Internet.org justifies itself as a development project, for people like “poor fishermen” who are new to the internet or can’t afford it. But according to some accounts, that’s just not the profile of who’s using the service. In India, as many as 80% of internet.org users are already familiar with...
Mozilla Foundation is currently in strategic reflection — how will we invest in web literacy over the next few years? In the last five years, we’ve grown the Mozilla Foundation to 80 people and a $20m operating budget. We have lots of experience in learning and leadership development, and an evol...
The Mozilla advocacy and campaign teams are meeting this week to plan a multi-year “privacy, security, surveillance” campaign. We’re searching for an issue where we can make a real impact. I am pushing for “security” to be tip of our campaign’s spear. Something like “we want to know that our devi...
Over the past year, Mozilla and the U.S. Department of Energy have been quietly collaborating on a project to demonstrate connected learning and workforce training opportunities on the modern web. As part of US Ignite and Mozilla Webmaker, members of the Mozilla community have produced a shared v...
Like everyone else, the death of Steve Jobs has me thinking. I’ve mainly been thinking about how much cooler Apple was before the iOS era. Before Apple distilled personal computing into 114 pixel icons with rounded corners and turned it into a cycle of continuous consumption, it was a very differ...