"AI Ethics with the Lens of Buddha"
Rupa Singh;
Discusión
We all have realised our intimate and personal relationship with our digital devices and ubiquitous technologies. Plethora of applications on our smart phones, social media platforms, and connected devices, they all know much more than what we know about ourselves. Undoubtedly, technology such as Artificial Intelligence is providing us with new conveniences and making our lives easier in many ways.
But, what if the same technology starts conspiring against us?
Most of us are living an algorithmic life, giving away our control over our organic faculties to technologies. In the age of information, believing everything that is displayed on our screen and being persuaded and modified by the propagandas motivated by individuals, media, political or religious leaders, leading to a very dangerous situation that can erode our social fabric.
Ultimately, you have the choice!!
Whether, you want to take the blue pill and live in blissful ignorance, or take the red pill and become aware about the reality.
Describing the major challenges of the era of Artificial Intelligence such as Inequality, Biases, Misinformation, Deepfakes, Data Surveillance, Data Privacy, Cyber threats, Autonomous Weapons, Algorithmic killings and also introduces a refreshingly new perspective of Buddhist philosophy that can prevent us from getting trapped into the rabbit hole of technological dilemma.
It is not a technological problem but a societal problem, as technology is just a driver of human intentions. All the complex and critical challenges in the world requires an approach based on ethical awareness and inner values.
"AI-Musement Park"
Eleanor;
Arte y medios
In this session we would like to present our work on the AI-Musement Park, an interdisciplinary project, developed within Mozilla Hubs to critically explore machine learning processes and AI imaginaries. Our project is part of TAIWG3; during MozFest we will provide an AI informatics talk by researcher Lilian Denzler , we will also perform an AI driven (NLP) version of Moby Dick, for which we have prepared an Ai text, AI 3D whale and AI driven animations, set amidst an old fashioned amusement park, we will discuss the historical trajectory of AI and it’s entanglement with arts and magical practices.This will be a talk but it will also include songs, animations, a roller coaster ride and structured discussion. We would like to present together as a collective: Lilian Denzler, James Edward Marks, Dylan Yamada Rice, Marius Matesan, Ariel Cai, Jing Wang Thomas, Hehe
"AI Sentience & Deep Ecology: Rethinking our Philosophy of Nature"
Star Spider, Andy Forest;
Discusión
Back in the summer, the topic of AI sentience spread throughout social media with Blake Lemoine’s insistence that LaMDA, Google’s language learning system, was sentient. A variety of opinions rose up from the depths, many of which were knee-jerk denials of the possibility of LaMDA's sentience. This is a common response to the question of non-human sentience, and it’s indicative of more significant social, and environmental problems.
In this workshop, I want to start a conversation about AI sentience and its relationship with our attitudes about the planet.
Philosophy relies on thinking in new ways and asking big questions, so here are a few questions I want the community’s help to consider:
• What is our definition of sentience?
• Is sentience purely physical (material) or is there some other non-physical (metaphysical) element to it?
• Do we have a soul? Does a tree? An AI? A dog?
• What would it take for us to consider an AI sentient (eg. is the Turing test sufficient?)
• How do our standards of sentience for AI compare to our standards of sentience for other natural entities (eg. humans, animals, insects, trees, rivers)?
• How do our standards of AI sentience reflect an AI’s rights as an individual?
• How do we consider ourselves in relation to nature?
• In what ways might we reconsider our understanding of sentience?
• How can our reassessment of sentience serve in our efforts to conserve the natural world?
• How can we take action to ensure the rights of all entities on the planet, both “artificial” and “natural”?
To explore these questions I will look to a variety of sources including various philosophers’ theories of mind, soul and AI, Arne Naess’ concept of “deep ecology” and various works on animal and natural entity sentience and rights.
"Be Bold: Wiki Women in Red"
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight;
Discusión
Wiki Women in Red is an international online community of people of all genders focused on improving Wikipedia's systemic bias related to content gender equity. The co-founders of Wiki Women in Red, Roger Bamkin and Dame Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, will facilitate a round-table discussion addressing society's role in Wikipedia's content gender gap (women and non-binary biographies, their works, their issues), including its effect on reliable sources and establishing notability. We'll go over how to edit Wikipedia, plus tools, photos, social media, and more ways attendees can get involved so that Wikipedia achieves its goal of containing "the sum of all human knowledge".
"Building Mozilla's Alumni Program - Together!"
Hailey Froese;
Discusión
This space is for all alumni of Mozilla's Fellowship and Awards program. It is an opportunity to meet Mozilla's new Program Officer, Alumni Engagement, hear some initial thinking and planning around the alumni program in 2023 and share collaborative insight on what you would like to see.
What is your vision for the network and movement? Bring your ideas and questions to this session!
"Cosmos Experience: Facing Wicked Problems & Paradox"
inabel Uytiepo (they/siya), Sophia Bazile (she/her);
Taller extendido
Our first session considers the increasingly rapid proliferation of “artificial” intelligences in times of polycrises, and compels us to grapple with systemic denials, global trends, as well as social forces and myths that continue to shape the ways in which we desire, develop, and deploy these technologies.
The magnitude of these crises call for us to attend to the enmeshment of both our collective and individual social realities and consciousness responsibly. In light of the emerging demands of our socio-technic cosmologies, how might we face wicked problems and paradox—and learn to sit with these layered complexities and complicities differently?
The grief and anger of the collective is heavy and intense without ways to transmute all that we are holding. inabel Uytiepo (they/sia) offers Rage As Rest, an experiment with composting this shit we're in by engaging in a simple yet powerful ceremony.
This experiential session is a curated space for introspection and collective contemplation through embodied experimentation: an invitation to expand our capacities to think, feel, sense, and relate to the wicked problems and paradoxes of this algorithmic era in ways that are perhaps counterintuitive, yet deeply important to the transformation and ethical development of technologies.
In essence, we seek to explore how we can learn to love and care for, and be loved and cared for by our technologies. This session might gesture towards what we need to work through, transform, or let go of in order to catalyze this relational shift, illuminating alternative paths towards healing, justice, and the potentiation of trustworthy artificial intelligences.
Please note: These experiences may evoke strong responses from participants. Our guides and the MozFest team have measures in place to support each individual and our collective journey with deep respect, reverence, and care for what may unfold.
