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.
We are hoping to use the two weeks of Mozfest to do some community engagement around the Africa Innovation Mradi whereby we have an open space where people can engage with perhaps a video of our work to date in the African region, background on the joint MoCo/MoFo commitment to the Mradi, and then something like a post it board where people could plug in ideas of what movement building looks like. We'd use the facilitated discussion as an opportunity to think through these ideas, or perhaps have some present some of the suggestions made throughout the two weeks.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:We can use the ideas that are shared during Mozfest as another form of community consultation that supplements our existing landscape analysis work and helps us to reach out to others post Mozfest. It could be that we convene some regular public meetings after the event to continue thinking through movement building.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:Hopefully there will be enough ideas generated prior to the meeting that we would be able to dig deep into some proposals or suggestions if there are fewer numbers, or allow short presentations if there are larger numbers that people can engage with. It will be organised as a strategy development session.
Director of Fellowships and Awards, Mozilla Foundation
