how activists can use video games as a tool for reaching out to new audiences and leverage their causes amongst them. As an interactive narrative media, video games present an unprecedented potential for empathy that can be harnessed into grass-root activism.
Session will provide an overview of how video games connect with human rights through real examples, and then move on to
collaborative brainstorming on ideas on how game mechanics and streaming can be used for engagement.

“Adapting AI Pedagogy for Under-Represented Global Communities”
Albert 'Bash' Yumol, Aurelien; Discussion - Capped

We discuss trends in global education and how they affect responsible AI pedagogy, taking as a case study our own experience providing AI education to a variety of audiences in the Philippines. We also share principles that we have found that improve the efficacy and inclusion of our education efforts in the context of the Philippines, as a starting point for discussion about contextualizing, adapting, and enriching pedagogy for responsible AI in communities outside of major tech hubs.

“Add-ons Community Meetup Session”
Caitlin Neiman, Philipp Kewisch, Andreas Wagner; Discussion - Capped

Firefox Add-ons team members Philipp Kewisch, Caitlin Neiman, and Andreas Wagner would like to host a session for members of the add-ons developer community to learn more about how they can build trust with users of their extensions by following Mozilla's best practices for data handling and collection. Using Mozilla's principles for lean data practices and data privacy principles, the team will help participants think through and design experiences that help users understand how and why their data is being collected and honor user choices to opt in or out of data collection.

“A Deep Dive into the World of Numismatics”
ARYAN; Discussion - Capped

Highlights of the talk:
• What is Numismatics?
• The World of Coins and Banknotes.
• How to find where your coins are minted in India? (It will be a totally hands-on training session, in which viewers will be learning themselves that where a coin is minted)
• How to find where your banknotes are printed in India? (It will be a totally hands-on training session, in which viewers will be learning themselves that where a banknote is printed)
• What makes this field so special?
• The journey from Passion to Profession.
• Fascinating facts about Indian currency (coins and banknotes).
• Some of the glimpses of my own collection, and how to begin with the same.
• An amazing and interactive session followed by the QnA part.

“Ad Transparency and Access for Researchers: What are platforms hiding?”
Kaili Lambe, Brandi Geurkink, Jason Chuang, Laura Edelson; Discussion - Capped

This session will bring together researchers, policy advocates, journalists, activists and others interested in discussing how online advertisements can be made more transparent. We'll surface specific problem areas within existing ad transparency efforts and identify what is required to support scrutiny and oversight into online advertisements.

“Africa Innovation Mradi Community Discussion”
Hanan Elmasu, Roselyn Odoyo, Chenai Chair; Discussion - Capped

Africa Innovation Mradi is a Mozilla initiative to catalyse innovation with and for communities in Africa. Combining product development, policy engagement and community building, we work with African entrepreneurs, developers, and civil society to support solutions that address the intersection of internet health priorities and real-world African internet user needs.

Join us in thinking through what it means to strengthen leadership and engage civil society to address issues at the nexus of African social movements and the digital world. We invite you to share your thoughts around three questions prior to the session:

What does innovation for a healthy Internet across Africa look like?
What should a movement to support that look like?
*What role do you think Mozilla should play in that movement?

You can post your thoughts before the session on this Miro board and come discuss these ideas with us.

“A Global Perspective on Algorithmic Accountability”
Spandana Singh; Discussion - Capped

Today, internet platforms use algorithmic decision-making to shape and curate the online ecosystem, through content moderation, ranking and recommendations systems, and more. These pervasive but invisible systems are powerful and they influence how we see and engage with the world. However, platforms provide little transparency and accountability around how they deploy these tools and what impact they have on user experiences and user speech. In addition, when platforms do engage with stakeholders on issues of algorithmic accountability, their outreach is too narrow, and skews the conversation towards the needs of stakeholders in the Global North. This discussion will bring together audience members from around the world to discuss what algorithmic transparency and accountability means to stakeholders in different regions. The discussion will also explore how we can collaboratively press companies to demonstrate accountability that is valuable for all users, and not just those based in the Global North.

“A hyper-local nanosecond protest on the future representation of women in gendered technology”
B Aga, Coral Manton, Caitlin Bentley, Elvia Vasconcelos; Workshop

We, Women Reclaiming AI (womenreclaimingai.com) invite you to take a step into the future and take part in a hyper-local nanosecond protest on the representation of women in gendered technology. Together we will discuss, design and demonstrate demands to ensure this future becomes more representative and desirable.

Women are underrepresented in computing and robotics. However, when it comes to making humanoid chatbots or robots, women appear regularly - but not as makers. As speech recognition, chatbot technology and robotics are improving at pace, the sci-fi fantasy and commercial benefit of creating technology gendered as women are driving new artistic, cultural, and industrial endeavours. Men are responsible for re-coding women's identity within technology, amplifying the issues of the past, without consultation or inclusion of women's voices. This has to change!

“AI4Cities: Accelerating Carbon Neutrality”
Jon Jonoski, Anja Reimann; Workshop

The EU-funded AI4Cities project aims to use a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) to help cities and regions become carbon neutral. The six cities and regions - Helsinki, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris Region, Stavanger and Tallinn - participating in AI4Cities will go through the PCP process to find suppliers that can provide them with AI solutions for mobility and energy related challenges. In doing so, the project will also highlight the value of PCP, an Innovation procurement tool that enables the public sector to steer the development of new, not yet market-ready solutions, directly towards its needs The workshop will explain how the PCP process works, how AI solutions could contribute to a reduction in CO2 emssions and help cities to, and meet their climate commitments, and how AI4Cities has progressed until now.

“AI and Investigative Journalism, the ICIJ experience”
Emilia Diaz-Struck, Miguel Fiandor Gutiérrez; Discussion - Capped

How can AI help investigative journalism? What are the challenges of introducing machine learning as one of the data analysis approaches used by journalists? Since 2017 ICIJ has been experimenting with machine learning as one of the data analysis methods used during its investigations.
In the Implant Files, machine learning was used to identify medical devices patients’ deaths that were misclassified when they were reported to the authorities in the United States. In Luanda Leaks, machine learning helped cluster records such as bank transfers and balance sheets.
However, the machine doesn’t always get things right. ICIJ has introduced several validation processes, including human validation and developed its own tool to help with fact-checking, making it possible to use the results.

“AI and mental health: revolutionary reboot or the rise of the “digital asylum”?”
Piers Gooding, Kelechi Ubozoh, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Keris Myrick; Discussion - Capped

The use of algorithmic technology in mental health initiatives is rapidly expanding. Some commentators claim AI can address the global 'mental health treatment gap’ by augmenting existing care and helping to overcome resource shortages and geographical constraints. Others warn of a rising 'digital asylum' which places distressed people under various forms of bio-surveillance and social control. This discussion will foreground the perspective of people with lived experience of distress, trauma, disability, mental health service use and survival who have advocated and agitated for more humane responses to people in distress. A panel will engage the audience to discuss what algorithmic systems and online platforms can – and maybe cannot – do to promote wellbeing in communities. This task is made more urgent by COVID-19, which has accelerated the digitization and virtualization of health and social services worldwide, as well as informal networks for mutual aid and community connection.

“AI and the Environment: Friend or Foe?”
Sarah Watson, Jon Lloyd; Discussion - Capped

This panel discussion plans to bring together leading journalists and experts who look at AI and the environment: both the unharnessed potential and potential pitfalls. We know that running AI -- including storing the data that enables it -- takes a huge toll on the environment. The question at hand is: is it worth it? How can AI be harnessed for climate modeling, satellite imagery and weather patterns to help farmers etc.? And, how do we balance the risks?
Join us to find out.

Panelists: Khari Johnson, Jackie Snow and Arunesh Sinha
Moderator: Fieke Jansen

“AI Bias beyond the western lens: Perspectives from India”
Gaurav Jain, Smriti, Amba Kak, Vidhushi Marda; Discussion - Capped

Several studies have documented the risks of AI bias, most notably in the context of gender and racial bias. Most of these conversations, particularly those involving empirical analysis, stem from a western perspective, generally relying on western datasets and institutional structures.

This session will discuss the implementations of such systems from an Indian perspective, highlighting the role that institutional biases play in all stages, from data generation to decision making.

By looking at Indian implementations we hope to highlight the importance of local context and evaluate biases that cut across complexities of caste, religion, class, and regional divides. This offers a starting point for discussions on AI bias rooted in the realities of bias as experienced across different countries and communities.

“AI & Data Futures: A Dialogues & Debate panel”
Astha Kapoor, Dr. Funda Üstek-Špilda, Anouk Ruhaak, Solana Larsen; Broadcast Talks

The data that powers AI -- and increasingly, society -- is controlled by a handful of internet platforms. Can we make more decentralized ways of pooling and governing data mainstream?

A panel discussion featuring:

Astha Kapoor, Co-Founder of the Aapti Institute

Dr. Funda Üstek-Špilda, Researcher and Project Manager at the Fairwork Project

Anouk Ruhaak, Fellow at Mozilla's Data Futures Lab

and moderator Solana Larsen, Editor of Mozilla's Internet Health Report

“AI Ecosystems in the MENA Region - Networking Event”
Raya Sharbain, qusai, Issa Mahasneh; Social Moments

The MENA AI landscape appears to be vibrant, with many entities catalyzing smart technologies for digital transformation.

Yet scarce amount of sources exist on what constitutes the AI MENA landscape. There have been efforts to bring together the pan-Arab AI community in conferences such as the Arab AI Summit hosted in Jordan in 2019, the Arab IOT and AI Challenge in Egypt. But details about key players and entities, policies and research, that revolve around AI are sparsely documented.

The networking event will give us the opportunity to build a community around mapping AI initiatives/entities in the MENA, spanning across sectors from government initiatives to startups and research institutions/think tanks. We hope to seed the ground for future mapping research that is more granular.

This is a networking session from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Register here to attend: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“AI Education for Real Life”
Andy Forest, Ekansh Gupta, Brenda Shivanandan; Discussion - Capped

AI is disrupting global society. Steamlabs has developed workshops to be taught across Canada to educate vulnerable youth on AI, and prepare them to use AI as their assistant to solve their personal challenges and improve their world. By discussing social implications and problems around data security, inequity and bias, we prepare them to advocate for an equitable world where AI is used to support and enhance us rather than manipulate, oppress and replace us.

We’ll share open-source code with topics that connect to everyday life and to UN sustainable development goals. Learn about neural networks by building one for your bakery to generate fusion cuisine pie recipes. Learn about data science by building a power grid fossil fuel intensity forecast to make power usage decisions throughout your day. Learn about natural language processing by making a movie character mashup chatbot on Discord to argue with your friends.

“AI for Disasters - Insights from Humanitarian and Development sectors”
Robert Soden, Kiwako Sakamoto, Erin Coughlan, Caroline Gevaert, Bo Percival, Nicholas Jones; Discussion - Capped

AI technology applied in humanitarian and public sectors poses different challenges and incentives compared to commercial sector AI. Various international organizations, such as the Red Cross and the World Bank, have been working with their client countries on post-disaster response and recovery, as well as community resilience/preparedness for disasters. As AI and increasingly available geospatial datasets provide new opportunities for monitoring disaster risks at unprecedented scale and granularity, how can we assess and design such tools to minimize potential harms emerging from AI systems? In what cases should we not use AI?

This session will feature work from a number of organizations seeking to assess the social consequences of AI tools in disaster management and develop appropriate measures to ensure these technologies support efforts to build a safe, just, and sustainable society for everyone.

“AI for Environmental Activism”
Berna Keskindemir; Workshop

Pushback against environmental activists’ and CSOs’ work increases. The parallel advancement of technology and AI amplifies state tools that target activists. ECNL is investigating how environmental activists are being harmed by laws and tech, in particular by use of AI, as well as how technology can provide safeguards and enable activists to continue and scale up their important work.

This session aims to discuss how AI impacts positively and negatively environmental activism and to exchange on examples and ideas of how to use tech and legal solutions to tackle specific challenges faced by activists by addressing the following questions in small work groups: Map the threat – how AI impacts activism? How can AI be helpful for the work of environmental activists? What tactics can be used to avoid negative impact of AI and existing technologies? What other tech-based solutions can support the work of activists?

“AI & Labor: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Dr. Lilly Irani, Rida Qadri, Sherry Stanley, Becca Ricks; Broadcast Talks

Sprawling internet platforms and their sophisticated algorithms have created a new ecosystem of on-demand, app-facilitated services — but also a new labor class, stripped of traditional labor rights.

A panel feauring:

Dr. Lilly Irani, professor at UC San Diego and author of “Chasing Innovation”

Rida Qadri, PhD Candidate at MIT studying algorithmic labor and tech

Sherry Stanley, Lead Organizer at Turkopticon

And moderator Becca Ricks, Mozilla Researcher

“AI, Media & Democracy Lab: What would happen if Facebook or Google decided to leave the Netherlands tomorrow?”
Nathalie van Doorn, Dr. Natali Helberg, Claes de Vreese, Nanda Piersma, Linda van de Fliert, Ger Baron, Marietje Schaake, Johan Oomen, Alexandra Borchardt, Mark Deuze, Hella Hueck; Workshop

What would happen if Facebook or Google decided tomorrow to follow the Australian example and leave the Netherlands because they do not agree with the direction in which the debates around the Digital Service Acts are evolving? A thought experiment so far, and yet the experience of Australia and the power play between government and tech giants has shown us that it can become reality all of a sudden. Where would that leave governments and the Dutch news sector that in so many ways depend on the big tech companies.

The panel is co-organized by the Amsterdam AI, Media & Democracy Lab and the City of Amsterdam.

A conversation featuring Marietje Schaake (Stanford), Alexandra Borchardt (Reuters Institute, University of Oxford), Johan Oomen (Beeld & Geluid), Ger Baron (City of Amsterdam), Hella Hueck (Financieel Dagblad) & Mark Deuze (Journalism and Media Culture, UvA), as well as the City of Amsterdam and the AI, Media & Democracy Lab.

“AI & Power: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Nighat Dad, Julie Owono, Dr. Sarah Roberts, Cierra Robson, J. Bob Alotta; Broadcast Talks

The AI in our daily lives reinforces historical power imbalances — across gender, across race, and across class. Is it possible to make more just AI systems mainstream? A panel featuring:

Nighat Dad, Executive Director Digital Rights Foundation

Julie Owono, Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières

Dr. Sarah Roberts, Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry

Cierra Robson, the Associate Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab at Princeton University

and moderator J. Bob Alotta, VP of Global Programs at Mozilla

“AI Technology for People”
Femke Blokhuis, Maarten Sukel; Discussion - Capped

To gain access to all kinds of unexpected colabrations, we want to share what the AI ambition of the Amsterdam academic partners is about. We can showcase a number of projects, to inspire and connect.

“AI & Truth: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Jacquelyn Mason, Dr. Peaks Krafft, Mutale Nkonde, Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Brandi Geurkink; Broadcast Talks

The AI powering our most influential communications platforms has a critical vulnerability: it rewards engagement, not truth or civility. Can AI be designed differently to avoid this pitfall? And if so, what conditions and incentives must be changed for this to be the case?

A panel featuring:

Jacquelyn Mason, Senior Researcher, First Draft News

Dr. Peaks Krafft, Lead, MA Internet Equalities at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute

Mutale Nkonde, CEO, AI for the People

Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Co-Director, Amnesty Tech

and moderator Brandi Geurkink, Senior Campaigner, Mozilla

“AI vs. our bodies: How can we exists as women or a gender diverse people on social media”
Umut Pajaro Velasquez; Discussion - Capped

During the recent pandemic, the Content Moderation Tools use in Social Media has become more dependent on AI's. This situation has brought issues for all marginalized communities, especially women and gender diverse where their bodies and sometimes expressions of self are censored by these tools and when they ask for reasons the algorithm shows its BIAS, and the post never is shared again, this is making that women and gender diverse people censure themselves in order to fill the "Community Standards" and with this increasing the gender breach online. With this discussion, we want to think of possibles ways to solve it and share ideas for an online campaign that points to those AI's/CMT BIAS have.

“Algorithmic Diversity: The Challenges of Zero Exclusion, AI & Ethics”
Yonah Welker; Discussion - Capped

About:
It's a part of the global speaking tour, dedicated to the future of inclusive technologies.

Description: During the live session, we will dive into the meaning and application of algorithmic diversity in technology (including such cases as neurodiversity). Using the latest experiences, cases and research, we will analyze the current state and problems of inclusive innovation and technology, including the problems of representation and criteria, inclusive research and design-thinking, the building of inclusive products (AI-driven platforms, devices, apps, social and emotional robotics), ethical considerations and concerns (the "black-box" and "double-check" problems, transparency, explainability, fairness, surveillance), shortcomings of current technology ecosystems, policies and human rights frameworks.

Notions:

● Neuro Representation in data science and AI teams
● Inclusive and neurodiverse solutions in hiring, learning, wellbeing and creative fields
● Collaborative AI, Data & NLP for open-source neuro solutions
● Ethics, policies and human rights

“Algorithms in Government & Procurement”
Cynthia H. Conti-Cook, Noel Hidalgo, Jeanna Matthews, Natalia Domagala; Discussion - Capped

Globally, we are a fulcrum on the future of automated decision making (ADS) systems within government. How do we build up frameworks that make algorithmic decisions as accountable as the person who is programming them? How do we ensure that government procurement policies enable transparency? If ADS systems are made by the government, are there greater safeguards than if they are made by private developers? If ADS is made by the government, is it more likely to be open sourced? Scrutinized by academics and professionals?

The goal of this session is to socialize existing best practices around ADS procurement. We will highlight that government procurement needs critical reform. We will explore how to push back against bad ADS purchases, and how technologists, advocates, civil servants, and lawyers can work together.

“Algorithms of Late-Capitalism: Zine Co-Creation Workshop”
Adriaan Odendaal, Karla Zavala Barreda; Workshop

The Algorithms of Late-Capitalism Zine Co-creation workshop lets participants collectively co-create a single issue of the Algorithms of Late-Capitalism zine, critically decoding and recoding contemporary tech trends and events in a creative and playful format.

Guided by a thought-provoking editorial, each participant creates their contribution to the zine with our help. They use content from the ‘Algorithms of Late-Capitalism’ blog, internet-found images, text, and their own creativity. It can be in the form of a collage, comic, story, poem, essay, or any other output and can be digital, analog, or mixed.

The aim of the workshop is for participants to engage more critically with algorithms in their daily lives, allowing them to become more aware of, critical towards, and knowledgeable about how, when, and to what ends ubiquitous algorithmic systems impact our lives.

“Alternative Business Models For The Web”
Ashley Boyd, Ayman Hariri, Tony Fadell; Broadcast Talks

Join Ayman Hariri (CEO & Founder, Vero), Tony Fadell (founder, Nest & Principal at Future Shape) and Ashley Boyd (VP of Advocacy and Engagement, Mozilla Foundation) for a fascinating discussion on creating alternative business models for the web. Building on their experience, they'll provide insights on how you transform an idea into a sustainable business and explore the need to move away from the "free" ad-based economic model dominating the web today. Afterwards, ask questions and continue the conversation on Twitter with Ayman (@ahariri) and Tony (@tfadell).

“Alternative Futures: "Protect me from what I want"”
Shirley Leung; Art and Media

Alternative Realities: “Protect me from what I want” is a physical installation and an immersive experience. It is an ongoing conversation between the artist and participants that explores generative narratives of race, identity, and privilege in the Asian American community. This project interrogates our relationship with technology by using computer predictions as an extension to control our own futures. We tend to make decisions based on a vision of our own future. What happens when these visions differ or never come to fruition? The artist uses the model GPT-2 and trained it using transcripts of narratives about Asian American identities to generate alternative realities and possible futures. While this is an attempt by the artist to control her own future using technology, this is also a speculative, existential, and critical piece about the pervasive power and limitations of technology.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“Alternative Futures: "Protect me from what I want" - Discussion”
Shirley Leung; Art and Media - Discussion

“Alternatives to Digital Ads: A Dialogues & Debates Conversation”
Briana Marbury, Harriet Kingaby; Broadcast Talks

Can alternatives to invasive online ads become mainstream? A conversation featuring:

Briana Marbury, Executive Director, Interledger Foundation

Harriet Kingaby, Mozilla Fellowship alum

“Ample Labs - Empowering those facing Homeless Through Artificial Intelligence.”
CG Chen, Alex; Discussion - Capped

Ample Labs session will share the Chalmers story, from concept to creation and where we are at today. Chalmers will also be in attendance to introduce themselves and show us all what they can do! We hope to bring together a varied group to discuss innovative solutions to homelessness, support service navigation, and learn more about what is happening in other communities. We envision a world where no one has to face homelessness, and bringing together stakeholders in one space brings us one step closer to achieving that.

“An Interview with ALEX”
Carrie Sijia Wang; Art and Media

“An Interview with ALEX” is an interactive experience that puts the audience at the center of the narrative. It simulates a 12-minute job interview with an Artificial Intelligence HR Manager in a future of gamified work and total surveillance.

The project was supported by Mozilla’s 2019-2020 Creative Media Awards. It can be experienced at http://theinterview.ai/

“Antiblack Racism, Technology and AI in Brazil”
Tarcizio Silva, Nina da hora; Discussion - Capped

This panel discussion aims to connect brazilian researchers and activists around the theme of antiblack racism and digital technologies, including issues on facial recognition, social media platforms and hate speech, digital inequality, intersectional internet and others.

The first part will be comprised of lightning talks (5 min) of a list of activists and researchers from several different Brazilian cities and the second part will consist of questions, answers and discussion.

This is a networking session from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Register here to attend: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“Antisemitism and the Internet: Coded Hate Speech in Online Memetics”
Feminist Internet; Art and Media

As the internet is the primary forum for the spread of visual media it has unfortunately become a space in which visual hatred is shared. On the right, iterations of Antisemitism have taken a specific form in an attempt to circumvent regulation online. Antisemitic dog whistles are hidden within usernames and comedic or abstract imagery. Antisemites use these abstracted images, signs and symbols as a way of signalling their views covertly. Equally, on the left, Antisemitism finds itself embedded into anticapitalist memes and political imagery. The pervasiveness of Antisemitism online inevitably leads to real-life violence, with Antisemitic hate crimes being at their highest since World War 2. This film looks to unpack these iterations of coded Antisemitism through which you can gain the tools to recognise it and understand the pressing issues facing Jewish people online and IRL.

Warning - this video contains content some viewers might find triggering.

“Anti-Surveillance Toolkit for the Remote Worker”
Carrie Sijia Wang, Yiru Lu, Michael Morran; Workshop

As more people have started working from home, surveillance in the remote workplace has intensified. Companies are finding new ways to monitor their employees through webcams, screen capturing, audio recording and more. Employee monitoring software is flourishing. The privacy and mental wellbeing of remote workers are at risk. In this workshop designed by artist Carrie Sijia Wang, participants will work together in small groups to find creative ways for remote workers to reclaim some privacy and autonomy under the circumstances. Participants are encouraged to join the workshop from a laptop or desktop computer if possible. Prior to the workshop, it would be great to glance through the "Pre-Workshop Resources" and "Workshop Details" on: https://carriesijiawang.com/anti-surveillance-toolkit

“An Update From The Credibility Coalition, Part I | Mar 10 @ 21:15 CET”
Nevin Thompson, Scott Hale, James Stomber, Gabriel Altay; Discussion - Capped

The Credibility Coalition is a research community that fosters collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality and credibility of online information that is a foundation of civil society. We are journalists, researchers, academics, students, policy-makers, technologists and engaged non-specialists, and aim to develop common standards for information credibility by incubating activities and initiatives that bring together people and institutions from a variety of backgrounds.

Credibility Coalition Community Lead Nevin Thompson, and CredCo Research Lead Scott Hale will lead an overview of CredCo's goals, activities and results so far.

“A people's history: Building popular narratives of sites and sounds”
Nyambura Mutanyi; Discussion - Capped

The internet has the power to craft and mediate our historical narratives. It offers an unprecedented chance for experts and lay people, victors and victims, to make claims and counter-claims. Opportunities and challenges arise when harnessing digital tools (messaging applications, content sharing platforms, etc) for the memorialization of time and space.

Through the lens of culture formation and archive building this session explore how people use the internet to render and connect historical narratives while offering participants a chance to contribute their knowledge and experiences in this context.

I invite participants to explore: 1. The social and technical aspects of history and historicising. 2. The effect of inaccessible archives, paywalls, internet shutdowns etc. on archival practices. 3. The possibilities that are opened up by social media, open access, AR/ VR etc 4. Ownership and censorship concerns that arise with archival practice.

“Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work”
Sumana Harihareswara; Skill Share

When I tell people about grants they could get to help fund work on open source software projects, sometimes they are surprised because they didn't know such grants existed. I share:

sample foundations and funders (such as Mozilla, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NLNet, and Comcast) who want to fund open source software projects, and how much they're paying out
a quick case study on how the Python Software Foundation got funding from Open Tech Fund to improve security, accessibility, and localization for PyPI
key steps in figuring out a good project idea, budgeting, hiring, and submitting
how your volunteer groups can follow the lead of the new Project Funding Working Group at the PSF

“Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work Q&A”
Sumana Harihareswara; Skill Share - Discussion

When I tell people about grants they could get to help fund work on open source software projects, sometimes they are surprised because they didn't know such grants existed. I share:

sample foundations and funders (such as OpenHumans, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NLNet, and Comcast) who want to fund open source software projects, and how much they're paying out
a quick case study on how the Python Software Foundation got funding from Open Tech Fund to improve security, accessibility, and localization for PyPI
key steps in figuring out a good project idea, budgeting, hiring, and submitting
how your volunteer groups can follow the lead of the new Project Funding Working Group at the PSF

“Applying Machine Learning to summarize source code”
Maeliza Seymour, Shubhadeep; Discussion - Capped

CANCELLED

“Art Camp”
Judit Navratil; Art and Media

Art Camp is a homesome virtual art residency and gathering. Womxn and underrepresented artists investigate the possibilities of creating and inhabiting a virtual communal place with care, to cultivate this layer of our social fabric based on radical inclusion and cyber-intentionality. The residency accumulates in a bi-monthly Show & Tell event, when the artists guide visitors through their VR studios. Art Camp can be a bridge for those, whose practice is not rooted in digital media and for a diverse community with different voices and approaches. Art Camp was established as a sector of the Szívküldi Lakótelep, a virtual reality Social Housing Neighborhood, to serve the art community during the transitional and groundless period of physical distancing.

You can visit the studios anytime in the Art Camp Commons:
https://hubs.mozilla.com/xLq72ca/art-camp-commons/

or find more info here:
https://linktr.ee/vrartcamp

“Artificial Intelligence / Real Feelings”
Carolyn Beer; Discussion - Capped

What is the line between “real” and “artificial” intelligence? How do we know truth?

As we invite artificial intelligence to help make sense of the world it is important to tend to our other intuitions. This space is for individuals to share their experience of the world by tapping into spiritual, emotional, physical, and rational senses. The workshop draws from the Work that Reconnects, a process designed for people to grieve, take actions with integrity and open space for creativity.

We will include group time, break out discussions and/or individual reflection (journaling, drawing, thinking). Folks may engage on or off camera, through writing, drawing or speaking.

“A Scientific Experiment on Privacy and AI Transparency”
Dario Garcia Gasulla, Atia Cortés; Discussion - Capped

This session will conduct an experiment on the state of privacy and AI transparency in Internet. We will introduce a set of visual signs designed to replace current consent and privacy online forms (see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-inform-users-intuitively-non-intrusively-rights-garcia-gasulla/).

The experiment will engage participants with current consent and privacy forms of popular webpages to assess their accessibility and actual degree of transparency. This will be performed by participants, as they assign the proposed visual signs to popular websites. Discussions will be encouraged, to identify general tips (e.g., keywords to look for, how much effort it implies, form traps and how to avoid them, etc.).

If the results are of interest, a scientific paper will be produced. All participants will be acknowledged in the paper, and participants who can actively contribute to the manuscript will be invited as co-authors.

“As the City Whispers”
Hugo, Pedro Gil Farias; Art and Media

How might everyday things care for each other and their surroundings?

Even before being connected to the internet, things are connected between each other and with their surroundings. Starting from a pre-created neighborhood map and the many living and non-living things that inhabit it, the visitors will be invited to imagine the exchanges between these different entities as they try and care for their community and their surroundings. How are these living and non-living agents collaborating with each other? What do they have to say?

Through the perspective of non-human actors, we will explore how these connected things can work together, with their surroundings and with the community to create more sustainable spaces. Each visitor will get to embody one of these entities and communicate with others to imagine how to better care for their immediate surroundings.

To join click on 'Open Spatial Chat' then in the right tab scroll down to the session "Sustainability | City Whispers"

“A Typology of Trust for AI: Design An Intervention to A Specific AI Harm”
Alex C. Engler; Workshop

There is an extensive international conversation around the how to govern the use artificial intelligence. This attention is warranted, as large-scale algorithmic decision-making systems are proliferating across the many industries. Journalists and academics have identified a wide range of problems with these models (see below), but government has done little to protect citizens. Since, AI differs dramatically across its many uses, and no single regulatory intervention makes sense for all AI systems.

Work with a team to find a solution to problematic AI applications. First, choose a problematic instance of AI—you can use the list below or find your own problem. Next, work through possible interventions. Which would work well to alleviate the systemic AI issue?

Interventions: Interpretability, explainability; Protect tech whisteblowers; Algorithmic audits; Ex-ante approval; Public reporting; Problems: Justice systems; Discriminatory healthcare/employment algorithms; College admissions/financing; Credit approval; Critical infrastructure; Safety of autonomous cars;

“Avatars in Zoom for All! (a hands-on tutorial)”
Eyal Gruss; Workshop

How can you be anybody in Zoomspace? Very recent developments in deep-learning, allow creating synthetic media with unprecedented quality and ease. This includes doing facial reenactment in real-time, provided with only a single image of the desired avatar. In this hands-on participatory tutorial, we will use accessible on-line colab notebook to create deep-fake videos and live avatars using your own materials. No prior knowledge needed. I will also introduce and demo the first available purely online solution for live real-time avatars from the webcam in the browser.

“A workshop on uncovering human rights concerns of machine learning APIs”
Roya Pakzad, Kulynych Bogdan; Workshop

Unfortunately, this session has been cancelled.

“Balancing Trustworthy AI and the power to change behaviour for sustainable food acquisition”
Remco Benthem de Grave; Workshop

The environmental footprints of our diet are amongst the largest of all sectors. Not all food contributes to this footprint equally and a shift in our diet choices can positively impact it. Yet, diet habits prove notoriously hard to change. With knowledge about individual choice behaviour, intelligent recommendations could sway an individual’s choices just at the right time. Such powerful recommendation may however need vast amounts of data about people that they may not be comfortable with to share. Transparent recommendations may mean an overload of information to the user that may hinder the potential to quickly digest a recommendation, and with that the effect of the recommendation given. How we design towards meaningful yet trustworthy recommendations in face of this conflict?
This workshop we will collaboratively lay out the challenges around AI recommendations for sustainable diets. After this we will sketch how useful recommendations could be provided.

“Battle of the Flobots I - A VR Theatre Show”
Blair Russell; Art and Media - Discussion

The Flobot Rap Battles are in full effect on planet Nubian, home to a race of Hip Hop androids known as Brobots. Flobot Hendryx, the current reigning champion of the Flobot Championships has agreed to a benefit exhibition bout for the people of Earth, but a surprise contender makes a serious challenge for the title putting the champ's glory in jeopardy. Who will win in this Sci Fi Rap Battle?

A live immersive VR performance in Mozilla Hubs starring Darian Dauchan, Cristina Pitter, and TL Thompson.
Written by Darian Dauchan, Directed by Carmen LoBue
Produced by Crux as part of the Black Imagination Series

“Battle of the Flobots II - A VR Theatre Show”
Blair Russell; Art and Media - Discussion

“Become an advisor for the Cities’ Digital Rights Helpdesk!”
Milou Jansen, Livia Schaeffer Nonose, Merel Schilderman, Kate Nicholson, Noel Hidalgo, Abdinassir Sagar; Workshop

At MozFest, the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, UN Habitat, and BetaNYC would like to start a Digital Rights Helpdesk connecting officials and workers in city governments with expert advisors on ethical AI and digital rights. The helpdesk will support city governments in navigating the ethics and digital rights considerations of local digital strategies, policies and projects. Civil servants, city leaders, and service providers can share questions with advisors (including researchers, experts, creatives, makers) who can offer thought-provoking questions, project examples, policies, and prompts for cities. This session will introduce and catalyze the helpdesk project so it continues after MozFest and Open Data Week.
This session is open to all, but especially geared toward city stakeholders implementing digital projects/policies who could benefit from such a resource, as well as people who would want to take part in responding to their questions or advising them in meeting their needs.

“Better metadata makes a difference”
Laura Paglione, Ginny Hendricks, John Chodacki; Workshop

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly put forth 17 goals to “transform our world”. These goals aim to tackle the big, important problems facing society. Scholarly research is critical to ensuring our collective response is timely and enduring.

Open metadata is the foundational infrastructure that fuels innovation and ensures that research is available, relevant, and used by everyone who needs it. Connected metadata bridges the gaps between systems and communities. Reusable, open metadata eliminates duplication of effort. Everyone suffers when we settle for inadequate metadata.

Help us improve the quality of metadata for research. Metadata 2020 is a collaboration that advocates richer, connected, and reusable, open metadata for all research outputs, which will advance scholarly pursuits for the benefit of society.

In this session, participate in several metadata activities and provide feedback that will help us to evolve them to be exciting and engaging to the broadest possible audience.

“Beyond compliance: How employees can drive business leadership in climate action”
Kathy Zhang; Workshop

In companies large and and small, employees are increasing exercising their voice to push for meaningful climate action, and this work continues to broaden beyond formal sustainability and ESG teams. This workshop convenes participants (in any type of role) to discuss best practices for advancing voluntary corporate climate commitments (beyond compliance) and programs. Participants and facilitators will share challenges and enabling factors of success for making a solid business case, getting leadership buy-in, and communicating effectively across teams.

“Beyond the Now - New Coalitions in Socially Engaged Digital Practice”
Ailbhe Murphy, Aine O'Brien, Kat Braybrooke, Abdullah Alkafri, Imran Ahmed; Discussion - Capped

This session will focus on digital platforms as experimental sites for socially engaged art practices.
Digital spaces that re-imagine, activate and facilitate cross-border solidarity, creative exchange, inclusion and racial and social justice. We will explore the scope for projects which enable creative practitioners, activists, civil society organisations and other actors to re-imagine what community, resilience and social justice looks like in the context of increasing intolerance and the shrinking of public space. Specifically the potential for new collaborative architectures to be built through digital commissions that tackle topics such as countering digital hate, freedom of expression, security, displacement, democracy and mutual aid and care.

Session panelists include Imran Ahmed (Director of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate); Kit Braybrooke (Digital Anthropologist and Director of We & Us); and Abdullah Alkafri, (Dramaturge and Director of Ettijahat- Independent Culture).

“Beyond Vision”
Eva Lili Bartha, Troy Nachtigall; Art and Media

Emerging tech, immersive solutions are increasingly spreading in the fashion industry. Fashion is the second most pollutive industry on the planet: overproduction and overconsumption, incredibly negative socio-environmental footprint, violation of ethics, lack of diversity and inclusivity. The use of digital tools give possibility to improve many negative aspects, but we also have to think about, how not just be a 'user' of these tools, but push beyond their limit, to really show their potential. Beyond Vision explores new extents of virtual applications in fashion. It is an interactive VR experience, with runtime simulated fashion assets, digital avatars, interactive environment. It uses machine learning models, parametric modelling, reactive shaders, to explore new ways of interacting with digital products. We aim at engaging the audience in vital discussions about how virtual fashion is becoming an everyday asset, and what new and unique solutions it can offer.

This Art and Media piece is hosted on a third-party website.

“Beyond Vision - Discussion session”
Eva Lili Bartha, Troy Nachtigall; Art and Media - Discussion

This is the workshop session connected to the 'Beyond Vision' Art & Media piece where the users can share their experience, especially as in VR they can 'try on' the diverse range of bodies and interactive garments, which has really interesting implications on our research in embodiment and phenomenology.

“Be Your Selfie! Collage”
Amanda Lee Gaffar; Art and Media

Be a part of this creative, in motion collage collaboration during MozFest - add your best selfie to the Miro board and stay tuned to watch as the final masterpiece takes form by the end of the Festival! BONUS: drop a sticky note on the board with ONE WORD or ONE SENTENCE or a scribbly drawing - that tells how your MozFest 2021 virtual experience is going so far. THANK YOU for stopping by, and for being yourselfie! Photos will be treated according to the MozFest privacy policy.

“Biking the Amsterdam canals”
Varinia Kolen; Art and Media

If you really want to experience the city of Amsterdam, you need to explore it by bike. Like a real Dutchie! And even though you're not here in the flesh, you can still feel like you're cruising our city in spirit. So hop on your virtual bike and get to know pretty Amsterdam with its ancient canals, little alleys, some of its more modern areas and its unique atmosphere.

“Black Interrogations of AI with the 2021 Creative Media Awardees”
Jenn Beard, Jennifer MacArthur; Social Moments

Held in Spatial Chat in the CMAs @ MozFest Room.
Come meet the newest cohort of Creative Media Award winners. Their projects include an app that uses AI to predict police brutality; a stark visualization of the ways voice technology excludes Black voices; an animated film about Afrofuturism; and more. Awardees hail from the U.S., the UK, and the Netherlands. The projects are being created between January 2021 and launching into the world beginning in Summer 2021. Conversations will relate to the following topics and include an introduction to the projects:
Storytelling for Change - Binary Calculations (Stephanie, Neta, etc.), Alton (POV team)
Bringing Data to Life - Ahnjili +Tim
Black Data and Ethical AI - Johann and Anatola, Avery of Melalogic
Envisioning Ethical Futures - Tracey + Sophia Bazile
Black Arts and AI - Carnival Team (Noel, Gaskins, James)

“Black Women Disrupting the Status Quo in Technology”
Meredith K Broussard, Aerica Shimizu Banks, Lolade Siyonbola, Erika Hairston; Discussion - Capped

There is a diversity crisis in the tech industry: a homogeneous group of technologists builds solutions for our diverse population. This lack of diversity yields biased technology products that, at best, don’t serve everyone and, at worst, actively harm marginalized groups. This panel of distinguished Black women will discuss the intersectional oppression prevalent in the technology industry and how the voices and work of Black women are imperative in moving us in a more ethical, inclusive direction.

This event is part of an ongoing lecture series "The Future is Intersectional: Black Women Interrogating Technology," organized by the Spelman College Center of Excellence for Minority Women in STEM, in collaboration with the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and Mozilla.

The session is also being streamed live at:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/9f0ukTzx0Qw
AirMo: http://mzl.la/black-women-disrupting-2021-03-15

“Bleepr - an open dashboard to highlight hate & propaganda on Twitter”
Dhruv Ghulati; Workshop

Most algorithms to detect hate speech are built within closed doors within social media platforms, with no clarity on definitions, rules, edge cases, and evidence for if the AI built is working well enough.