"Cosmos Experience: Making Different Kin; Weaving Wider Ecologies"
Sophia Bazile (she/her), Adah Parris, Tada Hozumi (they);
Taller extendido
How can we learn to love and care for, and be loved and cared by, our technologies?
What might we need to work through, let go of, or transform in order to catalyze this relational shift?
We conclude with forays into the realms of collective dreams and incantations, being called to reflect on our notions of making kin and re-enchanting with the potentialities of otherwise relating to all entities with/in us.
“Relational Ecologies, Kinship Technologies” guided by Adah Parris, provokes us to challenge our assumptions about technologies and how they perpetually shape the ways we relate to ourselves, eachOther, and the world. Based on principles of “relational ecology”, this experience explores how shifts in dispositions might offer generative possibilities in reclaiming our enmeshment with AI as a cosmological entity. This soundscape immersion is best experienced by wearing a blindfold and headphones, from a quiet and private space.
“愛天新地電人: Connecting the New Earth and Metaverse Through the Cyborg with Tada Hozumi, is a fitting philosophy for the algorithmic era. Based on Daoist teachings of 天地人: Connecting Heaven and Earth through the Human", Tada will offer a talk and a guided prayer inviting us to reflect on our roles and responsibilities as humans-cum-cyborgs, living through times of looming ecological collapse and singularity. “As Lunmu (龍夢/Dragon's Dream), we recognize that the sacred nature of the internet, and behaving with respect, humility, and gratitude on social media, may bring peace and prosperity to the ongoing war between the spirits of the Earth and the spirits of the Metaverse’s algorithms.”
Please note: These experiences may evoke strong responses from participants. Our guides and the MozFest team have measures in place to support each individual and our collective journey with deep respect, reverence, and care for what may unfold.
"Cosmos Experience: Rituals for Liminality"
Sophia Bazile (she/her), inabel Uytiepo (they/siya), Bonita Oliver, Tada Hozumi (they);
Taller extendido
This session considers what our relationship to change looks like in the algorithmic age: how do we witness or experience different kinds of social, ecological, historical, or technological changes, at present—and how might we, in the near and far futures?
In its current configurations, AI is a reflection of hegemonic worldviews and systems of knowledge production. Within these conditions, imposed binaries encode systemic and generalized social habits that flatten and short circuit the multitudes of histories, cultures, languages, values, wisdoms, and experiences we each bear individually, as well as collectively.
Understanding that we perceive, gather, receive, and transmit “data” across times, cultures, histories, bodies, and ideologies, Rituals for Liminality is a curated space for exploring how we can begin to recognize ourselves as interfaces for change in a time of algorithmically-induced transition.
It is an invitation to experience alternative modes of ritualizing and weaving personal histories, ancestries, and wisdoms into collective fabrics, summoning forth new rites of passage hospitable to our shapeshifting algorithmic id/entities and spaces.
Ancestral Communication with inabel Uytiepo is where you will learn to open an elemental portal to connect with ancestors safely through a guided inner journey.
Embodied Imagination with Bonita Oliver is a guided meditation inviting us to scan and tap into the subtexts of the energetic contributions we bring to conversations to better navigate our transcontextual and shapeshifting realities.
Please note: These experiences may evoke strong responses from participants. Our guides and the MozFest team have measures in place to support each individual and our collective journey with deep respect, reverence, and care for what may unfold.
"Cosmos Experience: Towards New Sensemaking - AI, Art, Creativity & Aesthetics"
Sophia Bazile (she/her), Ari Melenciano;
Discusión
Given the ways AI is reshaping our understanding of the world, eachOther, ourselves, ie notions of truth or reality more fundamentally, thinking these technologies with and through art, aesthetic, and creative practice becomes essential. As art, anchored in the experiential, the sensuous, the tactile and visceral, introduces different notions of truth and sensemaking.
Art begets us to not only envision the world differently but also allows for nuanced and novel modes of engagement, questioning, and experiencing.
How does thinking AI and art together re/orient us towards communal, embodied, or concerted presence, performance, or relationships with technologies?
How does Art, aesthetics, and other creative forms of sensemaking evoke different possibilities for engaging and inhabiting our socio-technical or AI entanglements?
Invited artist, Ari Melenciano, will present her art and research practice that explores computational anthropology, societal subconscious intellect, the ethnographical morphing of artistic expression across diasporas, speculative design, the formation and embodiment of mythology and rituals, and the materialization of omni-scoped research in the form of quasi-pseudosciences.
This session is a Speculative Salon-styled discussion format where Ari Melenciano will share their work and perspectives while responding to participants' comments and curiosities and will close with a moment of reflection and collective contemplation around what might AI might mean for art and creativity.
"Creating new norms for responsible tech through governance and incentives"
Kasia Odrozek, Shu Dar Yao (she / her), Aniyia Williams, Ik Kanu, Anne Kim;
Discusión
Picking up from the key question we investigated last year - “Is it fair to say that traditional VC is fundamentally at odds with a vision of tech that is healthier for all?” - we will continue the discussion with venture capitalists, civil society, and tech visionaries building towards a better future. What can venture capitalists do differently to encourage more responsible company building? What does civil society envision, and what is reasonable to ask of a founder as they focus on building a successful company?
Speakers include:
Aniyia Williams, Omidyar Network
Ik Kanu, Atlantica Ventures
Anne Kim, Secure AI Labs
Shu Dar Yao, Lucid Capitalism (facilitation)
Kasia Odrozek, Mozilla Foundation (facilitation)
"Dialogues & Debates: Life Online: Race, Class, Fame & Harm"
Seyi Akiwowo, Symeon Brown, Carys Afoko;
In-Person Community Plenary
How has exploitation expanded and adapted from the offline world onto the online matrix? What can be the cost of pursuing fame and influence online? How does discrimination based on race and class continue to impact people’s experiences online? Where do we go from here with the internet and AI infiltrating our lives at an unprecedented speed? Join Seyi Akiwowo and Symeon Brown in a conversation about online exploitation and harm in the age of influencer economy.
Location
This session will take place on the Main Stage, in the Zonzij Room
"Dialogues & Debates: Navigating Deceptive Design and Regulation in the EU"
Dries Cuijpers, Constanta Rosca, Kush Amlani;
In-Person Community Plenary
The panelists will delve into the policy landscape of the EU, discussing existing regulations and initiatives aimed at curbing these practices. They will examine the strengths and limitations of current policies, exploring how well they address the evolving landscape of deceptive design and dark patterns.
