MozFest 2017 Festival Guide by MozFest

MozFest Schedule

Sessions can be 60 or 90 minutes

Download the schedule app at mzl.la/sched

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Welcome & Opening

10:00

MozFest Breakfast Sessions

11:00 Dialogues & Debates

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Dialogues & Debates

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Lunch Sessions

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Dialogues & Debates

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15:00 Dialogues & Debates

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Dialogues & Debates

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Evening Activities

Closing Celebration

18:00 Science Fair

Welcome to MozFest

This year marks our eighth MozFest. More than ever, the movement for a healthy Internet needs a place to convene, organise and act.

Today, the concept of Internet health reaches far beyond the realm of open source code: it’s linked to civil liberties and public policy, free expression and inclusion. Access is no longer a luxury — it’s a fundamental part of 21st century life. A virus is no longer a nuisance consigned to a single terminal — it’s an existential threat that can disrupt hospitals, governments and entire cities. The movement for a healthy Internet is primed to address these problems. But we need a hub to trade ideas, find inspiration, swap code and build solutions. MozFest is that hub. Our sessions, speakers and workshops are built to foster collaboration across disciplines, borders and continents. And this year, we’re expanding the festival to include MozFest House, our pre-week venue hosting films, talks and meetups. We’re ready to face the biggest issues of the day — from fake news and online harassment to global cyberattacks — together, with an eye toward practical, open source solutions.

Thank you for joining us.

mozfest house Introducing MozFest House: our central London venue that extends MozFest into a week-long festival. From Monday 23rd - Friday 27th October, MozFest participants are invited to dig deeper into their work, trade ideas, swap code, and build solutions.

See a full schedule of MozFest House events at mozillafestival.org/house

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How to MozFest

While MozFest welcomes many repeat visitors, some of you are here for the first time. Here are a few tips to make the most of the festival:

accessible mozfest At MozFest, accessibility is a vital part of how our network creates an inclusive community. From providing childcare to emphasising language inclusion to supporting attendees’ diverse physical and cognitive

Do you speak another language, have a

needs, we are increasing our efforts to ensure that every

special talent or a passion to share? Add it

MozFest participant can

to your name card to find kindred spirits.

engage with the people, spaces and themes of the festival.

Sessions formats can help you understand

the type of interaction to expect: shed sessions

Visit us at the welcome desk at registration to learn more.

feature hands-on making; learning forum sessions feature peer-to-peer learning; gallery sessions are for self-driven interactions at your own pace.

If you find a session isn’t right for you, it’s okay to slip out quietly.

Has a new idea been sparked? Need more time to continue a session or conver-

sation? We have an emergent session area where you can book a table and add it to the schedule for others to join. Visit the library on the 4th floor to book.

The networking breakfast on Sunday morning

is an ideal time to meet up with a new friend and make plans for carrying work or conversations forward after the festival.

Post your project on Mozilla Pulse so others can

collaborate on your idea. mozillapulse.org

digital inclusion A space exploring equity, access and participation for everyone, all across the web

web literacy

Decentralization Space for unpacking concepts like mesh networking and blockchain â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and conversely, Internet shutdowns and monopolies

A space devoted to the skills required to read, write and participate on the web

privacy & security A space exploring encryption, VPNs, mass surveillance and safety online

youth zone open innovation A space for learning about open production, open projects, open code and all other things open

A space for youth leaders and their mentors who are creating art, technology and positive social change

Ways to explore mozfest

>spaces Sessions at MozFest are organised under spaces — physical and thematic learning hubs based around a topic of broad relevance to a healthy Internet.

Curated Programming MozFest 2017 features three curated topics that allow you to explore each of the festival’s spaces through a particular lens.

Journalism These sessions explore innovation on the open web, from infrastructure like Django to engaging data visualisations and insightful data analysis. Join us in exploring strategies and tools for multimedia, accessibility, security, and more.

Youth-led In these sessions, young people aged 8-25 teach, discuss and explore robots, VR, dance, coding, social media, gaming and more.

Open Policy + Advocacy How is the Internet being shaped by governments and corporations? What can we do to ensure it stays open? Come share ideas with leaders in the movement, and let’s explore big questions together.

To discover these sessions, search the schedule app for:

OPEN POLICY & ADVOCACY JOURNALISM YOUTH-LED mzl.la/sched

Artist Open Studios Artists will share their practices through installations and real-time creations. They will work live on their pieces, collaborating with the public to open up new directions of debate about the web. PAOLO CIRIO

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AN XIAO MINA

An Xiao Mina

AN XIAO MINA is a technologist, artist and writer who has recently written a book about Internet memes and global social movements. At MozFest, she will create a labinstallation and workshop exploring meme culture in both its online and offline manifestations, as well as links with street art, remix and performance cultures, inviting visitors to see the process.

PAOLO CIRIO is a hacktivist and conceptual artist from Italy who uses publicly available online information to raise awareness for social justice issues. Paolo can be found in the Privacy and Security space, looking into topics of information, ethics, aesthetics, and big data.