In 2020, Factmata built a suite of algorithms to detect hate speech, sexism, racism, toxicity, obscenity, propaganda and threatening language. We then built a dashboard to do a daily scan of Twitter and see if we could find anything that was not being removed on time.

In this talk we will go through what we found, get feedback from workshop participants around where the algorithm goes well and doesn't go well. We will spend some time discussing how we can build unifying, transparent definitions of harmful speech in a scalable manner, and involve third party startups, social groups and non-profits into the debate, not just big tech.

“Book club meeting: Reading First 2 Chapters of "Data Feminism" Book”
Anny G.; Discussion - Capped

Prior to attending the session, participants should read first two chapters of the book "Data Feminism": introduction and chapter 1 (both available as open access from MIT Press). There will be a summary presented at the beginning as a refresher. The book introduces a new way to take back power using data science with intersectional feminist principles applied. This approach can be used to expose injustice and advocate for data ethics and justice.

We will discuss how to apply the principle of examining power (from chapter 1), which looks at who is left out of data science, who is overlooked and who is pushed out, in the spaces we occupy and institutions we belong to, in order to start addressing inequity and injustice, while keeping in mind the concepts of privilege hazards and designing with and not for the community. We will also answer some book club questions.

“Bridges: A SciArt Exhibition.”
Cristian A. Zaelzer-Pérez; Art and Media

Bridges: A SciArt Exhibition, is a virtual exhibition of selected collaborative work among teams of scientist and artists developing sciart under the Convergence Initiative umbrella from 2017 to 2020. Different mediums suitable for virtual format are used. This exhibition can run complementing the panel discussion Bridges: The Value of SciArt Collaborations in a Global Village.

“Brown bag: Mozilla’s Insights Team talks Research”
Kasia Odrozek, Solana Larsen, Eeva Moore, Stefan Baack, Laura Vidal; Discussion - Capped

Hello, from Mozilla’s Insights team! We produce analytical publications on key areas of importance for trustworthy AI and internet health. Our work focuses on alternative data governance, AI transparency and bias, and innovation in emerging markets.

Join this session to learn about how we work, what we work on and most of all - how you can become part of it.

Our work is centered around the principle of open research. That means asking big questions and listening to others. Chances are, you already contributed to one of our publications e.g. the Internet Health Report. Let’s take this relationship to the next level.

We are entering 2021 with a new structure and big plans. First we'll introduce the “who and how”, and then we'll dive into our topical portfolios and make connections for future collaborations.

“Building Apps With MIT App Inventor”
Elana Monaghan; Workshop

First, I will show participates how to set up an MIT App Inventor account. Then I will demonstrate how to code basic functions such as linking buttons to pages, creating thinks from buttons to websites. I will teach some basic design techniques that they could use to create a simple app. Then I will teach how to test your app to ensure that it functions correctly.

I will provide takeaway notes so that they can continue creating apps long after the class.

“Building a security practitioner’s toolkit for social revolts”
Becky Kazansky, Loreto Bravo, Mayeli Sánchez, Denisse Albornoz, Tatiana Avendaño, Nathaly Espitia Diaz; Workshop

In the past years we’ve witnessed revolutions across the world. From Ecuador to Chile, through Colombia and Perú, people have taken to streets and mobilized against structural violence, inequality, corruption, and failed governments.

In this workshop, Latin American information security activists share lessons learned in the streets and on devices for supporting social justice movements, and activists from other latitudes help build collective knowledge. After speakers share experiences, participants respond to the question: What should security practitioners have in a toolkit when revolutions come?

Participants fill in a “Kanban”-like board with their resource wishlist for a security practitioner’s toolkit for social revolts. These resources may already exist or need to be developed. The list may include documentation of processes/tools, access to technical infrastructure, connections to practitioners from other disciplines, medicinal herbs, or psychosocial support.

After ideation, participants vote on the top resources needed for the toolkit.

“Building community of networks for development”
Seun Ojedeji, Akintunde Oyebode, Dr Ogundipe Adebayo Tunbosun, FSM, MCPN, MBCS, ANIME, Owolabi Michael Olugbenga MNCS, MCPN, Adesola Ayoade; Discussion - Capped

This session will be looking at efforts around establishment of research education networks with a case study of such establishment in a state in Nigeria called Ekiti state. The session aims to interact on impact of such a network to centralized services, how it can improve collaboration within institutions, how it can empower the community of users on the network and the role of government in its establishment

“Building Consensus on AI Systems with the Chicago Police Department”
Emma Nechamkin; Discussion - Capped

We will discuss how to balance competing aims in the policy space -- namely, (1) how can you use AI modeling so it's interpretable for completely non-technical people, (2) how can you build trust in that AI system to produce policy interventions among stakeholders with competing goals, and (3) what considerations should you make during deployment to ensure buy-in for the system created? In this session, we will consider simplified examples from the criminal justice space in order to come up with best practices. I'll draw on my work at the UChicago Crime Lab, where I've spent the past few years helping to build a data-driven Early Intervention System (EIS) for police officers. This discussion will be in general terms from my own personal view.

“Building openness, understanding, and trust in purpose-driven teams”
Doug Belshaw, Abigail Handley; Workshop

This participatory workshop introduces tools, techniques, and practices that equip teams of all sizes. Through practical activities we will demonstrate the power of building openness, understanding and trust among team members, and how these elements can be grown and sustained over time. From simple check-ins through to powerful tools such as non-violent communication and consent-based decision making in forming teams that are effective, empathetic, and empowering. Participants, who do not require any prior knowledge, will leave the session with approaches that they can use immediately in roles as activists, in the workplace, and as citizens participating in wider society.

“Building Sustainable Open Source Projects Workshop”
Richard Littauer, Eriol Fox, Allen Gunn, Javier Canovas, Georg Link, Justin W. Flory, Chris Chinchilla, Georgia Bullen; Workshop

Maintaining open source software is hard! Sustain is a community which holds conversations around meaningful open source resilience, equity, growth and scale, from the perspective of both FOSS projects and the individuals who participate and contribute. We largely use working groups as a means of helping share ideas around how to build healthier communities, to foster a culture of reciprocity from corporations and institutions using open source, and to involve more diverse voices. In this workshop, we will introduce some of the working groups and hold conversations around UX and Design, governance, and metrics. We invite all kinds of MozFests participants to come learn more about open source and sustainability, discover ways to participate in Sustain projects, and even workshop some of your own open source sustainability challenges with a group of passionate practitioners.

“Building the world we deserve: a new framework for integrating physical, digital and social infrastructure”
Katy Knight, Adrian Pelliccia, Alexandra Mateescu, Jenny Brennan; Discussion - Capped

To solve issues as urgent as racial injustice, income and wealth inequality, and climate change, we must begin by rethinking our underlying infrastructure.

“Infrastructure” is not just roads and bridges. It’s libraries, communities, and parks. It’s cellular networks, satellite arrays, digital commerce, and platforms for social interaction. To ensure everyone has the tools they need to thrive, we must first recognize that infrastructure is multidimensional - that its physical, digital, and social realms are equally important for ensuring opportunity for all.

Join us for a discussion about how we can modernize the definition of infrastructure.

We'll begin by introducing a new framework for Infrastructure, and then hear from organizations implementing this concept in action. We’ll next invite participants to connect their work together by making a crowdsourced landscape map. We’ll end by brainstorming the stakeholders, processes, and partnerships needed to build a better world.

“Building Trustworthy AI Meetup”
Temi Popo, Kevin Bowen; Social Moments

The Building Trustworthy AI Working Group aims to help our technical community build more trustworthy AI. Our three main goals are: (1) establish best practices in key areas of Trustworthy AI, (2) more diverse stakeholders involved in building AI, and (3) develop new technologies as building blocks for developers.

The working group has been exploring how we can help AI builders shift industry norms and build more trustworthy technology leading up to MozFest 2021. Now, come meet our community right before we showcase some of our work from the past year at the Trustworthy AI Hackathon Demo Day.

This is a networking session (taking place in Spatial Chat) from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI." Fin our room in Social > Common Spaces.

“Building with HTML”
Cardiff STEM Ambassadors; Workshop

A workshop aimed at building your own personalised blog website with HTML

“Business models on the web are broken! Let's fix them.”
Erika Drushka, Chris Lawrence; Discussion - Capped

A roundtable discussion between Grant for the Web grantees – with participant interaction through Q&A – about the consequences of centralized control over the transfer of value on the web, and how open technology like the proposed Web Monetization Standard and the Interledger Protocol are creating new, more equitable opportunities for creators, publishers, and technologists.

“Capacidad, discapacidad y compasión en los cuentos de Julio Cortázar”
María Cruz; Discussion - Capped

Es requisito que los participantes lean dos cuentos de Julio Cortázar antes de asistir a esta sesión: "La Señorita Cora" (https://ciudadseva.com/texto/la-senorita-cora/) y "La Salud de los Enfermos" (https://www.literatura.us/cortazar/enfermos.html). Están disponibles en línea, y pueden estar disponibles en inglés en la biblioteca de tu barrio. Durante este encuentro, vamos a indagar cómo se presenta a las personas que gozan de buena salud y a las que no, cuáles son influencias culturales en las tareas de cuidado, y vamos a reflexionar qué podemos aprender de estas narrativas para aplicar a desarrollos tecnológicos.

“Caring for Equality: Opening Up Gender Pay Data”
Marisa Miodosky, Agustina De Luca, Ugonma Nwankwo, Emanuela Pozzan; Discussion - Capped

Pay gaps are in the spotlight and apparently getting worse. Where data is available, it tells us that women continue to lag behind men in what they earn — and these gaps widen along the lines of race. This is due to a combination of different forms of discrimination which in turn reinforce the structural disadvantages faced by women and girls both within the society, particularly in the labour force with low-paid or unpaid care tasks.
We aim to discuss policy solutions for closing gender pay gaps, present emerging findings from a global mapping addressing the pay gap in the public sector from low and middle income countries, and share Buenos Aires City’s government (GCBA) efforts to publish care duties data that visualises these disadvantages.

“Children’s privacy and data protection: Their rights, our future. Let’s Do It Together!”
Deleted User, Laura Vidal, Marielos Galindo, Natalia Trigoso Zegarra; Workshop

The aim is to explore the possibilities of educational practices that can:
(a) raise awareness amongst participants on key issues around data protection of children and adolescents and (b) to equip them with resources to have an active participation in decisions on these matters.

The activity is open to everyone! As it is meant to create spaces for discussions on these topics in which individuals across ages and diverse backgrounds can be included.

We will discuss ideas to develop policy and good practice recommendations to manage data for and about children and adolescents. To do so, we will do a role play activity to learn about what policies are, which actors are entwined and what data and privacy looks like in the digital era.

The experience and results will be shared through a blog post in which participants will be invited to collaborate and connect to continue amplifying these discussions.

“Chimera Painter: Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures”
Andeep Singh Toor, Abdi Ambari; Workshop

What if artists had a paintbrush that acted less like a tool and more like an assistant? A machine learning model acting as such a paintbrush could reduce the amount of time necessary to create high-quality art without sacrificing artistic choices, perhaps even enhancing creativity. In this workshop, we will cover insights gained from creating the machine learning model behind Chimera Painter (https://storage.googleapis.com/chimera-painter/index.html). Additionally, we will try out some drawings and take a look at what chimeras we can create!

“‘Choose Your Own 'Ad'venture!’ A workshop on how digital violence affects queer people, and our strategies of resistance.”
Debarati Das, Chithira Vijayakumar, Sabareesh K; Workshop

Queer people, and other marginalised communties often feel like we’re mere pawns - online and offline - in a game we didn’t design, with unfair rules, and no instruction manual. So instead, here's a game we did design. We’ve devised a toolkit harnessing the power of art and the world-building capabilities of games. For this hands-on session, you have to print out the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' tool kit available in the link below, print it out, and bring the physical copy to the session, along with glue and a pair of scissors. The toolkit’s based on real stories from queer people - we invite you to walk alongside the characters and stop at the crossroads of their decisions; to generate a larger conversation with perspectives from around the globe, and share strategies of resistance.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kZOKS8T6-Dg-1yy7tgp6CzW4XsBkfkox?usp=sharing

“Citizen Browser: How We Built a Facebook Forensics Tool”
Surya Mattu; Discussion - Capped

In this session, we want to share why and how we built the Citizen Browser project at The Markup, a data-driven initiative built to crack social media algorithms and examine the hidden decisions companies make regarding what content to amplify to their users (For more information, please visit: https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser). After introducing the objectives and the design of the Citizen Browser, we will have an open-ended discussion about privacy protection, data collection and our reporting. We will close the session with the crowdsourcing of other ideas to keep interrogating the data and recommendations to replicate Citizen Browser projects in other places.

“Civil Society Reimagined: developing narratives and forming coalitions on digital policy”
Amelie-Sophie Vavrovsky, Marlena Wisniak, Joshua Tan; Discussion - Capped

In this discussion, we will explore the preferred political narratives of civil society organizations (activist groups, nonprofits, academia) working in Internet governance and digital assembly. Through these narratives, we will challenge participants to examine their assumptions about the Internet and the role of civil society within it. Further, we will explore how the Internet falls within a much broader framework including digital infrastructure and supply chains, among other things. We will invite activists to take a holistic approach to the societal and human rights impacts of technology, and as such, reimagine their advocacy strategies.

“Climate misinformation - inconvenient truths & convenient untruths”
Harriet Kingaby; Workshop

We're living through a 'pandemic of misinformation' while battling a global pandemic, and trying to solve the climate crisis. This misinformation travels through our online spaces 6 times quicker than the truth, and poses a threat to the success of COP26, the most important climate conference of 2021.

How can technologists respond? We'll use a 'mini-sprint' process to fast and furiously brainstorm potential tech interventions to help, and what additional help we need from others to get there.

“Closing Circle”
Sarah Allen; Broadcast Talks

Join us as we reflect on the last 2 weeks, hear from facilitators, learn about what happened over the last 11 days, and say thanks to those who helped make this event happen

“Coded Bias Film Screening”
Zannah Marsh; Art and Media

Screening of the documentary "Coded Bias, " exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms.

See also our MozFest panel discussion on this film: "From Understanding to Action: Responding to Coded Bias" on Wednesday March 17.

VIDEO PASSWORD: CBMOV1MF

“Collaborative methodologies to discuss ethical implications of AI”
David Casacuberta Sevilla, Ariel Guersenzvaig; Workshop

In this workshop, we will present the ethical matrix, a collaborative method to discuss the ethical implications of an AI project which can be used to make decisions that are relevant for users' wellbeing.
Through this technique, we can bring to the discussion the views of all the different groups that may be influenced by the AI project and highlight ethical problems and implications that were not visible by the group responsible for developing the project.
During the workshop, we will first describe the method and then put into practice to analyze a specific case of AI IRL (online "proctoring").

“Collaborative/Poetic Atlas of Algorthmic (In)equality”
Abdo, Vitor Freire; Art and Media - Discussion

A digital whiteboard turned into an exhibition space.
The space will showcase the findings from a year-long creative reading group, held in multiple cities in the Netherlands aimed at exploring different aspects of Algorithmic inequality relating to lived experience. Themes like Love, Identity, Coloniality, Geography, as prompted by algorithms, will constitute different chambers of the space. We will host a session during MozFest but the space will be open for visitors throughout MozFest.

algoatlas

Algorithmic inequality reading group:
https://futurebased.org/topics/on-algorithmic-inequality-reading-towards-an-exhibition/

Imagination of things: https://imaginationofthings.com

Fabricating Alternatives: https://imaginationofthings.com/fabricating-alternatives.html

The Miro Board for this Collaborative/Poetic Atlas of Algorthmic (In)equality exposition is hosted on a third party website

“Collaborative/Poetic Atlas of Algorthmic (In)equality”
Abdo, Vitor Freire; Art and Media

algoatlas

Algorithmic inequality reading group:
https://futurebased.org/topics/on-algorithmic-inequality-reading-towards-an-exhibition/

Imagination of things: https://imaginationofthings.com

Fabricating Alternatives: https://imaginationofthings.com/fabricating-alternatives.html

The Miro Board for this Collaborative/Poetic Atlas of Algorthmic (In)equality exposition is hosted on a third party website

“Collapse is here. Internet is dead. What would you save?”
Lucas Pretti; Workshop

Imagine the worst: big corporations win, dictators are everywhere, all news are fake, rain forests are gone, internet infrastructure is burnt. What would you save from the collapse? This is a speculative session where participants will be asked to bring their best internet memories to create a collaborative fictional artwork, a legacy of the good old times when the web was open, accessible and fun. The more diverse the best. Please take some minutes to think in advance and bring to the session your favorite links, videos, memes, i.e. your digital heritage. I'm willing to put together resources from different backgrounds to create an exciting visual essay.

My art practice articulates technopolitics with behind the scenes narratives. As a Brazilian, I'm especially interested in Southern perspectives and how internet culture manifests outside of the center. This proposal will be part of my current research about the dark social and environmental consequences of the current networked model, under which I've created the publication 'Devastação' (https://pretti-et.al/devastacao).

“Collective Power in Data Ownership: How Data Trusts Can Build Digital Equity”
Rachel Bernstein, Colin Clark, Revathi Sharma Kollegala, Dana Ayotte, Rylan Peery, Shabnam Mojtahedi; Workshop

Data trusts, if designed inclusively, offer the possibility for communities to decide how their data is gathered and used, and to ensure that the AI systems that impact their lives are trained on data that is relevant to, and representative of, them. This session will bring together an informal network of participants to explore new models of collective and inclusive data governance. Participants will work in groups to share the unique perspectives, interests, and community engagements that they bring to the issue of data governance. Each group will develop a scenario and plan for a data trust implementation, weighing considerations such as standards and data interoperability, decision-making approaches, policies, and the role of technology. In this session we hope to raise awareness about the value of data trusts and build an expanded and diverse community of potential contributors to collaborative data governance initiatives moving forward.

“Combating Implicit Biases In Technology Through Impact Storytelling”
POV: Points of View, Alton Glass, Elizabeth Adams; Discussion - Capped

Combating Implicit Biases In Technology Through Impact Storytelling is a casual virtual discussion between Alton Glass and Elizabeth Adams that will address themes of implicit biases and data surveillance in emerging technologies found in the Mozfest exhibition titled POV: Points of View.

About the Speakers: Well-known virtual reality creator and founder of GRX Immersive Labs, Alton Glass is the director of POV: Points of View. Elizabeth Adams is a Chief Artificial Intelligence Ethics Advisor, United Nations Key Constituent of Roundtable 3C on Artificial Intelligence, and Stanford University Fellow: Race & Technology.

About the Project: Brought to life by GRX Immersive Labs, POV: Points of View is a sci-fi immersive series project that educates its audience about emerging tech literacy.

“Community handbook best practices for a healthier and more open internet”
Nuritzi Sanchez, Jaskirat SIngh; Discussion - Capped

A Community Handbook is a living document that contributes to a healthier and more open internet by allowing communities to work in a more transparent, asynchronous way. This is critical to allowing more people from all kinds of backgrounds to begin participating and contributing to communities -- and it’s also good for holding communities accountable. During this discussion, we’ll share examples of community handbooks we’ve helped write, and we’ll discuss best practices for creating community handbooks that help build stronger, more diverse, and open communities. By the end of this discussion we hope to inspire the audience to begin or contribute to their own Community Handbook as well as learn ways to improve our own.

“Connected - Global AR Exhibition”
Pixel, Hebert Valois, Almir Almas; Art and Media

Jandig is an open-source Augmented Reality (AR) platform created by artists and hackers to be easy to use. Since AR is visual, it’s better to explain how Jandig works with images - please watch this (1 minute) video: https://youtu.be/Oou7uE2XeRo ;-)

We facilitated a collaborative Jandig art installation at MozFest 2018 (and we were awarded a MOSS Seed Award at the festival). We will use what we learned from this experience to help bring the MozFest spirit to online participants.

Our proposal is to create an AR exhibition on MozFest and a microsite where participants can download its AR markers to create stickers (or posters, or t-shirts, or anything they want).

By proposing to have something physical, we aim to make MozFest participants more connected with the festival and with other participants.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“Connected - Global AR Exhibition Discussion”
Pixel, Hebert Valois, Almir Almas; Art and Media - Discussion

Our proposal is to create an AR exhibition on MozFest and a microsite where participants can download its AR markers to create stickers (or posters, or t-shirts, or anything they want).

By proposing to have something physical, we aim to make MozFest participants more connected with the festival and with other participants.

“Connecting with others and creating understanding through the power of Personal User Manuals”
Aidan Cammies; Workshop

In this workshop you'll learn about the power of personal user manuals, and how to create your own!

Normally we learn about one another’s likes, dislikes, and unique aspects through trial and error over time. A personal user manual is a shortcut to a deeper understanding of one another so we can communicate and collaborate in a much more effective, efficient, and enjoyable way!

I'm the EMEA Chair of Red Hat's Neurodiversity community and I have ADHD. One of my favourite things to do is chatting with organisations and people about brains! I want to help people find tools and practices that allow others to understand who we truly are. (Without any of the uncomfortable emails or fears of judgement and stigma!)

The techniques used in this workshop hopefully won’t just make work easier, they’ll make life better :)

Link to slides: https://tinyurl.com/MozfestPUM

“Consent-based decision making - collaborative decisions that bring in difference”
Abi Murphy, Aaron; Workshop

This workshop offers participants the chance to learn about and experience a more inclusive decision making process.
Using consent to make decisions helps any kind of organisation achieve buy-in from team members at every level, so people really understand WHY they are working towards a goal.
In our experience, it has a number of benefits, including:
Promoting forward motion and experimentation – finding common ground through agreeing to proposals that are ‘good enough for now’
Balancing groups and individuals – preventing a majority having power over a minority
Including and hearing diverse voices – ensuring no-one can be ignored through proposals that are ‘safe enough to try’
This workshop is based on your facilitators’ real-life experience of implementing the approach over many years in a business setting. The session will give you a practical, hands-on taster, and enough knowledge to start exploring using consent-based decision making further.

“Conspiracy Theory Creation”
Salil Parekh, Hugo; Workshop

Explore the hidden forces at work in this world at the Conspiracy Theory Production Studios. Over the course of the workshop, experiment with machine learning tools to explore the hidden ties governing the world we live in and broadcast your insights to the world! As a participant you will collaborate with accessible machine learning solutions like text generators and image processing softwares to cobble together fresh new theories about the conspiracies acting in the shadows.

“Contextualizing AI”
Fieke; Discussion - Capped

When looking at the possibilities, limitation and harms of AI there is a tendency to focus on the technology. This approach might allow us to capture some social issues related to AI systems, there are many this approach will not as it overlooks how these technologies get implemented in existing economic, social and political power relations. For a do no harm approach we need to decenter technology and understand the context in which these systems get implemented. As such this session aims to unpack, discuss and share experiences of contextualizing AI.

“Conversations on Conversational AI”
Anuradha Reddy, Iohanna Nicenboim, Marie Louise Juul Sondergaard; Workshop

In an effort to understand the limitations and possibilities of interacting with AI-powered conversational agents (CAs), we previously ran a workshop that interrogated commercial CAs including Alexa, Siri, and Google Home. We probed these agents around issues of trust, ownership, identity, gender, and ecology and learned about their biases and logics.

In this workshop, we will share our learnings and then use creative exercises to engage in a conversation about the possibilities of a trustworthy AI-powered assistant without ties to companies that profit off user data. Our goal is to engage in wide-ranging discussions across diverse cultures and geographies to enable critically-aware users of AI.

“Creating Connected Applications”
Mathura Govindarajan, Craig Protzel; Workshop

In today’s remote-first environment, web-based communication tools like zoom, discord, and discourse have become integral to our daily lives both personally and professionally. We aim to provide participants the opportunity to move from being users of such tools to being creators of them.

Here is what we will cover:
* What tools are available today for us to create our own web-based communication technologies?
* How can we conceptualize, design and develop multi-person experiences on the web?
* A focus on websockets, socket.io, and the glitch platform with everyone leaving with their own working multi-person web-based application.

This session is open to all levels. Some programming experience is recommended but not required. This will be a hands-on workshop, participants are encouraged to join via laptop or desktop as opposed to a mobile device. Also, participants will be expected to create an account in Glitch.

“Creating Equitable Digital Spaces for Neurodivergent Individuals”
Rin Oliver; Discussion - Capped

While the goal of many digital spaces has been about inclusivity, equality, and diversity, the needs of neurodivergent individuals have continued to progress in relation to digital communities. While many digital spaces, presentations, and events are designed for a neurotypical audience, the needs of neurodivergent attendees, participants, and guests to digital spaces must be considered and applied in order to be equitable from the start. This presentation will detail how organizations creating digital spaces (such as a forum, Slack, Discord server, etc.), experiences/events, and communities can create, maintain, and grow their platform with neurodivergent people and their experiences not only in mind, but in focus.

“Creating Inclusive Worlds: Lesson Development with Computing Ethics Narratives for Future Technologists”
Stacy Doore, Fernando Nascimento; Workshop

This workshop will describe the work of the Computing Ethics Narratives (CEN) project funded by Mozilla's Responsible Computer Science Challenge (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/responsible-cs/). As a part of the workshop, participants will learn how to use a repository of fiction and non-fiction media resources (clips, articles, podcasts, images, etc.) to build lessons and modules for teaching computer science students about creating more inclusive technologies and the impact their work can have on society, both positive and negative. The facilitators will provide examples of current modules around this topic, module templates, and access to the repository for participants to leave with a draft lesson module addressing the topic of creating more inclusive and equitable technologies.

“Creative AI Q&A”
Creative AI Space; Discussion - Capped

Meet the creators featured in the Creative AI Space! In this Q&A session, you get a chance to better understand their creative processes, ask for details on how to interact with their artworks and how you can contribute. Navigate to the "CreativeAI | Studio" room in the MozFest Spatial Chat to join the Q&A!

“Creative AI Vernissage”
Creative AI Space; Discussion - Capped

Meet the creators featured in the Creative AI Space! Come see what they have prepared for the festival, where you can find them and how you can interact with their artworks.

“Creative Python Programming with CMU CS Academy”
Erin Cawley; Workshop

Want to learn how to code creative projects? Come join us to learn how to make a simple game in CMU CS Academy! Whether you’re a complete beginner, or have a little bit of coding skill, during this session you’ll learn the basics of programming in Python! Students and Teachers are welcome to join.

“Creative Python Programming with CMU CS Academy”
Erin Cawley; Workshop

“Creativity and the Brain”
Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez; Discussion - Capped

Art is an essential part of human life. Since the stone age, caveman transformed the materials around them to shape, for example, female bodies using the fangs of a mammoth and painted the walls of their caves using natural pigments . This process of generating something new, transforming or transcending the existent, is called CREATIVITY. Creativity and art are a fascinating window on the human brain and its enormous diversity, and research in neuroscience supports the role of art in wellbeing and mental health.

Art and neuroscience offer complementary perspectives on the human mind. “SINAPSIS: connections between art and your brain” was born at that intersection. Through the free, online broadcasting of six videos about the cognitive neuroscience of art, this project aims to demistify brain science, fuel the scientific curiosity of the general public and promote interdisciplinary exchanges around the brain, creativity and art. Join us in this journey!

“Credibility Coalition, Part II: Projects | Mar 17 @ 21:15 CET”
Nevin Thompson, Ed Bice, Deb Levoy, Sara J. Terp; Skill Share - Discussion

In this lightning talks session, three CredCo participants will provide an overview of their work related to credibility, misinformation and news verification.

“CreepyIoT - Tracking the Creepy Internet of Things”
Namrata Primlani; Discussion - Capped

As the internet becomes more deeply entwined in people’s everyday lives, data flows around us in ever more complex ways – wearable technologies monitor our heartbeat, AI voice assistants cohabit our kitchens and our children’s bedrooms, smart cities know our every move, and facial recognition determines our access across country borders. The web of connected data collecting devices makes up the Internet of Things (IoT).

One of the most commonly used words to describe the IoT is 'creepy'. We will explore meanings of the word 'creepy' that question comfort, privacy and trust in the IoT across four scales - body, home, community and city.

In this session, participants will share creepy encounters with IoT products through personal stories, news clippings, photographs, illustrations and other creative ways.

We will use this github page https://github.com/namrataprimlani/creepyIoT/edit/main/README.md to build a crowdsourced repository of creepy IoT encounters.

“Crowdsourcing Names for Statistical Neighbourhoods”
Ahmad Barclay, Henry Lau, Rob Fry, Carl Baker, Oliver Hawkins; Workshop

In 2021 there will be a 10 year population census in the UK. The data from this census will be published across tens of thousands of statistical neighbourhoods (officially "output areas"), which are identified only by obscure statistical codes familiar only to experts.

In this hands-on workshop participants will have an opportunity to contribute to the process of crowdsouring meaningful names for 32,000 statistical neighbourhoods in England and Wales, in a project intended to help the general public access census data at a granular level and better understand their own local area.

“Cultural Party”
Reshma K, Richard Millwood, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Judit Navratil, Bhuvana Meenakshi, Douglas Arellanes, Luciana Haill, Thomas Steigenga, Gunnar de Jong, Philo; Social Moments

The cultural party is a one-time cross-festival event featuring activities to showcase culture, heritage, and technology. Let's just party virtually at MozFest. A session might be a fun and engaging activity such as cooking, games, films, music, arts & cultural showcases, and other ways for the participants to share their local digital experiences with other participants in the party.

Building on the metaphor of a house, the virtual cultural party will have many themed “rooms” and informal opportunities for people to connect. For example, in the virtual “basement” space, participants might perform music with guests listening, dancing, and asking questions between songs. Meanwhile, in the virtual “kitchen” volunteers might lead informal cooking demos. Then, in the virtual “living room” many games from around the world are being shared.

If interested in performing in the Cultural Party, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYbcy4za0YHRkUlKJg8tQdK2I4gId6UJPEiUgJtvnaRqZnFw/viewform

For more details: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/global-culture-and-heritage-space-at-mozfest-2021/

“Culture Games Africa: the Internet-of-Culture.”
Adebunmi Adeola Akinbo; Discussion - Capped

Uploading Africa and redefine ownership.

We will be discussing history, source, and collaborative effort towards virtual research and authentication of data and sources.

Cultural Games Africa (CUGA) Wiki will represent a source, providing virtual reality to historical centres, museums, and monuments, It would also provide a space for exhibitions and promotions of contents, artefacts and other categorised material's, using virtual reality in the face of a pandemic, travels in the space of sanity and safety.

“Curtailing e-waste with Right to Repair”
Anny G.; Discussion - Capped

Visible mending of clothes is an antidote to fast fashion and lack of care for sustainability, and a protest against the culture of treating clothes as disposable and discardable. Visible mending movement is inspired by Sashiko, a technique of functional embroidery that came from Japan during the Edo era and stemmed from a need to repair and reinforce worn pieces with embroidery and patches.

What if we took this concept of repairing beloved items and applied it to our favourite electronics? What are some obstacles standing in a way of easily repairing our electronics and how can Right to Repair help address some of the issues? What kinds of programs already exist, and what are their disadvantages? What kind of change do we need to see from governments, manufacturers and repair shops to help address this?

“Cyber Security”
Cardiff STEM Ambassadors; Workshop

A workshop in Cybersecurity that is aimed at Secondary School aged children

“Cyberwars and Why Only You Can Stop Them”
Majel Peters, Raj Burli, Layla Tabatabaie, Gurmehar Kaur, Claire Tonneson, Max Peskin, Samantha Schneider; Discussion - Capped

Digital Peace Now is a global movement of digital citizens who demand that nations stop engaging in cyberwarfare and start working together to protect citizens from nation-backed cyberattacks that threaten our modern world.

In this session, we will engage more deeply on what cyberwarfare is, and how it affects each of us. Participants will start with a quick 5-question quiz to demonstrate the prevalence and depth of cyber attacks. Next, participants will enter breakout rooms where their small team can brainstorm and discuss solutions on how to hold cyber attackers accountable while also protecting the internet we know and love.

“Dancing with the trouble: Ethical AI Ritual”
Malé Luján Escalante, Luke Moffat, Lizzie Harrison, Vivienne Kuh; Social Moments

In this Social Moment, we will make time to be in our bodies, to dance with the troubles of AI. We are
responsible innovation practitioners working with performance art, yoga, sci-fi and street dance to develop a choreography in which each movement embodies an ethical principle for innovating in AI. Inspired by Donna Haraway and ritual design, together we will perform a ritual embracing the magical, illogical, delightful and laughable to inspire healthier AI.

We will rehearse with our bodies, rituals for anticipating, noticing, and addressing ethical tensions - to nurture a mindset of collaborative creativity and radical care. Beyond the duties of data management, privacy, justice, sustainability and diversity, we aim to support capacities to respond to uncertainty with music, movement and ethical values.

You don’t need to be able to dance, but you will need video on and space to move.

“Data, Big And Small: How The Datasets That Power AI Are Made”
Brent Bailey; Workshop

AI as a field, and as a buzzword, has exploded in the past few years. But for many, AI seems like something conjured out of the ether: a computerized intelligence created with nothing but code. This is not the case. The explosion in AI has related directly to an explosion in the available data for training: these algorithms are fed massive datasets and learn to imitate the human behaviors that went into creating them. In this workshop, we'll explore a quick history of the datasets behind AI and the human labor that made them, discussing the advent of web scraping, ImageNet, Mechanical Turk, and more. After that, we'll discuss the ethical considerations of dataset creation, then go into a hands-on portion where we create and label our own image and text datasets for use, to give participants firsthand experience of the messy, human process of making them.

“Data Futures Lab: A Data Stewardship Orientation - Key Questions About Power and Data”
Lindsey Dodson, Remy Muhire, Champika Fernando, Greg Bloom, Tawana Petty, Jasmine McNealy, Deborah Raji; Discussion - Capped

This session will take place in Spatial Chat across Data Futures Video room & Data Futures Lab Q&A room in the Room List. You can watch the presentations in the Video room and ask questions with presenters in the Q&A room.

More and more people are becoming interested in how the data about them is gathered and managed. But what is data and how do we relate to it? Do we own it, or merely have rights over it? What is data stewardship? Is data social, or should we view it as infrastructure? How do intersectional power dynamics shape the use and governance of data? These are the big questions underlying the various approaches to data stewardship. They are also the source of many differing opinions. Join us for a fantastic line-up of some of the foremost thinkers and doers in data stewardship, providing lightning insight into some of these pressing questions.

“Data Futures Lab: Applying Data Stewardship Concepts in the Wild”
James Farrar, Austin, Mari, Ben Moskowitz, Ginny Fahs, Anouk Ruhaak, Cansu Safak; Discussion - Capped

How can we gain greater agency over data about us? Over the last few years numerous thinkers have explored alternative data stewardship models that can help us rebalance power between platform and user, allow us to make data available for public benefit, and give us a greater say over how data about us is used. Now it’s time to explore what these models might look like in real-world contexts. During this session, we will briefly introduce the concept of data stewardship and why we think it matters. We’ll then give the floor to the first three grantees of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab: SignalBoost, Consumer Reports and Workers Info Exchange, who will walk you through their work and the changes they want to see in the field of data stewardship.

“Data Futures Lab: Data Stewardship Help Bar”
Richard Whitt, Sylvie Delacroix, Anouk Ruhaak; Social Moments

Do you collect large amounts of data? Are you struggling to design data governance methods that align with your values? Do you want to build a data trust, but you’re unsure where to start (or what it really is)? We’re here to help! Come and talk to experts and innovators driving Mozilla's Data Futures Lab. Book a 15 minute session with our team and have your questions answered (or at least refined)!

This session is happening in Spatial Chat in the Data Stewardship Help room.

“Data Science Meets Law: Learning Responsible AI Together”
Shlomi Hod, Karni Chagal-Feferkorn; Skill Share

Responsible AI challenges require a multidisciplinary approach, in which tech and law are natural partners. In our talk we will present our approach of facilitating the dialogue between Data Scientists and Lawyers, stemming from a course we taught in 2020. Our experience and insights from the course are relevant in the broader context of building a bridge between both professions, in a manner that could be implemented in other settings, such as in policy-making, civil society organizations and the tech industry.

Website: http://learn.responsibly.ai/

SkillShare video (10 min): https://vimeo.com/showcase/8165282/video/523160994

Q&A Session: https://gradu.al/mozfest/sessions/data-science-meets-law-learning-responsible-ai-together/

“Data Stewardship Science Fair”
Temi Popo, Cansu Safak, Ben Moskowitz, Avery Smith, Richard Whitt; Social Moments

Data is a driving force behind much of the web. We generate data at a breathtaking pace. Our most mundane actions — playing songs, checking the weather — are analyzed, collated, stored, sold, and used in ways that we can neither see nor imagine, becoming a potential windfall for the data economy. Though the technology that is used to commodify our data creates a sense of newness, the story of the data economy is a familiar one: data extracted from people and places is used to create capital that rarely stays near its source.

As with regular old capital, those who control and hold the most of it have power.

In this Science Fair, we are showcasing projects and prototypes that are redrawing the lines on data, shifting power away from big platforms who currently control how most of the data about us is managed and stored, back to consumers and communities. [Join us in Spatial Chat]

“Data Stewardship Science Fair Demo Space”
Temi Popo, Avery Smith, Ben Moskowitz, Cansu Safak, Richard Whitt; Art and Media

Data is a driving force behind much of the web. We generate data at a breathtaking pace. Our most mundane actions — playing songs, checking the weather — are analyzed, collated, stored, sold, and used in ways that we can neither see nor imagine. Though the technology that is used to commodify our data creates a sense of newness, the story of the data economy is a familiar one: data extracted from people and places is used to create capital that rarely stays near its source.

As with regular old capital, those who control and hold the most of it have power.

We will showcase projects and prototypes that are redrawing the lines on data, shifting power away from big platforms who currently control how most of the data about us is managed and stored, back to consumers and communities.

This space will be available from 14:30 CET, March 12th 2021

“Decentralised Data Unions for Others”
Tracey Bowen, Sophia Bazile; Workshop

Those who are routinely overlooked in the creation of new tech products are bought into the fore with a new decentralised Data Union product, ‘Controlr’. This project focuses on marginalised people as primary users and will explore how to build tech for non traditional audiences and the importance of inclusive design.

Participants will be asked to map their own work, family and social networks to identify opportunities to intervene for the benefit of racial justice and equality. We will also explore decentralised, inclusive governance structures and define practical ways to build equitable futures for all.

This will be a highly participatory and engaging session best accessed from a laptop or desktop device. Come play!

“Decentralizing circumvention: a DIY approach to making censor-resistant apps”
Dan McDevitt; Workshop

Internet censorship is a pervasive and growing global problem, as authoritarian governments worldwide make it harder and harder to freely access information online. While there are a variety of known circumvention tools that can help individual users dodge locally-imposed blocks, from an organizational perspective, the challenge looks slightly different; for example, for media outlets, human rights groups, and civil society organizations, there may be a lack of resources to build technical solutions, forcing the burden onto users and users alone.

In this context, AppMaker was born. AppMaker is a tool that allows any organization or individual to easily create a customized Android app in minutes, with localized content and circumvention tech baked in.

In this session, we'll show how AppMaker works while also collaboratively exploring new ways to decentralize circumvention tech.