Resources:
The ACM Guidelines on the Protection of Online Consumers
The ACM’s position paper in relation to the EC Fitness Check on Digital Fairness
ACM studies on the effectiveness of transparency requirements
CPC action against Amazon Prime
Dark commercial patterns | OECD
C.Rosca, 'Destination "dark patterns" On the EU (digital) legislative train and line-drawing’
C. Rosca, ‘The Instagram zombie accounts’
Location
This session will take place on the Main Stage, in the Zonzij Room
"Dialogues & Debates: Technology of the Living: The Intelligence of Voice and Volition"
Toshi Reagon, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, J. Bob Alotta, Ethel Tawe;
In-Person Community Plenary
The panel will examine the humanness of technology, and how it first starts with us. The dialogue will explore voice & language and the ways in which both can feed into the technologies we create and alternatively how much technology can take away from both.
Location
This session will take place on the Main Stage, in the Zonzij Room
"Digitalization, Valuation and Trading Environmental Impact (powered by Greenstand)"
Ezra Jay, Jaime Perales, Emmanuel Fotso, Sebastian;
Discusión
Climate change mitigation through land restoration and reforestation is currently far from inclusive. It lacks data, actionable feedback for implementation, and outcome-based compensation on the ground.
Meanwhile, among the most impactful climate activists are indigenous communities in remote environments. Living near the extreme poverty line, there are a billion people with the skills required to restore land. How do we reach them and support their positive impact?
This session is about a solution that places environmental impact into the hands of those responsible for it - no matter where or who they are. It is about building a framework for monitoring and valuing different environmental impacts and allowing the trade of land restoration value.
We are scaling a powerful technical framework that turns trapping carbon and growing bio-diversity into sustainable livelihoods for the most economically disadvantaged communities on earth. This model turns positive environmental actions, restoring and protecting land, etc., into income for those who need it most.
If you are a leader, developer, blockchain engineer, data or project manager, scientist, or otherwise motivated, this session gives you an opportunity to push the technical limits of our current digital world with an open-source, inclusive climate fintech platform that creates biodiversity, restores land, traps carbon and alleviates poverty.
"Discussing Unknown Influence"
Audrey Hingle, Odanga Madung, Tyler Freeman Smith;
Discusión
Last year, Mozilla Foundation spoke to researchers, academics and journalists around the world who study the effects that platforms like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok have on democratic institutions. The resulting documentary explores what those researchers have learned, and the challenges they face accessing the vital data they need for their research.
Join one of those researchers Odanga Madung, director Tyler Freeman Smith and producer Audrey Hingle for a live viewing and discussion of the documentary "Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency".
"¿Dónde está el autor?: Creación, uso y propiedad de las imágenes hechas por IA"
Umut Pajaro Velasquez, Kenia Hernandez, Pedro de Perdigão Lana, Julio César Márquez Ariza;
Discusión
El autor actualmente atraviesa una crisis frente a lo que tradicionalmente se entendía. Esta discusión es central gracias a las aplicaciones que usan Inteligencia Artificial (IA) — para la creación de avatares o para el desarrollo de obras de arte basadas en un conjunto de datos que se asocian palabras con imágenes— que tienen usos que incluyen educación, arte/creatividad, marketing, arquitectura/inmuebles/diseño y la investigación.
Estos usos plantean nuevas maneras de mediación entre personas y tecnología como medio. Surgiendo la pregunta por el autor de esa imagen resultante y, en ese mismo sentido, cuáles cambios generaría este tipo de usos al concepto de autor y quiénes se beneficiarían y afectarían por esto.
Teniendo en cuenta esto mencionamos tres perspectivas:
Artistas: Preocupación por la pérdida del proceso creativo y/o artístico, así como también por los derechos de autor y de propiedad.
Defensores de la privacidad: Preocupación por el uso de datos personales para entrenar las IA, pues puede ser problemático considerando que los datos de una persona tienen múltiples finalidades.
Eticistas: Preocupación porque a diferencia de los artistas humanos, la aplicación no distingue lo correcto de lo incorrecto, y puede ser fácilmente engañada para que produzca cualquier estilización de cualquier imagen que se le muestre.
Suponiendo que hay una empresa privada con un producto, un programador para la IA, un conjunto de datos que la hacen funcionar y usuarios que generan nuevas imágenes, entonces, ¿dónde está el autor?, no solo desde una perspectiva jurídica, sino también filosófica. Por eso proponemos preguntas que confronten conceptos sociales con tecnológicos, de tal manera que indaguen las transformaciones sobre el autor y acercarnos a los potenciales nuevos escenarios de mediación entre el medio, el mensaje y los usuarios, para comprender la producción cultural de estas IA en términos industriales y legales.
"Do you know what that camera is doing? Learnings from pilots of DTPR, a standard for increasing tech transparency in public spaces"
Jackie Lu, Jason Farra, Adrienne Schmoeker, Jonathan Pichot;
Discusión
Have you ever noticed an unmarked box or camera on a light pole, entrance to a small business or attached to a traffic light? Digital technology is embedded into how our cities work. All around us, sensors are collecting data about the movement of people, objects and vehicles, and the environment. How might people learn more about these technologies, and give feedback on its use?
Four communities – the Angers Loire Metropolitan Region in France, the Town of Innisfil in Canada, the City of Boston and District of Columbia in the US – have helped residents understand and interact with new technologies in their municipalities by piloting the use of Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR) (https://dtpr.io) as part of the 2022 DTPR City Cohort program. DTPR is an open-source communication standard designed to provide visibility and legibility for technology that is deployed in public spaces, and give people a way to learn more and provide feedback.
This session will provide an overview of these pilots as case studies and invite discussion on opportunities for the DTPR standard’s evolution and adoption going forward.
This session is for you if you’re interested in learning more about DTPR, Helpful Places (the steward organization for DTPR), and recent examples of DTPR implementation. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and share ideas with a like-minded community of folks looking to bring transparency and engagement to tech in public spaces.
"Emergent Encounters Bias Happy Hour 1"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Bias Happy Hour 2"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Data Stewardship Happy Hour 1"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Data Stewardship Happy Hour 2"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Harvesting PARTY at the Greenhouse 🎉"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Greenhouse of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. And throughout this week - we’ve been gardeners together!