Pakathi

ARCHANA PRASAD is a contemporary visual artist from India who mixes design, art, technology, and community to create representations of Indian urban culture. She will be active in the Decentralization space with Sean Blagsvedt and Freeman Murray, with an installationperformance exploring the cryptocurrency world and work that fulfills important societal goals.

GRETTA LOUW is a German-Australian artist, curator, and writer, exploring how technology shapes who we are as people. You can find her in the Open Innovation space, working with mixed media to review ideas of networks, clouds, connections, etc.

BROOKLYN PAKATHI is a South African filmmaker, photographer and digital editor. He will be working in the Digital Inclusion space, creating both analog and digital artworks around the role of empathy on the web. GRETTA LOUW

BROOKLYN PAKATHI

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SATURDAY

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11:15â&#x20AC;&#x201C; - 12:15 Mishi Choudhary Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Center @MishiChoudhary MISHI CHOUDHARY is a technology lawyer with expertise in New York and New Delhi. She is currently the Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), where she is the primary legal representative of many of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most significant free software developers, including Debian, the Apache Software Foundation, and OpenSSL. Mishi consults with and advises established businesses and startups using free software

Alan Knott-Craig Founder, Project Isizwe @alanknottcraig ALAN KNOTT-CRAIG is a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, chairman of HeroTel, a wireless broadband provider, and founder of Project Isizwe, an NGO rolling out free Wi-Fi in low-income communities. Originally from Pretoria, he studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (formerly UPE) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2002 and has subsequently invested or funded 21 companies in the tech industry.

in their products and service offerings in the US, Europe, India, China, and Korea. As of 2015, Mishi is the only lawyer in the world to simultaneously appear on briefs in the US and Indian Supreme Courts in the same term.

12:45– - 13:45 Ashley Black Comedienne, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” @ashleyn1cole ASHLEY BLACK is a writer and correspondent on “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” the critically-acclaimed and Emmy-nominated late-night satire show. In the segment Ms. Robot, Ashley explores the importance of encryption through on-the-ground reporting, interviews and a memorable music collaboration with Talib Kweli.

Anasuya Sengupta Co-Founder, Whose Knowledge @Anasuyashh ANASUYA SENGUPTA is co-founder of Whose Knowledge? She has led initiatives in India/USA, across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years to amplify voices from the margins in virtual and physical worlds. She is the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation and a 2017 Shuttleworth Fellow.

Siko Bouterse Co-Founder, Whose Knowledge @sikob SIKO BOUTERSE is co-founder of Whose Knowledge? She is former Director of Community Resources at the Wikimedia Foundation, where she led teams and experiments like the Wikipedia Teahouse and Inspire. For over 10 years, she’s been community organising, localising and imagining a more plural, emancipatory and open web.

SATURDAY

Dialogues and Debates |

Matt Mitchell Founder, CryptoHarlem Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow @geminiimatt MATT MITCHELL is a hacker, security researcher, operational security trainer, developer and data journalist who founded and leads CryptoHarlem, impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominately African American community in upper Manhattan. Matt trains activists and journalists (as an independent trainer for Global Journalist Security) in digital security. His personal work focuses on marginalised, aggressively-monitored, over-policed popu-

15:15â&#x20AC;&#x201C; - 16:15 Ugo Vallauri Co-Founder, The Restart Project @ugomatic UGO VALLAURI is a co-founder of The Restart Project, a London-based charity fixing our relationship with electronics. By encouraging people to use their electronics longer and collecting data on recurrent product failures, it aims to inspire better design and policy-making around consumer products. He is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation.

lations in the United States. Currently, he is a 2016 Mozilla-Ford Foundation Open Web Fellow embedded at Color of Change, a civil rights and social justice organisation.

15:15 - 16:15

Katherine Maher Executive Director, Wikimedia @krmaher KATHERINE MAHER is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia. Maher has deep experience in the non-profit and international sectors, with a particular focus on the intersection of technology and human rights, development, transparency and community building.

Ryan Merkley CEO, Creative Commons @ryanmerkley RYAN MERKLEY is the CEO of Creative Commons, where he is building a vibrant, usable commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. Prior to Creative Commons, Ryan was Chief Operating Officer of Mozilla. He is an experienced campaigner and advocate for social causes, and has advised political campaigns on the local and national levels.

Mark Surman

Executive Director, Mozilla @msurman The web is one of our most valuable public resources — it’s Mark Surman’s job to protect it. MARK is Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, a global community that does everything from making Firefox to taking stands on issues like privacy and net neutrality. Mark’s main job is to build the movement side of Mozilla, rallying the citizens of the web, building alliances with likeminded organisations and leaders, and growing the open Internet movement. Mark’s goal is nothing short of making the health and accessibility of the Internet a mainstream issue around the world.