“Decoded Reality”
Falaah Arif Khan; Discussion - Capped

'Decoded Reality' will be a collaborative, critical exploration of the role of Power in the creation of Responsible AI. The workshop based on our creative piece of the same name (https://ai-ethics.github.io/decoded-reality/intro.html). The artwork is meant to provoke viewers to think about how societal structures and power dynamics intrinsically shape technology (AI in particular) and the associated workshop will have participants discuss the symbols and messages in the artwork as well as share personal anecdotes and speak to their lived experiences on the societal aspects of AI. Insights from the workshop will be used to create a complementary, follow-up art piece (with proper attribution given to the participants) that re-imagines how every stage of a 'sociologically-aware' and responsible approach to AI would look like. We intend to finish this piece within a month of the workshop and release it publicly.

“Decolonizing AI - Civil Society Perspectives on Breaking Digital Extractivism”
Marlena Wisniak; Discussion - Capped

While artificial intelligence is primarily developed in the Global North, its impacts are far-reaching. Today’s conversations around responsible AI, however, are generally confined to US/Canadian and European borders. To prevent adverse impacts of AI in the Global South, local representatives must not only be included in, but also drive, conversations around research priorities, definitions, and deployment of AI.

Participants will feature representatives from across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with an emphasis on civil society and inclusivity. Questions will revolve around ‘What are examples of digital colonialism in the age of AI?’, ‘What are some of the key human rights impacts in the Global South?’, ’, ‘How do you balance power differentials between stakeholder groups?’, ‘What is the role of funding?’, ‘How do you ensure that womxn and underrepresented groups participate in the decision-making process?’, and ‘What is the responsibility of technology companies, both foreign and local?’.

“Deepfakes, Yawn or Yikes?: Grounding AI-fears in global threats and solution prioritization”
Sam Gregory, Adebayo Okeowo; Discussion - Capped

Deepfakes: AI-enhanced technologies that make it easier to manipulate or fake real peoples' voices, faces and actions as well as dismiss any real video or audio as fake. They have become a critical concern for celebrities, and for many ordinary women worldwide, and raise mis/disinformation threats as they become easier to deploy. They have also been an example of pre-emptive and often misdirected technology hype - focusing on hypothetical political scenarios, rather than real use cases against women and uses in satire and malicious content gaslighting as satire. WITNESS has led the first global workshops to assess and prioritize threats and solutions http://wit.to/Synthetic-Media-Deepfakes and ensure they are not Silicon Valley, Brussels or DC-driven as well as prioritize contextualized questions of access and equity in solutions. We’ll discuss these learnings and what to do next as deepfakes progress and ‘improve’.

“Democracy in 2030: can we create public-interest AI?”
Amy Studdart; Discussion - Capped

Most AI research and product development is conducted by actors who are primarily commercially motivated, and the plethora of our ethical discussions are focused on ensuring commercially driven AI research and development does not explicitly harm human rights or set back democracy. There is less discussion about how we can create a future in which AI is actively pro-democracy, pro-inclusion, pro-rights, and, ultimately, pro-humanity. What kind of ecosystem would that require? Can we take inspiration from the open source movement or public-interest technology development? Should governments play a role?

“Demystifying the use of AI in Africa”
Catherine Muya; Discussion - Capped

AI for many Africans is an extremely futuristic concept, one that we assume would be like what we see in Movies or come years after we get used to driving Teslas. As the Lawyers Hub, we are committed to defending and building online communities however, we recognize how important it is for users to understand our work. therefore, this session will be interactive and utilize design thinking to ask participants what AI means to them. Thereafter we shall play a Maximum of 3, Three-minute lightning talks and one illustrative video from industry practitioners talking about AI. we shall then interact with participants to see if this changes their perspectives and How.

“Designing Accessible VR Experiences : A 3D Virtual Tour in Mozilla Hubs”
Mike Heavers, Mar Gonzalez Franco, Dylan R. Fox, Stephen Lee; Art and Media - Discussion

Virtual Reality introduces a host of new considerations when designing inclusive environments and experiences.

This session is both a panel discussion and 3D experience. The panel will be on Zoom, and includes guests Mar Gonzalez Franco, a researcher at Microsoft, Dylan Fox of advocacy group XR Access, and Stephen Lee, an educator at Portland State University, exploring accessibility from the lens of research, community advocacy, and virtual education. A Mozilla Hubs 3D virtual tour (https://tinyurl.com/mozaccess) will be available throughout the festival showcasing accessibility techniques in VR and encouraging community contribution on how to make social VR more open and inclusive. The Hubs space is an ever-evolving archive, free for anyone to drop in at any time, regardless of participation in Mozfest. Your thoughts and contributions are welcome. Please find full info here: https://heaversm.github.io/mozfestaccess/

“Designing Citizen Interactions for Urban Sensing Systems”
Anouk Wieleman, Kars Alfrink, Marcel Schouwenaar, Coen Bergman; Workshop

Smart city systems rarely directly engage with citizens. Researchers and designers at the Responsible Sensing Lab are exploring ways to invite citizens, or any stakeholder, to interact with sensing systems. In this workshop, we will be discussing two projects that provide insights into what it means in practical terms to make a smart city system transparent, assessable and contestable.

Workshop leaders: Kars Alfrink & Marcel Schouwenaar

“Designing up to date content moderation principles for a new social network”
Julie Ricard, Marianne Díaz Hernández; Discussion - Capped

The “networked public sphere” has become an inevitable space for civic engagement and is growing into the primary source of civic and political information. In a scenario of increasing political and social tension and complexity, the task of content moderation is escalating into a public challenge, of which social media giants are the central actors. The thin line between ensuring safe spaces and fighting misinformation through content moderation vs. impinging on freedom of expression and/or mistakenly silencing population subgroups, raises crucial questions at the intersection of philosophical considerations and technology solutions. This session is an opportunity to imagine what ideal content moderation guidelines should look like, in light of the most recent events and challenges. The outputs of the discussion will serve as inputs for the incipient social-network learning space ‘Eureka’ (https://www.abouteureka.club/ ).

“Design Sprint: Reimagining the UX Patterns to address AI & Surveillance Capitalism harms”
Georgia Bullen, Sage Cheng, Ashley Fowler, Karissa McKelvey, Ame Elliott, Molly Clare Wilson, Cade, Shirin Mori; Workshop

Simply Secure and the broader Human Rights Centered Design (HRCD) Community would like to host a workshop / design sprint where we invite participants to workshop UX and design ideas in response to the everyday harms caused by AI and surveillance capitalism on internet platforms. At the workshop, participants will have the option of working alone or in groups on a variety of issue areas, e.g. consent, transparency, remediation experiences (e.g. in response to content moderation or online harassment issues) and many more! The session will be very generative with the goal being to create a final collaborative output of ideas to challenge the norms around current user experience patterns.

“Developing fake news immunity”
Elinor Carmi, elena musi; Workshop

In this workshop we provide citizens with tools to navigate mis-/dis-information in a critical way and improve their decision making processes during the pandemic and beyond. As part of our ESRC funded project “Being Alone Together: Developing Fake News Immunity” we developed a multi-player chatbot that teaches people how to recognize rhetorical strategies that are used to spread misinformation. In this way, people become their own fact-checkers.
We will begin by explaining the different information manipulations on the internet and then divide the participants to smaller groups to play with our chatbot. We believe that playing together is more powerful than individual learning, because people can debate, consult and understand together. After this we will reconvene and discuss what we learned, how the chatbot contributed to their understanding of misinformation and what can be improved.

“Developing Survivor-Centric Responses to Technology-Facilitated Gender Violence”
Akhila Kolisetty, Nishma Jethwa, Hera Hussain; Workshop

As internet connectivity has become widespread, we see the rise of gender-based violence in digital spaces. The web is an extension of patriarchal and unequal offline spaces, where many forms of violence against marginalized genders are reproduced online, from harassment to cyberstalking to image-based sexual abuse. Some - because of their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or caste - face disproportionate levels of digital abuse and harassment. Yet, most tech platforms are not designed to meet the needs of survivors, and at worst, perpetuate harms. Chayn and End Cyber Abuse will host a workshop on exploring survivor-centered, trauma-informed, intersectional technologies to prevent and redress gender violence, including principles like survivor co-creation and responsible data collection. We will highlight case studies of good practice, gather feedback from participants, and send people into breakout rooms to workshop a survivor-centric design of an app or social platform.

“Developing Tools for AI Implementation Case Studies: Equipping Communities for Self-Authorship”
Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Kiran Samuel; Workshop

The goal of this workshop is to develop a public-good template for communities to develop their own socio-technical AI Implementation Case Studies.

Life is infinitely more complex than can be made machine-readable, more complex, dynamic, creative, and unpredictable than machinic operations can account for. This shortfall leads to devaluation, discrimination, and erasure of outlying social groups with dangerous effects.

Rather than reify the promise of technological solutions, we believe in people power. Our focus on AI implementation examines how we might make interventions for the benefit of all.

Blending ethnographic, social-science, and user-research methods, participants will come away with an actionable framework supporting their communities to produce qualitative case studies on how AI is interpreted and negotiated by real people in real situations. Resulting outputs can potentially be shared with developers of algorithmic and AI systems, as well as key constituents in policy and governance.

“Did AI Do That? Mitigating the potential risks to user expression online”
Holly Richards, Thiago, Nicolas Suzor, Anima Anandkumar, Jillian York, Tracy Manners, Rachel Wolbers; Workshop

This highly interactive session will focus on what we can do, from a content governance perspective, to mitigate the risks AI and ML technologies may pose to user expression online. The workshop will have 4 discussion leads: Anima Anandkumar (NVDIA) , Thiago Oliva (OSB Policy), Nic Suzor (QUT, Oversight Board Member), Jillian York (EFF). The discussion leads will introduce themselves and key question that they want to explore in breakout groups. Each breakout group will report back at the end of the session.

Potential breakout group questions include:
How much should we expect of AI to understand local context, nuance and systemic inequality?
Can AI help develop effective content moderation or appeals systems that work at scale?
How can platforms provide better explanations to users about why their content has been flagged automatically? What would you like to see to understand the confidence and basis of predictions?

“Digicast: Spectrum (6 part podcast)”
Beck Cromack-Hough, Ezra Rushen, Emily Everall, Siân O’Connell, Dylan O’Brien, Amy Newton, Andy Lovatt, Seamus Mannion; Discussion - Capped

We are making a 6 part podcast series about neurodiversity in and outside of work.

Travel - how to travel safe and planning for journeys
Mental health in the workplace - how do we keep our mental health in check, including in the age of COVID
Lockdown video 2.0 - a companion piece for a lockdown video created by one of the interns in the first lockdown
Why neurodiversity is a super power for employers - the unique perspective of neurodiversity giving workplaces a well rounded view
Video gaming as a stress relief and VR online communities - looking at how this is a valuable asset for a lot of neurodiverse individuals to stay in a community
The making of the podcast - how we went about making the podcast and how we assigned roles

“Digital Activism and Surveillance in Times of Pandemic”
Ashley Lee, Albert Fox Cahn; Discussion - Capped

In this discussion session, participants will explore how COVID-19 contact tracing technologies may surveil and suppress political activity and dissent around the globe. This session welcomes activists, advocates, technologists, researchers, and policymakers who are engaged with diverse movements and are fighting for a more just digital world. Participants will identify the challenges and risks that the pervasive deployment of COVID-19 contact tracing technologies and related surveillance mechanisms may pose to activists, dissidents, and social movement participants. How are individual actors and social movement organizations responding to the potential and actual misuse of such technologies? The facilitators will bring case studies from across the world to inform the conversation. Participants will build a shared understanding of the current social, technological, and regulatory landscape; compare their experiences and perspectives; and begin to build toward a collective vision for addressing these challenges.

“Digital Care and activist infrastructures in Brazil: from servers to technical assistance”
Amarela, foz, Cisbi, Urutau, Julia Gonza, Evanildo Barbosa; Discussion - Capped

Recent events in the Brazilian political and social scene have highlighted the need to work on issues of digital care by social movements, activist groups and NGOs operating in the national context. This work, however, faces several challenges, such as:

The scarcity of technical staff working at the intersection of technology and human rights within organizations;
The scarcity of activist groups working to support organizations in relation to server administration and the use of online and secure collaborative work tools;
The lack of a structured network of people who can provide technical assistance services to human rights organizations;
The lack of specific funding for infrastructure development and technical assistance.

This session aims to discuss these challenges and think about possibilities for action in the Brazilian context, and will have the participation of digital care activists, members of human rights organizations and philanthropic funds and foundations.

“Discovering Culture through Visual Identity and Sound Design”
Xa'lum; Workshop

This participatory experience will be introduced by a virtual audiovisual experience that will show how to integrate sound and visuals to express one's identity and heritage. Then, participants will be asked to identify the elements that had defined their identity and that could be found in their area. Using free software and the tools already integrated in the computers, we will rework this element to create audiovisual narratives.

“Diverse Latino: the e-experience of the Latin women and LGBTIQ+ community.”
Juliana Novaes, Umut Pajaro Velasquez, Abdias Zambrano, Belen Gimenez; Discussion - Capped

The purposes are (1) to identify and discuss some of the key issues involving the online experiences of the LGBTIQ+ and Women; and (2) to share and draft tools that help create a safer online environment for women and queer people.
The facilitators are involved in different projects on the rights of women and the LGBTIQ+ community in Latin America and also in youth-led projects that tackle these issues. The first part of the session will be a brief overview of the situation of women and LGBTIQ+ community and the presentation of tools to fight gender based violence.
Afterwards, attendees will be divided into groups and will be asked to share experiences and good practices used to tackle violence online.
In the last part of the session, groups will share the outcomes of the discussions to brainstorm the creation of a guide of best practices against discrimination.

“Diversity and AI for good: Training a computer to recognise Australian Sign language”
Kylie Boltin, Ravi Vasavan; Discussion - Capped

This is a uniquely perfect 'space' for our project. Aside from showing the teaser for our interactive documentary, currently in build, we can also discuss and show what it is like to combine animation, artificial intelligence and sign language in a meaningful way. Weaved into the larger story, the love story.

Our session attempts to be best practice inclusive storytelling and looks at the impact of Deaf-led co-creating along with engaging in hands-on learning, critical reflection and forward facing discussions with the audience. Given it is in March, will make it accessible and inclusive with captioning, interpreters, audio descriptions.

In addition to director/producer Kylie, from SBS Australia - Ravi who is a key collaborator and designer in his own right will be joined by the team who created the AI tool that allows our project to recognise 14 Southern Dialect Signs.

“DIY-AI: Exploring Creative Applications of Machine Learning with Runway”
Brannon Dorsey, Yining Shi; Workshop

This workshop presents a hands-on demonstration of Runway: a next generation web application for artists and creatives to engage with machine learning. By lowering the barrier to entry to access the latest AI research, Runway enables folks to use these technologies in their creative processes, and create new works and methods of creating that weren't previously possible. We believe that enabling cultural producers to participate in the current AI revolution is one of the best ways to democratize the use of these technologies, and help develop them in a human-centered way.

In this workshop, we'll demonstrate the process of training and using generative models with Runway and encourage workshop participants to follow along at home. This workshop will be inclusive to all skill levels and creative interests.

“DIY Facial Recognition Resistance”
Joselyn McDonald; Workshop

Facial detection and recognition systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in our public and private lives. The implications of mass-biometric-surveillance as a tool to undermine privacy are clear. Yet, many lack a fundamental understanding of how these complex and often proprietary (or "black box") systems work. This workshop seeks to support participants to learn the primary strategies for undermining these systems through a DIY hands-on approach. Participants will craft expressive wearable looks that undermine common facial detection algorithm strategies, using household objects, natural elements, or other readily available materials. The workshop's goals are to support a more thorough (and accessible) understanding of how facial detection systems work and to promote conversation about privacy and biometric surveillance.

“Documentary Screening 'You are Your profile'”
Jake Blok, Ger Baron; Art and Media

You are Your profile (YaYp) is a film about considerations in an online connected society. An exploration in what is ‘social projection online’? The focus lies on the importance of being able to control your own person data online. YaYp questions the considerations made towards living in an online connected society and focusses on developments in data gathering, related privacy questions and argues towards recognising the importance of dignity in an online connected society. YaYp researches the role of a city within this connected area and looks at stories on a personal level within the city that show positive and negative outcomes related to privacy online. Each human being has the right to live in dignity and with the protection of privacy. YaYp argues that when active online there is a lack of tools to be able to control your own person data, yourself. https://youareyourprofile.org

“Does (Open Code && Open Data) == Trustworthy?”
Yo Yehudi, Grace Annan-Callcott; Discussion - Capped

With so many badly designed computer programs and unethical data re-use over the last few years, "algorithm" has become a dirty word that reflects misuse of data and poorly justified discriminatory machine-based decisions. Opening the code that makes these decisions allows us to inspect what's going on, but does it become any more trustworthy?

Using both written and spoken break-out rooms for maximum inclusivity, we will facilitate discussion on:
- What is required to make code and algorithms trustworthy? Is open code enough?
- Are there quick "trustworthiness" wins for hesitant coders? (or sneaky bad actors?)
- It will also delve into stickier topics: Is badly written (but open source) computer code more or less trustworthy than closed code?
- What's the future you'd like to see, and who needs to do what to get us there?

“Drawing time and attention”
Julia Racsko; Workshop

In this workshop we will break out of the prison of the attention economy, go beyond criticism and set out to create an alternative. To do this we need to challenge the metrics of time spent that got us into this mess and explore drawing as a method to visualise attention.
I will introduce the visual language I developed to note how people attend to or keep away from distractions. Visualising our attention provides a richer understanding of our attentional capacities than time spent. It’s also a fun drawing opportunity for all skill levels.

Takeaways:
- Our attentional capacities are not linear - certain activities increase, others decrease our mental energy
- Moving away from paying attention with seconds or minutes to attending breaks away from the power dynamic of the attention economy and opens up new possibilities for our digital landscape

“Dutch cooking workshop: Learn how to make Stroopwaffles!”
Varinia Kolen; Art and Media

Want to know how to make one of the most famous Dutch sweet treats? Than join this cooking workshop and learn how to make Stroopwaffles (thin waffles held together by a sugar syrup - We know you'll love it!)

See the original recipe here: http://bit.ly/3eBNAwn

“Dutch Cooking workshop: Make some Bitterballen!”
Leen van der Meij, Bob Schuitema, Abel Jeuken; Workshop

In the Netherlands we love our cocktail hour and especially the accompanying snacks. And one in particular will pop up at every Dutch Happy Hour: the Bitterbal! This typical golfball-sized, breaded, deep fried, crispy Dutch treat with a filling of cheese, mushroom, meat or fish ragout is popular with all of us. And since, this year you cannot come to the Dutch Bitterbal, we will bring the Bitterbal to you.

Join our friends from Funk Glide for this fun and delicious workshop and learn how to make Bitterballen yourself.

See the ingredients and equipment needs here: http://bit.ly/3ctP20T

“Dutch & Frisian Common Voice Language Hack”
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Temi Popo; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak. In partnership with HvA in Amsterdam, students will use Dutch and Frisian language data to build inclusive voice technology.

“Economics of the Future of Food”
Daniel Nelson; Discussion - Capped

A look at how the impacts of technology are changing how we grow, transport, and eat food over the next 30 years. We will look at how technology is shaping agriculture and opening up new opportunities to fundamentally change how food systems work, both locally and around the world. How will vertical farming play into the future of food, where are exciting opportunities now? How logistics is changing how people get food, the effects of covid on the supply chain and more

“Election integrity and platform accountability: Global lessons from the 2020 U.S. Elections”
Kaili Lambe, Jon Lloyd, Alan Davidson, Christine Jakobson; Discussion - Capped

The high-profile 2020 U.S. Election invited intense scrutiny on how social media platforms approached disinformation and other election integrity issues. A number of organizations (including Mozilla) investigated platform policies to evaluate what measures were in place, how they were enforced, and how effective they were.

What can we learn from these unprecedented interventions by platforms, ranging from labeling to ad bans to de-platforming a head of state? Will this level of attention to election integrity by platforms continue for upcoming elections globally? This session will be an opportunity to hear from researchers who investigated platforms’ policies in the U.S. and to share concerns, ideas, and learnings in order to hold these platforms to account.

“Emergent Session 1”
Zannah Marsh, Allen Gunn; Workshop

Got an idea, an issue, or a challenge you want to explore with others in the MozFest Community? Bring it to this Emergent Session!

Emergent Sessions provide a collaborative space for participants to co-create working, hacking, or discussion sessions on the fly. At the beginning of an Emergent Session, participants rapidly generate a list of breakout session topics for collaboration on discussion. Then participants join the breakout group assigned to the topic of their choice, and spend the session working towards specific objectives or sharing insights on a topic or ide

“Emergent Session 2”
Zannah Marsh, Allen Gunn; Workshop

Got an idea, an issue, or a challenge you want to explore with others in the MozFest Community? Bring it to this Emergent Session!

“Emergent Session 3”
Zannah Marsh, Allen Gunn; Workshop

Got an idea, an issue, or a challenge you want to explore with others in the MozFest Community? Bring it to this Emergent Session!

We humbly request no pitches or presentations! Emergent Sessions are meant to foster dialogue and co-creation, and we welcome all for whom those goals resonate. Look for emergent sessions in this time block across other festival days.

“Emergent Session 4”
Zannah Marsh, Allen Gunn; Workshop

Got an idea, an issue, or a challenge you want to explore with others in the MozFest Community? Bring it to this Emergent Session!

“Emergent Session 5”
Zannah Marsh, Allen Gunn; Workshop

Got an idea, an issue, or a challenge you want to explore with others in the MozFest Community? Bring it to this Emergent Session!

“Emergent Session 6”
Zannah Marsh, Allen Gunn; Workshop

Got an idea, an issue, or a challenge you want to explore with others in the MozFest Community? Bring it to this Emergent Session!

“Emma - diary of a dyslexic”
Emma Jones; Art and Media

Using my animation skills to create a visual insight into my dyslexic mind.

“Ensuring Users Have A Voice: Providing Feedback to Open Source Tools”
Ashley Fowler, Raashi Saxena, Jean F. Queralt, Nancy Reyes; Workshop

Any tool, no matter how secure, leaves users vulnerable if it is difficult to use. Many of the most popular and critical open source security tools are maintained by small tool teams with limited knowledge of the needs of at-risk users. Internews believes that any user, including those who are often marginalized or forgotten, should be able to communicate feedback easily and safely to developers. We worked with partners from around the globe to develop the UX Feedback Collection Guidebook, a guide for collecting and sharing user feedback. This session will introduce human-centered design and equip attendees with the basic skills needed to gather feedback, prioritize recommendations, and communicate with developers. This session is open to anyone, regardless of skill-level or technical capacity and is aimed at allowing all users to have a voice in the design and development of the tools they use.

“ENTER our parallel universe & join our Space Tiki Bar – a fusion of art and tech.”
Marcus Morba, Ronit Wolf; Discussion - Capped

The interdisciplinary Munich Science & Fiction Festival - art and science is a festival series and platform for future caretakers, scientists, artists, utopians and aliens based within the biggest technical museum in the world – The Deutsches Museum. THE warp engine of our festivals are the homemade shows, workshops, music-creations, film programs, speaker-sessions and slams. Knowledge and creativity can be shared in a load of incarnations so we develop fusions of art/sci-fi and science in radical new formats. www.muc-sf-festival.com

We invite you for a session to our Mozilla Hubs Space Tiki Bar to discuss our experiences and challenges with hybrid events, preparing for the unknown and how our festival attracts and connects many different species from various cultures and planets.

“Establishing Digital Third Places in a Person-Centric Local Web”
Joe LeBlanc; Workshop

The current World Wide Web is a collection of corporate-centric platforms where people are incentivized to generate and post attention-seeking content. Trust is low, misinformation is prevalent, and the volume is overwhelming. What if we built a high-trust, low-noise, person-centric, Local Web? Let's take a look at how we could build a Local Web of high-trust digital "third places" to serve friends, family, neighbors, and local organizations. We will discuss the values that a Local Web should have and (time permitting) also connect to an example server using standard web browsers.

“Ethan Camilleri- the journey of the boy and the book”
Ethan Camilleri; Art and Media

A video with animation explaining my journey as a neurodiverse writer and illustrator and how I am able to fulfill my ambitions through my art

“Ethically Using AI to Watch TV”
Daniel Schultz; Discussion - Capped

This session will be a discussion about the challenges of using new (and sometimes messy) algorithms to generate novel analysis that might shape opinions and understandings of power. When is it OK to track a face? Is it acceptable to analyze faces in the name of monitoring coverage? What if the algorithms are flawed? At what point does a highlight reel become misinformation? How much error should we tolerate?

We will begin with a very brief presentation (<5m) to set the stage / context.
The majority of the session will be a group discussion of specific ethical design challenges -- e.g. "You would like to understand whether women are given appropriate air time on your local news station, but gender identification algorithms are more likely to misgender women of color" -- participants would be asked to think through / design ethical boundaries together.

“Experiencing neurodiverse phenomenology (ENP): An autism case study”
Maria Blancas, Héctor López Carral; Discussion - Capped

In order to promote awareness about neurodiversity among the neurotypical population, we have developed, together with BBC and Atos, "Experiencing neurodiverse phenomenology (ENP): An autism case study" an interactive virtual reality simulation to experience the oversensory stimulation that an individual with autism may experience in a natural environment. With ENP, users experience a first-person perspective in a classroom where a teacher is presenting a lecture while he/she is confronted with sensory distortions which are commonly experienced by persons with autism. ENP includes a virtual reality headset with motion tracking, two wireless controllers for interaction, and a wristband for physiological data acquisition to create a closed feedback loop. We use this information to modulate the intensity of auditory and visual stimuli simulating a vicious cycle in which increased arousal translates into increased oversensory stimulation.
In this session, we will present the project behind the development of this experience.

“Exploring Coding Stitching Culture.”
Margaret Low, Joek van Montfort, Cynthia Solomon, Andrea Mayr-Stalder, Susan G Ettenhem, Richard Millwood, Susan Klimczak, Simon Mong, Sunita Vatuk; Workshop

Many cultures have distinctive textile crafts, and how textiles are decorated often celebrates the culture of their creator. Participants have the opportunity to create designs through coding, expressing their own cultural heritage, in a medium that can be stitched by a digital embroidery machine, and to exhibit them in a Mozfest gallery. Turtlestitch is freely available software that enables the generation and stitching of patterns using a digital embroidery machine, giving programmatic control of the machine.

The session starts with a brief round robin presentation highlighting projects celebrating coding stitching culture around the world. Participants can then join one of several workshop groups, or explore existing projects and meet their creators. Tutorial groups are led by individuals from home or workshops. Participants are encouraged to create their own design and add them to the Mozfest gallery, a selection of these designs will be stitched live during workshops

“Exploring Gender Bias in Word Embeddings: Towards an intuitive technical understanding of bias in machine learning systems”
Shlomi Hod; Workshop

In this 90 minutes workshop, we will explore bias in word embeddings - a widespread building block of many machine learning models that work with human languages. Word embeddings have an easy-to-explain representation that allows an intuitive understanding of this building block and its potential biases. They will serve as a case-study to the general issue of bias in machine learning.
Through the exploration, we will raise practical, methodological and philosophical questions about the ethics of AI. The workshop is designed to be adaptive to a diverse audience: from without any background in machine learning or programming to data science practitioners - no technical background is required! The workshop is hands-on and interactive, and will use the same tools that data scientists are using.

https://learn.responsibly.ai/word-embedding/

“Exploring Internet censorship through OONI data”
Arturo Filastò, Sarath; Workshop

OONI, or the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012. Through our free and open source apps, called OONI Probe, hundreds of thousands of users in almost every country around the world have contributed millions of network measurements, shedding light on cases of Internet censorship worldwide.

In 2018, the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program funded the development of OONI Explorer, a web based platform that enables you to explore and download OONI data. Now, OONI measurements collected from around the world are published on OONI Explorer in real-time, enabling the internet freedom community to track censorship events in real-time.

Through this workshop, participants will learn how to use OONI Explorer to investigate and discover evidence of Internet censorship worldwide.

“Exploring Internet Futures: What are alternative economic models for a better Internet”
Janice Wait, Shayna Robinson, Chris Lawrence, Briana Marbury; Discussion - Capped

The interactions that create the internet economy shape the way we use the web and what we believe is possible online.

We know the current economic ecosystem of the internet is unhealthy, potentially harmful, and unsustainable as well. Current business models are contributing to the centralization of power, fueling surveillance, and perpetuating inequalities in participation. A lot of people are already focused on how to make what we currently have ‘less bad.’ That’s important work, but we also need space to begin to imagine what else is possible. That’s what this session is about.

This session will be a discussion focused on centering values, questioning power, and imagining something different. Together, we’ll explore what a good economy of the web would look like. We’ll begin to name the principles it would be based on. We’ll share examples of new models and approaches.

“Exploring sketchnoting as a way of communicating ideas around neurodiversity”
Sara Peeters; Art and Media

Sketchnotes combine symbolic illustrations with text in a form of visual communication.
In this session we will explore how we can use them to communicate about neurodiversity.
You can learn the basic skills of sketchnoting using this pdf-tutorial:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JbYyL61AiEqhf-N2SkNtxCbE8vdgWkL5/view?usp=sharing

Once you get the basics, try to draw something related to neurodiversity:
* A poster on a neurodiversity topic
* A cartoon about an everyday life situation
* What I want people to know about me
* A chapter of a book about neurodiversity
* Takeaways of one of the neurodiversity space sessions
* ...

I am available for all your questions on Slack and Twitter.

“Exploring the digital world through the traditional dance form of India.(Bharatanatyam)”
Reshma K; Workshop

Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form originating in Tamil Nadu, India. It consists of movements inspired from the sculptures found from history accompanied by classical music. It is a composition of science and art ties up with three elements: sentiments, melody and rhythm. The techniques are complex and require high skills to master them. It consists of 64 principles of coordinated hand, feet, face and body movements. The dancer has to express through movements the moods of passion, heroic sentiments, fear, anger, hatred, tenderness, laughter, amazement and peace. Several years ago this art was used in the form of communication through our actions. Today we use this art form to educate the benefits of Bharatanatyam through our actions and spread digitally. We will have an interactive session along with dance performance and I will explain theoretically about the performance and the technology aspect to further this traditional art.

“Facework”
Kyle McDonald; Art and Media

Facework (2020) is a game that imagines a world where face analysis is key to the latest gig economy app. As a Faceworker, the player is given an opportunity to interrogate in real time how computer vision and machine learning tools work — to playfully grow an intuition for what it means to see like a machine, and to understand how machines can fail.

Credits
Artist: Kyle McDonald
Game design and writing: Greg Borenstein
Visual design: Fei Liu
Developers: Evelyn Masso, Sarah Port
Created with support from Mozilla Foundation.

This session is in partnership with DocLabs

“Facilitator Coaching Office Hours”
Chad Sansing, Dirk Slater; Workshop

Join Dirk Slater and Chad Sansing for last-minute Facilitator coaching appointments and debriefs on your sessions at MozFest 2021! These office hours are available as an extra support for MozFest Facilitators; they are not general sessions on facilitation.

“Facilitator Coaching Office Hours”
Chad Sansing, Dirk Slater; Workshop

“Feeding 2 Birds with One Scone: How to Achieve Diversity & Sustainability for Open Source Software Teams”
Gina Helfrich, Ph.D., Natalie Cadranel, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki, Viktoriia Savchuk, Elric Wamugu; Discussion - Capped

In this session, experts from at-risk communities and open source software (OSS) teams who maintain security and privacy tools will share their experiences of working together for 3-6 months through Internews’ BASICS program. Experts from at-risk communities were hired to help meet key sustainability needs of widely used OSS security & privacy tools. Our speaker panel is made up of both experts from at-risk communities and maintainers of OSS privacy & security tools:
Natalie Cadranel (maintainter of Save by OpenArchive)
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki (maintainer of Qubes OS)
Viktoriia Savchuk (expert consultant working with Save, Tella, and Tahoe-LAFS)
Eric Wamugu (expert consultant working with Qubes OS)
Moderator: Gina Helfrich (Program Officer, Internews)

“Fellowships & Awards Evaluation Community Workshop”
Lindsey Dodson, Georgia Bullen, Susan Kennedy, Katie Wilson, Hanan Elmasu, Amy Schapiro Raikar; Discussion - Capped

Starting in November 2020, Mozilla Foundation started an evaluation of the Fellowships and Awards programs with the support of Simply Secure. The evaluation seeks to understand the program’s strengths and challenges with the goal of improving their efficacy and impact. Community input and guidance is critical to this process, and so as part of the evaluation, we engaged past participants in the programs, funders, host organizations, community members and other stakeholders. At MozFest, we are excited to share some preliminary findings with the community and get feedback as we finalize outputs to share publicly. Please come and share your thoughts, reactions and ideas.

“Feminist AI: A Regional Snapshot”
Renata Avila, Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Soraj Hongladarom, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro, Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Raya Sharbain; Discussion - Capped

This session will build on the current work from the <A+> Alliance for inclusive algorithms and its partners across regions, updating on the current developments on innovation, policy, and pilots in Asia, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Andean Region and MENA.

This is a networking session from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Register here to attend: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“Feminist Futures”
Katrin Fritsch, Helene von Schwichow; Workshop

The internet can be a shitty space: unwanted dick pics, digital colonialism or data binaries cause new structures of social inequalities. How can we dismantle these structures and fight for social change? How can we re-imagine them through intersectional feminist practice?
Feminist Futures is a participatory art project and a workshop format that aims to diversify and open up the narrative of the future of the internet. By imagining and writing feminist science fiction stories (such as comics, poems, or short stories) of the internet in 2030, we retell the future of the internet and narrate the futures we actually want to live in. Fiction, in this context, becomes a cultural communal practice that enables political action by re-writing and co-creating feminist futures.

“Fighting shallowfakes globally without compromising critical voices”
Sam Gregory, Gabi Ivens; Discussion - Capped

Stories, live, memes, photos videos dominate our social. And shallowfaked images and videos with false captions or simple edits frequently deceive us. Now proposals for more robust ways to track whether images, video and audio have been manipulated, mis-contextualized or edited, and when and by who are starting to proliferate -- including Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative and incipient discussions about using reverse video search, similarity search and perceptual hashing to better track content provenance or known manipulated media. However, global civil society needs to be more centered in the discussion around how we track and understand real and faked, and how those should relate to free expression, privacy and access to technology. Using key dilemmas based in WITNESS' experiences engaging on these technologies/initiatives as an interactive framework for discussion we'll talk key questions to address early, how this is happening to-date and what happens going forward.

“Find our Errors”
Nikolaos Nerantzis, Spyros Meletiadis; Workshop

Promoting programming & computational thinking in children is a crucial skill, that should ASAP be fostered & developed. Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) is a fun and useful tool, in order to do so. A numerous of examples and application have been developed in Scratch for and from primary students (https://scratch.mit.edu/users/meletiadis/), but what if ...there is an error and ...nothing is working?!
"Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is everything works but no one knows why. In our laboratory theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why."
Come and help us! Find our errors!

“Firefox Eco-Mode and 1000 More Ideas for a Sustainable Internet”
Michelle Thorne, Fieke; Workshop

Mozilla recently released its Greenhouse Gas emissions baseline, which shows 98% of Mozilla’s emissions come from the use of its digital products. This report is an important step in quantifying the energy consumption of our digital infrastructure. Last Mozfest we brainstormed 1000 ideas for a sustainable internet. Now we want to build on our new metrics and unpack Mozilla’s GHG emissions baseline. We will also discuss other recent initiatives towards a sustainable internet: Mozilla’s Web Vision 2025, Branch magazine and the policy workshop on trustworthy AI and the climate crisis. Together we will generate 1000 more ideas for a more sustainable internet and conclude with reflections on how to put these ideas into action in 2021.

“FOIA as an API”
Matt Kiefer, Michael Morisy; Discussion - Capped

FOIA is an API. We can treat the Freedom of Information Act (and its localized equivalents) as a protocol for requesting and receiving data from the government. This approach helps journalists and researchers collect high levels of detail from public agencies across geographies and over time. It's how we scaled, for example, a project to collect medical examiner records from dozens of counties across America in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. During this conversation, we'll talk about techniques for automating and scaling public records requests and how we can go beyond acquisition and start automating the processing and analysis of data we collect. This is a conversation and a space for sharing ideas to support movements toward opening up public data.

“Forgotten Narratives in AI: Africa’s journey to AI future”
Damian Eke, George Ogoh; Discussion - Capped

As the development, adoption and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are shaped by cultural values, beliefs and moral perceptions, narratives from the Global North continue to be dominant in the global AI discourse. Africa’s diverse philosophical, religious, political and linguistic traditions that can capture alternative narratives of what AI can and should be are almost forgotten. This discussion session will focus on Africa’s forgotten AI narratives for effective understanding of AI and critical engagement with it. We hope to share insights on what can shape responsible AI practices in Africa; highlighting the implications of African narratives on how AI can be aligned to achieve relevant SDGs in Africa.

“Friendly Advice”
Jonas Lund; Art and Media

Friendly Advice is a new online performative artwork by Jonas Lund, in which he invites anyone to book his time for whatever purpose they chose* in the format of a video chat.

The artist will be your life-coach, remote friend, hang out with you while you cook, watch you browse social media, the last person missing for your group game, assist you with your conceptual art problems, help you decide what to eat, remote watch your kids, solve your programming problems, play a song, or do absolutely nothing with you.

The sessions are watched by a range of performance measuring algorithms and AI’s’ that analyse Jonas' behaviour in real-time and track his performance, nudges him to be his best self, and suggest things to say, or topics to discuss.

You'll need to book an hour session with your artist- slots available from the 8th -19th March

Booking Code: MOZFEST2021

“From ‘Human Centered Design’ to ‘Humanity Centered Design’: Towards an AI design methodology for the collective/public good”
Hans de Zwart, Pascal Wiggers; Workshop

This workshop allows participants to explore (new) design methodologies for developing ethically sound AI that takes account of its societal context. Participants will work in small teams. Each team looks at two concrete case studies based on real life AI projects. For each project the teams will explore the Human Centered Design assumptions behind the project, how these assumptions focus on the individual user and what problems might come from that focus, and how a more collective perspective (i.e., seeing users as members of society) could have led to different outcomes. The teams will then connect with another team to see if they can come up with a set of changes that we need to make to our standard design methodology. These changes come in the form of: “Rather than ..X.. we will now do ..Y..”.

This workshop used two worksheets (part 1 and part 2) and let to these results.

“From Nostalgia to Neostalgia: Imagining Healing Visions of Computing”
Jackie Liu; Workshop

Many people are fondly nostalgic about the technologies of their pasts, but what happens when we shift from nostalgia (longing for the past) to neostalgia (longing for what could have been)? What can we learn and create—especially while working towards equitable futures?

In this hands-on, speculative design workshop, participants will first reflect on their early experiences with technology through a visualization exercise. They will be encouraged to interrogate the social values—both beneficial and harmful—that exist within personally formative computing technologies.

Next, participants will brainstorm alternate-reality computing artifacts from a personal, healing lens, that instead embody values they wish they could have seen—both socially and technologically.