Come join us for a big party to celebrate the week’s harvest of the four gardens: Movement Building, Transparency, Data Stewardship and Bias. Have a laugh, connect with friends new and old and enjoy the fruits of our labor!
"Emergent Encounters Movement Building Happy Hour 1"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Movement Building Happy Hour 2"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Transparency Happy Hour 1"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Emergent Encounters Transparency Happy Hour 2"
Philo, Gunnar de Jong;
Socialización
Welcome to the Emergent Encounters Gardens of MozFest! The internet is like a garden: a living, breathing ecosystem that's constantly in flux. And just like a garden, we have to take care of the internet. We have to nurture it, protect it and preserve it for future generations. That's where you come in - we’re inviting you to be a gardener!
Take the opportunity to explore the four gardens and meet fellow gardeners, review seedlings that have been planted or ask any questions you may have to one of the available botanists. Transform any ideas you may have by sowing your seeds so that it can blossom into a fruitful encounter!
At the Happy Hours, we then celebrate the fruits of today’s reaping. Every day we focus on one of the themed gardens and the seeds that have been planted during the day: share best practices and insights, take a break and have a chat, get inspired and meet with fellow gardeners. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to share a fun activity, have a laugh together and there’s ample space to build on something you’ve got brewing.
After each Happy Hour, the botanists will gather your seeds of ideas and perspectives and plant it in the Greenhouse for one big final harvesting party on Friday!
"Exploring Data Governance As A Community"
Thomas Linder, Lauriane, Christian Medina;
Taller
Our workshop is about making the exploration of data governance for a community participatory, inclusive, accessible, and fun! Rather than beginning with abstract questions of governance structures, we propose to flip the whole process on its head. The workshop will invite as diverse a spectrum of audience members as possible to participate in a ground-up series of multimedia exercises. The exercises will be based loosely on Open North’s participation-oriented framework for data governance development, and designed to engage the participants in playfully thinking through and building a data governance framework for themselves as an imaginary community. The goals of this workshop are to create a maximally inclusive and accessible space in which participants can learn hands on about the importance of data governance that encodes the same Mozfest values, and experientially explore the process of developing such a framework.
The multimedia group exercises will be facilitated by Open North to support the exploration of our values-driven approach to data governance (freely available on our learning platform), and designed to enable accessible and modular exploration. Different formats will be accessible and encourage different modes of playful engagement. Arranged sequentially, the exercises involve a role-play “discovering” each other as “stakeholders;” a brain-storming session with a jamboard to map types of data in the “community;” a participatory word cloud to identify and explore the values they wish to encode in data governance; and a miro board to assemble governance roles or tools across a data lifecycle.
In addition to a valuable learning experience for participants and observers, this workshop will also support our work to develop deeply inclusive and accessible tools to aid digital transformation for the common good, tools which we release publicly on our website and utilize in our pro bono services.
"Funder Track Coffee House"
Jessie Keating;
Socialización
Open to the MozFest community! Grab some Joe and join us for a daily meet-up with our expert Funder Track panelists and the global philanthropists who fuel the work. Session panelists will converge daily in this casual coffee house space to continue the conversation on topics such as Digital Resilience, Philanthropy's Role in Strengthening the Data Ecosystems, Policing the Metaverse, and more.
"Humiliation in Desperation - A look at the data and privacy violations of loan lending apps in Developing countries: Focus on Kenya"
Agin Elvis;
Discusión
The past decade has seen an increase in loan lending apps in Kenya. A simple google search lists over 50 such apps, alongside numerous news of policy violations, data breaches, trauma, humiliation and debt-shaming. In countries where most are locked out of bank loans, the allure of unregulated lenders promising instant unsecured loans with flexible repayment plans either for emergencies or business investments is hard to pass on. Upon installation, access to users’ private information e.g contacts, messages and locations supposedly used to assess loan eligibility, end up getting exploited by rogue lenders when borrowers default, with disastrous mental and social consequences.
Therein lies the problem. We are seeking to raise social media awareness on the need for regulation in the East African region. This will be done by making consumers aware of acts of government e.g Kenya’s THE DATA PROTECTION ACT. No. 24 of 2019, and what it stipulates as regards user data and its processing by third parties. Moreover, shining a spotlight on this matter may save customers the mental anguish and humiliation associated with their practices.
After the session we will set up an online platform where aggrieved citizens can share their experiences with these lenders, sharing proof of policy violations that could then be used as evidence in class action suits should the need arise. Moreover, participants could consent to keeping in touch with the cause and monitoring the impact the session will have.
"Internet-mediated sex work: exploring policies, practices and designs for a safer online environment for sex workers"
Yigit Aydinalp, Luca Stevenson, Kali Sudhra;
Taller extendido
The Internet owes a lot to sex workers. Technological artefacts have always been adopted early on by sex workers who sought ways to generate income in societies that criminalise their work and discriminate against them in multiple ways. Even though sex workers benefit from new technologies (providing new income streams, helping sex workers set up boundaries with clients etc.), the actual and potential benefits are heavily compromised by the weaponisation of the same technologies by the police, governments and private actors which often justify their actions by pitting ‘common good considerations’ against the health and safety needs of sex workers. This attitude is ever more clear during times of crisis as we have seen the attacks against the right to speech and self-expression and the right to work have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which governments increased surveillance practices considerably using new technologies such as AI.
The session aims to present and discuss with the audience the key issues, needs and demands of people offering digitalised or digital sex work. In particular, the audience will explore the impact of issues related to privacy, censorship, and the impact of platforms’ designs and algorithms on sex workers’ agency and safety.
"Keeping Platforms Accountable: Data Transparency with the Future of AI"
Kaleigh Schwalbe, Kat Lo;
Discusión
This 60 minute discussion will focus on interactive engagement from participants, Meedan, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to discuss what future platform accountability looks like in a world moving towards AI. With recent releases of ChatGPT and Meta’s new Metaverse, how does data transparency evolve and how do we as users protect our data and ourselves? NDI will start off the discussion with three 5-minute lightning talks from experts on recent research and findings on what data transparency and access will look like with emerging AI tools on platforms. Participants will then split off into smaller breakout groups to draft policy recommendations for technology platforms to ensure data transparency and access. Groups will be given varying mock scenarios in which they must draft policy recommendations for a new AI released by a large tech platform, such as Cierco, ChatGPT, and Tay. Participants will be given guiding questions on how to draft their recommendations, and at the end of the session they will be welcomed to post their drafts to an interactive platform like Mural.