After sketching or free-writing about their speculative artifact, participants will opt-in to share them within small breakout groups, mentioning what experiences and values inspired them. Finally, the group will return for a reflective discussion.

“Funders Circle: Greening the Internet and Climate Justice”
Michelle Thorne, Fieke; Discussion - Capped

This session is designed for funders who interested in the intersection of digital rights, internet health, climate change and environmental justice. We will discuss each other's analysis of the issues, approaches and promising areas of work. We will also focus on upskilling one another and growing a more coherent and effective funding strategies towards a sustainable and just internet for all.

These discussions build on a workshop conducted around bridging digital rights and environmental groups in Europe, an analysis on how to influence European funding and legislative processes, and interviews with funders in this emerging field.

“Fuzzy, Intimate and Weird: Visualising Ecological Data in Context”
Jo Kroese; Workshop

Ecological data is usually abstracted away from the physical world for visualisation. This reinforces our detached relationship to the environment and removes the data from its original context: fuzzy, intimate and weird. This workshop will propose and collaboratively explore an aesthetic and pathway for ecological data visualisation that is rooted in the messy physical world.

We will discuss alternative ways to visualise datasets such as . For example, maybe to visualise the area of Amazon burnt last year, we can burn patches of grass with a magnifying glass. Maybe instead of an x-y graph of predicted sea rise, we can make films of ourselves doing tasks in different heights of water: seeing how hard it is to drink tea with water up to our ankle, to drink tea with water up to our neck.

“Gallery of the best (and the worst!) of 2020 internet health”
Laura Vidal; Art and Media

This Miro room will present some of our favorite stories from the Internet Health Report and its special feature with over 100 internet experts telling us about the healthiest and unhealthiest moments of 2020. You will be able to explore fascinating stories from around the world, and even to listen to our internet storytellers tell you more about the stories they shared with us and why they matter.

And we want attendees’ stories, too. Type them, call them in, draw them (just remember to link them!).

“Game Design for NeuroDiversity”
Katie Gatto; Workshop

In this session participants will hear a brief talk on best game design practices and strategies for neurodiverse players.

After that, the participants will be broken up into groups to examine existing video games and make suggestions on how those techniques might be applied to the games to share with the group.

“Game Making at Home - A Project Based Approach”
Mick Chesterman, Barney Potts; Workshop

This session will give you a hands on start to making your own online video game and learning coding at the same time. The workshop will be a 60 minute stepping stone which you can use to complete your own platform game in your own time.

We will use two tools in this workshop to make our games. Firstly the code playground glitch.com (using the javascript tool phaser). Secondly arcade.makecode.com a block based approach to making games with some game mechanics blocks baked in.

Whatever tool you use - the principle is the same. Jump in - remix a game make it your own, then add different game design patterns. In the process we develop our own knowledge of coding concepts and completing a design project.

Free materials will be available for you to complete the game projectin your own time with your family or with a coding club.

“Getting Started with Open Source ( Git and Github )”
Pulkit Singh; Skill Share

In this workshop you will learn how to get started with open-source

Agenda:-
1. What is Open Source ?
2. What is Git ?
3. How to get started with Git ?
4. What is Github ?
5. benefits of GitHub.
6. Git VS GitHub
7. What is GitHub Student Developer pack ?
8. How to get GitHub Student Developer pack ?

Pre-requests:-
• git Installed
• GitHub Account
• Your favorite code editor

“Getting to know micro:bit v2”
Kerry Kidd; Skill Share

Taking the participants through what the micro:bit is and the differences between v1 and v2. Then dig into coding the new functions of the v2 micro:bit.

“Girmit: Defining Moments - DIY Multi-dimensional Motion Artainment Experience”
James Edward Marks, Ajay Chhabra, Louise Green; Discussion - Capped

Girmit - Be Careful What You Sign Up For?

Girmit, a corruption of the word agreement, is a global story of progress and change, with its routes in London. We exist in an age of agreements, with consent boxes on every portal and screen imaginable, our data being harvested like sugarcane. Over 150 years ago a sophisticated system of agreements followed the abolition of slavery. 2021 marks the centenary of the abolition of Girmit, also known as indentured labour. In an age of isolation, when oral histories become our heirlooms, Girmit approaches a complex history with empathy and sensitivity.
This session will bring together a range of international voices; artists, academics, educators and technologists to talk broadly about the way in which agreements govern our lives. Followed by the world premiere of the Girmit 360 Immersive Experience on youtube.

“Google Earth Storytelling”
Natasha Mijares; Workshop

Participants will be introduced to 826CHI’s Google Earth Project, Chaos Comes Naturally. They will engage in a writing activity and then get into small groups to create their own sound and/or video project to be mapped onto Google Earth. Participants will engage with the idea of storytelling as it pertains to lived and imagined places.

“Governing the Open Source Commons: guiding principles for sustainable and equitable open source communities”
Greg Bloom, Georg Link, Javier Canovas, Richard Littauer; Workshop

Open source culture is characterized by a DIY ethic of “do-ocracy:” things happen when self-directed people feel motivated to make them happen in accordance with their time and talents. However, open source communities also seem to struggle with common challenges of sustainability and decision-making; even successful open source projects face serious crises of maintenance and resource allocation that may be difficult to manage under either a “benevolent dictator for life” or ‘flat’ structurelessness. Fortunately, there are known methods of “institutional design” that can aid communities in developing systems of decision-making and accountability – which is to say, governance. In this session, members of the SustainOSS network will introduce the “Open Source Governance Guide,” modeled on Elinor Ostrom’s principles of Governing the Commons. We will collaboratively analyze this governance framework and develop “Questions to Ask Frequently” that can support communities in practicing successful governance.

“Grant for the Web Project Gallery”
Erika Drushka; Art and Media

Visit the Web Monetization community space to learn how technologists and content creators around the world are creating better business models for the web using open standards. Many of these projects are grantees of Grant for the Web, a program funded and led by Coil, working in collaboration with founding collaborators Mozilla and Creative Commons. If you have Web Monetization enabled in your browser, you can stream micropayments to these creators as you engage with their projects.

“Growth Mindset is a shift of Perspective.”
Hari Srinivasan; Discussion - Capped

This session will focus on the themes of nuerodiversity, advocacy, inclusion and belonging; discussing a growth mindset towards all profiles in autism and the use of tech/AI and ethics around it. The session will invite audience participation at each junction of the topics discussed.

“Hackathon at the Youth Zone”
Luca Damasco; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

An introduction to the Youth Zone Hackathon. Come by and learn about the theme, how to submit, and some Hackathon specific criteria.

“Hands Up!”
Varinia Kolen; Art and Media

With nothing more than his bare hands and wooden eyes, Lejo has created a unique, fresh style of puppet theater. “Hands up!” is a lively, wordless performance with lots of music.

“Haul Earth Ledger: Co-Speculations on Black Friday”
Pedro Gil Farias, Hugo; Art and Media

"As we near March 8th 2081, we welcome you to the exhibit of the 8th Edition of the Haul Earth Ledger! This edition will showcase contributions from creatives all around the world! You will be able to enter one of the Black Friday Foundries (BFF) where every year, leading up to Black Friday celebrations , people get together to sift through raw materials left behind by now-obsolete consumer brands and create their own inventions!"

For this exhibition we want to transport visitors to 2081 and showcase what came out of a co-creative session run this past November on imagining alternative narratives for consumer holidays like Black Friday. The artefacts on exhibit will be the result of past participants' inventions. The visitors of the exhibition will be immersed into this scenario, experience the Black Friday Foundry creations, the process that led to them and contribute with their own inventions!

“Having uncomfortable conversations”
Fieke; Discussion - Capped

Issues of bias, discrimination, and power asymmetries between the silicon valley and the next billion have become more prominent on the technology agenda. While some argue biased technologies are oversights by those who design them, accidental mistakes which can be mitigated by increasing awareness, auditing for bias and diversifying the technology workforce.

Whilst such efforts are important, they will not solve the systematic oppression of black, brown and marginalized communities. Racial discrimination is entrenched in society, enduring as a feature of the social fabric invisible to the tech community where at times we ‘can’t put our finger on it’.

In this session we propose for uncomfortable conversations to disrupt the uncomfortable silences of the discriminatory effects of tech. We propose an open discussion between the tech and the anti-discrimination communities as a primary strategy to building collaborative resistance against the intrinsic data harm potentially hardwired into the tech

“Help me teach cultural diversity to future tech creators”
Laura Vidal, Violeta Camarasa; Discussion - Capped

Help us imagine and put together new ways to open cultural horizons for future technology creators! Keeping in mind how cultural diversity (and lack thereof) can influence tech, we will discuss how education can help expanding the view technology can have of humans.

We will also share some of the experiences, strategies and lesson plans we've created to teach cultural diversity through technology creation around the world. We'll share a bit of what we feel we're lacking and what we dream of doing.

This session will also be an opportunity to create a library of resources that can be fed and used by educators all around the internet. If you have an idea, a video, know of a cool project, want to share links or even a couple of stories, join us!

“Help us create a MozFest Zine Library!”
Beth Duckles, Sarah Mirk; Workshop

This workshop will be a chance for participants to learn how to make zines and to contribute to a MozFest Zine Library which we will be building over the course of the festival. In this interactive session we will create our own zines, see examples of zines from around the world and talk about how we can share them with each other.

Maybe you’d like to teach a trick in Fortnite? Or explain which is the best Pokemon? Maybe you want to respond to something you’ve heard at MozFest? Or draw pictures to entertain your dog? Help us create a library of MozFest zines! Join us!

See links for slide presentation. This material is hosted on a third party site.

“Higher Ed Responsibility: Using and Supporting OS at Colleges & Universities”
Chris Coleman, Stephanie Lieggi; Discussion - Capped

Open to educators and OS community members, this will be a constructive conversation about the role of higher education in OS communities and best practices for sustainable future relationships. We will look at existing OS efforts in academia, and explore how to enable wider collaboration. The conversation will be facilitated by the Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA) and the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS).

Questions include:
How are higher education institutions engaging with OS ideas, and tools?
What is their role currently and what could/should it be?
How is academia perceived by the OS community? What barriers impact collaboration?
Can educational institutions become more central to open source sustainability?
What needs to change in the ways we define research to encourage contribution to OS projects?
How do we better define the process of educational institutions as part of the pipeline of OS users and contributors?

“How can we make organisations more neuroinclusive?”
Aidan Healy; Discussion - Capped

In the last ten years, we have seen increasing expectations for organisations to report on, act on, and advocate for neurodiverse individuals in their workplaces.

Many organisations want to ‘get it right’ and to unlock the unique strengths of neurodiverse talent. But they are not sure where to get started or invest significant resources with mediocre results. So, what does good practise look like?

In this session, we are joined by neurodiversity specialists Aidan Healy, CEO of Lexxic and Antony Ruck, Vice-Chair of the British Assistive Technology Association.

Through presentation, discussion and interaction with participants, we will cover;

• The neurodiversity paradigm

•How organisations can create more inclusive environments and empower neurodiverse individuals

• Good practice examples of inclusive technology

• Case studies of organisations

• Our own experiences of what works and what does not

“How development teams can reduce carbon emissions with Green Cloud Optimization”
Dan Lewis-Toakley, Danielle Erickson; Skill Share

This skill share will provide participants with a toolkit of resources to educate participants across a spectrum of awareness, skills/abilities and interest areas on: The carbon footprint of tech, data-centers and cloud; how to evaluate cloud providers on their environmental sustainability; choices development teams can make throughout the development cycle to minimize their cloud carbon footprint, and how to use tools to measure your cloud energy and carbon footprint emissions.

“How do you know? Creating a space for public discussions of information literacy and non-neutrality in data”
Christie Bahlai, Rebecca Catto, Bridget K. Mulvey; Workshop

It seems ironic that in an era of big data, truth is even more elusive. To make better choices about how to manage our lives, work, and environment, we need to use information to guide us. But even with great data, humans don’t always make great choices- even our most rational examinations of the numbers are fundamentally human, shaped by culture, prior experience, and our biases.

We are creating a podcast to create a dialogue around the non-neutrality of data. These discussions rarely happen when people learn quantitative skills, creating a system that reinforces inequity and prioritizes established ways-of-knowing.

At this workshop, we will discuss these ideas with participants and record their perspectives, which will be woven into podcast episodes to help tell the human story of data. Participants should come ready to share ideas about how they turn data into knowledge in their work.

“How I hacked Tesla Autopilot?”
Pratik Parmar; Skill Share

We’re living in a time where AI is entering into almost every aspect of our lives. Whether it is Self-driving cars or automated surveillance or even detecting cancer tumors But is this technology really mature enough that we can put our lives in the hands of algorithms?

“How public code can transform the digital future of cities: a visionary discussion”
Laura Scheske, Ben Cerveny, Ger Baron; Discussion - Capped

Why should government digital transformation be open? How does open source software help power this? What are cities doing to ensure that digitally implemented policies are democratic, transparent, and just? These questions will be discussed in this interactive discussion with Ben Cerveny (President & co-founder, Foundation for Public Code) and Ger Baron (Chief Technology Officer, City of Amsterdam). The session explores the potential of public code in revolutionizing digital government, and why collaboration and openness are key in this process. Public code is both, computer source code (software & algorithms), and public policy executed in a public context, by humans or machines. It is explicitly distinct from regular software because it operates under fundamentally different circumstances and expectations. Ger & Ben will discuss innovative examples from Amsterdam’s digital agenda, and how the Foundation for Public Code helps public organizations collectively develop and maintain software. Laura Scheske is the session facilitator.

“How To Get A Project Unstuck”
Sumana Harihareswara; Discussion - Capped

When an open source project's gotten stuck, how do you get it unstuck? Especially if you aren't already one of its maintainers? Can someone experienced in open source, but not this project, catalyze and revive it or publish a delayed release?

I'll briefly share case studies, principles, and gotchas. Then I'll run a short, structured round of introductions, and ask:

What kinds of "stuckness" have you seen in FLOSS projects?
What circumstances make it easier or harder for projects to get unstuck?
Do you know a stuck project? What support would you need to start getting it unstuck?

We'll end by forming optional accountability pairs and making commitments for post-MozFest followups.

Participants will get the most out of this session if they have 6+ months of hobbyist or work experience participating in an free and open source software project. All ages/educational backgrounds welcome.

Followup post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2021/03/12/1

“How to make unethical AI”
Tijmen Schep, Tom Simonite; Discussion - Capped

There are a lot of high-level and often abstract AI guidelines being created, which talk about "human flourishing" and "ethics should be considered from the start". But what does this mean in the real world? In this session we take a 'bottom up' approach, and look at the real-world ethical conundrums that creators run into.

To start us of we'll dive into the development of a BMI prediction algorithm that was created for “How Normal Am I?”, an interactive documentary about the limitations of face recognition technology, created by artist Tijmen Schep.

He is joined by by Tom Simonite, a senior writer with WIRED in San Francisco, who has covered the tech industry’s soaring AI ambitions and the depths of its ethical dilemmas.

Session participants are encouraged to share conundrums they have wrestled with. Try out HowNormalAmI.eu before you join this session.

“How to MozFest- an Open Book for the Internet Health Movement”
Sarah Allen, Kristina Gorr; Art and Media

In 2019 as the first decade of MozFest came to an end, we felt it is important to share our story, how we design MozFest and the evolution of the festival. As we enter a new decade, we seek to take these learnings forward to help us grow, mature, and remain relevant for the next ten years as a festival and as part of the internet health movement.

With over 180 contributions, this book is laid out to help you see the event from the perspective of those who participate in its design, build, and execution.

“🏦 How To Rob A Bank”
Daniel Devine, Craig Steele; Skill Share

In order to stop a cyber criminal, it can help to think like one. Your challenge is to break into Strathclyde Bank. This activity gives learners the experience of working as an ethical hacker.

Learners will find a way to remotely connect and log into the Strathclyde Bank website using stolen customer details and transfer the money to our own secret bank account.

Working together you’ll “steal” money from the bank. A massive on-screen totaliser counts up how much money participants have managed to steal over the course of MozFest.

No technical knowledge is needed, just a modern web browser.

“🔎 How To Solve A Murder”
Daniel Devine, Craig Steele; Skill Share

A murder has taken place in Bishopbriggs, Scotland. Become a digital detective and see how you can use your digital skills to solve the crime.

Start the investigation by collecting, identifying and validating the digital evidence. Then, sift through what you’ve collected, join the dots, and see if you catch the criminal.

This digital skills activity gives learners the experience of working as a Digital Forensic Specialist.

No technical knowledge is needed, just a modern web browser.

“How to Use AI for Your Art Responsibly”
Lia Coleman, Emily Saltz, Claire Leibowicz; Discussion - Capped

Tools for using machine learning to generate synthetic media are becoming more and more accessible. How are coordinated groups using synthetically-generated media and other media manipulation tactics to mislead and cause harm in society? How are researchers and digital platforms attempting to detect these media? And finally, how can we use AI technology responsibly for art and activism?

This will be an interactive discussion, in which we'll explore case studies of synthetically-generated media in art, activism, industry, and society together. We'll highlight and discuss the ways in which AI can be used for good or bad, and all of the nuances in between-- for example, the ways in which a seemingly-harmless, benevolent use case can be repurposed by bad actors. Finally, we'll talk about best practices when using AI, especially for individual AI practitioners training their own networks.

“How you can influence your government’s technology choices”
Elena Findley-de Regt; Discussion - Capped

Calling all civic hackers, govtech nerds and activists! The Foundation for Public Code’s mission is “to enable public-purpose software and policy that is open and collaborative”. In practice, we mostly work with government organizations and technology vendors. However, members of the public often ask how they can encourage and help their governments to use open source.

We want to use our visibility in this space for good - we’d love to be able to offer constructive suggestions to private citizens who want to get involved with government technology policy.

We believe the MozFest community will know how - we’d love to hear what you’ve tried, what you’re doing now, and what strategies you recommend. Obviously laws and culture vary, but hopefully we’ll hear tactics and stories that inspire us all.

Link to notes document: https://hackmd.io/@elenafdr/govtech

“Hunting Biased Algorithms: A Dialogues & Debate conversation”
Deborah Raji, Camille Francois; Broadcast Talks

Can bias bounties become as mainstream as bug bounties? A conversation featuring :

Deborah Raji, Mozilla Fellow

Camille Francois, Mozilla Fellow

SHOW NOTES (for further reading):

CRASH website: https://www.ajl.org/avbp
Sasha Costanza-Chock's book: https://design-justice.pubpub.org/
Actionable Auditing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3306618.3314244
Gender Shades: http://gendershades.org/

“I am not an expert...but”
Harriet Kingaby; Discussion - Capped

We don't know everything. Nobody does. Whether you're a Python coder, a campaigner, or a potential AI user, none of us has all of the answers.

But that can be a hard thing to admit, or it can be hard to feel like you can meaningfully contribute to the development and implementation of AI technologies. But this is a trap. We'll need everyone to contribute, challenge and review to mainstream these technologies in a just fashion. In this discussion, we'll interrogate:
What we're worried about/personal stories of how AI is affecting us
The permission we need to give ourselves and each other to get involved
What we can do to support more inclusive discussions

“I CONTAIN MULTITUDES: Exploring Automated Gender Recognition Technology as Violence through Classification”
Emily Denton, Alex Hanna; Workshop

In this Workshop we will discuss automated gender recognition (AGR) technology’s current uses in our daily lives, and highlight the ways in which these systems are particularly difficult for those who do not visibly fall within the gender binary (Male:Female) or who do not identify as either male or female. We will draw on research with transgender and nonbinary individuals as well as our own experiences as trans and nonbinary activists and researchers to make the claim that gender classification is violent -- it cannot be optimized into a positive offering. Participants will be invited to feed photos of themselves into various AGR systems and review outputs with the group, to discuss the feelings the results elicit.

“Identifying Fake News”
Mr L Maxwell; Skill Share

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17gj5QUS_KLmnKCUXbjhaG8ZUDI7jp2Vj/view

This session will examine the impact of fake news on high school students and methods that can be implemented to ensure they have the tools necessary to identify and avoid it.

“Identity theft is not a joke Jim”
Arpan Patel; Discussion - Capped

You suddenly receive a call from your credit card company about your monthly payment. The call startles you because you are pretty sure you are in the clear and there is no payment pending! But to your aghast, the company sends you a mail about your recent transactions and you find that you now own Bitcoins! Sunday afternoon is not the same for you as you are the latest victim of identity theft. This session invites people to share experiences of their past or of someone they know with an attempt to explore how the internet uses their identity and misleads them. A few online activities will be arranged to give the participants a hands-on touch of how AI has the power to save the world from Identity Theft!.

“Imagining and dreaming new ways of working”
Malwine, Naomi, sophie, Éléonore Mayola; Discussion - Capped

Working in tech as an underrepresented and/or marginalized person has left many of us in a state of despair, burnout or disillusion. Some of us continue the fight, but many of us leave. Some tech firms have given us a seat at their table but have not shown actual interest in our wellbeing. They continue to focus on white supremacist/capitalist values damaging employees, customers and nature. Enough is enough right now. It's time to imagine new ways of working together in tech. We do not want a seat at their table. We want our own table. So how does our table look like? How do our seats look like? How can we build collectives and businesses of community and solidarity while providing value to society? This is a creative session to imagine and inspire you to visualize and manifest your purpose in a healthy future of abundance.

“Inclusive Creative Design - Co-create with the IE Research Team an outline for inclusive creative spaces online and in person.”
Gillian, Jack Fitzpatrick, Matthew Burgess, Yasodha Rajadurai; Discussion - Capped

INTRODUCTION (10mins)ALL
Inclusive Environment Research Team and Project
6 Step Creative Process
CO-CREATION VIRTUAL EXERCISE (30mins)BREAKOUT GROUPS
Break into virtual breakout rooms. Each room has a facilitator from the IE research team that guides the attendees through an exercises on the following topics, using online whiteboards:
Topic 1 Pandemic Effect
Discuss the challenges and opportunities and how creative work has changed during the pandemic.
How have you adapted your creative work processes during the pandemic?
Topic 2 Environment
Discuss environments where you feel most creative. How would you curate your creative environment.
Topic 3 Emotion.
What emotional states do you associate with making creative progress?
Topic 4 6 Senses
Understanding our awareness. How are senses affect creativity.
CLOSING (12mins) ALL
Summary from exercise and shared output
Chat Question ALL

“Inclusive Decision Making in Design and Planning”
Gala Korniyenko; Discussion - Capped

I will share the story about the collaboration of designers, architects, and urban planners with adults with autism. The goal of the collaboration is to make the design process inclusive for the neurodiverse population. The design process through the lenses of the neurodiverse population can help us manage the disruptive aspect of urban planning or urban design. One of the reasons that some plans are not executed or good prescription recommendations don't get taken on is because of fear of the unknown change.
The participants will be engaged through the series of discussions that would ask participants to reflect on the Feelings Framework, developed in collaboration with adults with autism. https://www.planning.org/planning/2018/oct/sensoryoverload/

“Inclusive Digital Identity and Self-sovereignty for everyone”
Uchi Uchibeke; Discussion - Capped

The information we put out is controlled by large corporations who want to continue to gather data about people and have gone as far as providing payment-free browsing of their platforms in the developing world. This should change.

This session will showcase alternative models that give control to the users and gives the option to selective share, monitor, and control access to the use of their information.

I will discuss Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Digital ID, an open W3C standard, and focus on how Issuers, Relying parties, or Verifiers and Wallets can benefit by giving control back to the user. We hope to inspire Creators, Business leaders, and Developers to start looking into open-source standards like Verifiable credentials and Interlegder and frameworks like Trustbloc and Web Monetization and the work that Coil and others are doing

“IndiviDUALbooks for The Nordic Library+ Network”
Vladimir Kuparinen; Workshop

Brain storming audience proposals for organizing The Nordic Library+ Network, accessible4all infrastructure for Learning & re-skilling, collaborating with legacy infrastructure of public & academic libraries in Nordic countries.
Presentation, 12 slides, pdf: https://bit.ly/FINDS4MozillaFest

“"Information. What are they looking at?" Documentary Screening”
Theresia Reinhold; Art and Media

“Information” showcases the threats created by the appalling misuse of modern technology in an ideological fight legitimised by the false dichotomy of freedom vs security. It shifts the representational power from discourse dominating white men towards the expertise of women and people of colour. It explores the connection between racism and surveillance, from social, political and historical standpoints.

Featuring:

Aditi Gupta, Dr Arata Takeda, Aral Balkan, Dr Constanze Kurz, Hossein Derakhshan, Jillian C. York, Mathana Stender, Maryant Fernández Pérez, Mishi Choudhary, Prof. Yasmin Jiwani

English & German with Subtitles in both languages

The documentary was realised without official funding, but with the amazing support of lovely people!

“Innovating in India for the next billion users”
Mohamed Nanabhay, Supriya Paul, Vijay Sai Pratap, Samir Patel, Sairee Chaha; Discussion - Capped

Our panel of media and technology innovators from India will explore the opportunities and complexities of building products to serve the next billion users.

A wide-ranging discussion ranging from unique insights from the Indian ecosystem, dealing with multiple languages, and the social and political complexities of serving diverse audiences.

“Investigating Xinjiang’s network of mass internment camps”
Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan; Workshop

A practical workshop exploring the network of internment camps and prisons built across Xinjiang as part of the Chinese government’s campaign against Muslim minorities. Surveillance and heavy restrictions on journalists’ movement have made it difficult to research this issue – we’ll look at the techniques that our team used to find the camp network regardless. We’ll use Google Earth to analyse a small number of camps, developing skills in satellite imagery analysis and looking at the specific architectural and urban characteristics of a series of compounds. Format: introduction to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang and the research to find the camp network followed by a guided workshop session to analyse a series of internment camps.

“Just what are companies' targeted ad and algorithmic systems policies? How much do they disclose?”
Lisa Gutermuth, Veszna Wessenauer; Workshop

The Ranking Digital Rights 2020 Corporate Accountability Index, launching in February 2021, shortly before MozFest, will rank 26 digital platforms and telecommunications companies on their policies affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. For the first time in 2020, RDR added new standards, ranking companies on their use of algorithms and targeted advertising systems. In this session, we’ll convene researchers and digital rights experts around key questions: What do companies say about their targeted advertising and algorithmic systems? How can companies be more transparent about these remarkably opaque systems? Our longitudinal data can help answer these and many related questions. We’ll ask participants to work together to develop advocacy strategies using companies’ very own words--specifically their privacy and AI policies--to hold them accountable to users.

“Karkhana STEAM acitivity”
Samaya khadka; Workshop

Hands-on interactive science is fun. But it is also more than just fun. Research from around the world demonstrates that students learn better, remember more, and do better on exams when taught in hands-on practical ways. Karkhana's research revealed that there are two roadblocks to institutionalizing practical education in South Asia: materials cost too much and teachers are uncomfortable teaching with the material that is available. The visitor will learn concepts related to wheel and axle by exploring a series of questions related to the functioning of a wind turbine. Using material like a paper cup, thread, and hard paper students will make the foo-machine on their own.

“Kongress: highlighting barriers to engagement for Neurodivergent creatives.”
Jon Adams; Workshop

To examine and discuss the findings of a recent commissioned Survey and report on ‘barriers Neurodivergent creatives face in the arts’ and workshop ideas with the wider ’Neurodiversiverse’ for consensus on a way forward to dismantle these barriers to enable Neurodivergent wellbeing and creative fulfillment.

“Konstant: We’ve always been here: 11 things we’d like you to know about Neurodivergent Cultures.’”
Jon Adams; Discussion - Capped

To enlighten, catalyse, and inform the audience of the richness Neurodivergence can bring to society around the differing Neurodivergent cultures by engaging and listening to experiences worldwide.

“Latent Riot: Discussion with the makers - Discussion”
Alexa Steinbrück, Amelie Goldfuß; Art and Media - Discussion

Navigate to the "CreativeAI | Latent Riot " room in the MozFest Spatial Chat to attend this session. Our art work "Latent riot" (https://www.latent-riot.space) deals with the way society thinks and talks about AI: In the public discourse about Artificial Intelligence the narrative of “an AI” that acts according to its own desires and intentions is a common myth. Our artwork shows protest signs generated by Artificial Neural Networks, which is an ironic comment on AI having its own goals and desires to protest.
We will discuss
1. how ascribing agency to AI is wrong according to the technical realities behind these systems
2. how ascribing agency to AI is harmful because it hides human agency
3. what we can do against this trend of ascribing agency to AI in terms of the language we choose. This session is hosted on a third party website.

“Latent Riot (MOVING TARGET COLLECTIVE)”
Alexa Steinbrück, Amelie Goldfuß; Art and Media

Our art work "Latent riot" deals with the way society thinks and talks about AI: In the public discourse about Artificial Intelligence the narrative of “an AI” that acts according to its own desires and intentions is a common myth. Our artwork shows protest signs generated by Artificial Neural Networks, which is an ironic comment on AI having its own goals and desires to protest.

Check the schedule for a related discussion session.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“Later Date”
Lauren Lee McCarty; Art and Media

I’ve been having a series of online chats with people where we make plans for a “later date”, when we are able to go outside again. I’ve been fantasizing about these later dates. Being in the same space as other people. Reaching out and touching. Shared surfaces. Breathing, talking, anything really. It is a performance in two parts.

In the first, we chat and imagine together our first meeting. Where will we go, what will we do, what will we say? This future plan gets saved as a sort of script. One day, when we are allowed out again, they’ll receive a request to meet and we’ll enact this script. This will be part two.

This session is presented in partnership with IDFA DocLab

“Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect”
Hay Kranen; Workshop

Many discussions about AI tend to focus on serious subjects, like algorithmic bias, privacy issues and replacing human labor with machines. This session takes a more lighthearted approach and shows how AI can be used for comedic effect, and uses an audience game that explains how AI works on a basic level. This workshop will consist of two parts: first the speaker will showcase examples of funny AI, and after that we’ll do a participatory exercise where all attendees will form a Markov chain together, a rudimentary but easy-to-explain form of machine learning.

“Lessons from Anonymous Message Boards and how to build your own anonymous community board”
Elena; Discussion - Capped

I’ll give a 15 min overview of anonymous message boards and how they helped shape the internet. I’ll also discuss the downsides of anonymous message boards and why they can be scary. Then I’ll use Ostrom Principles to discuss how we can think of privacy as a public good and use it as an asset (not a liability) for strong, healthy communities. Lastly, together as a group, we will set up our own completely anonymous, decentralized and permanent message board to put our theories into action. This session is good for anyone who has ever surfed Reddit, PostSecret or other community message boards.

“Let's demolish my thesis: Is using Machine Learning to predict student failure a good idea?”
Fernanda Carles; Discussion - Capped

Life at the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Asunción is tough. With around 12.000 class inscriptions every semester, only around 6.000 end up with a passing grade. This, combined with the institutional weakness that characterizes Paraguayan state institutions and regular heat waves (and regular power cuts), creates a very tense environment for students, teachers and authorities alike.

As I was choosing a research topic to finish off my time in university as an engineering student at this very university, I was offered the opportunity to work on a prediction, binary classification and ranking system using Data Science and Machine Learning. What exactly am I predicting? Student failure.

In this session, we will explore how this system is designed and discuss who it really benefits: the students, the faculty, or the system itself.

“Let's fight for our Right to Repair!”
Ugo Vallauri, Frank; Workshop

The movement for Right to repair is growing globally, and it’s starting to get traction with policy makers. Yet, we’re still far from securing a universal Right to repair. And increasingly we need to make the case for removing software barriers set by manufactures, preventing us from repairing and reusing products.

In the session we’ll present the European Right to Repair campaign, and work with participants on our next challenges.

Participants will first contribute their priorities for the campaign to consider. Then we’ll work in small groups to prototype solutions to key issues we face:

How best to collaboratively document and tackle the mounting software barriers to our right to repair?
How can individuals and organisations in the MozFest community multiply the reach and impact of the campaign?

The session is just the beginning, and we’ll encourage participants to get involved in ongoing campaign activities

“Lets make a P2P Collage”
Mauve; Workshop

In this workshop we will put together a peer to peer collage by publishing some pictures we like in a p2p webpage, and embedding other people's pages within our own using iframes.

We will be using the Agregore web browser, hypercore-protocol, and Chrome Dev Tools. Some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS can help but isn't necessary.

“Let's travel back to 2005 with today's knowledge. What online community shall we build together?”
Hessel van Oorschot, Meghan Lacle; Workshop

In 2005 the internet was a free space. Creators could upload and share music, stories, videos, technology and stunning images. People around the world enjoyed the unlimited creativity of uploaders and their own freedom of speech without being censored.

Today, our digital lives are increasingly centralized on platforms controlled by fewer and fewer large corporations. Content creators are subjected to unfair platform agreements and denied the right to self-determination. Great original content is taken down before consumers can enjoy it.

Society took a wrong turn, right? The team of Free Music Archive (FMA) invites you to co-create a fair, sustainable future for creators, consumers, and “open internet” enthusiasts. Your participation is important, because your input, small or big, can help us influence the future of musicians and music lovers tomorrow.

“Leveling the NLP playing field in Africa through indigenous language datasets”
Amy Bray, David Adelani; Workshop

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is revolutionising communication in the 21st century, particularly in digital translation and machine-readable text applications. However, indigenous African languages are severely underrepresented in these applications, because good-quality, open African language datasets are rare to non-existent. This will widen the digital divide in Africa unless organisations proactively support the development of good-quality African language datasets.

This workshop will talk about how NLP researchers and engineers in Africa collected, developed and curated datasets for underrepresented African languages, ensuring the data is representative, useful, and public. We will discuss datasets and their tasks like machine translation using Yoruba from Nigeria, sentiment analysis in Tunizi Arabizi, automatic speech recognition in Wolof from Senegal and classification in Swahili.
The data collection was facilitated through AI4D and Zindi.

“Leveraging Wikimedia APIs for open knowledge-sharing”
Maryana Pinchuk, Sakti Hendra Pramudya; Workshop

Wikipedia and its sister projects contain a treasure trove of open knowledge content in 300+ languages that can be used by anyone for free. In recent years, technology partners from around the world have become increasingly interested in leveraging Wikimedia’s APIs to reuse this content on their platforms, in order to add context to and enrich their reading and learning experiences. How can we use Wikimedia content to create and deliver new relevant, just-in-time experiences to a diverse global audience? How can we ensure that new reuse products remain freely licensed and open to contribution? In this session, we will explore ways that Wikimedia APIs have been used to access and reuse Wikimedia content to date, and invite our participants to brainstorm new API-assisted reuse workflows that can help fulfill Wikimedia’s mission of sharing the sum of all human knowledge globally.

“Linking language communities and technologists to collaboratively overcome challenges for a linguistically diverse internet”
Eddie Avila, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Sony Salma; Discussion - Capped

A more linguistically diverse internet is becoming more possible thanks to an emerging movement of language activists leveraging the reach and opportunities provided by the web. New digital content is being produced in indigenous, endangered, or underresourced languages helping a new generation of speakers access information in their mother language. However, before many languages can realize their full potential to be shared online, technical challenges, such as a lack of a keyboard or software compatibility need to be addressed. Collaborations between language communities and developers provide solutions to overcome these obstacles. We’ll hear about experiences where technical solutions were put in place to address community-identified needs.

We’ll explore possibilities for scaling these types of collaborations by proposing ways to better understanding the technical needs and how to propose ways developers can get involved in efforts for making a more multilingual internet a reality.

“Listening to Your Brain is the Future of Work”
Ramses Alcaide, Adam Molnar; Discussion - Capped

Every major evolution in computing shortens the gap between human and machine to a point where, today, we literally touch and speak to our devices. Through this lens we gave birth to the idea of the cognitive wearable. Like a fitness tracker, a mental tracker that would help you understand your brain to help better understand the very essence that makes us human. These are some of the key ingredients behind the past five years of work. A goal to make an everyday brain technology product. By gaining a better sense of understanding, we can create a more equitable, and inclusive world through building tools that allow us to better interact with the world around us. In this presentation, we will show what is capable with a cognitive wearable built with the future of work in mind.

“Living Data Hubs: People, Internet and Data in Kibera”
Sarah Williams, Vera Bukachi, Alphonce Odhiambo, Talib Manshur; Discussion - Capped

Reliable internet access is essential to daily life, yet this remains an evasive service for many communities around the world. Community-developed and locally-designed internet networks can help bridge this divide, especially in low-income countries. In this session, you will learn how a team of Kenyan and American urban planners, architects, engineers and community development experts came together with local community-based groups in Nairobi, Kenya during the COVID-19 crisis to create the Kibera Public Space Internet Network (KPSPIN). From the start, the interdisciplinary team set out to co-design the network in order to ensure development knowledge builds off of and remains centered in Kibera’s own residents. We will explain the process of building the network and the ways we attempted to break down uneven power dynamics while increasing access to an essential resource.

“Machine Marionettes”
Kat Mustatea; Discussion - Capped

The idea of creative machines is a hot topic right now, but popular understanding of art made with artificial intelligence is still poor. Discussion of AI art is typically siloed off by genre. When a bot generates sonnets, those outputs are judged by the standards of literature. When AI is used to generate imagery, the outputs are invariably perceived within a tradition of image-making that includes painting and photography. Missing from the conversation so far is a unified perception of creative machines—whether they generate text or images or music—as works of art in themselves, ones that perform for us, much the way puppets do. In this session we will move past the tired question “Can machines be creative?” to identify common traits among generative algorithms across many categories of media production, and arrive at a framework for understanding artificial intelligence systems in terms of, well, puppetry.

“Makeflix- Creative Repair”
Rhea Muthane, Emily Churchill-Smith, Göksu Kacaroglu; Workshop

Makeflix is a creative repair project that helps connect people with themselves, their surrounding, their community and the environment through waste, repurposing and repair.

This Makeflix session is a digital scavenger hunt that makes you look at your everyday in a new light.

Challenging your basic thought patterns, assumptions and skills this session takes you on an adrenaline rush through your screen & with people around the world. Built around everyday objects and basic skills- participants are challenged to find meaning in flawed objects and connect their actions to larger environmental issues.

Makeflix aims to make repair an aspiration and encourages people from different walks of life to keep items in their life for longer and to be more mindful of their consumption. We use ‘a playful approach to trash’ to nudge participants of the community to think and take action on larger issues like consumption behaviours, the environment and wellbeing.

“Make spiralling images using a generalization of the Golden ratio pattern.”
Kyle Smith; Workshop

The Golden spiral is an important part of global art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

In 1998, Vera W. de Spinadel described the Metallic Mean Family, a [n;n,n,n,...] continued fraction generalization of the Golden spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_mean

=> This workshop will explore how you can use a Pythagorean theorem generalization of the Metallic Mean Family to make your own spirals out of any rectangle, including png/jpg images.

We'll use this Alchemy repo to make the animations: https://github.com/bestape/alchemy

As we learn how to use the Alchemy repo, we'll discuss the STEAM values of "nonhalting" (c-b)/a mathematics.

“Making AI Matter Hands-On Workshop | Help Us Solve Global Health, Climate Change, and Education Access”
Sarah Sharif, Michael Collyer, Jordan Ratner; Discussion - Capped

This hands-on workshop space at Mozilla Festival provides a place for us to safely discuss and work towards positive solutions, together in three areas: global health, climate change, and education access. Explore solutions with us, bring your expertise to the table whether it’s being a developer or educator, the space is for everyone who are experts or beginners to AI.