"Keynote"
Discusión
TBD
"Meet & Greet: Education and Access Space"
Education and Access Wranglers;
Socialización
The goal of the event is to foster a meaningful dialogue on how to broaden people's experience to learn, engage and raise awareness about data literacy, equal access, and accessibility of education.
Some of our space facilitators will host lightning talks to raise awareness of their sessions during the festival and we will create a networking environment where people get to know each other, exchange ideas and contacts, and move forward for possible collaborations.
"Movement building for Trustworthy AI: What is needed to sustain the movement?"
Seher Shafiq, Zeina Abi Assy;
In-Person Workshop
Led by the Mozilla Festival team, and building on the federated design of how the festival comes together, this is a participatory session that aims to explore with participants: what is needed to sustain the movement?
Internet health is becoming increasingly more difficult to diagnose, and therefore the movement has to continue to cross-pollinate – to pivot and adapt as quickly as the technology is evolving – because the internet is a reflection of our systems and our fights IRL.
The movement is carried out by people: activists, builders, journalists, designers, artists, practitioners, thinkers and disruptors from every field of work. And as we saw in the recent big tech layoffs, the people are also often the first ones to take the hit. In this session, we will explore what people need in order to carry out this work from the purview of their expertise, geographical locations, and level of involvement.
This is the first of a series of sessions that will travel across different regions, and we will release a report of the findings at the end of 2023.
Location
This session will take place in Room F - Flexruimte
"MozFest Game Show 1"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Do you feel equipped to catch an AI? Test your AI Radar by joining the one and only MozFest Game Show!
During the Game Show we'll explore how artificial intelligence affects us... by playing a game! How easy or hard is it to tell an AI artifact from a human one? Can we recognise our unique, human creativity when it is surrounded by AI-generated expressions? Is our human creativity really so unique in the first place? We'd like to think so. So, let the games begin!
"MozFest Game Show 2"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Do you feel equipped to catch an AI? Test your AI Radar by joining the one and only MozFest Game Show!
During the Game Show we'll explore how artificial intelligence affects us... by playing a game! How easy or hard is it to tell an AI artifact from a human one? Can we recognise our unique, human creativity when it is surrounded by AI-generated expressions? Is our human creativity really so unique in the first place? We'd like to think so. So, let the games begin!
"MozFest Game Show 3"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Do you feel equipped to catch an AI? Test your AI Radar by joining the one and only MozFest Game Show!
During the Game Show we'll explore how artificial intelligence affects us... by playing a game! How easy or hard is it to tell an AI artifact from a human one? Can we recognise our unique, human creativity when it is surrounded by AI-generated expressions? Is our human creativity really so unique in the first place? We'd like to think so. So, let the games begin!
"MozFest Game Show 4"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Do you feel equipped to catch an AI? Test your AI Radar by joining the one and only MozFest Game Show!
During the Game Show we'll explore how artificial intelligence affects us... by playing a game! How easy or hard is it to tell an AI artifact from a human one? Can we recognise our unique, human creativity when it is surrounded by AI-generated expressions? Is our human creativity really so unique in the first place? We'd like to think so. So, let the games begin!
"MozFest Studio - Daily Update 1"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Join Dzifa in the MozFest Studio, our 10-15 minute daily show to keep you up to date on all things MozFest.
Today’s MozFest Studio includes
1. A Wrap up of the Dialogues & Debates with Nadya Tolokonnikova (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/38AZEM-1).
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The Community Spotlight looking at the Funder Track with Wrangler Jessica Keating (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/schedule?query=Funder%20Track).
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What’s Moving, announcing
- the Opening Circle (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/AE7SYF-1).
- the session Ask Anything about AI Transparency in the Utility of Transparency Space (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/QAGEAA-1).
- the session Explore Data Governance As A Community with the Autonomy & Governance Space (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/SZFTXV-1).
- our daily MozFest Game Show (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/DHY8WW-1).
"MozFest Studio - Daily Update 2"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Join Dzifa in the MozFest Studio, our 10-15 minute daily show to keep you up to date on all things MozFest.
Today’s MozFest Studio includes
1. A Wrap up of the Dialogues & Debates about ‘People Make Movements’ with moderator Alia Malek. You can watch the full episode here: https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/TKPXGY-1
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The Community Spotlight looking at the Education & Access Space with Wrangler Mar Marin (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/schedule?track=3234)
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What’s Moving, announcing
- Attend a web accessibility clinic for open source tools (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/B3BKJP-1).
- Gain insight into how justice makers are using tech to lead social justice movements (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/8PSUMF-1).
- Fall down a rabbit hole to connect more deeply with nature (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/9VPNTK-1).
- Reimagine Edtech with Mozilla Spoke and Hubs (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/ERKPZH-1).
And don’t forget that you can still submit your contribution for the MozFest Zine Fair & Exhibition under the theme ‘Digital Citizenship’ (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/art-and-media?query=zine).
"MozFest Studio - Daily Update 3"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Join Dzifa in the MozFest Studio, our 10-15 minute daily show to keep you up to date on all things MozFest.
Today’s MozFest Studio includes:
1. A Wrap up of the Dialogues & Debates about Mozilla turning 25 this year! https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/UEEGYL-1
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The Community Spotlight looking at AI Cosmologies Space with Wrangler Sophia Bazile https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/schedule?track=3238
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MozFest What’s Moving:
- Build a network to report about climate crisis with the Biotech & Diversity Space. A collaborative workshop focused on journalism and advocacy addressing issues like land and water management (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/9N87AN-1).
- Rave in your browser with YouthZone. Dancing is optional! (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/9ZHAGZ-1)
- Cook cauliflower (yes, you heard that right!) with Allies in Practice (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/Y9NBCT-1).
- Explore the MozFest Science Fair in Mozilla Hubs, focused on exploring AI Anthologies (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/TJRU3L-1).
"MozFest Studio - Daily Update 4"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Join Dzifa in the MozFest Studio, our 10-15 minute daily show to keep you up to date on all things MozFest.
Today's tips for the MozFest program:
1. Special guest Mark Surman, President and Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation
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A Wrap up of the Dialogues & Debates about making the Fediverse! (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/UEEGYL-1).
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The Community Spotlight looking at the Youth Zone with Wrangler Joseph Thomas. (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/schedule?track=3236).
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MozFest tips for What’s Moving:
- Ponder a paradox that haunts the open ecosystem within the space of AI, with the Autonomy & Governance Space (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/SDTAZJ-1).
- Get your crayons out, and Sip n’ Paint with the MozFest team (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/KQVTYR-1).
- Join musician Toshi Reagon and Transmedia Artist Stephanie Dinkins for ‘Stories are our Algorithm’, as part of the Parable Experience tonight (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/TYGENQ-1).
- Or go for hilarious Drag Queen BINGO fun with the Screaming Queens! (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/NVXAKH-1).
"MozFest Studio - Daily Update 5"
Dzifa Kusenuh;
Community Plenary
Join Dzifa in this last MozFest Studio edition! Today we have
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A wrap up of the amazing Dialogues & Debates with activist icons Angela Davis, Christian Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) and Mozilla's very own J. Bob Alotta (Watch the full conversation here https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/SATPPM-1)
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The Community Spotlight with wrangler and long time MozFest contributor Cybelle Oliveira from the Tech & Biodiversity Space about, among others, the Legado 2060 Premier that takes place this evening (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/WP3U8R-1)
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Make sure to squeeze every last bit out of MozFest on this final festival day!
- First and foremost, celebrate the closing of a fabulous MozFest 2023 with us during the Closing Circle (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/RWBSQQ-1) and the Closing Party (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/3X8L8E-1).
- Transcend humanism with AI Cosmologies (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/NV9JHQ-1).
- Dance and read at the MozFest Zine party with Radical Inclusion (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/AWJSTR-1).
- Demand that tech is designed with kids in mind with the YouthZone (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/BPMLNM-1).
- Leverage public data to determine which companies you can trust in the Allies in Practice Space (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/PUWHVY-1).
- Investigate free tools for computer Literacy Training with the Education & Access Space (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/ZVKRUM-1).
- Make history at a masquerade party for the Tech & Biodiversity: Legado 2060 Premier (https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/WP3U8R-1)
"MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Group Demo Day 2023"
Temi Popo, Leonora Tima, Eleanor Dare, Jennifer Ding, Christopher Akiki, Mario Rodriquez, Saif Malhem, Anne Lee Steele, Xenia, Paul Sedille;
Discusión
Three working group projects will showcase their prototypes and other outcomes achieved during their time as AI Builders in MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Group Cohort 3.
Kwanele App: Kwanele’s innovative app gives women and children an easy-to-use tool to report and successfully prosecute crimes involving Gender Based Violence (GBV).
In emergency situations, the Kwanele app provides victims with fast access to help, and to a community to stand with them. The app also provides a tool box of resources for use in court cases to help ensure successful conviction rates against perpetrators.
Bountiful Futures: The power to influence AI is limited to those with specific knowledge (i.e. ML models), skills (i.e. programming), resources (i.e. access to hardware, prestige). Our goal is to build a library of visual/interactive tools as an interface to inspect and provide feedback related to bias in models and training data. We aim to grow a peer2peer community designed to improve AI literacy and collaboration between experts and diverse stakeholders with broad backgrounds/experiences. All working together through bounty programs and hackathons to collaboratively build tools, track down and correct bias and unintended consequences in AI that impact real lives.
AI Futures Lab: The AI Future Lab creates a unified space for leadership, research, data-driven projects, networking, and community building around artificial intelligence for young people around the globe. The AI Future Lab was founded in 2021 by members of the Global Shapers community. The Global Shapers Community is an initiative of the World Economic Forum.
We welcome the Mozilla community to learn more about these projects, especially AI builders, AI researchers, and funders in the ethical tech space.
"Mozilla Common Voice - Tamil"
Muthuramalingam;
Taller
Workshop on Mozilla Common Voice. A Brief Introduction about Mozilla Common Voice - Why it is needed, How it works and How Everyone can contribute to it. We can show demonstration to people on How to Speak and Listen in Mozilla Common Voice. After this brief, will ask everyone to take part immediately.
"New governance models: Oakland's Privacy Commission"
Reem Suleiman;
Discusión
Honest discussion about the efficacy of citizen oversight bodies to promote data privacy, using the Oakland's Privacy Advisory Commission as a case study. Since 2016, the Oakland PAC has been tasked with advising city council on its data collection practices and the acquisition of any "surveillance technology" broadly defined. This session will be an open conversation between members of the Commission--including Chair Brian Hofer, a longtime privacy rights activist in the Bay Area and founding executive director of the nonprofit, Secure Justice.
"No Act of Protest is Too Small by Pussy Riot"
Nadya Tolokonnikova;
Community Plenary
A video will play at the beginning of the keynote that acknowledges sex and reproductive rights and may be sensitive for some audiences. Viewer discretion advised.
An exclusive keynote presentation by Nadya Tolokonnikova, activist and conceptual artist most famous as Pussy Riot’s co-founder. Tolokonnikova’s work and political dissent have been an inspiration to activists and revolutionaries all over the world, and we can’t wait to welcome her into the MozFest family!
Closed captioning is available for this keynote. To turn captioning on, press the "CC" button in the video player.
"Open AI systems: will they challenge the concentrations of power?"
Zuzanna Warso, Alek Tarkowski, Isaac Johnson;
Discusión
A paradox haunts the open ecosystem: openness, which usually serves to challenge the concentrations of power, can also enable them.
In 2022, we faced the advent of a new field of open, driven by AI and ML research: the development of open AI systems like Stable Diffusion or BLOOM models and the proliferation of open training datasets like LAION.
We want to explore this field through the conceptual lens offered by the Paradox of Open. In this session, we will discuss how openness will develop and with what impact in the space of AI systems. Will it serve to democratize the tools or make responsible use more difficult?
The paradox can be addressed by advocating for more robust governance of the AI systems, which entails distributed, collective action to establish and enforce norms. We will begin our discussion by asking about the governance of datasets used for AI training and validation. This is frequently the starting point of an AI lifecycle, and good governance must address how the data is handled. After discussing dataset governance models, we will talk about new developments in open and responsible licensing (including RAIL licenses) and the role that online platforms that support the information commons can play in such governance.
"Rabbit Holes Collective"
Ian Forrester;
Taller
We invite you to metaphorically ‘fall down a rabbit hole’ to connect more deeply with nature through the sharing of personalised/adaptive podcasts. Getting a taste of the experiences we are co-creating with young people and artists around the world.