Pre-registration is required for each regional workshop.

Part I ---- Intro (30 mins)
(15 mins) Welcome + Introduction
(15 mins) Activity Breakdown

Part II ---- Live Activity in Miro (60 mins)
(50 mins) Breakout into Groups
(10 mins) Close + Team Summary

“Making AI Matter Hands-On Workshop | Help Us Solve Global Health, Climate Change, and Education Access”
Sarah Sharif, Jordan Ratner, Michael Collyer; Discussion - Capped

Pre-registration is required for each regional workshop.

Part I ---- Intro (30 mins)
(15 mins) Welcome + Introduction
(15 mins) Activity Breakdown

Part II ---- Live Activity in Miro (60 mins)
(50 mins) Breakout into Groups
(10 mins) Close + Team Summary

REGION (AMERICAS) - 15 March - 7:15 p.m. CET
REGION (ASIA) - 16 March - 10 a.m. CET
REGION (EUROPE) - 17 March - 6 p.m. CET

“Making AI Matter Hands-On Workshop | Help Us Solve Global Health, Climate Change, and Education Access”
Sarah Sharif; Discussion - Capped

Pre-registration is required for each regional workshop.

Part I ---- Intro (30 mins)
(15 mins) Welcome + Introduction
(15 mins) Activity Breakdown

Part II ---- Live Activity in Miro (60 mins)
(50 mins) Breakout into Groups
(10 mins) Close + Team Summary

REGION (AMERICAS) - 15 March - 7:15 p.m. CET
REGION (ASIA) - 16 March - 10 a.m. CET
REGION (EUROPE) - 17 March - 6 p.m. CET

“Making AI Matter Panel: Explore How to Solve Education Access With Us”
Sarah Sharif, Eliza Casapopol, Nancy Schreiber, Annique Wong, Michael Collyer, Jordan Ratner; Discussion - Capped

Join us for an exploratory panel discussion on how AI could make a positive impact on education access as we know it today. Our panelists will lead you through an unstructured discussion of how AI could make a positive difference.

Challenge | How would you educate an entire country using AI?
60 min panel discussion

Moderator, Sarah Sharif, Experimental Civics
Panelist # 1 : Eliza Casapopol, Data & AI Specialist at Microsoft
Panelist # 2 : Nancy Schreiber, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, at Salve Regina University
Panelist # 3: Annique Wong, Digital Consulting Analyst at Accenture

“Making AI Matter Panel - Explore How to Solve Global Health With Us”
Sarah Sharif, Hailey Trier, Dr. Francesca Mazzi, Dr. Kristina Ulicna, Danielle Belgrave, Dr. Yvonne Lu, Michael Collyer, Jordan Ratner; Discussion - Capped

Join us for an exploratory panel discussion on how AI could play a positive role in global health as we know it today. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic that has elevated health concerns and increased our need for feasible solutions to get aid and vaccines out to the masses, especially in remote or vulnerable areas of the world. Our panelists will lead you through an unstructured discussion of how AI could make a positive difference.

Hailey Trier, Moderator, Former President of OxAI
Panelist #1 : Francesca Mazzi, AI Postdoctoral Researcher
Panelist #2 : Kristina Ulicna, Computational Biologist & PhD Candidate
Panelist #3 : Danielle Belgrave, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Panelist #4 : Dr. Yvonne Lu, Daphne Jackson Research Fellow in Clinical Machine Learning

“Making AI Matter Panel: How Would You Solve Climate Change using AI”
Sarah Sharif, Becca Ricks, Rosanna Fanni, Sujatha Kamma, Brandi Geurkink, Fieke, Michael Collyer, Jordan Ratner; Discussion - Capped

Making AI Matter | Explore How to Solve Climate Change With Us

Join us for an exploratory panel discussion on how AI could play a positive role in tackling our climate crisis as we know it today. We know from wildlife conservation to rising sea levels, our planet is under immense stress and is changing permanently, but not for the betterment of nature and humanity. Our panelists will lead you through an unstructured discussion of how AI could make a positive difference today.

Becca Ricks, Moderator, Researcher at Mozilla Foundation
Panelist # 1 : Rosanna Fanni, EU AI Researcher
Panelist #2 : Sujatha Kamma - Funnel AI Co-Founder
Panelist #3 : Brandi Geurkink - Mozilla Foundation
Panelist #4: Fieke Jansen - Data Justice Lab & Mozilla Fellow

“Making Animations with the Wick Editor!”
Luca Damasco; Workshop

Learn the basics of animation in the Wick Editor, a free online tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between. Students will create a multi frame animation, learn some basic principles of animation, and leave the session with their own video or GIF. No experience required!

“Making a simple game using P5.JS”
Zach Mohammed; Workshop

In this session I will teach younger programmers how to make a simple platform/tictactoe game using P5.js and my own P5.js library (P5.Create) which makes it easier to manage complex games development tasks such as collision which younger programmers might struggle with due to the mathematical complexity of colliding sprites!

“Making Games with the Wick Editor!”
Luca Damasco; Workshop

Making games can be easy! Learn how to create a basic point and click adventure game with the Wick Editor, a free and open source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between! No experience required!

“Making Pong: Introduction to Arduino and TinkerCAD Circuits”
Geoff McIntyre; Workshop

Unfortunately, this session has been cancelled.

“Making sustainability mainstream”
Tom Greenwood; Discussion - Capped

The workshop will ask how, at a time when we need to address climate change and the ecological crises urgently, we can work together as a community to make sustainability a core value of our industry globally.

Facilitated by Tom Greenwood (UK) and Gauthier Roussilhe (France), we will ask people to share experiences of how sustainability is currently considered in the digital sector in their country, what has been successful in pushing it on the top of the agenda and what the key barriers have been.

Together as a group, we will compare experiences from around the world and form a shared understanding of how to move forward, with a set of practical solutions to suggest to the wider web community.

The highlights of the discussion and suggested solutions will then be published following the event for others to learn from and build on.

“Making Voices Heard - The Present and Future of Voice Interfaces in India”
Shweta Mohandas, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Saumyaa Naidu, Puthiya Purayil Sneha; Discussion - Capped

We will present our findings from a study of the landscape of voice interfaces in India, and seek feedback towards finalisation of the same.The study, supported by Mozilla Corporation, examines the adaptation and innovation with voice interfaces in Indian languages,and discusses possible policy and design interventions through the lenses of privacy of users,inclusion of non-English languages,and accessibility of interfaces.We will present a visual mapping of actors in the Indian voice interface landscape, and three case studies focusing on key technology developers:Common Voice (community driven open source), Indic TTS (public funded), and Niki (commercial).The session will have four segments - a general introduction to the study and key design and policy concerns, presentation of observations from the case studies, an open discussion about the study,and a final segment to seek the participants views on the futures of voice interfaces in non-English languages.

“Mama works at home!”
Noha Abdel Baky; Discussion - Capped

The lockdown was a tough period for both parents who had to work at home and for their kids who suddenly lost all the tiny details of their daily lives from going to school, meeting their friends and exercising.
The conversation will be relaxed, emotional and around the challenges both parents & kids faced and the best practices to beat the stress, boredom and spending endless hours on TV and online.
We will reflect on how to deal with bad feelings from guilt, depression and focus on the bright side of the Pandemic.
The discussion will include discussing the role of the Internet during this period (the advantages from finding creative ideas, learning new skills and finding good educational content AND the disadvantages like the unlimited and un-supervised screen time, negative behavioral effects and the cyber threats)

“Manic micro:bits”
Nicholas Hughes; Workshop

In this session you will learn what a micro:bit is and take part in a live coding session. You will learn how to program a micro:bit using the virtual simulator so even if you don't have a micro:bit yet you can join in with the fun. We will learn how to program the microbit to create animations and add sounds. We will try and use the micro:bit to play a rock, paper, scissors. I will show all the other fun projects you can try yourself at home on the microbit website.

“Mapping AI Ecosystems in the MENA”
Raya Sharbain, Issa Mahasneh, qusai; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

NEW SCHEDULE! (9-13 GMT+2)
The MENA AI landscape appears to be vibrant, with many entities catalyzing smart technologies for digital transformation.

We aim in this discussion to present research whereby we conducted an initial mapping of AI entities in the MENA.

This is a project sprint from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Registration and more information here: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“M/Cocktails workshop: Shaken and Stirred”
Bryan Beentjes, Roy Meijer; Workshop

Making the Internet healthy, is hard work. And you know the saying: Work hard, play hard. So, don't forget to reward yourself from time to time with a festive treat. And what could be more festive than a m/cocktail? Our friends at 'The Fabulous Shaker Boys' came to our aid, and created Mozfest's very own cocktail: the Mozilla Breeze, flashing the sparkling Mozfest2021 colors!

Join the other Mozfest party animals for this workshop and learn how to shake and stir a Mozfest Breeze (virgin version included!) and then kick up your feet and relax. Paper umbrella anyone?

See the Recipe and Order lists for an Alcoholic or Virgin Cocktail here & don't forget to go to the store before the session!

“Measuring Mindset Shifts: Reflections on Planning and Measurement from the Ashoka and Mozilla Foundation Learning Roundtable”
Paul Zenke, Lainie DeCoursy, Daniela Matielo, Betul Ozyilmaz; Discussion - Capped

Knowledge sharing between individuals/teams with similar functional responsibilities is a valuable movement building practice. Since 2016, colleagues from Ashoka and Mozilla Foundation have met monthly to share insights and lessons learned from planning and implementing organizational strategies. At MozFest, this small collaborative group aims to expand the circle and learn and share from other organizations as well. How can we better understand the journey and impact of changing mindsets? From strategic goal setting using OKRs to informal impact evaluation (as examples), we'll discuss approaches we've used to help us advance our work and mission. Participants will be invited to share their own successes, challenges and effective practices. Opportunities for future collaborations with the participants will also be discussed.

“Measuring project health: ethics, roles, responsibilities and why it matters”
María Cruz, Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar, Sophia Vargas; Discussion - Capped

In the lifespan of an open source project, it is key to understand when the project is thriving, and when it is at risk of becoming stagnant due to low contributions and participation. To this end, measuring project health is key, but how do we do this in an ethical way that also respects the project’s community privacy? In this session, we will overview 3 roles involved in measuring project health: a project’s community, a country’s data regulations, and private companies. You will have an opportunity to dive into each perspective, discuss priorities and share your experience and expectations measuring a project’s activity.

“Meditation and Affirmation Music with Be Steadwell”
Be Steadwell; Workshop

Queer pop musician Be Steadwell offers affirmation and meditation centering marginalized identities.
Steadwell offers a space for marginalized folks and allies to honor joy, grief, and peace. This session will include gratitude, breathing exercises, and interactive group affirmations music and meditations.

“Mindful Moment: Live Guided Meditation”
Natalie Matias, Michaela Bekenn; Social Moments

Sound + Guided Visualization Meditation
Drop-in to experience a multi-sensorial immersion with Natalie Matias and Michaela Bekenn. Together they will flow between guided visualizations, vibrational sounds, and energetic connection. Michaela is a sound therapist and meditation guide and Natalie is a meditation guide and facilitator. They offer their session from Toronto, Canada on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishnaabe, and the Mississaugas of the Credit and home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

“Mindful Moment: Live Guided Meditation II”
Hasti Yavari; Discussion - Capped

Join for 30 minutes of guided breathing and meditation. We will start by breathing together using ancient breathing techniques that have assisted our forefathers and foremothers in their spiritual journey. We will then use the breath as the foundation of our meditation practice for getting more intimate with the nature of our mind, allowing ourselves to sit back, breath and simply observe.

“Mini-Hackathon on Tackling Technology-Facilitated Gender Violence”
Akhila Kolisetty, Nishma Jethwa; Workshop

Survivors of technology-facilitated gender violence - like image-based sexual abuse, cyberstalking, or harassment - often do not know where to turn for assistance, nor do they always understand their legal rights and options. End Cyber Abuse hopes to create an app, specifically a chatbot, to offer guidance to survivors of technology-facilitated gender violence. We hope this app can provide immediate guidance on how to take down intimate images, how to report abuse or harassment to platforms, tools and tips for digital security, and guidance on legal rights. In this session, we will first facilitate a collaborative brainstorming session on ideas for an app. Then, we break participants into groups, where they select an idea and design the backend of an app that assists survivors of technology-facilitated gender violence. Each group will then pitch their idea, with time for Q&A and feedback.

“Misinformation Escape Room”
chris coward, Lindsay Morse, Cassidy Barnes, Andrew Chard, Madison Crowley, Annelise Lund, Matty Sythandone; Workshop

An investigative journalist suspiciously vanished last night, and the last thing they did was hand their laptop over to their trusted librarian. After opening the laptop and seeing the contents, the librarian grew alarmed and called you all in to help. The librarian knew the journalist was doing research on the company that makes Euphorigen, a mood enhancing supplement. Now the government is about to sign a contract to put Euphorigen in the public water supply for everyone to enjoy its benefits. But you have suspicions, and only 45 minutes to uncover the truth!

The Euphorigen Investigation is an online escape room that immerses players in a world of manipulated media, social media bots, deepfakes and other forms of misinformation. Join teams of 4-6 players and a game host and see how well you do at solving misinformation puzzles!

“Misinformation Escape Room”
chris coward, Lindsay Morse, Cassidy Barnes, Andrew Chard, Madison Crowley, Annelise Lund, Matty Sythandone; Workshop

“Mixing games and 'real life' to re-envisage our past through video”
Tess Baxter; Art and Media

My art practice is rooted in video art coming out of virtual worlds, a broader view of ‘machinima’. I want to connect the virtual to things and ideas outside of it, to human life and creativity, spanning past, present and future.
My aim would be to show what is possible creatively, rather than to teach techniques.
Working in open spaces is critical, as I frequently use creative commons and public domain material. This I (re)work with virtual world material, to make connections across space and time – but it is a reinterpretation and a translation, not simply reproduction.
I publish my work in the open as a deliberate act. I take most pleasure in seeing my video art in public spaces in the 'real world', so connecting space-time, digital-analog, virtual-actual, past-present.

“Models For Environmental Literacy (2020)”
Tivon Rice, FIBER; Art and Media

In the face of climate change, large-scale computer-controlled systems, like artificial intelligence, are being deployed to control terrestrial systems. In the West is a great belief in ‘intelligent’ technology as a lifesaver. However, practice shows that the dominant AI systems lack the fundamental insights to act in an inclusive manner towards the complexity of ecological, social and environmental issues. While the imaginative and artistic possibilities for the creation of nonhuman perspectives is often overlooked. In his longterm research Tivon Rice speculates how AI’s could have alternative perceptions of an environment. 3 AI's, trained for a screenplay as the SCIENTIST, the PHILOSOPHER, and the AUTHOR, are brought together for a series of conversations, while they inhabit a series of scanned natural landscapes.

“Mom? Dad? Can you build a better internet for children?”
Hessel van Oorschot; Art and Media

When I asked our 9 year old daughter to come up with a topic for MozFest I wasn’t prepared for the amount of really good questions she fired back at me. She knows the internet is broken. She feels it’s not a safe place for children and above all she doesn’t understand why we haven’t fixed it yet.

My proposal is to coordinate crowdsourced, Streetwear Art by children around the world. PARTICIPATE: https://www.forkidsonline.org #KidsSafeOnline

“Monster Maker”
Nicholas Hughes; Workshop

In this session you will learn about 3D modelling and 3D printing. You will have the opportunity to use an online tool, Tinkercad, to create 3D models that can be 3D printed. You will learn about a range of tools and create a 3D creature.

“Movement-building after MozFest”
Chad Sansing, Dirk Slater; Discussion - Capped

Join us to share ideas for keeping the MozFest momentum going year-round. We'll explore different ways to engage and network MozFest community members with your own work, the internet health movement, and the push for trustworthy AI.

“MozFest Ambassador Hour”
Kristina Gorr; Discussion - Capped

MozFest Ambassadors are a small group of internet health advocates and loyal MozFest community members who are committed to bringing MozFest to their part of the world, through their networks and connections.

Join the Ambassadors for a round of lightning presentations to hear what they are working on towards internet health and how you can get involved.

For the final part of this session, we'll all join together for a fun social activity, collaboratively building music through plink!

“MozFest Book Club: Meet the Authors”
Kristina Gorr; Social Moments

This session will take place in the MozFest Book Club space in Spatial Chat.

The MozFest book celebrates the first ten years of the festival and the internet health community, outlining the people, projects, and creativity that transformed the festival into what it is today. The authors of the newest chapter: "Reflecting and Looking Ahead: Where does the community go from here" are coming together for a meet and greet to discuss the topics of their essays: the future of AI, internet health, and their own internet health stories. You can read this chapter online here: https://book.mozillafestival.org/reflecting-and-looking-ahead.

“MozFest Social Hour”
Social Moments

Come and join our Common Spaces in Spatial Chat where you can hangout, chat about issues and topics around the space, as well as extend the work you’re doing in sessions outside of Zoom rooms.

“MozFest Studio”
Dzifa Kusenuh; Broadcast Talks

MozFest Studio is a 10-15 minute daily session for you to stay up-to-date on all things MozFest. Tune into MozFest Studio everyday at 5pm CET for special announcements, festival highlights from the previous day, what’s upcoming in the next 24 hours that you don’t want to miss, and to learn what’s been happening on social media and social moments throughout the festival.

“MozFest Studio”
Dzifa Kusenuh; Broadcast Talks

“Mozilla Data Futures Lab Launch”
Lindsey Dodson, Martin Tisné, Anouk Ruhaak, J. Bob Alotta, Alix Dunn; Broadcast Talks

In a world where data is only growing in importance, envisioning a healthier internet means rethinking dominant models of data governance to propose alternatives. The Data Futures Lab will connect and fund people around the world who are imagining and building such alternatives. This session will serve as the official launch of the Lab. We will explore what data stewardship is, dive into the goals of the Data Futures Lab, and discuss our biggest ambitions as well the challenges ahead. Featured panelists include Martin Tisné, Managing Director at Luminate, and J. Bob Alotta, VP of Global Programs at Mozilla.

“Multilingual films as digital rights teaching aids for activism in Asia-Pacific”
Red Tani; Workshop

With over 60% of the world's population and a thriving internet user community, the complex geopolitics of Asia-Pacific demands an active discourse of digital rights and digital security. However, the actual conversations are extremely skewed because of the lack of resources in different languages. Media and other communications resources are critical to effective campaigning, education and awareness raising for social activism. We are currently in the process of using the learning and practices — of films being used as digital activism tools in the past — and collaborate with regional film-makers to take such practices to the next level.

In this session, we will discuss how films can be effective teaching and training catalysts to boost digital rights and digital security activism in the region by sharing bespoke ideas, approaches and emerging processes designed for two of the prominent stakeholders — civil society and academic institutions.

“NDGiFTS: Building a Movement to create systemic and sustainable change of the employment landscape for cognitively diverse workers.”
Tiffany Jameson, Dr Lutza Ireland (Autistic/ADHD/she/her), Sonia Alllinson-Penny, Susan O'Malley; Workshop

Learn about the NDGiFTS movement, local regional efforts and global collaborate projects and how you can use unique gifts to make an impact and contribute.

“Networking for the Neurodiverse”
Wesley Faulkner; Workshop

There have been things that I wasn't taught growing up because it was assumed obvious and that I would pick it up naturally. As a neurodiverse person, I have had to work hard to appear to do things effortlessly. Networking is one of the skills I have learned from trial and error, and I want to teach you how to navigate new environments and converse with all kinds of people. If you've tried learning from movies and self-help books and that hasn't worked, there's a reason. There's a lot about modern networking that we all should un-learn. If you want to be an effective networker, you have to shift away from looking at these interactions as transactional. That said, it's still hard to find people to talk to and start a conversation.

“Net worthy: how to get budget and buy-in for AI ethics”
Alice Thwaite; Workshop

There is a clear need for more accountable ethical practices in technology. Join this workshop to find out how to implement organisational change!

I’ve been running tech and AI ethics workshops since 2017. I’ve learned that there are so many willing hearts and minds who want change, but there is a complete lack of investment. Without budget towards ethics, and without buy-in, where the findings from responsible business teams are deployed in house, then nothing will change. Ethics will be mere tokenism if business leaders cannot be shown how it can drive value and cause your organisation to survive, and indeed thrive, for the decades ahead.

This workshop will give you a roadmap for getting budget and buy-in from senior management.

“Neurodivergent and Neurotypical experiences of barriers and facilitators to creativity in creative workplaces”
Carrie White; Workshop

Discussing a recent study where neurodivergent and neurotypical people from a range of creative industries were asked what helped and what hindered their creativity at work. The findings showed that while similar factors affect the creativity of both groups, factors such as group working, pace of working and environmental factors (among others) are felt more strongly by neurodivergent individuals.

With the recent change in many peoples working practices, this presentation will also consider whether now is the prime opportunity to alter the creative workplace with these findings in mind and be asking how best to do this.

In preparation, it would be interesting for guests attending to think about their own barriers and facilitators to creativity, and what has been the effect of having more or less control over their creative work environment.

“Neuro Diversity - let's talk inclusive design-”
Sarwat Tasneem FRSA FInstLM FCCD; Discussion - Capped

Unfortunately, this session has been canceled.

“Neurodoversity Panel Discussion”
theo, Prof, Amanda Kirby, Atif Choudhury; Discussion - Capped

Theo Smith and Prof. Amanda Kirby have spent the entirety of Covid researching and then writing the first complete book that covers Neurodiversity at Work.
In this Panel discussion Amanda and Theo with special guests will explore and challenge what Neurodiversity and Inclusion really is...
We are all on a learning journey and together we'll try and break down some of the complexity of the subject to make it more accessible for us all.
This will be an engaging and interactive session.

“Newtechkids Robot Inventor Workshop for kids 7-12 yrs old (English spoken)”
Deborah Carter, Bram Stamkot; Workshop

During this hands-on workshop for kids ages 7-12, kids and their parents will learn about technology design, programming and AI. Kids will become chief designers at the MozFest robot factory where they will create robot heads (using a recycled cardboard box art supplies). Afterwards, kids will hand-draw their own code to program themselves, another child or their parents. 30 kids maximum per session.

In order to participate, please gather the following supplies:
- cardboard box (which fits over child's head)
- art supplies: colored paper, glue, tape, scissors, aluminum foil, pipe cleaners (optional)
- plain white paper
- pencil and eraser

Please note, due to privacy concerns, only NewTechKids' teachers will be visible on screen. We will be posting short online surveys to solicit feedback from the kids about technology. So it's very important that each child is participating with a parent or another child during the workshop.

“NewTechKids Robot Uitvinder Workshop voor kinderen van 7-12 jaar oud (Nederlands gesproken)”
Deborah Carter, Bram Stamkot, Bob Oey; Workshop

Tijdens deze praktische workshop voor kinderen van 7-12 jaar en hun ouders, leren kinderen over technologisch ontwerp, programmeren en AI. Ze worden hoofdontwerpers bij de MozFest-robotfabriek waar ze robothoofden gaan maken met behulp van knutselmaterialen. Nadat ze hun eigen code met de hand hebben getekend, zullen ouders hen helpen hun robots te testen. Maximaal 30 kinderen per sessie.

Wat heb je nodig:
- kartonnen doos (die over het hoofd van het kind past)
- knutselmaterialen zoals gekleurd papier, lijm, plakband, schaar, aluminiumfolie, pijpreinigers (optioneel) en wat je verder nog bedenkt
- wit papier, potlood en gum

Let op: vanwege privacykwesties zijn alleen de docenten van NewTechKids zichtbaar op het scherm. We zullen korte online enquêtes plaatsen om feedback van de kinderen over technologie te vragen. Het is dus erg belangrijk dat elk kind samen met een ouder of een ander kind meedoet aan de workshop.

“No more robots and glowing brains - making better stock photos for AI”
Tristan Ferne, Wesley Goatley, Georgina Voss, David Man, Miranda Marcus; Workshop

News stories or press releases about AI are typically illustrated with stock photos of shiny gendered robots, glowing blue brains or the Terminator. We think this is harmful; it sets unrealistic expectations, it hinders wider understanding of the technology and potentially sows fear. Ultimately this affects public understanding and critical discourse around this increasingly influential technology.

We think there could be better, less clichéd, more accurate and more representative images and media for this technology.

In this workshop we will explore and generate some alternatives and maybe, ultimately, change these perceptions. There will be discussion, exploration of useful metaphors, collaborative whiteboards, and maybe some sketching.

No specialist knowledge is needed, just thoughts and opinions on how AI works and is communicated. After you have signed up to the session you could try to find a couple of good and bad images of AI to bring along with you.

“OER OpenGLAM Ontologies: Metadata for Educational Justice”
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Virginia Poundstone, Sharon Mizota, Puthiya Purayil Sneha; Discussion - Capped

Education was already moving online, when covid19 hit; now learners, K-12 to grad school and beyond seek and find knowledge virtually and voraciously, even outside formal schooling. Meanwhile, museum educators open treasuries of educational digital cultural objects to locked-down publics. OER OpenGLAM promises to free knowledge. Openness counters copyright and paywalls, but it can re-entrench cultural appropriation and omissions. Not “neutral,” metadata reproduces particular cultural perspectives and biases. A digital crossroads arises: the colonial legacies of museum collections and academic canons get reproduced in OER--unless interrupted. What is the pedagogical and methodological potential of metadata, for tracing and transcending the plunder and empire embodied in digital cultural heritage objects’ journeys? These encounters teach critical analysis, agency, anticolonial dreaming, indigenous data sovereignty. We invite educators to think through descriptive metadata and geographic taxonomy as useful platforms for recovering, reclaiming, layering, and liberating cultural knowledges and diverse ontologies.

“Oldernet Adventure!! A Digital Scavenger Hunt Through Cybercultural History”
Alden Rivendale Jones; Art and Media

The internet of today can appear as a monolith, with a culture dominated by platforms owned by big tech giants. In this asynchronous digital scavenger hunt we will tour cybercultural history from the late 1980s through the modern era as a means to understand that the contemporary internet was in no way predetermined. It grew out of a particular set of values and goals that were prioritized over others, and it is in those others that we will be spending our time. From the dreams of the past we can see new ways forward for ourselves, to build better networks and stronger communities. Scavengers will be asked to find artifacts, artworks, images, and pieces of text curated from past online communities. Participants who complete the hunt will be awarded with an extra special secret prize.

“Omni-Specialized Design for Beautiful Futures”
Ari Melenciano; Workshop

In this workshop, participants will be able to explore experimental ways of combining a variety of branches of knowledge to collaboratively design radical and imaginative futures. This workshop will begin with a brief synopsis of Ari's Omni-Specialized Design process, and how we can think critically about designing healthy technocultures. We'll then move into imaginative practices that allow us to visualize healthier, abundant, and vibrant futures. This workshop will culminate on a collective conversation considering each group's ideated future.

“Online resistance against gender-based violence in Mexico”
Alex Argüelles; Discussion - Capped

In this session, we aim to share some of the main challenges we've faced while keeping up with the isolation (individual and collective) while still working against the rise of gender-based violence that came with the confinement. Also, we look forward to sharing some of the local strategies and Latin American initiatives that have provided outlets to have some access to information, helplines, and community development strategies amidst the digital divide and political violence against women and LGBTTTIQ+ people.

“On The Way To Digital Utopia”
Francesca Giardina, Nikki; Workshop

When we talk about the digital future of society, the conversation often drifts off into bleak, dystopian scenarios: total surveillance, tech giants leeching on our personal data and ubiquitous control enabled by Artificial Intelligence. But we refuse to believe that this is what the future has in store for us. As Erik Reece, Author of Utopia Drive, puts it: “…things will only get worse if we don’t engage in some serious utopian thinking.” And that is exactly what we would like to instill and practice with the participants - serious utopian thinking about techno-social change and who is in charge of it. We believe that the participants at MozFest will be uniquely challenged by this task, as it means zooming out of the code and re-focussing on the potential impact of tech on society. Let’s join forces for a digital utopia.

“On this Side of The Web [Film Screening]”
Esther Mwema, Uffa; Art and Media

'On this Side of The Web' is a short film by youth-led organization Digital Grassroots that portrays key barriers to digital inclusion for young people and marginalized groups.

“On View: COMPOST, a Distributed Publication about the Digital Commons”
Mai Ishikawa Sutton; Art and Media

Our first issue of COMPOST (compost.digital), a magazine about the digital commons, will be published in February 2021. The magazine is a pilot of Distributed Press (distributed.press), a larger project to build digital publishing infrastructure that is managed collectively and horizontally. COMPOST will be published to multiple DWeb and Web endpoints, including Hypercore and IPFS and incorporate experiments with web monetization.

The first issue will have around 12 pieces of digital art and writing, responding to the theme of Fertile Grounds. Contributors will explore how, as large swathes of the Web decay, how its remains can help new networks flourish. The pieces featured in COMPOST will be reflections on the projects, communities, technologies, protocols, and networks that enable authentic and trustful connections.

This will be an asynchronous session for people to read/experience COMPOST throughout the course of the conference.

“Open Data Institute - Unearthing data institutions”
Jack Hardinges, Alex Vryzakis; Discussion - Capped

Access to the right data is vital in tackling the big challenges we face - from the earlier detection and treatment of disease to reducing pollution in urban spaces.

Data institutions are organisations that steward data on behalf of others, often towards public, educational or charitable aims, and already exist across the private, public and third sectors. They take many forms and do a number of different things in practice.

At the ODI, we’re conscious that are further examples of impactful data institutions worldwide that we are yet to come across. In this session, we would like the MozFest community to help us crowdsource data institutions, and discuss the role they play and the lessons we can learn from them.

We’ll use collaborative editing tools to document and annotate the examples, and publish it openly to ensure others can engage and contribute.

“Open data standards design behind closed doors?”
Silvana Fumega, Ana Brandusescu, Michael "Miko" Cañares, Jorge Florez, Daniel Dietrich, Tim Davies, Yohanna Lisnichuk, Anca Matioc, Edafe Onerhime; Discussion - Capped

Open data standards are political, yet they are built in technical spaces devoid of political or social implications. Often what gets prioritized in their design is technical interoperability, not human understanding. Sometimes we focus so much on building the technology that we forget to address the new power dynamics formed. It is important for us to not only understand how powerful open data standards can be in creating changes, but to also address some of the challenges that are part of their design and implementation.
So are we all in the picture? The short answer is no. To be truly inclusive, implementation of standards and their policies need to multiply voices at the very beginning of the design process to help solve problems for the many, not just a select few. Therefore we want an open conversation to try and find some answers and bring more views to this field.

“Open GLAM collaborations with Cultural Institutions for OERs (Open Education Resources)”
Open Heritage Foundation; Skill Share

This will be a case study for the Open GLAM project we did in India in partnership with Government Libraries and museums and collaboration with Wikimedia Community to curate knowledge sources to be made available in Commons under free licenses. This case study will share the strategy on how we can develop Open GLAM partnerships with cultural institutions and build an open community that works on curating the open source knowledge sources. The presentation will have the case study with references from the Open GLAM project we have doing in India along with the conceptualization of how this project can be iterated and adapted. Most of all, the session covers how we integrated the data sets from our content partnerships with different knowledge sharing techniques and platforms in open access, including Wikidata, Punjabi Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons.

“Open Hardware Treasure Hunt! Navigate the open waters of hardware-making towards community and collaboration”
Julieta Arancio, Andre, Alexander Kutschera; Workshop

Open Hardware Treasure Hunt in an online game that will let you experience first hand what is and why it’s important to have more open hardware around the world. Inspired in our mentorship program “Open Hardware Makers”, you will join a 60’ online activity that will take you on a journey through what makes an open hardware project great. Be ready to follow the traces we will have prepared for you all across the web! Navigate open repositories, find patterns in documentation, check for accessibility hints… And make sure you get the treasure in the end!

“Opening Circle”
Sarah Allen, J. Bob Alotta, Leena Haque, Natalia Carfi; Broadcast Talks

Join the Opening Circle to officially kick off the festival with the community! You'll hear from a variety of community members and Mozilla staff on what to expect from MozFest over the next two weeks and learn more about how to actively participate according to your own schedule and needs while joining from home. As is MozFest tradition, you will also have the opportunity to participate in our MozFest group photo!

“Open in New Tab: Living with ADHD on the Internet”
A. Macdonald; Discussion - Capped

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects millions of people from diverse backgrounds. For many like myself, the diagnosis comes with an immediate challenge: How do we find our place in the large ADHD community? On this journey internet technologies both help and hinder us.
In this workshop I want to broaden the way we think about technology and ADHD. Often, the conversation is about tech that helps treat ADHD: website blockers, time trackers, todo list managers. But tech can do so much more. For example, while AI targeted ads can make browsing overwhelming, AI carefully employed can supercharge our curiosity, creativity, and drive for connection with others.
In this workshop, I'd love to use techniques of brainstorming and collaborative storytelling to help us imagine a way of living and working on the internet where we feel comfortable and at home with our brains.

“Open Questions in a Warming World: Defining Our Audience”
Evelin Heidel; Discussion - Capped

This session is follow up from a session held at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2020: https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/open-questions-in-a-warming-world-37346ffef6cb. This follow up will try to better explore who is missing in the conversation at the intersection of the open and the climate movement.

This workshop will generate ideas and questions about the underlying implications of open culture and copyright in a warming world. Open Access in science and research is key to the bodies of knowledge and scholarship for identifying the problems and solutions for climate change. But there are likely other ways in which the open movement could advance “everyday” solutions to climate change, from unlocking easy and digestible climate information, to documenting the consequences of climate change. This workshop will generate ideas about potential approaches to activate open communities in addressing the climate crisis.

“Openscapes Interview with Dr. Dawn Wright”
Julia Lowndes; Discussion - Capped

In this conversation with Dr. Dawn Wright, we will discuss the connections between the open science movement, democratized tech, solution-driven science, and climate change. Dr. Wright (@DeepSeaDawn) is American geographer and oceanographer. She is Chief Scientist at ESRI (the Environmental Systems Research Institute), a National Geographic Global Explorer, a Lego enthusiast, and a role model to many in science.

This session is part of Openscapes' growing efforts to increase visibility and value of open, reproducible, and inclusive data-driven practices in science and research. The conversation will be led by Erin Robinson and Julia Lowndes of Openscapes. Openscapes was founded by Julia Lowndes as a 2018-2019 Mozilla Fellow, is modeled after Mozilla Open Leaders, and was launched at MozFest 2018. Learn more: https://openscapes.org

“Open Source & the Pandemic: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Dr. Melissa Haendel, Ricardo Ruiz Freire, Dr. Netha Hussain, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes; Broadcast Talks

Open source technology and principles have been a potent force in slowing the spread of a deadly virus.

A panel featuring:

Dr. Melissa Haendel, Director of Translational Data Science, Oregon State University. And, Director of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H) at Oregon Health & Science University

Ricardo Ruiz Freire, Supervisory Board Member, Global Innovation Gathering

Dr. Netha Hussain, medical doctor, researcher, and 10-year Wikipedia volunteer

And moderator Abby Cabunoc Mayes, Program Manager, MozFest Technical Relationships

“"Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal": A Primer on Conversational Voice Design”
Effie-Michelle Metallidis; Workshop

Have you ever wondered why Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant talk the way they do? Who scripts their dialogue? How do they come up with jokes? And why do they all sound female?

This 60-minute workshop will offer an introduction into the world of voice design and offer participants the chance to script their own dialogue. We'll cover elements of psychology, sociology, linguistics, and human behavior to delve into the opportunities and constraints of voice-enabled technology.

The session will include:
- An overview of voice, tone, and crafting personality
- The limits of current speech technology (command and control, error pathways)
- How to create engaging dialogue and win user trust through the hero's journey
- A 30-minute interactive session for participants to design their own script

At the end of the session, users will walk away with a thorough understanding of the basics of conversational UI.

“Operationalizing AI Ethics”
Joris Krijger; Discussion - Capped

The strong increase in the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has led to growing concerns about the ethical aspects of these systems. As a result, a proliferation of high-level ethical principles for AI has emerged. But, as it turns out, these principles are very difficult to bring into practice: principles may place conflicting demands on AI design or are hard to formalize in a univocal way.

We will discuss these hard questions of operationalizing AI ethics via thought-provoking questions and dilemmas for the audience to consider. And we will look at the preliminary results from the Moral AI-Gency project: an initiative supported by the SIDN Fonds, Erasmus University Rotterdam and de Volksbank to provide research driven answers on how we can balance AI’s unique potential for problem solving with the serious ethical risks of discrimination, lack of transparency and the diffusion of responsibility.

“Our speech, our rules: Decentralising Content Moderation and Reclaiming the power to govern our communities”
Jacob Mchangama, Raghav Mendiratta; Discussion - Capped

Participants will share experiences of when a social media platform took down something they (or someone they know) posted. Did they feel that they were “censored “due to an unfair or flawed bias against them? Did they understand the reasons why their content was removed? How did they react to the removal? Did they re-post that post or did they have to move on? These experiences will be grouped organically based on the speech's theme/topic. Participants will then suggest how they or their communities would have preferred to handle some of those situations.
This would flow into a discussion about participants’ thoughts on the decentralised approaches some platforms are adopting (Subreddit’s local moderation, Twitter’s BlueSky moderation and others). Participants will then collaborate and collectively think of models by which communities become in-charge of moderating their own content.

“Our voice in AI regulation debate - is anyone listening?”
Vanja Skoric, Umang Bhatt, Pascal Wiggers, Job Spierings, Juliana Novaes; Discussion - Capped

In 2019, Council of Europe (CoE) set up Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI). CAHAI is tasked to identify potential regulatory frameworks for AI in Europe. This is viewed as a standard-setting process globally, with many actors already directly involved. But many voices are missing in this debate. CAHAI will begin final consultation process early 2021, with last chance to input regulatory standard setting. ECNL, on behalf of the CoE Conference of International NGOs (CINGO) is one of the members of this Committee, and helps provide and coordinate civic input. We wish to bring the discussion to MozFest participants and explore most important issues to be included for regulatory considerations. Here is a chance to have direct say into the content of the future regulation.

“Out of My Face!: Using Public Records to Understand Government's Facial Recognition Use”
Beryl; Workshop

Facial recognition’s use is growing. There are good odds a database already has your face. Government interest in AI use is expanding throughout policing, public benefits, and its other responsibilities, and grassroots activists are critical to keeping use of this tech in check. Public records can help them do that.

We’ll learn how to use freedom of information laws to demystify the what, why, and how of government’s technology. We’ll discuss facial recognition’s uses and abuses, the cities that have banned it and the countries that have made it an everywhere and everyday reality. This workshop will be an opportunity to share experiences, skills, and strategy (definitely no technical know-how needed). By comparing notes and concerns, we’ll leave more excited and prepared to consider what, in an ultra-connected society, transparent and responsible AI use can mean for our local and global communities.