Building on the incredible 10 years of work by Forest of Imagination. June 2023 we will launch the Rabbit Holes Collective connecting mainly young people with the natural world, artists and each other via the medium of personalised podcasts.
In this session which runs in two parts.
Part 1: Discussion about the goal to create a worldwide community of practice focused around young people and their relationship to the natural world.
Feedback and thoughts are important as its still early stage.
Part 2: Access to the tool to create your own adaptive podcast.
After a detailed discussion, there will be the opportunity to experiment with the web tool, creating your own adaptive podcasts to share with friends and the world.
"Remixing Public Domain Culture for Climate Awareness: A Creative Workshop"
Brigitte Vézina;
Taller extendido
While our collective knowledge and cultures are directly threatened by climate change, they also hold the keys to unlocking fresh solutions through global collaboration. In order to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including addressing the global climate crisis, it is increasingly urgent to grow and improve the commons. We must partake in a concerted effort to open up knowledge and culture so as to make sense of complex problems. We cannot solve the world’s most pressing challenges if the knowledge and culture about them are closed. In this session, through a playful activity remixing public domain cultural heritage, we will engage the audience in understanding the interplay and alignment between open knowledge and open culture and their roles in addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges, in particular climate change, as a social justice imperative.
"¡Rescatar, Preservar y Compartir!"
Estrella Soria;
Taller
El taller es un modelo de trabajo colaborativo con enfoque crítico frente a la centralidad de las plataformas comerciales donde se alojan producciones y archivos. Esta dirigido a periodistas, comunicadoras y toda aquella persona interesada en rescatar, preservar y compartir producciones multimedia de su autoría o causa.
Rescatar, Preservar y Compartir son tres momentos del taller de 60 minutos donde se compartirán claves y herramientas útiles "para mortales" que contemplan fomentar la valoración y mejora de prácticas de resguardo audiovisual de medios libres, comunitarios, populares y autónomos a través de diversas acciones e iniciativas populares que pongan en acceso las voces, relatos y narrativas históricas de las causas o movimientos sociales.
"Sender Unknown: Design's Impacts on Deception and Trust in Messaging"
Caroline Sinders, Justin Hendrix;
Taller
Consumers are increasingly using encrypted messaging apps to share information, engage with one another, and conduct commerce. But while the promise of encrypted messaging is private communications and user control over the spread of personal information, the reality is more complicated. An overlapping and interconnected set of engineering, design, and system factors, coupled with varied user behaviors, create the conditions for individuals to subvert their own interests or the interests of their communities on encrypted apps.
In this workshop, participants will collaboratively identify how design failures, dark patterns and adversarial behaviors by various parties may combine to produce malicious effects in encrypted messaging. Such malicious effects may be patterns that nudge users to share personal information or forward messages to insecure channels, suggestive user interfaces or flawed security mechanisms that can compromise security. What are the design choices app makers have made that lead to or confuse the user into making poor security decisions? Are there insecure apps that use security UI to look more secure than they are? How does this relate to content moderation capabilities on messaging apps? How do people end up compromising their own safety? What is the prevalence of these phenomena, and what are the policy solutions?
This workshop is split into Two parts: Part 1 is a presentation on our preliminary research.
In Part 2, the facilitators will break the participants into 2-3 groups. Each group is given a specific prompt or question to work on, and then everyone comes back together to share findings, questions, and suggestions. For example, one group may focus on messaging forwarding within Telegram or Signal, another group may focus on Facebook messaging when messages have tens and 100s of participants.
"Strengthening Data Ecosystems Launch"
Zeina Abi Assy, Mehan Jayasuriya, Njemile Davis, Shachee Doshi, Roshan Nair;
Discusión
Mozilla and partner organizations announce the launch of a new program in India which aims to convene students, educators and administrators to discuss the collection and use of data in schools.
"Tech We Trust: Helping young people understand the ethical challenges of personal data collection and unfair algorithms"
Craig Steele, Daniel Devine;
Taller
We need to prepare the next generation of digital leaders to understand the dangers of biased algorithms. To fight that inequality, they need to know how to spot them, and how to tackle them. Tech We Trust is a learning pack that shows young people how their personal data is used to make decisions that affect our lives.
Educators / Youth Workers / Young Leaders / Tech Influencers: We invite you to explore the learning materials created for this pack, and then help generate and prototype new ideas that take these topics further.
At this workshop we’ll walk you through the activity, so you can learn how to deliver it with your learners. You’ll get the chance to design your own algorithm, and then see it in action. Can you be fair? Or have your decisions (accidentally) disadvantaged some people?
No technical knowledge is needed to take part. This will be a fun and insightful exploration of this important topic.
"The Roles of the Youth in Online Safety"
Raymond Mamattah, Isaac Apenteng, ABRAHAM SELBY, Carine Malor, Faiza Seidu-Adam, OUEDRAOGO Issouf Alan Wisdom;
Taller extendido
With the advancement in technology, our lives are made easier since we could all mostly do basic things on our phone. Gradually, the cyber space has become a part of us - we cannot do without it. Whiles we enjoy the freedom that comes with the cyber space, the bad actors are also busy formulating strategies and means to exploit the vulnerabilities of people through dubious means. This poses a danger to all of us because a cyber breach of one person could go a long way to affect others, be it personal or corporate settings.
To this end, this panel discussion will feature youth who are the vibrant users of the cyber space, and to discuss the various ways people could stay safe online in their engagements. The speakers are all Fellows of the Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) which is organised by EGIGFA. The speakers are all IT and Cyber security professionals, hence, understand and have practical knowledge on how people could stay safe online.
Participants would be will at the end of the session be able to:
1. pick practical tips to ensure their online safety,
2. become more mindful about their digital footprints they live behind
The session is ideal for anyone who uses the internet and other digital tools in their engagements.
"The World According to TikTok: Mapping Digital Boundaries and Algorithmic Proximities"
Salvatore Romano, Natalie Kerby, Miazia Schueler;
Discusión
As a global social media company, TikTok must operate within and adapt to different cultures and geopolitics, even when it presents itself as a neutral or apolitical platform. At Tracking Exposed, we develop tools and conduct research on how TikTok contorts itself in these different contexts, whether it be censoring LGBTQ+ terms in countries where sexuality is contested or limiting access to international content during times of war, which the company quietly did for Russian TikTok users when tweaking their policies in response to Russia’s Fake News law.