“Paint Box vs Black Box: Using Art to Bring Accountability to AI and Surveillance”
Kate Bertash; Discussion - Capped

As image recognition is deployed throughout every aspect of our lives, the rise of adversarial input techniques has given rise to art and fashion meant to confound surveillance systems. This talk will begin by providing an overview of how optical illusions of various levels of technical complexity are leveraged by different artists as "black box" attack methods on various AI-driven surveillance systems. Then we'll explore how these techniques work on both computer vision and human vision in surprising ways, and give the audience opportunities to try and fool their own perception. Together we'll explore the promise that art offers in helping us better understand computer vision, and our own, so we can make informed choices about policies we need to define these technologies’ place in our world.

“Painting with Code in p5.js”
Aren Davey; Workshop

Create a dynamic brush and make generative art in an hour long introductory workshop to p5.js! P5.js is a free, accessible, and open source Javascript library library for creative coding. As we’ll be using the p5.js web editor in this workshop, no setup is required - all you need is a computer and an internet connection.

“Pattern Library: When Designer Meets Developer”
Ngọc Triệu, Vincent Ahrend; Workshop

Design does not hold the key to all the problems out there, but it might help unblock your "stuckness" and bring new perspectives. Take part in our speed-dating-like session where your decentralized tech problem might just find its perfect design-pattern match. To participate, please bring at least one problem that you are currently struggling with (it doesn’t have to be a technical one), wear a smile, and keep your mind wide open. The good thing is, unlike Tinder, the possibilities are endless.

The session will be conducted via Zoom and Miro. It consists of three parts:

Check-in and Introduction
Problem-Pattern Matching
Sharing and Learning

“Personal Data & Political Influence”
Varoon; Art and Media

Our personal data is being used for political purposes, and it has become a political asset, a means for political intelligence, and an instrument for political influence. This 5-minute animation, in English, explains some of the mechanisms involved that have been identified from research on – what we have called – “The Influence Industry.” What does the use of your data mean for our democracies?

Dutch: https://vimeo.com/469714160
French Subtitles: https://vimeo.com/504723529
German Subtitles: https://vimeo.com/504720512

“Planning for blended online/offline spaces”
Harriet Kingaby; Workshop

Half of the world's population are yet to come online, and when they do, they'll be targeted with highly sophisticated advertising. How do we protect them?

TVs in our homes could use emotional and facial recognition to serve us ads. Is that really OK?

Advertising funds many of our online spaces, but it's also warped their development. How far should we really let the data collection go? How can we carve out 'citizen spaces' online? And how can we keep the funding benefits of advertising, without selling our souls?

This session will explore planning dilemmas for our online spaces. What should we keep? What should we redesign? What can we learn from the way we design our offline spaces?

“Plotting Data: Best wishes from the Enron corpus”
Cristina Cochior, Ruben van de Ven; Workshop

Datasets form the basis on which computer models that are often tasked with automatic decision making, function. But these datasets are not a distilled version of reality: in their creation, conflict and ambiguity are neglected in favour of making reality computable. In this workshop we will explore tactics of instilling affective relations back into datasets. The Enron corpus is a collection of emails by some of the employees of the Enron company put together in the wake of the company's fraud court case. We will collaboratively delve into this vast corpus through the practice of script writing.

“Plotting Data: The choice of the annotator”
Ruben van de Ven, Cristina Cochior; Art and Media

The Choice of the Annotator is a choose-your-own-adventure game which addresses the hidden labour happening behind machine learning datasets. The videos within this game are from the 20BN Something-Something dataset. They act as brief encounters with the workers. Sometimes they show a lot of care for their recording, while others are as fast as possible.
Taking the perspective of the platform worker, the player has to deal with some of the conditions the platform imposes.

“Pop up house party!”
Mathura Govindarajan; Workshop

Paper is one of the most ingenious materials, that is understated in many ways! Paper Engineering is an art that dates back centuries. Paper has been used to create models, mechanisms, and complete pieces of interactive artwork.

In this session we want to walk through how we can make mini-worlds that pop up and pop out using simple materials like paper and glue. We will look at how we can use math and simple mechanisms to create pop up rooms.

Here's what we'll be doing in the wonderful 60 minutes :
* Look at examples of paper engineering
* Use templates to create our own pop up room
* Understand the math behind the template, so that we can create our own templates later!
* A little show and tell of our mini-rooms!

“POV: After Hours”
POV: Points of View, Alton Glass; Social Moments

Hosted within the platform Spatial Chat, POV: After Hours will be a casual meet and greet directly after the Combating Implicit Biases In Technology Through Impact Storytelling to continue discussing the themes of implicit biases and data/privacy surveillance in emerging technologies found in the Mozfest exhibition piece titled POV: Points of View.

About the Project: Brought to life by GRX Immersive Labs, POV: Points of View is a sci-fi immersive series project that educates its audience about emerging tech literacy.

“POV: Points of View | Pilot Exhibition”
POV: Points of View; Art and Media

GRX Immersive Labs’ prestigious virtual reality studio exhibits the pilot version of their cross-platform experience, POV: Points of View.

The on-demand program is a sci-fi immersive project aiming to create a platform to educate future generations on emerging tech literacy.

Combined with their interactive workshop program and virtual reality film, GRX Immersive aims to motivate communities through storytelling to engage with civic technology in order to influence positive oversight into the research and development of emerging technologies like facial recognition, data/privacy surveillance, and A.I.

“Power to the people: Increasing privacy-consciousness through radio story-telling”
Subhashish Bhadra; Skill Share

For three months starting December 2019, Omidyar Network India funded a radio show called Zindagi Mobile (“mobile life”), in which famous radio storyteller Neelesh Mishra weaved privacy into fictitious everyday stories of ordinary Indians. The show was translated into five regional languages and had a cumulative reach of 140 million over 10 episodes. Multiple episodes reached the #1 position on radio in major cities. In December 2020, we funded a behavioral evaluation of the program and found that it had a significant impact on knowledge, attitudes and practices towards data privacy.

In this session, I will present findings from the evaluation, while also explaining behavioural science underpinnings of those results. I will also talk about other behaviour-change initiatives that Omidyar Network India has funded, from an influencer-led social media campaign, to a grassroots NGO-driven movement. I will be available for office hours and will share documents offline.

“Practicing Trustworthy AI - Case Studies from Frontline Workers”
Katherine Townsend, Jeanne Holm, Costanza Sciubba, John Kamara, Momar Dieng; Discussion - Capped

AI is in use in assessing and delivering social services. For many, this means getting advice and getting connected to services that may otherwise be impossible when relying on the speed and efficiency of determined, dedicated, but resource-limited individuals. How have AI for social services been established? What are their gaps? And how can they be constantly tested and improved to ensure no one is left behind? We will share case studies on covid information, air pollution testing, election monitoring, and host a discussion on practical next steps for the public and the laws and regulations that need strengthening.

“PreparationTech: AI Futures (for High School Students)”
Deborah Carter; Discussion - Capped

Are you a high school student who is confused about what exactly AI is and why it matters? Join us for a crash course on AI, how it is being used to create positive change and what challenges it poses. AI specialists from different industries will talk about how they use AI in their projects and you will have the chance to share your opinions about the ethics of their projects. You'll also have the chance to ask them questions via chat. (Unfortunately, MozFest does not offer breakout rooms in the YouthZone.)

Confirmed Speakers:

David Hanson, leading designer of human-like robots including Sophia who sang a duet with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show
Soraya Hausl, a data scientist in the beauty industry who specializes in tech which generates recommendations and rankings
Jen Selby, a machine learning engineer who works for Blue River Technology, a smart agriculture company which uses AI to improve farming, and former high school teacher

“PRESC: Performance Robustness Evaluation for Statistical Classifiers”
David Zeber, Muriel Rovira-Esteva; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

PRESC is a tool to help data scientists, developers, academics and activists evaluate the performance of machine learning classification models, specifically in areas which tend to be underexplored, such as generalizability and bias. Our current focus on misclassifications, robustness and stability will help facilitate the inclusion of bias and fairness analyses on the performance reports so that these can be taken into account when crafting or choosing between models.

This is a project sprint from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Registration and more information here: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“Preserving our heritage through website archiving”
Thomas Preece; Workshop

The internet has had a relatively brief existence so far, yet it has already had a huge cultural impact on us. However the internet is often short lived so preserving it for historical reasons is very important as it is such a huge part of our modern life.

In this session we’ll learn about current web archiving technologies (crawlers) and strategies. In particular, we’ll talk about where these “crawlers” succeed and where they face difficulties due to the ever changing technologies on the web. As part of this we’ll have hands on demos of the open source tools that you can use to preserve the web.

Finally we’ll discuss the techniques that we used to archive our interactive object-based media experiences in BBC R&D and how they can be applied to other difficult to archive content on the web

“print(dialogue)”
Blair Simmons; Art and Media

print(dialogue), comprises a series of computer-generated mini plays. The outputs from the artificially intelligent system are surprising, often humorous, and border on absurdism. I am holding open studio sessions where I allow visitors to interact with the piece while we discuss questions around language & AI.

Check the schedule for a related discussion session.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“print(dialogue) - Discussion”
Blair Simmons; Art and Media - Discussion

“Privacy & Security Creepathon: The Results”
Temi Popo, Naomi Sterk, Griffin Reed, Tijmen El Baradi; Discussion - Capped

What “creepy” personal information is available in public datasets? In our last creepathon, students explored a public dataset and you'll be shocked what was found.

Learn from the winning students at CODAM, coding college in Amsterdam, as they present revealing stories found within this Venmo dataset and recommendations or policies they would implement to protect user privacy.

“Project Immerse - a deepfake paranoid thriller exploring misinformation and deception”
Lance Weiler; Social Moments

NEW TIME -
Please check your inbox if you registered for this session before March 10th.

Project Immerse is a deepfake paranoid thriller that places upwards of 100 participants within a virtual experience that mixes story, play and web pervasive technologies. Designed to work in Zoom and Miro, a collaborative whiteboard platform, Project Immerse takes these web tools and subverts them into a thrill ride that leverages elements of film, immersive theatre, ARGs and escape rooms into a collaborative storytelling experience. The piece explores the challenges associated with deepfakes, shallow fakes and bots. All the images, videos, audio and text- about 90% of the experience is created with AI. The end result is a unique storytelling experience that explores deception, conspiracy, and the way humans create meaning and make connections. The experience starts in the waiting room of Zoom, so be prepared to arrive early and to keep on the chat for more instructions.
This session is hosted on a third party website.

“Project Immerse - a deepfake paranoid thriller exploring misinformation and deception”
Lance Weiler; Social Moments

NEW TIME -
Please check your inbox if you registered for this session before March 10th.

“Project Immerse - a deepfake paranoid thriller exploring misinformation and deception”
Lance Weiler; Social Moments

NEW TIME -
Please check your inbox if you registered for this session before March 10th.

“Project Immerse - a deepfake paranoid thriller exploring misinformation and deception”
Lance Weiler; Social Moments

NEW TIME -
Please check your inbox if you registered for this session before March 10th.

“Prosthetic X - Data Donor Register”
Isaac Monté, Lija Groenewoud - van Vliet; Art and Media

The Data Donor Register (DaDoR) is being developed as part of the speculative art project Prosthetic X, in which an artificial data organ is created to enable healthy ageing. Since it works on data, it should do so in a responsible way. The DaDoR wants to set a standard for wearable and IoT devices by creating a user-centred terms of service. With the DaDoR we ‘start over’ by rethinking privacy and data sharing from a ‘human-centric point of view’. Co-design with usthe boundaries to make a truly human centric data privacy policy: though our mural, questionnaire, artist talk and real time sessions.

“Prosthetic X - Data Donor Register | Interactive Session”
Lija Groenewoud - van Vliet, Isaac Monté; Art and Media - Discussion

Join the interactive session with the creators of the Data Donor Register, on the Spatial Chat Platform at the Shifting Power in Tech Space, in the Room 'Shifting Power Action!'

“Protecting Privacy from & using AI While Sharing Photos”
Chamin Morikawa; Discussion - Capped

Social networking services can use AI algorithms to analyze photos, and combine results with other information that they have collected over time, to extract much more information than what we want to give them. Further, such information might be shared with advertisers and other parties. I will introduce this problem, and have a brief discussion with participants to get a broader view of this problem.

I will then describe two possible solutions that I have been working on the past year. Adding artifacts or effects to photos can degrade the ability of AI algorithms to detect and recognize content in photos. AI algorithms built into smartphone apps can remove information that we do not want to share. These will be explained with a non-technical audience in mind. I will conclude the session with a brief discussion on how to proceed with these approaches for better privacy.

“Psychosocial Accompaniment for Sustainable Resistance”
Alex Argüelles; Workshop

How do we ensure inclusion and long-term endurance while working on eradicating the sustained violence against our people, movements, and lives? The psychosocial accompaniment approach offers a set of proposals to understand how we can improve the support we provide to our resistance companions, by understanding the particular needs and strengths of our peers and aiding in the development of collective construction towards transformative justice in our practices.

“publicdata.events - creating a pool of public calendar data for staying up to date with things”
Joel Galvez; Workshop

apocalendar.today and publicdata.events is a an initiative to stay up to date with things using open calendar protocols. I live in Amsterdam and wanted to keep track of openings and things happening in town without relying on social media in the simplest way possible.

The project is currently a form of working concept, and I'm about to take the next step with it. Before I do that, I wanted to use these 60 minutes to first quickly invite you to try it out, then open up the discussion how to continue.

Here is a 1-minute video introduction aimed to recruit art spaces in Amsterdam: https://apocalendar.today/about

“Pursuing Careers in Ethical Tech: An Interdisciplinary Student’s Dilemma”
Shelby Perkins, Leila Doty, Adriana Stephan; Discussion - Capped

This session will bring together an interdisciplinary group of students from diverse majors, as well as young professionals, who are interested in the critical examination of technology’s role in society and its impacts on democratic values, norms, and processes. Participants will discuss what resources are useful for considering the ethical and social implications of new technologies, the big questions they're pondering, and the academic and professional support they need to pursue their interdisciplinary interests.

This session will share advice from seasoned professionals already working at this intersection, including important factors to consider when choosing jobs and career paths. It will also be a chance for students and young professionals with similar interests to learn from and support each other and connect beyond the session.

“Queering Habitats – What Digital Communities can learn from Urban Design”
Simon Allen, Rachel Hill, Felix Bentlin; Discussion - Capped

How does the "tyranny of the majority" influence the spaces and communities we design, online and in the real world? What can digital makers learn from people who design cities when it comes to creating inclusive multi-coded spaces and experiences? And what lessons can we share as creators of environment, experience and community?

We are seeking input from all makers, but especially members of communities under-represented online and those working with all digital communities to create greater awareness of how interdisciplinary exchange can help us design a better internet.

“RAD CoDesign Tools for Tech”
Tim Stallmann, Chris Schweidler; Workshop

How can design support building tech tools which amplify movement organizing? Research Action Design uses codesign, research justice, and participatory action research approaches to build online and offline tools which are collaborative, participatory and movement-centered. While every situation is unique, over the years we've developed a set of re-usable and adaptable co-design tools which can help center tech design in the knowledge, experience and needs of organizers and impacted communities.

In this workshop, we'll introduce a codesign framework for technology projects and walk through real-world case studies of building web-based platforms to support migrant worker organizing. We'll share specific design activities that RAD has used, and invite participants to practice them in the workshop space.

You'll leave with a set of codesign tools and activities which you can apply to your own projects!

“Re-awakening sleeping Giants through productive advocacy and effective literacy teaching.”
Stephen Emmanuel; Workshop

In this session, I would share my success story of raising awareness of Special Learning Difficulties in rural areas in South Western Nigeria. The strategies used to communicate the reality of the gift that comes with neurodiversity and the significant progress recorded within a short time would be shared with the participants. Finally, the challenges and prospects for the future would be discussed with the participants.

“Rebalancing Power: Designing Technology of, by and for the First Mile?”
Gaurav Jain, Deborah Thomas, Ethan Zuckerman, Rakshita Swamy, Julienne Chen; Discussion - Capped

Decisions around technology are often taken in offices in Silicon Valley or in the hallways of government offices. These technologies then go on to impact the lives of everyone. With greater access to the internet, more and more people from rural and vulnerable communities (‘First Mile’) have now gotten access to these technologies but their demands and needs neither shape technology design by corporate firms nor are central to government agenda.
This session will try to understand how communities can become central to the design, development, and deployment of technology. Together, we will hear practitioners and participants from different communities and intermediary organisations (NGOs/tech activists/GovTech developers) highlighting ways and means of adopting a ‘First Mile’ approach in technology development. The session will delve into real-life stories of such implementation and marks the start of a continued collaboration towards design technology of, by, for the people!

“Reclaiming faces and digital spaces: join the #ReclaimYourFace coalition!”
Ella Jakubowska, Andreea Belu; Discussion - Capped

The Reclaim Your Face movement is a broad coalition of digital rights, human rights and social justice organisatons campaigning to tackle one of the biggest issues in the European Artificial Intelligence world: biometrics. From facial recognition to typing pattern analysis to smell recognition (yes, really!), the coalition demands that all uses of biometrics be: genuinely transparent and accountable; limited in law to prevent harmful uses like mass surveillance; used in full respect for human rights and human dignity.

In this open discussion, we invite anyone that is keen to know more to join us to learn what our work is all about, why it matters, and how you can get involved. We also invite you to give us your ideas, tell us what matters to you, and to co-shape ideas and activities that will make the Reclaim Your Face campaign even more effective!

“Recommenders with a mission: towards a more diverse internet”
Sanne Vrijenhoek, Marijn Sax; Discussion - Capped

In the current age of information overload, we rely increasingly on recommender systems that help us filter the information available down to those items that are interesting or relevant to us. Typically, these systems are based on general popularity of the items or similarity to items we have interacted with before. This approach works well in domains such as product or movie recommendation, but could be problematic in the context of news recommendation. Recently concerns have been raised over this approach inducing filter bubbles and echo chambers, where people primarily see items that are in line with their own views and preferences. Simultaneously, when done well, these news recommender systems could also be used to expose users to viewpoints different from what they are used to. This session will facilitate a discussion on what diversity in the context of news recommenders would look like.

“Reconsidering AI through Speculative Writing Techniques”
Elisabeth Sylvan, Amy Johnson; Workshop

In this workshop we will envision alternative possible realities through a hands-on speculative fiction writing activity. We have been using this technique for a year with a long-standing group that explores current and future technology through speculative writing.

This highly structured yet improvisational activity uses a customized set of cards that are reshuffled to create different and unexpected writing prompts. The approach frees the mind to think differently, both about the realities of current technologies and about writing itself.

In this workshop we will introduce the concept of speculative fiction and the writing activity, and then try the activity for ourselves, focusing particularly on themes relevant to this year's Mozfest, including Truthworthy and not trustworthy AI, misinformation, and power.

Also, we will get silly. You will leave with an understanding of how to use these writing prompts, whether individually or with others.

“(Re)figuring feminist futures: Alternative Economies”
Jac sm Kee, Jac sm Kee; Discussion - Capped

How can we decolonise our relationship with technology? Can we interrogate our past to rebuild a future where technology is shaped by an abundance of imagination rather than the wants of a few? What if technology infrastructure is less about the tool, and more about relationships?

This is a play session that invites collective imagination on alternative resource flow and economic exchange. Using visualisation and world building methodologies, we invite you to create design blueprints for artefacts of possible feminist futures. The blueprints will be used to create XR narrative objects after the workshop, to invite broader interaction and engagement. Please bring colour pencils, paper, play dough etc to the session.

The session is woven by feminist tech activist Jac sm Kee, in collaboration with Saigonese VR and AR conceptual artist Jo Ngô Kỳ Duyên; Bani Haikal, sound & text artist; An Binh, communications activist; Joanna Varon, Creative Chaos Catalyst; and Michaela Ternasky-Holland, methodology consultant - by Numun.Fund - the first dedicated funding for feminist tech in the Larger World!

“Regulating Artificial Intelligence with Collective Intelligence”
Raashi Saxena, Eileen Cejas, Jean F. Queralt, Jon Stever, Manon Potet, Antoine Vergne; Discussion - Capped

To conceptualize the best manifestation of AI, we must offer the best of human governance by elevating the best of our collective intelligence. Imagine Habermasian Discourse Ethics guiding the most difficult questions of AI Governance and decision-making? This session will explore the vision, tactics and results of the recently-concluded Global Citizen’s Dialogue on the Future of the Internet, We, the Internet (WTI). Since its inception in 2018, WTI has organized national deliberations in 77 countries, activating the collective insights of over 5000 citizens. Our overarching goal is to test, improve and institutionalize AI governance with and for citizens. We will open the session with reflections on the results of the 2020 global dialogue with the country leads for Argentina, Malaysia, India, Philippines, Rwanda and Timor Leste followed by an invitation to co-imagine the future of AI Governance. More details can be realised here : https://wetheinternet.org/

“Resisting surveillance in public spaces through creative experiences”
Fieke; Workshop

To resist surveillance in public spaces we first have to make it tangible. With our 'low tech canvas against high tech surveillance' we want to make the 'invisible' visible and start a discussion on the use of AI in public space. The canvases challenge people to become a digital explorer of their city and see their neighborhood in a new light. Join our workshop and help us test out and localize these canvasses and explore issues around facial recognition, thermal imaging, and Wi-Fi tracking.

Try out our canvasses at home by downloading from our website https://www.datawear.it/diy and join us for this fun and interactive workshop. Where we will discuss peoples experience, observations, and comments to improve our product – all while resisting AI in public spaces.

“Resisting surveillance in public spaces through creative experiences 2”
Fieke; Workshop

“Responding to Coded Bias: Black Women Interrogating AI”
Renée Cummings, Ayanna Howard, Ifeoma Ozoma, Deborah Raji; Discussion - Capped

Join us for a panel discussion of Coded Bias, the acclaimed documentary about the fallout from MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini's discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms. Deborah Raji (featured in the film) engages a panel of technologists on critical themes highlighted in the documentary, including technology-based discrimination around race and gender, representation, intersectionality, and civic engagement.

Panelists: Deborah Raji (Mozilla Fellow), Renee Cummings (Data Activist, University of Virginia), Ayanna Howard (Dean, College of Engineering, Ohio State), Ifeoma Ozoma (Founder and Principal, Earthseed).

View Coded Bias at MozFest; find it under "Arts and Media" in the left sidebar.

If you were not able to register to join on Zoom, you can watch from the livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F366d5pVLVA

“Responsible Computing Curricula - How do we do it?”
Kathy Pham, Atri Rudra, Ellen Zegura, Oliver Bonham-Carter, Helena Mentis, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, Jenn Beard, Sorelle Friedler, Udayan Das, Irina Raicu, Vance Ricks, Alicia Patterson; Workshop

Come check out the Playbook on developing Responsible Computing Curricula and brainstorm with us. Meet the contributors and learn from examples from a range of topics as a team of faculty around the United States worked together to integrate responsibility and ethics in computing. The playbook is one output of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, an initiative that has funded 19 colleges and universities over the last 2 years to integrate ethics and responsibility into computing curricula (responsiblecs.org).

Check out the playbook here, featuring the following topics:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/awards/teaching-responsible-computing-playbook/

Join the Global Teaching Responsible Computing Community of Practice: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/awards/responsible-computer-science-challenge/resources/

“Responsible Design Through Human-Centred Methodologies”
Kabir David, Aditya Prakash, Joanne, Harsh Ghildiyal; Workshop

The aim of the workshop will be to collectively explore the design of digital solutions within the contexts, understandings, and ground realities of the people they cater to.

The first ten minutes of the session will establish guiding principles for the development of transparent and accountable technology — the need to be inclusive, collaborative, and grounded in the realities of the people it seeks to serve.

The remaining time will involve group-based activities, wherein participants will build a smartphone-based application concept that addresses a COVID-related problem of their choosing. Activities will draw from human centred design to engage key aspects of ‘openness’ in technology design. This includes framing an effective challenge statement, gaining a nuanced understanding of the causes and effects that operate within that challenge, understanding the people being served, and building ideas that respond to each aspect of the challenge in an effective manner.

“Responsible Innovation: Implementing Google’s AI Principles through Adversarial Testing”
Sarah Murphy Gray, Tulsee Doshi, Cherish Molezion; Workshop

This session will introduce Google’s AI Principles, which drive the development of responsible AI throughout Google. We will provide some examples of how we spot issues relevant to the principles. Then we will lead the participants in a workshop focused on one of the ways we put the principles into practice, by conducting adversarial testing on products. In this testing we take on the user perspective to identify potential fairness issues and advise teams on mitigations and other steps to improve product fairness.

“Responsible Sensing Lab”
Anouk Wieleman, Thijs Turel, Coen Bergman; Discussion - Capped

Technologies like smart sensors can help solve urban challenges. Innovations improve the quality of life and enhance safety, sustainability and livability. For example by better using available capacity of energy infrastructures. On the other hand: novel technologies that collect and analyze data could impact values such as autonomy, privacy, transparency and inclusiveness.

The Responsible Sensing Lab explores how to integrate society’s public and democratic values in the design of sensing systems in public space. It is a testbed for conducting rigorous and transparent research in order to create a ‘responsible’ digital city.

Within the Responsible Sensing Lab academics, practitioners, computer scientists, policy makers, psychologists, designers and hardware experts are invited to connect and work together to (re)design, prototype, test and implement responsible sensing systems.

In our session we would love to present our current projects and challenges to host a valuable discussion.

Hosts: Thijs Turèl and Coen Bergman.

“Rijksmuseum at MozFest”
Kitty Leering; Art and Media

The Dutch National Museum, or Rijksmuseum, houses one of the largest and oldest art collections, covering from the 1200's onwards, in the Netherlands. It was founded in the 18th Century, but despite its age, it hasn't stopped innovating. The Rijksmuseum was one of the first museums that embraced digital technology to make its collection accessible for everyone, all over the world. Learn more about how they've approached and applied digital technology and how you can create your own, unique Rembrandt sneakers, or Vermeer coffee cup, because of it.

“"Save the Internet: How to recognise a Regulatory Threat, and what you can do about It"”
Emmanuel C. OGU, Veronica Piccolo; Workshop

Rising tides of anti-Internet Regulations by authoritarian governments continue to threaten and weaken the core properties of Trust, Interoperability, Decentralization, Openness, and Neutrality (TIDON) that have insured the growth and development of the Internet through the years. The Internet Society (ISOC) has recently developed the Impact Assessment Toolkit (IAT) to help Digital Citizens and Internet Progressives in better evaluating and assessing the (potential) impact of certain Internet-related regulation on these core Internet Properties. In this Workshop, we lead participants through the way this Toolkit operates, teaching them how to assess the impact of Internet-related Regulations in their various jurisdictions on the growth and future of the Internet.

We consider a Regulatory Case Study in this Workshop, and work participants through an interactive assessment of the Case Study, using the IAT.

“Science Materiality Series Workshop, from jargon to emotive engagement.”
Cristian A. Zaelzer-Pérez; Workshop

This series of three 60min workshops will discuss practical ways to translate science into materials to create art based on Science. We invite you to review the information under each theme via the link below before arrival at the workshops, for background information central to the sessions
https://www.convergenceinitiative.org/convergence-scimat-mozilla

Session1, 12th March,1700-1800 GMT
Science to Concept.
Goal: Learn scientific familiarization, de-jargonization, synthesis & conceptualization for communication.
Outcome: A 100 word press release.

Session2, 13th March, 1330-1430 GMT
Concepts to Materials.
Goal: Learn translation of concepts to materials by practicing divergent thinking.
Outcome: The creation of a MindMap and the development of Simile.

Session3, 14th March 1745 - 1845 GMT
Emotive engagement: materiality and metaphor.
Goal: Recognize emotive properties of materials and how they can be used to spark curiosity and wonder directed to scientific engagement.
Outcome: An Art Concept science-based.

“Science Materiality Series Workshop, from jargon to emotive engagement.”
Cristian A. Zaelzer-Pérez; Workshop

Session1, 12th March,1700 - 1800 GMT
Science to Concept.
Goal: Learn scientific familiarization, de-jargonization, synthesis & conceptualization for communication.
Outcome: A 100 word press release.

Session2, 13th March, 1330 - 1430 GMT
Concepts to Materials.
Goal: Learn translation of concepts to materials by practicing divergent thinking.
Outcome: The creation of a MindMap and the development of Simile.

“Science Materiality Series Workshop, from jargon to emotive engagement.”
Cristian A. Zaelzer-Pérez; Workshop

Session1, 12th March,1700-1800 GMT
Science to Concept.
Goal: Learn scientific familiarization, de-jargonization, synthesis & conceptualization for communication.
Outcome: A 100 word press release.

“Searching Traces”
Sabine Küper-Büsch; Workshop

Introduction to the production of short films for virtual usage in the Single-Shot mode. The Participants get an introduction and are invited to join the Video-network of the Mahalla Festival. A travelling event of Arts, Film, Literature, Music and Theatre with several events running alongside it. We are engaging for a one world based on sustainability and equal access to safety and freedom. Short Films are used to share experiences and to initiate collaborative and co-creative Video-productions. During the session we will introduce the single-shot-methodology and show examples from the Mahalla-Video workshop with short films produced in 2020 in Turkey, Italy, Malta, Holland , Russia and Canada by emerging filmmakers from Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Malta, Macedonia, Eritrea, Holland, Germany, Italy, China, Canada and Russia. Our plan is to expand the network and to initiate Video-Clubs in different locations globally.

“Seeding Things”
Jen Southern; Art and Media

A video made through incremental collaborations in a greenhouse and machine learning software. A landscape emerges from a glacier and grass begins to grow, only to recede back under the ice. Through freeze and thaw, it slowly gives way to a densely matted greenness that is grass-like, but also not. The work continues to grow in a generative conversation between plants, AI, and the artist. It draws a parallel between the actions of biological growth and machine learning, both seeded and tended by human input. The work is quietly influenced by ideas of environmental and human justice from fiction, an entangled understanding of more-than-human relationships from social sciences, and of environmental and microbial care. This complex ecology of ‘contaminated diversity’ produces sublime encounters that threaten and enthral.

This video is hosted on a third party website.

“Seeding Things - Discussion”
Jen Southern; Art and Media - Discussion

A video made through incremental collaborations in a greenhouse and machine learning software. A landscape emerges from a glacier and grass begins to grow, only to recede back under the ice. Through freeze and thaw, it slowly gives way to a densely matted greenness that is grass-like, but also not. The work continues to grow in a generative conversation between plants, AI, and the artist. It draws a parallel between the actions of biological growth and machine learning, both seeded and tended by human input.
The work is quietly influenced by ideas of environmental and human justice from fiction (Jemisin 2015-17, VanderMeer 2014), an entangled understanding of more-than-human relationships from social sciences (Tsing 2015, Haraway 1991 & 2016, Barad 2007), and of environmental and microbial care (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017). This complex ecology of ‘contaminated diversity’ (Tsing 2015) produces sublime encounters that threaten and enthral.

“Shadowbans, nudity, censorship and moderation: how can we effectively moderate social media content without affecting freedom of speech?”
Carolina Are; Discussion - Capped

In this session, I will draw from my academic research on online abuse, conspiracy theories and content moderation and from my activism around Instagram censorship of nudity. I will start by telling my story - from receiving an apology from Instagram about censoring pole dance in 2019, to launching the #EveryBODYVisible global anti-censorship campaign on the platform. Considering that, particularly in a global pandemic, online visibility is essential for workers, creators and marginalised communities, I hope to start the conversation on the visibility of bodies and on what audiences consider acceptable online content.

“Share Your Stories About the Best & the Worst of 2020 Internet Health”
Laura Vidal, Eeva Moore; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

This session is happening in Spatial Chat in the Share Your Stories room.

This spatial chat is tied to a Miro board where we are presenting some of our favorite stories from the Internet Health Report and its special feature with over 100 internet experts telling us about the healthiest and unhealthiest moments of 2020.

In this space you can share your own stories about internet health, and add them to a whole new gallery with the help of the IHR team.

You can also take this moment to ask us questions about the Report, tell us what you'd like to see in the 2021 IHR or just come by and say hi!

“SIDN fund showcase session and launch call Internet against Desinformatie”
Mieke van Heesewijk; Discussion - Capped

During this session we would like to showcase 3 projects we funded the last year with the focus on Empowerment, data and big the platforms. The Projects will give a presentation about what they are doing and then we would like to facilitate a discussion about the problems we would like te tackle:

Duck Duck Goose - deep fake detection - https://www.duckduckgoose.nl
TAMI - Towards a Monitoring of Instagram - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/
Who targets me? Who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how are they doing it?

At the end of this session we will launch the call Internet against Desinformation

“Silencing the silenced? The impact of takedown legislations on civil liberties and victims of human rights abuses”
Jacob Mchangama, Raghav Mendiratta; Discussion - Capped

Participants from diverse backgrounds will share examples when a social media platform took down something they (or someone they know) posted. It could be anything - from erotic art, a picture of a wounded protestor, a video of an abusive police officer, or a sarcastic tweet mocking an extremist leader. Participants will contemplate the likely reasons for the removal - was it an AI’s mistake; was it a human reviewer misjudging the post’s context, or was it willfully censored?

Through case studies, participants will discuss the implications of takedown legislations for free speech and activism. Participants will ponder over whether the benefits of takedown legislations cause more harm than good? Do they silence narratives and speakers for whom the online space is the safest? Finally, participants will collaborate to think of ideal frameworks that balance taking down illegal content and protecting free speech online.

“Skating in the Netherlands!”
Varinia Kolen; Art and Media

We Dutch LOVE to ice skate. Still, we do not often - and it appears less and less so - have winters that are cold enough to freeze over our lakes and canals. So, when they do, like this 2021 winter, half of the country starts scrambling frantically in attics and depots to dig up their skates, blow off the dust, and enjoys a few days on natural ice, just thick enough to be (moderately) safe ;-) And of course we filmed it.
Join one of Mozfest's producers braving the ice (the one with the white knitted cap with pompom and red backpack!) and let the swoosh swoosh of her skates sooth and relax your mind.

“Slow down to discuss how fast content must be taken down”
Jacob Mchangama, Raghav Mendiratta; Discussion - Capped

Most Internet users would agree that illegal content must be removed. Most users may not agree on is an ideal timeframe in which the removal should happen! Some believe that takedowns must be as prompt as possible, some others believe that prompt takedowns lead to silencing crucial voices and opinions. Participants in this session will discuss and deliberate on this key question that could potentially change the future of the internet.

Participants would be asked to share experiences and examples of the harms caused when removing illegal content was too slow or when legal but offensive content was taken down incorrectly and too fast! Participants would then be asked to brainstorm what would be considered an expeditious, fair and reasonable timeframe for social media platforms to remove harmful content?
This session is open to all – and we especially hope to engage with free speech enthusiasts, lawyers, policymakers and activists!

“Social media analysis to manage community behaviors during crisis”
Houcemeddine Turki, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Hiba Sebei, Amina Amara; Discussion - Capped

During crisis periods such as outbreaks, wars and uprisings, opinion divergence and misinformation tend to largely increase causing an epidemic of fear and a trouble in decision making. By the information age, these phenomena are reflected in social media such as Facebook and Twitter where people dynamically show their thoughts and beliefs on a daily basis. In this discussion, we will try to show how the recent advances in machine learning, data analytics and natural language processing can be used to identify the social thoughts of a given society about a particular topic and consequently to guide sociopolitical decisions through the recommendation of several actions or of several research publications to fight misinformation and make the general opinion more reasonable and efficient.

“Soul searching”
Harrison Pim, James Gorrie; Discussion - Capped

A lot of debate in 2020 revolved around how knowledge is produced, how we define trusted sources, and which information we privilege with exposure.

Museums are reappraising their own histories and asking whether they can challenge the biases they’re built on, while the technology sector is fighting an uphill battle to limit the spread of misinformation. These themes are colliding at Wellcome Collection where we’re building search algorithms for a museum collection.

We know that biases can be introduced or amplified in:
- The original material in the collection
- Descriptions of that material
- Algorithms and interfaces built for search

We’ve been quietly working on these problems for a while, but now we want to share what we’ve learned, allow people to challenge our assumptions, and hear your perspectives about how knowledge should be accessed.

If you have related thoughts, ideas, or experience, we want to hear them.

“Soundtracking the Global Dance Floor”
Lynnée Denise; Art and Media - Discussion

Join DJ Lynnée Denise for a specially curated hour of Music.

DJ Lynnée Denise is an artist, scholar, and writer whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African Diaspora. Her work on DJ scholarship has been featured at prestigious institutions and in publications including the Broad Museum, the Tate Modern, Savvy Contemporary Gallery in Berlin, Iziko South African Museum, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Black Scholar and Women Who Rock. She is a 2020-2021 Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University and a lecturer for African American Studies at UCLA. Her current book project, Why Big Mama Matters will be published in 2022 by the University of Texas Press.

http://www.djlynneedenise.com/

“So You Want to Be a Tech Ethicist (No Scrubs edition)”
Emanuel Moss, Jacob Metcalf, Michael Zimmer, Casey Fiesler, Justin Norman, Sabrina Ross; Discussion - Capped

Inside the tech industry, a growing awareness of the responsibilities companies have for preventing and minimizing the potential harms of data technologies has led to roles for people to manage ethical risk. These tech ethicists turn abstract ethical principles and values into concrete workplace practices across their companies, from coders to content managers to CEOs. But most people in these roles got there by chance. They were technologists who taught themselves about the ethical landscape surrounding the things they built, or they started out as lawyers, humanists, or social scientists and somehow found themselves working inside a tech company. Our panel will feature a mix of industry tech ethicists and professors who teach tech ethics discussing what it takes to do the real work, sharing some of their own cases, and exploring what students need to know if they want to do this work as a career.

“Speculating Narratives on Futures of AI Wellness”
Chiara Ullstein, Michel Hohendanner; Workshop

In the workshop we will dive into the future and imagine how futures of AI Wellness can look like. The future is not written yet, therefore, everything is possible. We invite everyone, with and without prior knowledge, to join the workshop. The workshop will benefit from the junction of community knowledge, expert knowledge and personal preferences. Many narratives on AI describe omnipotent systems, in which one or few actors obtain complete power. In the workshop, we will speculate a counter-narrative with AI Wellness being the central theme. The workshop will be held by the research collective perfectfuturedesign. We’ve developed a framework for collaborative speculative design - a method for deliberating on topics as a group - and are currently hosting the DesignXDiscourse series. The narrative(s) created during the workshop will be visualized and published online (perfectfuturedesign.com/results) after the workshop.

“Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence & Freedom of Expression: Shaping Online Content”
Julia Haas, Deniz Wagner, Eliska Pirkova, Amy Brouillette, Charles Ikem; Workshop

Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes and arbitrates online information. Content moderation and curation are often automated processes, with algorithms and AI deciding on which content is taken down or to whom it is disseminated. The use of AI can severely affect freedom of expression and media freedom, thereby shaping our opinions and behavior. Yet, AI tools are regularly deployed with little transparency or oversight.

This workshop will put a spotlight on AI and freedom of expression. The aim of the session is to identify and discuss what can and should be done to better protect free speech online, both on an individual and global level, and to explore how ordinary citizens and users can better protect their freedom of expression, privacy and access to pluralistic information online.