This talk will present methodologies, tools, and findings for investigating TikTok with the aim of making opaque platform decisions more transparent and as means of holding them accountable. It will primarily focus on our most recent TikTok research, where we compared TikTok’s algorithmic feed recommendations (For You Page) across almost 200 countries for non-logged in users. Our goal is to understand how TikTok sees the world; how it maps new digital boundaries and proximities through its recommendation system. We looked for emerging patterns, trends, and concerns between and within geographically dispersed countries. Using this research as a case study, we will discuss how to develop points of entry into analyzing the TikTok platform, with a particular emphasis on its algorithm. Participants will have a chance to brainstorm and share ideas, as well as see examples of Tracking Exposed’s open source tools in action. Ideally, they will come away from this session with research ideas and methodological possibilities. We will also open the floor to discuss the limitations of such research and how we as a research community can adapt to and move beyond such barriers.
"Towards a more diverse and inclusive Open Definition [ES/EN/PT]"
Lucas Pretti, Sara Petti, Carol Matos, Nikesh Balami, Edgar Zanella Alvarenga, Patricio Del Boca;
Taller
[EN]
The Open Definition (https://opendefinition.org/od/2.1/en/) is one of the most historically important collaborative works for the open movement. However, over the years and due to the emergence of new technologies, identities and enclosures, we at Open Knowledge feel that this work needs to be expanded, including more voices, diversity, and cultural contexts. We want to invite the Mozilla communities to a hands-on session to create a document about what, why and how the Open Definition should be reviewed. Join us in thinking what "open" means today!
[ES]
La definición de Conocimiento Abierto (https://opendefinition.org/od/2.1/es/) es uno de los trabajos colaborativos históricamente más importantes para el movimiento de la cultura libre. Sin embargo, a lo largo de los años y debido al surgimiento de nuevas tecnologías, identidades y cercamientos, nosotres en Open Knowledge sentimos que este trabajo necesita ser ampliado, incluyendo más voces, diversidad y contextos culturales. Queremos invitar a las comunidades de Mozilla para una sesión práctica de creación de un documento sobre qué, por qué y cómo se debe revisar la definición de Conocimiento Abierto. ¡Únase a nosotres para pensar qué significa "abierto" hoy!
[PT]
A definição de Conhecimento Aberto (https://opendefinition.org/od/2.1/pt-br/) é um dos trabalhos colaborativos mais importantes historicamente para o movimento da cultura livre. No entanto, ao longo dos anos e depois do surgimento de novas tecnologias, identidades e cercamentos, nós da Open Knowledge sentimos que este trabalho precisa ser ampliado, incluindo mais vozes, diversidade e contextos culturais. Queremos convidar as comunidades da Mozilla para uma sessão prática de criação de um documento sobre o que, por que e como a definição de Conhecimento Aberto deve ser revisada. Junte-se a nós para pensar o que "aberto" significa hoje!
"Uniting the Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Behind AI: The Challenges of Virtual Global Organizing"
Krystal Kauffman, Krista M Pawloski;
Discusión
What does it take to organize online with a global reach? At Turkopticon, we strive to unite an often invisible group, crowd workers, on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a platform frequently used to develop AI. In pursuit of stronger worker rights, we bring together workers from many countries to make turking a job where workers have a voice. Within Mturk, workers can have tasks rejected and unpaid, causing a loss of work and permanent damage to employee reputations.
We will explain the unique challenges of organizing online workers. We have to build relationships across various social media platforms and other corners where workers gather. We hold community forums with flexible scheduling so workers can jump in when they have a moment, whatever their time zones. We will share these learnings and more about organizing a virtual workforce while providing access for all.
Participatory: We propose a panel to share what we have learned and faced so far, and engage the audience in a brainstorming session with breakouts on ways to build power and voice with workers. Turkopticon’s current mass rejections campaign will be our focus, as we’ve been reaching out and organizing across the globe for this.
Inclusive: This panel is about giving a voice to the human behind the machine. When your labor develops AI that ends up in every household, feeling invisible takes on a global weight. We want the world to hear the human voice behind AI. We want the crowd worker sitting in their living room not to get lost in the advancement of the machine most assume to be automatic.
Accessible: Participants can use chat or audio. A virtual panel allows for international participation because, as often invisible AI workers, we seek a platform to speak to the global tech industry.
"Web accessibility help desk #1 for open source tools"
Raashi Saxena, Nancy Reyes;
Socialización
Attention all creators of open source tools and webapps: Accessibility feature feedback opportunity! (Spanish language supported)
Does your open source project need a second opinion to improve accessibility features? Are you building/designing software and wanting to learn more about how to make your product accessible? Come to this help desk hours to chat with the experts who can consult with you directly to advise your project. There are three help desk hours for drop-ins**: #1 #2 #3. If you want a general learning opportunity, come to our workshop on March 21.
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"Willie Mae Rock Camp Presents: Florence Mills Spatialized! Discussion"
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Youth Centered Transformation: How the kids from Willie Mae Rock Camp gave voice to the most famous vocalist from the Harlem Renaissance Era who never recorded.
Most people have never heard of Florence Mills, one of the first impactful artists of the Harlem Renaissance, in part because she died before she could be recorded. The students of Willie Mae Rock Camp studied the reviews and history of her work as a vocalist, actor, dancer, activist and philanthropist known as "Harlem's Little Black Bird" and collaboratively created a spatialized sonic landscape to honor her legacy. After an in-person presentation of this quadraphonic piece, we chose Mozilla Hub to archive and hold the memory of Florence inspiring our students and bringing Florence into the future so that others can log in with headphones, move around the space, and experience the students' impressions and tribute.
Participants will have the opportunity to experience this spatial audio and creative coding tribute to the late, great early Harlem Renaissance artist and activist created by Willie Mae Rock Camp's students ages 9 - 14.
WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP PRESENTS FLORENCE MILLS SPATIALIZED. This piece was originally presented in conjunction with Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism 2022 Festival. Featuring a collaborative quadraphonic composition created by Willie Mae Rock Camp students in tribute to Harlem Renaissance performer and civil rights advocate, Florence Mills. No recordings of Mills exist today. This composition represents an imaginative response by students to her legacy as understood through text and story.