“Stop raging against the machines : Building a citizen linguist lab that detects hate speech”
Raashi Saxena, Drew Boyd, Christopher Tuckwood; Discussion - Capped

Hate speech(HS) is a human problem, which will always require human engagement to teach machines its relevance. It's also a very context-dependent phenomenon, making it imperative for us to engage with relevant experts across different regional and cultural contexts. How can we collaborate sustainably to keep pace with the constantly evolving nature of online HS? Can the monitoring of online HS meaningfully support offline efforts to prevent violence and build societal cohesion? The Sentinel Project's Hatesbase is the world’s largest structured repository of regionalized, multilingual HS. The session will introduce participants to our Citizen Linguist Lab. The aim is to inspire the participants in crowdsourcing their inputs that have appropriate linguistic, cultural, and contextual knowledge. Engaging participants across all generations is vital to understand the different lived experiences and perceptions of hate speech. One doesn't have to be a professional linguist to contribute.

“Stop Scaring People about AI”
Brett Gaylor; Workshop

The films, books, and journalism that we are creating about AI are not helping. By creating narratives that only show futures where artificial intelligence systems have made the world worse, we are disempowering audiences. If we are to create legislative change around AI, we need cultural change first. We need to tell different stories.

In this workshop, Harmony Labs will have audiences identify narratives from a set of movies, books and news stories. We will then compare these narratives with those Harmony identified after analyzing Mozilla’s survey of 68,000 users and 7,000 news articles around AI.

Then we will present our findings from studying audience reactions to the 2019/2020 Creative Media Awards, and offer a set of recommendations for makers to help push audiences towards productive narratives. We’ll practice this by making a set of memes together.

“Stories from Africa, by Africans for Africans”
Mukulu Kioko, Moses Obanda; Discussion - Capped

The session would begin with a presentation of the work of an online story telling platform called Talents of Nairobi (@TalentsofNairobi on all Social Media Platforms). The work of Talents of Nairobi is shining a spotlight on authentic African stories with the hope of reclaiming the power of African stories. The scope of the presentation would set the pace for the discussion to be carried out for the rest of the session. The idea is to have a discussion on how to leverage the increased access to the internet all across the African continent to reclaim the power of telling African stories in their most authentic sense, free from the need to pander to a gaze or to fit pre-conveived notions.

“Strangest Sights on Google Earth”
Hadar Ben-Tzur; Workshop

Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth! Let's sail to an island in the middle of nowhere, land on the sandy landscape of the Sahara desert, or dive to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean – and create an accurate map of the area (but please don't be accurate at all!). Let's draw crazy maps of crazy places.

“StreetSwipe.net”
Sjoerd ter Borg, FIBER; Art and Media

Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe lets the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront or bar should be classified as ‘gentrified’. While swiping different cities, streets, years and neighborhoods will be compared on a scoreboard. The subjective input of different groups of users will be used to train several computer models that can recognize and generate images that are perceived as gentrified and non-gentrified. The aim of StreetSwipe is twofold: the generation of new knowledge that is aimed at researching a perceived state of gentrification through its aesthetics (colors, patterns, objects) and, in doing so, to increase a critical understanding of how seemingly objective computational systems are developed, function, implemented and increasingly shape our lives.

“Supplying goods in a decentralised world”
Lynne Davis, Domini Hogg, Rachel, Mehdi Jabrane; Discussion - Capped

In the age of Amazon and Alibaba it seems that our whole globe can have anything delivered within hours thanks to a small handful of incredibly powerful companies. In this session we seek to understand why and what the OSS community is doing in response.

We invite everyone working in logistics and distribution solutions within the OSS community, or folks running distribution processes thanks to OSS code, to join us to discuss, share experiences and dream about how we might combine our efforts even more effectively to provide genuine, sustainable solutions to one of the most impactful parts of our economy.

Come and join us for this 60min discussion where we will explore what it means to create dynamic supply chains in a decentralized world.

“Suspicious behavior - a data annotation tutorial”
mur.at - Association to promote Networked Art; Art and Media

In the artwork Suspicious Behavior you are given the role of an image annotator performing Human Intelligence Tasks or (HITs) for a crowdworking platform. In this fictional annotation tutorial, your work to detect and label suspicious behavior is needed to train “smart” surveillance cameras. As a crowdworker you are not paid well, time is money, and you need to decide fast. Nevertheless, the artwork raises questions: how is suspicious behaviour defined? Who defines it? Are humans training the machine or eventually the machine training the humans about behaviour?

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“Sustainable Agriculture and AI in Developing Countries: dealing with the lack of datasets”
Jean Louis Fendji, Belona SONNA; Workshop

Agriculture remains a pillar in the development of developing countries. Up to now, the sector is dominated by traditional techniques using rudimentary tools. Despite the current trends of AI in Agriculture, their application remains limited, due mainly to... the lack of datasets.
The aim of this session is to provide a platform of discussion on the topic in order to gather ideas on how the limitation can be overcome.

“Sustaining Farming Through Technology”
Nandini Sharma; Discussion - Capped

Lately, we have been working towards developing crop production methods for a healthier crop and awareness of the farmer through technology.
An application that can help farmers use valid data in decision-making, leading to low-input and better-output agriculture.
The project will make it easier to access and make them aware of the world market and means of selling, helping them know the disease faced by their crop at the initial stage and preventing the entire harvest from being ruined. The project is something that I am currently working on. Because this is the sector where tech needs to be more included, and more sustainability is introduced in green tech and various other factors, all the different factors that come under the sustainable approach will be discussed.

“System Failure. Please Restart. - A New Media Exhibition”
Marin Vesely, nandini, Alanna Risse, Scott Nieradka, Shannon O'Brien, Monica McGrane, Hilary Tsai, Jesse England, Stephen Lee, Dan Fernie-Harper, Alan Page; Art and Media

Join 20+ artists as they dismantle, critique, interpret, and reinvent the future through their chosen medium, to design for justice and for community --to help us reimagine a more hopeful, equitable future.

System Failure. Please Restart. is an art exhibition set in a virtual abandoned mall turned gallery with the artworks as the remnants and artifacts. The spaces conjure up feelings of ruin and desolation–particularly in the wake of social distancing and forsaken retail shops. The CETI virtual gallery is a space to radically reimagine the future and to welcome artists and designers to open a dialogue about our own role in technological evolution.

Users can enter the mozilla hubs galleries through our webpage, https://ceti.institute/mozfest2021/

“Take a little break on the Amsterdam canals”
Varinia Kolen; Art and Media

We are so bummed out that you can't visit Amsterdam this year. But to give you a little preview of this historic city for your visit next year, we're encouraging you to join a typical Amsterdam boat ride. And the great additional bonus? It is soooo relaxing. Perfect for a quick break and clear your mind for a while. Enjoy the calming sound of water, the noise of the city and the beautiful architecture of Amsterdam. It is almost like you're there ;-)

“Teach The Web, without the Web”
Vishal Chavan; Workshop

We practically live ONLINE. This tendency has brought the world together. Be it education, business, or employment, Internet has made global communication more better and easier. It has become a crucial part of our lives, but millions of people still lack the skills and resources to access it. I want to introduce solutions for communities with low/no connectivity to learn basic web skills.

I propose a session to share offline activities through which we can teach and learn Web Literacy. Since this is a participatory workshop, participants can create their own unique activities as we progress.

This session will demonstrate how communities with little/no internet connectivity can improve their web literacy skills and how they can take what they learn forward and spread web literacy in other regions as well.

More: https://github.com/vi5halc/Teach-The-Web-without-the-Web

“Tech4Good Echo - Leveraging tech to build distributed Capacity, Opportunity & Prosperity for all, by all.”
Shemeer; Workshop

Tech4Good Echo dreams of building a Free, open, decentralised online platform for all stakeholders at government institutions and civil society organizations across India to co-create, learn and share crucial technology skills that can improve the quality, speed and impact of the important work they do.

Pre: Circulate problem statement and approach in the form of a video (3-5 minutes).
10 mins - Re- present the problem statement & approach to solve the problem. Quick Q&A for any questions of clarifications around the problem and approach.
30 mins - 4-5 Breakout Rooms of 5-6 participants each where participants will deep dive into the problem, identify problems/opportunities in the approach and help fine tune the solution. Host will provide facilitators (volunteers/friends) who will help guide, take notes etc in each break out room.
20 mins - Each breakout room will report back and share with Live white-boarding.

“Tech Activism Through Art: A Dialogues & Debates conversation”
Neema Iyer, Alexander Fefegha; Broadcast Talks

Can art and entertainment fuel a global movement for trustworthy AI? A conversation featuring:

Neema Iyer, an artist and a technologist. She is the founder and director of Pollicy, a civic technology organization based in Kampala, Uganda.

Alexander Fefegha, the co-founder & director of creative technology at London based design studio COMUZI.

“Technological Testing Grounds: Migration Management Experiments and Reflections from the Ground Up”
Petra Molnar, Kenya-Jade Pinto; Discussion - Capped

Immigration detention of people in every single case. Deportation of 7000 students accused of cheating on a test. Invasive drone surveillance instead of maritime rescue. What do these examples have in common? In every case, technological experimentation had serious consequences for people’s lives. Mozilla fellow Petra Molnar will discuss her new report, Technological Testing Grounds, illuminated by photography by Kenya-Jade Pinto, based on conversations with refugees and people crossing borders. Our report highlights how states are experimenting with high-risk, violent use of technology exacerbating systemic racism and surveillance of marginalized groups. Whose priorities matter when discussing innovation? What does critical representation look like – including the imagery used? Is there space for abolitionist conversations when discussing technology at the border?

“Tech Utopia’s: let’s reimagine the future”
Savena, Arda Awais; Workshop

Tech Utopia’s: let’s reimagine the future’; is a participatory workshop where as a community, we will use art to imagine a different digital future. Ran by Identity 2.0, a multidisciplinary design studio that empowers people to explore their digital identity, the workshop will be group discussion and prototyping sessions. Using Identity 2.0’s Future Manifesto as a source of inspiration, we will then ask participants to dream of their tech utopias, and to display it using whatever art medium they want. Through conversations and speculative design, we will at once invent and reinvent how we communicate progress. Whether that's in the form of an exhibition, meme or play doh sculpture, no idea is disregarded.

“Test Stream Event”
Marc Walsh; Broadcast Talks

This is a live stream test

“The Ada Lovelace Society - Interview with Chris Kubecka”
Bora Sirin; Art and Media

After hacking the U.S. Department of Justice at the age of ten, Chris Kubecka was not allowed near any computer or own any electronic devices until the age of eighteen. After that, she quickly became a renowned cyber security expert and one of the most powerful hackers in the world, a power she uses for the good as an ethical hacker.

How did a ten year old, pig-tailed girl manage to hack the U.S. government and what does a day at the office look like when you're a hacker? What are the vulnerabilities in today's digital society and what can be done to protect our systems?

In the Ada Lovelace Society, a new Felix series, which is named after the first coder in history, mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1856), we feature the outstanding work of female scientists from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).

(Felixmeritis.nl)

“The advantages of neurodiversity”
ian forrester; Art and Media

Last year we explored the advantages of dyslexia at the brand new Neurodiversity space. This year we are back looking for people to explore and understand the advantages of different types of neurodiversity.

People with neurodiversity have had to hide their special powers and this is a chance to share some of the advantages, which are easily missed.

“The BBFinder app: An afrocentric all-inclusive business community solution”
Osvaldo Kanga, Taraq John; Discussion - Capped

About this session:
This interactive live session provides space for building a shared understanding of the Afrocentric community in the Netherlands. We would like to show our view how to resolve certain issues, by solving problems in the community, using technology. With our platform, we would like to share knowledge and collaborate with organizations with a surfacing collective vision.

Goals for this session:
The BBFinder team is always open to new collaborations and ideas to expand the BBFinder platform even further. Therefore, we would like to reach out to tech-savvy social activists and social investors with like-minded ideals to reach our common objectives. Here we will open the debate with you so that we can have a fruitful debate about how you think about our organization and how you think that technology can be a solution to the problems in the Afrocentric community.

“The Complexity of Open Source”
amanda casari; Workshop

Open source software is the frequently cited model used to define"openness" where communities and technology meet. But when we say "open source", do we all mean the same thing? Are we talking about the same values of "open"? Where can we see open source working in public? Is all work and every contributor seen equally?

We are one year into Project OCEAN, a collaborative effort to deepen the understanding of how people, teams and organizations thrive in technology-rich settings, especially in open-source projects and communities. We would like to invite you to a session to explore what we have learned about openness and open source, where the boundaries are (and are not) of open source communities, and how this impacts who is seen as valuable in a complex ecosystem.

“The Concept of Universal Language”
Handuo Zhang; Discussion - Capped

I'm going to present two things at the beginning of this session to open the discussion. The first thing is a presentation that summarizes the key concepts of my master's thesis "The Concept of Universal Language(2020)". In this thesis, I did interdisciplinary research across realms such as philosophy, mythology, neuroscience, and computer science to propose a hypothetical universal language powered by the modern BCI technology that in the end resembles filmmaking. The second part of my presentation will be a live demonstration of my interactive installation "Siro (2020)" in collaboration with programmer and artist Conor Byron. "Siro" is a digital mirror of the participant's brain-activities (EEG). The participant can interact with the live image and sound by putting on an EEG headset and control her own thoughts.

“The Ecology of AI Repair”
Audrey Le, Brian Nisonger; Workshop

Who is involved in repairing AI-based tools? What kinds of expertise are required to fix them? And who is forgotten in the conversation?

Picking an AI failure story of your choice or from a list of scenarios, participants will embody different roles in an AI repair team and imagine what they need to do to help solve a broad range of issues they can uncover trying to fix an AI failure. As participants begin to cluster around certain issues, we will be able to visualize the ecology of AI repair on this Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lRRny8A=/. Individual participants are free to create their own repair narrative with digital sticky notes! By shifting our attention from design to repair, this workshop is designed to have participants walk away with new ways of explaining why an AI fails to do what it is intended to do, and the first step to fixing it.

“The economy of hate: How our marketing budgets fund hate and conspiracy (and how to fix it)”
Claire Atkin, Nandini Jammi; Discussion - Capped

How are conspiracy theories and propaganda growing so big, so fast? Why are local news outlets going under? The answer lies in the $89.5 billion ad industry. In this session, we’ll look at how disinformation incubates in the internet’s “long tail” before it makes its way into mainstream media. We’ll look at how irresponsible programmatic advertising is incentivizing the growth of disinformation and spreading hate around the world. Learn how it works, and how to put a stick in the spokes of this trainwreck industry.

“The Emoji Film Screening”
Jennifer 8. Lee; Art and Media

In The Emoji Story, Directors Martha Shane and Ian Cheney lead viewers 👀 on a deep dive into the ever evolving world of picture characters, from their humble beginnings in Japan 🇯🇵 to mobile keyboards 📱 the world 🌎 over, and shed fresh light 💡 on the Unicode Consortium 👥, which approves new emoji offerings and the individuals fighting ✊ to make the language more representative of its billions of users.
The rapid rise 📈 of emoji is a global 🌍 phenomenon without precedent. Their widespread use has prompted difficult questions 🤔 about the creation of a language and digital communication’s fraught ties 😣 to identity and inclusion.
Since the documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival as Picture Character, it has gone on to screen across five continents.
After watching, join producer Jennifer 8 Lee at the festival for a Q&A about her work with Emojination on 16 March at 18:00 CET. Register via the festival schedule.

“The Emoji Story Documentary Screening - Q&A Discussion”
Jennifer 8. Lee; Discussion - Capped

Watch the Emoji Story - available to watch at any time during the festival, then join producer Jennifer 8. Lee for a Q&A about her work with Emojination.

The rapid rise 📈 of emoji is a global 🌍 phenomenon without precedent. Their widespread use has prompted difficult questions 🤔 about the creation of a language and digital communication’s fraught ties 😣 to identity and inclusion.

Since the documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival as Picture Character, it has gone on to screen globally.

“The EU Digital Services Act: where'd it come from, what's included, and how can you get involved”
Owen Bennett, Brandi Geurkink; Discussion - Capped

In December 2020 the European Commission proposed its Digital Services Act (DSA). This draft law, that deals with content responsibility and platform regulation, closely mirrors the EU policy vision that Mozilla and our allies have articulated over the last two years. It looks set to radically transform the regulatory environment, and influence discussions about regulating Big Tech in other regions.

This session will provide an overview of the DSA - everything you need to know, and what it all means. We’ll outline how Mozilla is engaging and how the DSA might be an opportunity to advance some of our ongoing campaigning asks around platform accountability. We’ll also focus on how the draft law is likely to move through the EU lawmaking process, and discuss how the broader community can influence its development.

“The ever changing article of Climate change on Wikipedia”
Jan Ainali; Art and Media

On Wikipedia, every single change of a page is saved, stored and can be reviewed. This is how Wikipedia work. In a recent article in Mashable the people tending to the article Climate change on English Wikipedia were featured. It described what they do and how they discuss the changes to the article. But how does this look like? This video artwork will visualize the changes of the article over time.

“the future I see: neurodivergent people solving the world’s problems”
Dan Burger; Discussion - Capped

I graduated from college with a double whammy - in the middle of the great recession as well as being on the autism spectrum (which I didn’t know at the time).
Ten years later my work was being used extensively by NASA and I got to present it in front of Anderson Cooper for a piece on 60 Minutes. I would like to talk about the potential for neurodivergent people to solve the problems facing the world, including COVID, climate change, healthcare, mental health, the economy, and racial inequality. As they see the world differently, the solutions that are straightforward to them can seem like magic to the rest of us.

“The Future of Community Networks: Can We Build A Collaborative Roadmap?”
Ahmad Ahmadian, Pepe Borrás, Peter Bloom, María Alvarez Malvido, Molly Mackinlay, Raha Peyravi; Discussion - Capped

Where there isn’t direct network access, people are building their own, and seeking alternative ways to receive and distribute quality digital content. Community Network organizations create the tools, services and strategies that help communities build and maintain self-governed and owned communication infrastructure.

This panel is an insight into the future of community networks, combining perspectives from community research, next generation peer-to-peer protocols, hardware and frontline implementation. Our overarching question: How could and should these perspectives come together to enable the best possible future for community-led communication infrastructure?

“The Future of Memory”
Qianqian Ye, Xiaowei Wang; Workshop

The Future of Memory exams the fact that language online has become the medium in which expression and activism arise in the US, in China, and globally.

In this workshop, we'll use Hanzimaker, a tool in the Algorithmic Censorship Resistance Toolkit, we built for The Future of Memory, to experiment with creating new words, phrases and vocabularies to document the past and think through the future. These new hybrid characters, a mash of multiple languages, just as diasporic as their creators will escape classification and recognition by automated systems. We see these characters as a form of visual poetry. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” What words will we be left with to describe the past? What words will build our future? What is the new vocabulary we need for different kinds of revolution?

“The Future of Micropayments”
AMBER CASE; Art and Media

The current shape of the web is not focused on creators—it is a crowded, overdeveloped road full of chain stores, expecting its innovators to fit into a standard advertising model rather than owning their own real estate.

Micropayments are an emerging way for creators to get paid directly, reducing or removing the need for individuals to resort to advertising for survival.

This recorded talk will provide an accessible introduction to the future of micropayments, decentralized currencies, and the future of money. We’ll explore, from a global perspective, how micropayments can help inspire new ecosystems, how people can get involved, and how we can work together to bring a new level of democracy and community-building to the web. This recording is paired with a live discussion taking place the second week of the Festival.

“The Future of Micropayments - Q&A”
AMBER CASE; Art and Media - Discussion

Micropayments are an emerging way for creators to get paid directly, reducing or removing the need for individuals to resort to advertising for survival.

This is a live discussion based on a recorded talk available in the Arts & Media collection. We will provide an accessible introduction to the future of micropayments, decentralized currencies, and the future of money. We’ll explore, from a global perspective, how micropayments can help inspire new ecosystems, how people can get involved, and how we can work together to bring a new level of democracy and community-building to the web.

“The Future of Money: A Simulation Game”
Erika Drushka, Mike Masnick, Leigh Beadon, Randy Lubin; Social Moments

Giant companies, governments, and proprietary networks control how money moves around the globe through systems that are centralized and grossly inequitable. Join this simulation game to strategize, brainstorm, build worlds and act in-character to explore emerging methods of monetization, how to counter more centralized forms of control, the new models of commerce and organizations that may develop, and how factions might encourage the ecosystem to grow in a direction that suits their needs. Designed and facilitated by the creative teams at TechDirt, Copia Institute and Leveraged Play, this custom-built MozFest experience is brought to you by Grant for the Web.

We are running three sessions of this game so please check the schedule for alternative times if your desired session is full.

All registered attendees - head over to Spatial Chat (https://spatial.chat/s/MozFest2021), The Future of Money Room, 5 minutes prior to the session starting.

“The Future of Money: A Simulation Game”
Erika Drushka, Mike Masnick, Leigh Beadon, Randy Lubin; Social Moments

We are running three sessions of this game so please check the schedule for alternative times if your desired session is full.

All registered attendees - head over to Spatial Chat (https://spatial.chat/s/MozFest2021), The Future of Money Room, 5 minutes prior to the session starting.

“The Future of Money: A Simulation Game”
Erika Drushka, Mike Masnick, Leigh Beadon, Randy Lubin, Chris Lawrence; Social Moments

We are running three sessions of this game so please check the schedule for alternative times if your desired session is full.

All registered attendees - head over to Spatial Chat (https://spatial.chat/s/MozFest2021), The Future of Money Room, 5 minutes prior to the session starting.

“The future of podcasting is adaptive, open and data ethical”
ian forrester; Workshop

Imagine being able to craft personalised podcasts which take advantage of data and sensors to wrap the listener in a story. Then imagine being able to do this for many people at once.
This is what we call adaptive podcasting and the best part is its free, open and in this workshop you will be able to create your own at home.

“The Future of Waste: Speculative Approaches to Technotrash”
Alden Rivendale Jones; Workshop

Can we adapt to a zero-waste future? The technology industry relies on a business model of constant innovation and planned obsolescence, a model that depends upon both a global supply chain of parts and scarce materials and a global infrastructure of waste management, which moves toxic high tech trash to areas where it can be isolated, treated, and downcycled. Both of these systems are ecologically devastating and unsustainable. Additionally, these systems are precarious, dependent on geopolitics, legal frameworks, and a variety of complicated logistics infrastructures. In this workshop, we will look at several contemporary technologies and work collaboratively to reimagine their design for a future in which these global systems can no longer be relied upon. Participants will work in small teams to develop their speculative designs, with each team given the opportunity to showcase their new products to the group.

“The Glass Room Misinformation Edition”
Louise Hisayasu, Tactical Tech; Art and Media

Since 2016, Tactical Tech has been producing The Glass Room, an exhibition series which explores the themes of data, privacy and our relationship to technology. Our exhibitions are engaging, beautifully-designed, self-learning, public interventions that challenge our audiences of all ages to question their usage of technology, and give them simple resources to make sustainable changes in their digital lives. Our latest Glass Room project is the Misinformation Edition, a portable exhibit that can be set up in almost any space – as well as online. This edition comes at a critical time, when so many of us are at home and are more exposed than ever to the dangers of misinformation.
It’s accompanied by our Data Detox Kit, which provides simple tips and tricks to recognize misinformation and to avoid spreading it. The Glass Room Misinformation Edition has already been translated into over twelve languages, with more planned.

This session / art and media piece is hosted on a third party website.

“The Governance Game: a tool for scenario modelling opensource collaborations”
Jan Ainali; Art and Media

Governance is important for open source projects, but unless you start with a clear vision, it can be hard to get everyone on the same page. Governance often only becomes a priority when a project is already popular. So how do you build agreement and a common understanding of the governance of your codebase?

The Foundation for Public Code created the Governance Game to solve this problem for public sector open source codebases - but it can be used for any open content that’s built collaboratively, including yours! The Governance Game is a fun way to help you and your community start talking about various aspects of governance, and highlight potential pitfalls. Of course, we have both physical and fully remote versions.

In this film we'll explain why using this game will strengthen your project and build deeper connections within your community.

“The Gratitude Machine Q&A”
Jo Kroese; Art and Media - Discussion

The Gratitude Machine is an AI who is learning how to be thankful. As if praying, people can speak, scribble and text thank-yous to her. 'Thank you for the tenderness I have been shown. Thank you for the sun.' The Gratitude Machine (TGM) hears or reads the messages and absorbs them into her training model. Learning what thankfulness looks like, she sends her own thank-yous to a screen. Together, she and the audience read and learn from each other: this is what we have to be thankful for.

Her birth was inspired by a treatment for depression where the sufferer must repeat the words 'thank you thank you thank you' repeatedly. TGM is based on the GPT-2 model for generating text, turning the AI that was 'too dangerous to release' into a force for contemplation, ecological thought, communion and prayer.

“The Gratitude Machine Showcase”
Jo Kroese; Art and Media

“The HyperClick Podcast”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media

Let me take you one journey behind the surface of the Internet. Because what happens on the other side of the screen when you click? The online universe has a lot to offer. But what price do we pay for access?

In the HyperCliCk Podcast, I talk with my guests about data-ownership, data-sharing, the value of information, the changing definition of privacy, innovation problems, personalised advertising, algorithmic decision making and biases in algorithms.

This episode is called "A world without Big-Tech" and my guest is MEP Paul Tang (Dutch Labour Party) and one of the writers of the Digital Services Act.

“The Joy Sanctuary”
Raven Martin, Janice Gates; Workshop

Originally crafted as a workshop for people of the Africa Diaspora, The Joy Sanctuary is an intentionally cultivated space for those who identify as BIPOC to practice, celebrate, collaborate and lean into joy. Participants will experience a guided meditation that will help restore calm and serenity. They will reflect on their definitions of personal safety and work as a group to imagine what a safe space looks and feels like for the BIPOC community. Finally, participants will work in small groups to build a joy and safety toolkit for their everyday and immediate use. The toolkit will remain accessible to participants after the workshop. This session is Co-Facilitated by Raven Martin and Janice Gates, practitioners with Healing By Choice, a sponsored project of Allied Media Projects. The Joy Sanctuary is an effective container aimed at easing participants into maintaining ownership of their wellness.

“The Making of the Girmit”
Louise Green; Art and Media

Girmit: An Immersive Untold Story Of Indentured Labour - working with PlayLa.bZ, Kew Gardens & The National Archives; supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Mela Partnership.

The film will focus on the journey of our Girmit project and the making of our Girmit 360 Immersive Experience, presented exclusively for MozFest. The 360 film will premier at Mozfest on March 11 at 6:15pm GMT / 7:15pm UTC.

Between 1870 and 1920 many Indians were transported thousands of miles from their home to Fiji as part of a legitimate but enforced mass migration headed up by the British and other European powers. Over 60,000 people signed an agreement (or ‘girmit’) for a five-year contract. They were told that after the five years were up they would be able to return home to help their family and community. Sadly this was rarely the case.

Film ready to view 10 March

“The Nanny State”
Deleted User, Roya Pakzad, Anisha Fernando; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

The Nanny State is a workshop using design justice practices to explore the impact of surveillance and artificial intelligence on the labor industry, particularly on domestic workers, e.g., nannies and housekeepers. The use of artificial intelligence or AI in the labor sector is pervasive, there are examples of employers tracking labor productivity, health status, and replacing core job activities among others. AI is capturing the employee’s digital footprint while simultaneously attempting to predict the employee’s next move.

This is a project sprint from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Registration and more information here: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“The Narrative Future of AI”
Marsha Courneya, David Jackson; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

The Narrative Future of AI group is using the platform AIDungeon to test bias in the storytelling capacities of GPT-3. Anyone who would like to get involved is welcome to join the group that will be sharing a collection of stories at MozFest2021 alongside notes on any biases met along the way. The group hopes that this field study will help to develop a discourse around how writers can use algorithms to tell stories and what strategies they can use to mitigate biases that arise within black-box writing AIs.

“The Narrative Future of AI - Hackathon”
Marsha Courneya, David Jackson; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

The future of digital storytelling will involve the increasing use of algorithmic tools, both to develop new forms of narrative and to find efficiencies in creative production. However, unsupervised algorithms trained on massive amounts of web-based text come with issues of bias most harmfully pertaining to gender, race, and class. The Narrative Future of AI, as part of Mozilla's Trustworthy AI working group, is seeking to review typical biases that occur from writing with the GPT-3 API, AI Dungeon. The outcome will be a series of science fiction stories and feedback from working group members on their observations of bias and problematic AI behaviours. This analysis will form the basis of our first set of recommendations for creative writing with advanced machine learning tools.

This is a project sprint from the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI". Registration and more information here: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“The Netherlands and Digital Rights: A Dialogues & Debates Conversation”
Touria Meliani, Marleen Stikker; Broadcast Talks

Leading Dutch experts assesses what their country is getting right on digital rights, with a focus on data sovereignty for citizens. A conversation featuring:

Touria Meliani, Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam responsible for Arts and Culture and Digital City

Marleen Stikker, Founder of Waag and of 'De Digitale Stad'

“The Poetic Hivemind”
Fabian Frei; Art and Media

For my master thesis 'I, rowboat: The Intricacies of AI & Poetry' in the Interface Cultures program of the Arts University in Linz I built an app called 'The Poetic Hivemind'. The app provided its users with a daily inspiration to write a poem. The contributed poems were then used to fine tune a GPT-2 model to generate more of the type of poems.

In my session I'm going to give a demo of that app, show the training and generation process and also talk about the theoretical points made in my thesis.

Check the schedule for a related discussion session.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“The Poetic Hivemind - Discussion”
Fabian Frei; Art and Media - Discussion

In my session I'm going to give a demo of that app, show the training and generation process and also talk about the theoretical points made in my thesis.

Please see https://tofu.wtf/poems/ for more info about the project.

“The Post Digital Audio Quilt: A Pop Up, Speculative & Inclusive Audio Fiction Experiment exploring AI Wellness”
Pip McDonald; Discussion - Capped

Participants will hear the start of a story exploring wellbeing including an AI character in a post-digital lockdown future setting. They will be invited to create and record the next part of the story using prompts and frames including themes of shared joy and healing using an online form. Digital storytelling has been argued to be a positive way to engage a diverse range of voices “capturing lives, creating community” (Lambert & Hessler, 2018). The collaborative audio fiction experiment will act as a platform to bring together diverse co-constructed community knowledge and shared experience of wellbeing exploring how AI can be used to support wellness outcomes during the lockdown and beyond, in both an innovative and inclusive capacity - “In the world of media convergence, every important story gets told” (Jenkins, 2006: p3).

“The PyThia approach on how to ensure Trustworthy AI”
Yiannis Kanellopoulos; Discussion - Capped

The goal of this session is to exchange views on how organizations can build Trustworthy AI systems.

Starting by demonstrating PyThia, our solution for ensuring Trustworthy AI we would like to ignite discussions and compare experiences and perspectives on the below topics:
a) What are the pros and cons on using predefined checklists for evaluating how an organization governs an AI system?
b) Is there a golden standard for Transparent AI that can rule all explanations?
c) We’re evaluating the fairness of an AI model in a quantitative way, is this enough?
d) How is it possible for an organization to find a balance between building Trusted AI versus optimizing for efficiency and maximize their business benefit?

It is our aspiration that this session will at least help our team gather feedback, for participants to share knowledge and ideally for consensus or a shared vision to surface.

“There Are No Girls on the Internet: Centering the Wellness of Black Women in AI as a radical act”
Bridget Todd; Art and Media - Discussion

We already know Black women can face hostility in the AI space that leaves us feeling unsupported, burnt out, or ends with us being pushed out of these spaces entirely. When this happens, it has consequences for everyone. When AI isn’t built by inclusive teams, these technologies can make life harder for people who are already marginalized. The need to center Black women’s wellness in AI can be an act of social good. The more Black women who feel compelled to stay in these spaces, the more these voices can shape the technology that impacts so much of our world.

Ayodele Odubela will share her story as a Black woman in AI and we will facilitate a community conversation and brainstorm takeaways on how we can center the wellness of Black women in the AI space.

“The Role of Tech in a Human Rights and Climate-Resilient Future”
Samantha Harris, Hannah Darnton; Workshop

The future is uncertain. Whether climate policy, trade relations, or disruptive technology, we cannot be sure of how key factors reshaping the world will play out in the coming decade. Also, the operating context for business and other stakeholders is formed by the complex interactions of many factors, but often factors are considered in isolation and responses, siloed. The climate crisis plays a large role in shaping our future, with a growing impact on human rights. Water scarcity, wildfires, extreme weather, and rising sea levels already disproportionately affect marginalized populations, resulting in loss of livelihoods, forcing migration, and increasing conflict.

“The Roots of Algorithmic Injustice: Intersections of Colonialism, Systems of Oppression, and Technology”
Aurum Linh; Discussion - Capped

In this session we'll discuss how technology is a tool that exists within a social and political context that it cannot be meaningfully separated from — specifically colonization and systems of oppression. We'll dive deeper into these issues in the form of a collective education session on what colonization is and how it manifests in our day-to-day lives. Then we'll highlight the intersections of colonialism and capitalism and how we can take a radical approach to dismantle these systems within our own hearts, minds, and work.

“The social life of (our) supply chains”
Anne Lee Steele, Miriam Matthiessen; Art and Media

This past year has made it clear how integral supply chains are to modern life. But despite growing awareness of their importance, they remain abstract and invisible to most of us. Supply-chains.us is a living archive of the geographies, processes, and people behind supply chains, particularly those required for consumer technology.

Collected as visual narratives, these stories trace the “social lives” of these materials: from the mines where they are extracted, to the factories that smelt, manufacture and assemble them into products, to the global shipping routes used in between, ending with the consumer – and ultimately at landfills, recycling centres, and e-waste sites around the world.

At the discussion session, users can participate in a facilitated reflection about supply chains, chat with the exhibit’s creators, and learn how to contribute to this living archive.

This Art and Media piece is hosted on a third-party website: www.supply-chains.us

““The social life of (our) supply chains" Discussion Session”
Anne Lee Steele, Miriam Matthiessen; Art and Media - Discussion

This past year has made it clear how integral supply chains are to modern life. But despite growing awareness of their importance, what they are remains largely abstract and invisible to the general public. The Social life of (our) Supply Chains is an interactive discussion session created to explore this topic. Together, we will work towards new understandings of supply chains and their various components and contributors through brainstorming, drawing, and discussion.

The session is facilitated by the people behind the supply-chains.us, a living archive of the geographies, processes, and people behind modern supply chains, particularly those required to make consumer technology.

You can access it at www.supply-chains.us.

“The Zen of Machine Learning (ML)”
Wiebke Toussaint, Bernease Herman, Gaurav Jain, Borhane Blili-Hamelin; Workshop

The Zen of ML is a set of design principles that helps ML educators and (self-)learners prioritise responsible machine learning practices. Inspired by the Zen of Python, the Zen of ML can be viewed as a culture code that promotes the responsible development of ML products and projects. It is not binding or enforceable, but is intended to shape industry norms and offer a practical guide to building trustworthy AI. The principles consider the end-to-end machine learning development cycle, from data collection to model evaluation and continuous deployment.

In the workshop we will unpack pedagogical challenges that ML (self-)learners experience and explore how design principles can be used to encourage responsible ML practice. Participants should have some experience in learning or teaching ML, in crafting design principles, in programming best-practice, or in developing and deploying ML systems.

“The Zen of Machine Learning (ML) - Hackathon”
Bernease Herman, Wiebke Toussaint, Borhane Blili-Hamelin; Contribute-a-thons and Hack-a-thons

The Zen of ML is a set of community-accepted design principles for responsible ML practice. We have developed draft design principles over the months leading up to MozFest. In the hackathon we will expand, improve on, review and evaluate the design principles through iterative, interactive sessions. The end goal is to have a set of working design principles so that we can launch The Zen of ML v0.1 in the weeks that follow.

Join us for fun, engaging and productive dialogue, and share your insights! We are looking for contributors with practice in using machine learning (beginner to advanced), programmers, designers, ethicists and linguists. After the hackathon we will continue to invite practitioners to review and give feedback on the design principles, and test the principles in real life educational contexts.

“This Is What Solidarity Looks Like — Emergent Practices from the Decentralized Co-operative Web”
Mai Ishikawa Sutton; Discussion - Capped

Platform co-operatives, social enterprises, and nonprofits are building out various components of the decentralized web (dweb) stack — from open hardware to p2p applications. The most exciting developments are coming out of close collaborations and partnerships. DWeb projects that are stewarded by more than one organization are that much more resilient because they can rely on partners’ respective networks and resources. The strength of decentralized systems comes from the interdependence of its parts. This is especially true when it comes to the Web, where interoperability is key.

But collaboration isn’t easy. It takes time, resources, and a whole lot of trust and communication. This session will share case studies of organizations working together to build open, decentralized platforms and protocols. Presenters will share lessons (including those learned the hard way) from our work building DWeb projects, and half of the hour will be a facilitated discussion with participants.

“Transforming academic peer review through mentorship: what we learned from Open Reviewers and ideas on where to take it next”
Daniela Saderi, Katrina Murphy (she/her/hers), Antoinette Foster, Samantha Hindle; Discussion - Capped

PREreview Open Reviewers is a peer review mentoring program adapted from Mozilla Open Leaders aimed at training the next generation of racially diverse and socially-conscious peer reviewers. During the session we will share what motivated us to develop this program and what we have learned so far. We will also discuss openly our goals and dreams for what comes after the first pilot, gathering feedback from the participants. We will use an interactive Miro board and solicit questions, comments, and experience sharing throughout the session. Join us!

“Transparency Interfaces for Everyday Places”
Jackie Lu, Richard Whitt; Workshop

How might a person begin to understand the digital technologies that are embedded into our physical places? What are the possibilities for engaging with and giving feedback on these ambient digital systems? We’re excited to share one proposal for feedback. DTPR is an initial draft of an open-source system-to-people communication standard for transparency and accountability, for digital technologies embedded in physical places. The framework includes a taxonomy of concepts around digital tech and data practices, an associated set of icons and visual language, and can be used for signs, websites, or really any kind of communication mechanism. We will introduce the DTPR system and share prepared “smart city” scenarios so that people can understand how the system works, and provide us with feedback. For more info see https://github.com/helpful-places/dtpr

“Trust production with technology”
Balazs Bodo; Discussion - Capped

A number of global technology infrastructures have taken up the task of fostering cooperation among strangers on a planetary scale by providing various trust-related services, such as reputation management (platforms), trust minimization (blockchains), or the reduction of future uncertainties (AI systems).

Such development is a response to the lack of better institutional alternatives, and the failure of existing supranational frameworks to coordinate human cooperation across various geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, political, religious divisions.

Such technical trust infrastructures need to be trustworthy to fulfill their intended functions. Yet, it is clear that we cannot be confident in these technical trust production approaches.

Join the discussion with:
Esther Keymolen, philosopher, Tilburg University,
Aron Fischer, mathematician, Colony Project, and
Balazs Bodo, social scientist, University of Amsterdam!

“Trustworthy AI Hackathon - Project Demos”
Muriel Rovira-Esteva, David Zeber, Raya Sharbain, qusai, Issa Mahasneh, Marsha Courneya, David Jackson, Bernease Herman, Wiebke Toussaint, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Deleted User, Roya Pakzad, Anisha Fernando; Discussion - Capped

Showcase of the projects featured in the "AI IRL Hackathon - Building Trustworthy AI" project sprints. Each project will have a presentation of 5-10 minutes.

The Zen of Machine Learning
PRESC: Performance and Robustness Evaluation for Statistical Classifiers
Nanny Surveillance State
The Narrative Future of AI
Mapping AI Ecosystems in the MENA
Dutch & Frisian Common Voice Data Hack

Registration to attend to the hackathon project sprints and sessions and more information here: http://mzl.la/taihackathon

“Trustworthy AI in the City of Amsterdam – a message from Touria Meliani”
Touria Meliani; Art and Media

Amsterdam’s Deputy Mayor for the Digital City, Touria Meliani, wishes you welcome to MozFest in Amsterdam!

See for yourself how the City of Amsterdam uses AI in practice and how YOU can help to make it more trustworthy.

You can find the link to the City of Amsterdam Algorithm Register here: https://algoritmeregister.amsterdam.nl/en

It’s the first algorithm register in the world, developed together with the city of Helsinki, and shows what algorithms and AI are used in the city. It’s still work in progress, so have a look and let us know how we can improve it!

“Truth as a Public Good”
Tara Vassefi, ahnjili, Munib Mesinovic, Charlie, Lujain Ibrahim, James Littlejohn; Workshop

Since October 2020, the Truth as a Public Good Working Group has been exploring the “dilemma” of standardized content and data authentication and the stakeholders involved in this decision-making ecosystem. Content authentication, evaluating the integrity of shared multimedia content, is crucial in the era of increasing erosion of the public’s trust in media and information sources.

Truth as a Public Good will be examined in the context of the Covid-19 vaccine story and how it relates to the public’s right to authenticating public health data. Truth as a Public Good will anchor this concept in the public’s shared experience of observing development of the Covid-19 Vaccine. This working group will host a World Cafe style workshop to examine authentication layers.

“unbAIsed: reducing bias in AI for healthcare”
Natalia Norori, Athina Tzovara; Workshop

AI has an astonishing potential to assist clinical decision-making and revolutionize global health, but this can only be possible if the use of AI in healthcare takes into account the needs of diverse populations. When AI is biased, it is prone to reinforcing inequality, which can lead to injustices in healthcare, making already vulnerable patients more susceptible to fatal outcomes and misdiagnoses.

In this session, we'll target some of the main challenges that need to be addressed in order to move towards fairness in AI for healthcare, including gender and racial bias, data gaps, and ethical concerns. We will divide into breakout groups, where we will brainstorm recommendations to solve these challenges. We will also explore how AI can help make invisible minorities visible and reduce inequalities in healthcare, and how open practices can be used in the fight against bias.

“Understanding imperfections in AI systems”
Ahmed Razek, Alister Pearson; Discussion - Capped

It's improbable that the output of any system will ever be 100% accurate; usually, AI systems are intended to represent a statistically informed prediction. These predictions, particularly in high-risk areas, may severely impact individuals and their dignity. In this session, we'll explain the statistical accuracy principle within AI systems, and host a discussion about how we should increase understanding and communicate to the public the imperfections of AI systems.

“Universal Registry of Things - promoting the reuse of materials and objects in smart cities”
Felipe Schmidt Fonseca; Discussion - Capped

The session will be an open discussion about the creation of an open registry of physical objects to support information systems that promote the reuse of materials through repair, upcycling and re-circulation. Some of the issues expected to be discussed are data structure and formats, governance and implications in terms of intellectual property, privacy and security.
Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lQITOhI=/

“Use AI to inspire your own creativity”
James Curtis; Art and Media

How can we use AI to prompt or inspire human creativity? What ethical questions arise from doing so? This session provides guidance on the AI tools out there that could be used as creative prompts and the ethical questions they provoke. Participants are invited to submit stories inspired by AI-generated images and read stories created by fellow MozFest attendees.

Check the schedule for a related discussion session.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“Use AI to inspire your own creativity - Discussion”
James Curtis; Art and Media - Discussion

This session is hosted on a third party website.

“User Insights Without User Surveillance: The Clean Insights Approach to Privacy-Respecting Analytics”
Gina Helfrich, Ph.D., Nathan Freitas; Workshop

Open source software teams traditionally reject user-tracking analytics out of ethical concerns. Unfortunately, this means open source developers end up operating without sufficient insight into how their tools are being used, how they could have more impact or be more responsive, and how state surveillance and censorship are evolving to counter their effectiveness and limit their use.

Enter: Clean Insights!
Clean Insights gives developers a way to plug into a secure, private measurement platform. It is focused on assisting in answering key questions about app usage patterns--not on enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. Our approach provides programmatic levers to pull to cater to specific use cases and privacy needs. It also provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

Join us for a workshop to learn how you can collect user data safely and respectfully.

“Using Social Networks and Big Data to Fight Fascism”
Peter Benzoni, Alexander Monea; Workshop

We'll discuss how Tech Against Fascism is leveraging social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Gab, Parler, Telegram, .win sites, forums, and more) and big data to help fight fascism (and help others do the same). We'll show you how to become a spy against the alt-right, and show you some of the research and outreach we're doing with the data, the future of Tech Against Fascism and how you can help.

“UX & Design Speed Dating Clinic”
Georgia Bullen, Sage Cheng, Ashley Fowler, Molly Clare Wilson, Cade, Eriol Fox, Shirin Mori; Workshop

Stuck on how to build or communicate a feature? Not sure how to get user feedback? Want to brainstorm some design alternatives for your tool or process? Thinking about how to engage users in your design process? Then this workshop is for you!

In the session, participants will have the opportunity to meet with design and usability practitioners in the community. We will setup 10-15 minute "speed dating" time slots and allow participants to rotate through the presenters so that they can get feedback from multiple perspectives on whatever design and UX challenges they bring to share.

Participants should bring something to share their work with the UX practitioners (an idea, a problem to work on, design sketches, a prototype, whatever stage you are at! etc), and will leave with feedback, designs, tools, strategies, and follow up opportunities to get support in their work.

“Video! Facts and Figures from Mozilla's Internet Health Report”
Eeva Moore, Solana Larsen; Art and Media

A pre-recorded narrated walk through of the 2020 Internet Health Report's facts and figures slideshow, by the report's editor, Solana Larsen (with a cameo by Alice Munyua and the internet's "lawyer cat"). The visualizations relate to everything from the high environmental costs of data processes to how many days you need to work to buy a smartphone in different parts of the world. They demonstrate who has power over the internet, and who gets to connect to it in the first place. And they help us understand what movements are shaping a healthier internet, and what meaningful change is needed. Participants can view the video anytime.

“Virtual Coding Music Band”
Harsh Mehta; Workshop

This collaborative and fully interactive workshop will focus on teaching coding with the help of Sonic Pi. Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation tool that has been very useful and fun for young audiences to learn how to code, and enjoy making cool music for a long time!

Attendees will be divided into groups. Each group will be assigned an instrument(drums, piano, etc). All of them combined will form a small band which will play music through code! In the entire process, I will be teaching them Sonic Pi and coding concepts from scratch along with guiding them to create the coolest band performance in MozFest 2021!

“Virtual Embassy 1”
Tanveer Hasan; Discussion - Capped

The virtual embassy is led by Mozfest participants within the Global Culture and Heritage Space. It raises awareness about Internet Health issues, technologies, and cultures in countries around the world. Virtual Embassy sessions may be hosted for 15 - 30 minutes. There is a limited number of slots to host a virtual Embassy session.

“Virtual Embassy 2”
Judit Navratil; Discussion - Capped

“Virtual Embassy 3”
Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi, Amelia Winger-Bearskin; Discussion - Capped

“Virtual Embassy 4”
Esther Mwema; Discussion - Capped

“Virtual Embassy 5”
Judit Navratil, Pavan Santhosh Surampudi, Subhashish Panigrahi; Discussion - Capped

OpenSpeaks: Translating language documentation toolkit into an indigenous language - Subashish P
This session will be focused on the the language protection emergency in the light of UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL), and learning from documenting indigenous and endangered languages and cultures as a way forward for climate action and sustainable changes.
Wikipedia and Languages - Pavan Santhosh Surampudi
To help understand how Wikipedias help support languages
Art Camp - social VR art residency and gatherings - Judit Navratil
Art Camp is a homesome virtual art residency and gathering. Women and underrepresented artists investigate the possibilities of creating and inhabiting a virtual communal place with care, to cultivate this layer of our social fabric based on radical inclusion and cyber-intentionality.In this presentation you will learn about the background of Art Camp, gain insight into the concepts of the social VR art pieces.
You can visit the studios anytime in the Art Camp Commons:
https://hubs.mozilla.com/xLq72ca/art-camp-commons/

“Virtual Sketching Our Favourite Places via Google Street View”
Anny G.; Discussion - Capped

In this session, we will wind down from a busy week and sketch and share our favourite places with each other. In small groups we will each choose a Google Street view of a place important to us or a place we want to visit in our country or region, and sketch it for 20 minutes, while talking about the significance of that place to us. We will take turns choosing places to sketch so everyone has a chance to share something about their culture.

Come prepared with a place you want to share and sketch and some art supplies - paints, pencils, mixed media or digital drawing tools.

“Visit the Museum of the Fossilized Internet”
Cathleen Berger; Art and Media

Imagine: We are in the year 2050 and we’re opening the Museum of the Fossilized Internet, which commemorates two decades of a sustainable internet. The exhibition can now be viewed in social VR. Join an online tour and experience what the coal and oil-powered internet of the past was like.

“Wampum.Codes Podcast -Indigenous wisdom as a model for software design and development”
Amelia Winger-Bearskin; Art and Media

New technologies can have immense ethical effects. I wondered — what is the ethical analog of a dependency? How can software developers and other technologists make sure their work is deployed in accordance with a certain set of values?

Wampum.codes is my way of exploring that idea. It’s a podcast named after wampum, the craft of weaving beads into patterns that represent contracts and other agreements, and was practiced by my tribe (Seneca-Cayuga Haudenosaunee) for many years. On the show, I interview Native people from my own tribe and many others, who are using technology to share their values with the world.

I interview Native people who are using technology to share their values with the world.

[This session / art and media piece is hosted on a third party website.]

“Weather Journals”
Schuyler deVos; Art and Media

Weather Journals is a collaborative storytelling platform between you and the weather, moderated by machine learning algorithms. Participants submit a reflection based on the weather and receive a machine-generated story in return. At the end of the day, the algorithm is trained on the responses of all the participants, adapting and expanding based on people's relationship with their environment.

This project is hosted on a third party website.

“Web Sheets: making the most from the other side of your web page”
Matt Mankins; Workshop

Publishing used to require a large capital investment in printing machinery. Today, it's easier than ever to distribute your message, however it's increasingly likely that just a few tech platforms will benefit economically from your message.

In this workshop, we introduce the Web Sheet: a concept to let us talk about the other side of web pages–their monetization.

Participants will view, analyze and annotate a selection of web pages, collectively guessing how these pages make money for their creators. Together we’ll compare these guesses with actual numbers and discuss what we might do to change the Web Sheet to balance in favor of creators rather than the platforms.

“Welcome to the Automated Society! And now?”
Matthias Spielkamp, Fabio Chiusi; Discussion - Capped

Predictive video surveillance to prevent suicides in German jails; algorithmic risk assessment of domestic violence in Spain; predictive justice systems helping Italian courts decide whether a complaint is sound or not: nothing seems to escape the realm of automated analysis and decision.

Yet, much of the debate about algorithmic decision-making systems (ADMS) privileges discussions about lofty ethical norms. Too little is known about how systems are already being used in practice - and how to react.

We will share state-of-the art evidence about the practice of ADMS in use, taken from our brand new Automating Society 2020 report, covering 16 European countries.

In a first part, we will briefly present results of our research and lay out our recommendations for governance. In the second part we will discuss and develop strategies to protect individual rights and life chances, but also the public good with the participants.

The session will be conducted by Matthias Spielkamp, and Fabio Chiusi, editors, Automating Society Report 2020

“What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability?”
Jan Ainali, Alex Stinson; Discussion - Capped

Our discussion will focus on how the Wikimedia movement can help the sustainability and climate movements while maintaining our neutral point of view. What does knowledge activism look like in a platform focused on being apolitical? In this talk we will look at how activist communities are developing a playbook to meet the world's information needs to confront a pressing climate crisis.

“What if we educated AI based on the world we want instead of the world we have?”
Gretchen Andrew, Jake Elwes, Libby Heaney; Discussion - Capped

Artificial intelligence, like human intelligence, gets its education from somewhere.

Artificial intelligence has to be educated and humans have to decide how to educate it.

For example, if an artificial intelligence were trying to predict what the next American president looked like it would look at all past American presidents and more or less average them.

Barack Obama's eyes
Donald Trump’s “hair”
Franklin’s Roosevelt’s lips
George Washington’s nose?

Artificial intelligence is inherently backward-looking.

Artificial intelligence uses what already has been to anticipate what will be

How can we use art to reverse the direction of artificial intelligence, making it a forward-dreaming tool of possibility?

Discussion led by artists: Gretchen Andrew, Libby Heaney, Jake Elwes

“What is the future of data and AI — and what role will Mozilla play?”
Mark Surman, Kathleen Siminyu, Sarah Aoun, James Farrar, Brandi Geurkink; Broadcast Talks

In this one-hour plenary, Mozilla community members highlight the need for more trustworthy AI. And, also explore what the MozFest community can do to make it a reality. You’ll hear from engineers, activists, and researchers about new (and better) ways of using, sharing, and thinking about data for the public good.

“What's On The Horizon? Trustworthy AI Funder Wrap Up”
Jessie Keating; Discussion - Capped

This invite-only, wrap-up session is a casual conversation for funders + philanthropists to share their favorite MozFest highlights, learnings, and ideas for collaboration and partnership on making trustworthy AI real. What excited you most? How can we work together? Hosted by Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman and VP Global Programs J. Bob Alotta.

Reach out to Jessie Keating on Mozilla's Partnership Team for an invite! jessie@mozillafoundation.org

“Why We Should Care: Technology and the Black Community”
Dr. Latanya Sweeney, Dr. Raquel Hill; Broadcast Talks

In many ways, the creation of our future is in the hands of technology companies that do not accurately represent the increasing diversity of our society. The continued marginalization of Black communities through the use of technology is well documented, yet many of the victims of the most egregious uses of technology are not only left out of the conversations regarding how to rectify it but do not understand why they should care. This fireside chat will showcase the many ways why we should all not only care about the role of technology in our society, but why active disengagement will be to all of our perils.

“WikiCredibility Demo Hour -- March Online Meetup”
Daniel Arnaudo, Simon Knight, Kevin Payravi, Emelia May Hughes, Monika Sengul-Jones; Skill Share - Discussion

WikiCred Demo Hour is a regular monthly online meetup that brings together members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from the online credibility space. Our calls are held every month, with ongoing discussions on our Slack channel.

WikiCredibility Initiative is a grant initiative that funds research and MVP products on the diverse Wikimedia platforms (wikidata, wikipedia, wikicite). In 2020, we funded 14 projects with more than 20 collaborators.

In this march edition, we will hold demos from WikiCred funded projects and other members of the Wikimedian community. If you'd like to host a demo during this WikiCred demo hour, please contact us at wikicred.org.

“wildcrafting: a collaborative composition of the botanical worlds that make mozfest”
Uluwehi Mills, cathrynploehn, Devika Singh; Art and Media

this year, digitally-mediated connections have become not just important, but critical to our social well-being. but reliance on tech for human connection can often diminish the role of physical environments, especially with the natural world. a palpable connection to nature is a critical component of ensuring a sustainable future, and machine learning tools can enhance our ability to make sense of the organisms around us.
we invite participants to connect with the nature surrounding them, and to share it with the greater mozfest community. participants "arrive" by going outdoors in their respective physical locations, capturing it with their digital devices, identifying it with iNaturalist, and contributing to an immersive collage co-created with participants around the world.

This art and media piece is hosted on a third-party website.

“Will new European AI regulation have GDPR-like impact worldwide?”
Julia Reinhardt, Branka Panic, Nicolas Miailhe, Ivana Bartoletti; Discussion - Capped

The European Union is working on regulation that wants to ensure "Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence" by setting rules that would be enforceable in the EU. What will those rules look like, and how will they also guide AI developers outside of Europe? In data protection, the EU managed to set standards with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that inspired other constituencies to bring up their own privacy laws, a process that is still taking shape. While not all tech policies the EU agrees on are that impactful, will its upcoming regulatory approach make AI "work for the wellbeing of citizens" by respecting their rights and eliminating biases and discrimination, potentially globally?

“‘Women and girls use computers, men and boys love them.’ :: Gender diversity for Trustworthy AI”
Dr Cara Antoine, Sahar Yadegari, Zinat Farhang, Eve Logunova, Dr. Natali Helberg; Discussion - Capped

‘Women and girls use computers, men and boys love them.’ This 1986 New York Times quote was published 35 years ago, yet we are still facing a severe underrepresentation of women in technology. In the age of AI and further digitization of our societies, can we still afford to accept this gender gap? In this session we will explore the relationship between increasing gender diversity in tech and trustworthy AI.
- The women in AI right now and their stories. Eve Logunova WomenInAI NL
- Systemic difficulties that girls and women must overcome when pursuing a tech career. Esther van Schaik & Sahar Yadegari, VHTO
- What do we need for trustworthy AI? Professor Natali Helberger
- How to increase the participation of women in tech? Building a community to close the gender gap in Tech. Dr. Cara Antoine – WomenInTech NL

Moderators:
Zinat Farhang

“World Landmarks with SketchUp”
Elise Ainsworth; Workshop

Participants in this workshop will be guided through the basic commands of SketchUp, a 3D design tool that is free and accessible over the internet. Using screen sharing, they’ll be taught how to create 3D shapes, which can be interconnected to form a building, before learning how to decorate these buildings. Ultimately, the goal of the workshop is for participants to be able to create their own 3D scale models of world landmarks, utilising the skills learnt previously. After the workshop, participants will be able to continue using what they have learnt, as they can use SketchUp easily at home.

“Writing Clean Codes: Its Importance & Best Practices”
Anisat Akinbani; Skill Share

To write codes and to write clean codes are two separate things. As a developer, writing clean codes are good practices to inculcate in any project. These gives room for; accessibility, understanding of the project, ease of future maintenance and more. In my session, I will walk my audience through the importance and best practices for writing clean codes.

“Writing in Invisible Ink: Hiding Digital Messages in 'Plain' Sight”
Albert 'Bash' Yumol; Workshop

In this code-along workshop, you will learn how to hide messages in text, image, sound and video using basic concepts of ciphers. You will also get to explore how to mask your personal photos so you can fool facial recognition algorithms and even get rid of its metadata for your privacy.

You will use open source productivity tools for this workshop. No programming background is required but is an advantage because you will learn these techniques using basic Python syntax.

“'You are Your profile' Documentary Open Discussion With Mozfest Participants”
Jake Blok, Ger Baron; Art and Media - Discussion

We invite all participants of the session to view the short film ‘You are Your profile’ which has been made available during MozFest. The ‘You are Your profile’ LIVE TALK session is a live conversation within the scope of the film. Jake Blok (part of the film team) and Ger Baron (current CTO of Amsterdam), who is also interviewed in the film, will talk about perspectives on how to go about your online identity nowadays and try to stimulate an open discussion with participants. Topics we aim to bring further include ‘How will the concept of online identity evolve in the near future?’, ‘What is the role of a government in protecting us online?’ and ‘How far do we expect our basic human rights, like dignity and privacy, to apply online in a more and more connected society?’. Feel free to join this conversation.

“You have been diagnosed with BWD (Binge Watching Disorder): hacking towards a healthier internet diet.”
Winke Wiegersma; Workshop

In this interactive and engaging session, we will try to unravel the phenomenon ‘binge watching’ - the obsessive act of excessively consuming online visual content up to the point of depletion. Together we will unravel a set of questions behind this phenomenon (from ‘what do I binge-watch’ to ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘where’) and participants can share the possibly ‘unhealthy’ aspects to this phenomenon they may experience. With this deeper understanding of the phenomenon, in smaller groups, participants will come up with diverse, creative, innovative, simple or weird (everything is welcome!) hacks that could act as a cure for these ‘unhealthy’ behaviours (f.e. a short yoga-for-the-tired-eye session, which will be included if time allows). Leaving the session, participants should have access to a large amount of hacks to experiment with. The results will eventually be presented in a ‘guide to hack your binge-watching behaviour’.

“Young Leaders to the Table: AI, ethics and equity”
Hannah Ballard, Juliet Waters, Erin Johnston, Susan Sharpe, Becca Grimmelt; Workshop

If you’re a young person, or someone who cares about one, you know that they’ve got a lot to say. We want to know: what do they think about AI and ethics?

In this session, optimised for those aged 18 and under, we will be bringing together young people from across the world to discuss AI, its ethical implications, and what this means for equity and justice, both online and in the real world. We will be taking inspiration from KCJ's youth-focused response to the Mozilla Trustworthy AI Whitepaper: https://kidscodejeunesse.org/blog?b=2020-09-17-kcj-opinion-trustworthy-ai

Today’s young people are the first generation ever to grow up in a world so thoroughly influenced and manipulated by AI. As technology seamlessly integrates into our daily lives, young people need analytical skills to understand how it impacts the environment around them - and the tools to take a leading role in shaping how their world works.

“Youth co-design BEFRIEND THE MACHINES awareness campaign”
Sandra van de Kraak, Pauline Maring, Mei Yang; Workshop

What does the world in 2030 look like? Machines are getting smarter. Some of them will work for you, sometimes you’ll work for them - or even in them. More and more, you’ll work side by side to get things done. Which skills do young people need to master to create human-machine collaboration?

Collaborate to design and share original art, music, games, and stories that will support young people to imagine the future. Your art, music, game or story will be published at the Cities of Learning Platform so other young people can use your resource. Learn and at the same time raise young people’s awareness about human-machine collaboration. Everyone interested is welcome!

“Youth Zone Hackathon Check In”
Luca Damasco; Discussion - Capped

A Hackathon Check in session that will act as an office hours and mid point project review.

“Youth Zone Hackathon Wrap Up”
Luca Damasco; Discussion - Capped

To Review and Award prizes to hackathon winners!

“Zine-making: Explain Decentralization To Me”
Ngọc Triệu, Karissa McKelvey; Workshop

Decentralization means something different to everyone but what does it mean to you? Join the Decentralization Off The Shelf (DOTS) team in a search for meanings in the decentralized world through creativity and the art of zine-making. This workshop is suitable for designers, developers, learners, and anyone who is curious about how the world functions and wishes to tell their stories.

The workshop consists of three parts:

DOTS interpretation of decentralization and a short introduction to zine-making
Zine-making: A collective interpretation of ‘decentralization’ and individual workspace
Online exhibition: Learning and sharing

The workshop will be conducted via Miro and Zoom.

“Zine-making session: Imagining a new world through digital feminism”
Hazel Dixon, Julia Slupska, simran chopra, Cayla Key, Emiline Brule; Workshop

‘Zines’ are DIY magazines which can include collages of poems, photos, essays or other kinds of art. One of the strengths of this DIY format is how it embraces and uplifts a diversity of voices. We’re inviting participants to create zines as windows into a new world.

At the start of the workshop we will discuss themes of digital feminism and how it confronts gender inequality, racism, ableism, transphobia and other forms of oppression online.

If possible, please take some time to reflect on (or, if you wish, make some art in response to) the following questions:
1. What does it mean to be a feminist?
2. How can we build safer online spaces for everyone?
3. What does the ideal 2030 look like?

These ideas will be explored in smaller breakout groups where participants will craft the zines digitally and collaboratively.

MozFest 2021 - Session Proposals

“0.0146 seconds | Live interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 11” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 12” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 13” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 15” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 6” Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | We Do Not Accept” Julia Janssen; Art and Media

“0°N 0°E (2020)” Deborah Mora, FIBER; Art and Media

“24h Sunrise/Sunset” Dries Depoorter, Shishani Vranckx; Art and Media

“404: Planet B not found. (Try connecting to Mother Earth through Youth4DigitalSustainability)” Elisabeth Schauermann, Raashi Saxena, Eileen Cejas, Noha Abdel Baky, Pedro Peres; Workshop

“Abusability: Designing for Human-Centred Security” Julia Slupska, Eleanor Goodman, Lesley Nuttall; Workshop

“Accessible Data Security” Maurine Chepkoech; Discussion - Capped

“Accessible Virtual Worlds” Alexandra Tzanidou & Sami Abosaleh; Workshop

“Achieving social transformation with decentralized infrastructures” Dawn Walker; Workshop

“A cornucopia of colourful cultural creation 🎨” Harrison Pim, James Gorrie; Workshop

“Activism through video games: how streaming and video games can help power-up your cause” Micaela Mantegna (Abogamer), Javier Pallero; Workshop

“Adapting AI Pedagogy for Under-Represented Global Communities” Albert 'Bash' Yumol, Aurelien; Discussion - Capped

“Add-ons Community Meetup Session” Caitlin Neiman, Philipp Kewisch, Andreas Wagner; Discussion - Capped

“A Deep Dive into the World of Numismatics” ARYAN; Discussion - Capped

“Ad Transparency and Access for Researchers: What are platforms hiding?” Kaili Lambe, Brandi Geurkink, Jason Chuang, Laura Edelson; Discussion - Capped

“Africa Innovation Mradi Community Discussion” Hanan Elmasu, Roselyn Odoyo, Chenai Chair; Discussion - Capped

“A Global Perspective on Algorithmic Accountability” Spandana Singh; Discussion - Capped

“A hyper-local nanosecond protest on the future representation of women in gendered technology” B Aga, Coral Manton, Caitlin Bentley, Elvia Vasconcelos; Workshop

“AI4Cities: Accelerating Carbon Neutrality” Jon Jonoski, Anja Reimann; Workshop

“AI and Investigative Journalism, the ICIJ experience” Emilia Diaz-Struck, Miguel Fiandor Gutiérrez; Discussion - Capped

“AI and mental health: revolutionary reboot or the rise of the “digital asylum”?” Piers Gooding, Kelechi Ubozoh, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Keris Myrick; Discussion - Capped

“AI and the Environment: Friend or Foe?” Sarah Watson, Jon Lloyd; Discussion - Capped

“AI Bias beyond the western lens: Perspectives from India” Gaurav Jain, Smriti, Amba Kak, Vidhushi Marda; Discussion - Capped

“AI & Data Futures: A Dialogues & Debate panel” Astha Kapoor, Dr. Funda Üstek-Špilda, Anouk Ruhaak, Solana Larsen; Broadcast Talks

“AI Ecosystems in the MENA Region - Networking Event” Raya Sharbain, qusai, Issa Mahasneh; Social Moments

“AI Education for Real Life” Andy Forest, Ekansh Gupta, Brenda Shivanandan; Discussion - Capped

“AI for Disasters - Insights from Humanitarian and Development sectors” Robert Soden, Kiwako Sakamoto, Erin Coughlan, Caroline Gevaert, Bo Percival, Nicholas Jones; Discussion - Capped

“AI for Environmental Activism” Berna Keskindemir; Workshop

“AI & Labor: A Dialogues & Debates panel” Dr. Lilly Irani, Rida Qadri, Sherry Stanley, Becca Ricks; Broadcast Talks

“AI & Power: A Dialogues & Debates panel” Nighat Dad, Julie Owono, Dr. Sarah Roberts, Cierra Robson, J. Bob Alotta; Broadcast Talks

“AI Technology for People” Femke Blokhuis, Maarten Sukel; Discussion - Capped

“AI & Truth: A Dialogues & Debates panel” Jacquelyn Mason, Dr. Peaks Krafft, Mutale Nkonde, Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Brandi Geurkink; Broadcast Talks

“AI vs. our bodies: How can we exists as women or a gender diverse people on social media” Umut Pajaro Velasquez; Discussion - Capped

“Algorithmic Diversity: The Challenges of Zero Exclusion, AI & Ethics” Yonah Welker; Discussion - Capped

Notions:

“Algorithms in Government & Procurement” Cynthia H. Conti-Cook, Noel Hidalgo, Jeanna Matthews, Natalia Domagala; Discussion - Capped

“Algorithms of Late-Capitalism: Zine Co-Creation Workshop” Adriaan Odendaal, Karla Zavala Barreda; Workshop

“Alternative Business Models For The Web” Ashley Boyd, Ayman Hariri, Tony Fadell; Broadcast Talks

“Alternative Futures: "Protect me from what I want"” Shirley Leung; Art and Media

“Alternative Futures: "Protect me from what I want" - Discussion” Shirley Leung; Art and Media - Discussion

“Alternatives to Digital Ads: A Dialogues & Debates Conversation” Briana Marbury, Harriet Kingaby; Broadcast Talks

“Ample Labs - Empowering those facing Homeless Through Artificial Intelligence.” CG Chen, Alex; Discussion - Capped

“An Interview with ALEX” Carrie Sijia Wang; Art and Media

“Antiblack Racism, Technology and AI in Brazil” Tarcizio Silva, Nina da hora; Discussion - Capped

“Antisemitism and the Internet: Coded Hate Speech in Online Memetics” Feminist Internet; Art and Media

“Anti-Surveillance Toolkit for the Remote Worker” Carrie Sijia Wang, Yiru Lu, Michael Morran; Workshop

“An Update From The Credibility Coalition, Part I | Mar 10 @ 21:15 CET” Nevin Thompson, Scott Hale, James Stomber, Gabriel Altay; Discussion - Capped

“A people's history: Building popular narratives of sites and sounds” Nyambura Mutanyi; Discussion - Capped

“Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work” Sumana Harihareswara; Skill Share

“Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work Q&A” Sumana Harihareswara; Skill Share - Discussion

“Applying Machine Learning to summarize source code” Maeliza Seymour, Shubhadeep; Discussion - Capped

“Art Camp” Judit Navratil; Art and Media

“Artificial Intelligence / Real Feelings” Carolyn Beer; Discussion - Capped

“A Scientific Experiment on Privacy and AI Transparency” Dario Garcia Gasulla, Atia Cortés; Discussion - Capped

“As the City Whispers” Hugo, Pedro Gil Farias; Art and Media

“A Typology of Trust for AI: Design An Intervention to A Specific AI Harm” Alex C. Engler; Workshop

“Avatars in Zoom for All! (a hands-on tutorial)” Eyal Gruss; Workshop

“A workshop on uncovering human rights concerns of machine learning APIs” Roya Pakzad, Kulynych Bogdan; Workshop

“Balancing Trustworthy AI and the power to change behaviour for sustainable food acquisition” Remco Benthem de Grave; Workshop

“Battle of the Flobots I - A VR Theatre Show” Blair Russell; Art and Media - Discussion

“Battle of the Flobots II - A VR Theatre Show” Blair Russell; Art and Media - Discussion

“Become an advisor for the Cities’ Digital Rights Helpdesk!” Milou Jansen, Livia Schaeffer Nonose, Merel Schilderman, Kate Nicholson, Noel Hidalgo, Abdinassir Sagar; Workshop

“Better metadata makes a difference” Laura Paglione, Ginny Hendricks, John Chodacki; Workshop

“Beyond compliance: How employees can drive business leadership in climate action” Kathy Zhang; Workshop

“0.0146 seconds | Live interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 11”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 12”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 13”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 15”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | Live Interaction 6”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media - Discussion

“0.0146 seconds | We Do Not Accept”
Julia Janssen; Art and Media

“0°N 0°E (2020)”
Deborah Mora, FIBER; Art and Media

“24h Sunrise/Sunset”
Dries Depoorter, Shishani Vranckx; Art and Media

“404: Planet B not found. (Try connecting to Mother Earth through Youth4DigitalSustainability)”
Elisabeth Schauermann, Raashi Saxena, Eileen Cejas, Noha Abdel Baky, Pedro Peres; Workshop

“Abusability: Designing for Human-Centred Security”
Julia Slupska, Eleanor Goodman, Lesley Nuttall; Workshop

“Accessible Data Security”
Maurine Chepkoech; Discussion - Capped

“Accessible Virtual Worlds”
Alexandra Tzanidou & Sami Abosaleh; Workshop

“Achieving social transformation with decentralized infrastructures”
Dawn Walker; Workshop

“A cornucopia of colourful cultural creation 🎨”
Harrison Pim, James Gorrie; Workshop

“Activism through video games: how streaming and video games can help power-up your cause”
Micaela Mantegna (Abogamer), Javier Pallero; Workshop

“Adapting AI Pedagogy for Under-Represented Global Communities”
Albert 'Bash' Yumol, Aurelien; Discussion - Capped

“Add-ons Community Meetup Session”
Caitlin Neiman, Philipp Kewisch, Andreas Wagner; Discussion - Capped

“A Deep Dive into the World of Numismatics”
ARYAN; Discussion - Capped

“Ad Transparency and Access for Researchers: What are platforms hiding?”
Kaili Lambe, Brandi Geurkink, Jason Chuang, Laura Edelson; Discussion - Capped

“Africa Innovation Mradi Community Discussion”
Hanan Elmasu, Roselyn Odoyo, Chenai Chair; Discussion - Capped

“A Global Perspective on Algorithmic Accountability”
Spandana Singh; Discussion - Capped

“A hyper-local nanosecond protest on the future representation of women in gendered technology”
B Aga, Coral Manton, Caitlin Bentley, Elvia Vasconcelos; Workshop

“AI4Cities: Accelerating Carbon Neutrality”
Jon Jonoski, Anja Reimann; Workshop

“AI and Investigative Journalism, the ICIJ experience”
Emilia Diaz-Struck, Miguel Fiandor Gutiérrez; Discussion - Capped

“AI and mental health: revolutionary reboot or the rise of the “digital asylum”?”
Piers Gooding, Kelechi Ubozoh, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Keris Myrick; Discussion - Capped

“AI and the Environment: Friend or Foe?”
Sarah Watson, Jon Lloyd; Discussion - Capped

“AI Bias beyond the western lens: Perspectives from India”
Gaurav Jain, Smriti, Amba Kak, Vidhushi Marda; Discussion - Capped

“AI & Data Futures: A Dialogues & Debate panel”
Astha Kapoor, Dr. Funda Üstek-Špilda, Anouk Ruhaak, Solana Larsen; Broadcast Talks

“AI Ecosystems in the MENA Region - Networking Event”
Raya Sharbain, qusai, Issa Mahasneh; Social Moments

“AI Education for Real Life”
Andy Forest, Ekansh Gupta, Brenda Shivanandan; Discussion - Capped

“AI for Disasters - Insights from Humanitarian and Development sectors”
Robert Soden, Kiwako Sakamoto, Erin Coughlan, Caroline Gevaert, Bo Percival, Nicholas Jones; Discussion - Capped

“AI for Environmental Activism”
Berna Keskindemir; Workshop

“AI & Labor: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Dr. Lilly Irani, Rida Qadri, Sherry Stanley, Becca Ricks; Broadcast Talks

“AI & Power: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Nighat Dad, Julie Owono, Dr. Sarah Roberts, Cierra Robson, J. Bob Alotta; Broadcast Talks

“AI Technology for People”
Femke Blokhuis, Maarten Sukel; Discussion - Capped

“AI & Truth: A Dialogues & Debates panel”
Jacquelyn Mason, Dr. Peaks Krafft, Mutale Nkonde, Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Brandi Geurkink; Broadcast Talks

“AI vs. our bodies: How can we exists as women or a gender diverse people on social media”
Umut Pajaro Velasquez; Discussion - Capped

“Algorithmic Diversity: The Challenges of Zero Exclusion, AI & Ethics”
Yonah Welker; Discussion - Capped

“Algorithms in Government & Procurement”
Cynthia H. Conti-Cook, Noel Hidalgo, Jeanna Matthews, Natalia Domagala; Discussion - Capped

“Algorithms of Late-Capitalism: Zine Co-Creation Workshop”
Adriaan Odendaal, Karla Zavala Barreda; Workshop

“Alternative Business Models For The Web”
Ashley Boyd, Ayman Hariri, Tony Fadell; Broadcast Talks

“Alternative Futures: "Protect me from what I want"”
Shirley Leung; Art and Media

“Alternative Futures: "Protect me from what I want" - Discussion”
Shirley Leung; Art and Media - Discussion

“Alternatives to Digital Ads: A Dialogues & Debates Conversation”
Briana Marbury, Harriet Kingaby; Broadcast Talks

“Ample Labs - Empowering those facing Homeless Through Artificial Intelligence.”
CG Chen, Alex; Discussion - Capped

“An Interview with ALEX”
Carrie Sijia Wang; Art and Media

“Antiblack Racism, Technology and AI in Brazil”
Tarcizio Silva, Nina da hora; Discussion - Capped

“Antisemitism and the Internet: Coded Hate Speech in Online Memetics”
Feminist Internet; Art and Media

“Anti-Surveillance Toolkit for the Remote Worker”
Carrie Sijia Wang, Yiru Lu, Michael Morran; Workshop

“An Update From The Credibility Coalition, Part I | Mar 10 @ 21:15 CET”
Nevin Thompson, Scott Hale, James Stomber, Gabriel Altay; Discussion - Capped

“A people's history: Building popular narratives of sites and sounds”
Nyambura Mutanyi; Discussion - Capped

“Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work”
Sumana Harihareswara; Skill Share

“Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work Q&A”
Sumana Harihareswara; Skill Share - Discussion

“Applying Machine Learning to summarize source code”
Maeliza Seymour, Shubhadeep; Discussion - Capped

“Art Camp”
Judit Navratil; Art and Media

“Artificial Intelligence / Real Feelings”
Carolyn Beer; Discussion - Capped

“A Scientific Experiment on Privacy and AI Transparency”
Dario Garcia Gasulla, Atia Cortés; Discussion - Capped

“As the City Whispers”
Hugo, Pedro Gil Farias; Art and Media

“A Typology of Trust for AI: Design An Intervention to A Specific AI Harm”
Alex C. Engler; Workshop

“Avatars in Zoom for All! (a hands-on tutorial)”
Eyal Gruss; Workshop

“A workshop on uncovering human rights concerns of machine learning APIs”
Roya Pakzad, Kulynych Bogdan; Workshop

“Balancing Trustworthy AI and the power to change behaviour for sustainable food acquisition”
Remco Benthem de Grave; Workshop

“Battle of the Flobots I - A VR Theatre Show”
Blair Russell; Art and Media - Discussion

“Battle of the Flobots II - A VR Theatre Show”
Blair Russell; Art and Media - Discussion

“Become an advisor for the Cities’ Digital Rights Helpdesk!”
Milou Jansen, Livia Schaeffer Nonose, Merel Schilderman, Kate Nicholson, Noel Hidalgo, Abdinassir Sagar; Workshop

“Better metadata makes a difference”
Laura Paglione, Ginny Hendricks, John Chodacki; Workshop

“Beyond compliance: How employees can drive business leadership in climate action”
Kathy Zhang; Workshop

“Beyond the Now - New Coalitions in Socially Engaged Digital Practice”
Ailbhe Murphy, Aine O'Brien, Kat Braybrooke, Abdullah Alkafri, Imran Ahmed; Discussion - Capped

“Beyond Vision”
Eva Lili Bartha, Troy Nachtigall; Art and Media