11:00– - 12:00

SUNDAY

Audrey Tang

Dialogues and Debates |

Digital Minister, Taiwan @audreyt AUDREY TANG, a civic hacker and Taiwan’s Digital Minister, is known for revitalising open source communities such as Perl and Haskell, and for leading the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. In the voluntary sector, Audrey contributes to Taiwan’s g0v (“gov-zero”) movement, with the call to “fork the government.”

Emily May Executive Director, Hollaback! @emilymaynot EMILY MAY is the co-founder and Executive Director of Hollaback!, an Ashoka Fellow and a Prime Movers Fellow. In 2005, at the age of 24, she co-founded Hollaback! in New York City, and in 2010 she became its first full-time executive director. Under her leadership, the organisation has scaled to over 50 cities in 25 countries, and launched HeartMob, Hollaback!’s platform designed to support people being harassed online.

Nighat Dad Founder, Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan @nighatdad NIGHAT DAD is the Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation. She is an accomplished lawyer and a human rights activist. Nighat is one of the pioneers who have been campaigning around access to an open Internet in Pakistan and globally. She is a TED Global Fellow for 2017, has been listed as TIME’s Next Generation Leader and is the recipient of Atlantic Council Freedom Award, and Human Rights Tulip Award.

12:45 - 13:45

Gisela Perez de Acha Lawyer, Derechos Digital @giselilla GISELA PEREZ DE ACHA is a Mexican lawyer and journalist who specialises in free speech and gender rights within the digital world. She runs an independent cultural center and is the Public Policy Manager for Latin America at the NGO Derechos Digitales.

Nanjira Sambuli Digital Equality Advocacy Manager, Web Foundation @NiNanjira NANJIRA SAMBULI is the Digital Equality Advocacy Manager at the Web Foundation, where she leads advocacy efforts to promote digital equality in access to and use of the web, with a particular focus on the Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rights Online work.

Julia Angwin Journalist, ProPublica @juliaangwin JULIA ANGWIN is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organisation ProPublica. She is also the author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. From 2000 to 2013, Julia was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010.

Sarah Jeong Senior Writer, the Verge @sarahjeong SARAH JEONG is a journalist and lawyer who writes about technology at the Verge. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage and has bylines at the Atlantic, the Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was named as one of Forbes’s 30 under 30 in the category of Media.

Gillian Crampton Smith Author and Professor Originally a graphic designer, GILLIAN CRAMPTON SMITH founded interaction design programs in London, Ivrea and Venice. With Philip Tabor, she recently moved to H-Farm, the top Italian tech accelerator to start a new program. Her collaborations have included Apple Computer, Interval Research, IDEO and MIT’s SenseAble City lab. In 2014 she received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Practice Award.

Emily Gorcenski Data Scientist and Engineer @EmilyGorcenski EMILY GORCENSKI is a data scientist and technological activist with backgrounds in computational mathematics, epidemiology, and software engineering. They are passionate about better technological citizenship and believe in ethical, inclusive technology. Their experience in the aerospace, healthcare, and financial industries has provided insight into complex intersection of disruptive innovation and regulation.

SUNDAY

Dialogues and Debates |

15:15– - 16:15

space wranglers

MozFest curators shaping the narrative, sessions and activities for each space

Mark Boas

Decentralization

Mark is an advocate of the Open Web and developer of Open Source software. A 2012 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow, Mark enjoys working at the intersection of web technology and media. Mark is also co-founder of Trint, co-creator of jPlayer and Hyperaudio, and is currently working with a number of non-profit organisations from his home in Italy.

Tim Cowlishaw |

@mistertim

Tim works in R&D at the BBC, prototyping new methods for information search and discovery. He’s researched, designed and built products on the web for over a decade. He also runs morenewsfromnowhere.co.uk, which showcases experimental music and sound art. He is particularly interested in creative and artistic applications of web technologies.

Vigneshwer Dhinakaran @dvigneshwer | Vigneshwer is an innovative data scientist from Bengaluru who crunches real-time data and builds AI algorithms for complex business problems. He believes that technology needs human-centric design to cater to a diverse audience. He’s an active Mozilla volunteer leading community initiatives in India, and is the author of Rust Cookbook.

Ian Forrester |

@cubicgarden

Ian is a well-known and likeable character on the UK digital scene. Living in Manchester where he works for the BBC’s R&D North Lab, he specialises in open innovation and new disruptive opportunities by creating value via open engagement and collaborations with startups, universities, early adopters and hackers.

Jon Tutcher |

@jontutcher

Jon is a technologist at BBC R&D, where he’s working on ways of making data about news and programmes more accessible and understandable. He’s interested in open data, knowledge sharing, and semantics, and hopes that a push towards decentralization on the web will help out!

Kenyatta Forbes

@kenyatta_forbes

Kenyatta is a Community Manager for Hive Chicago with Mozilla Foundation. Her work focuses on community engagement, healthy Internet, and quality programming for youth cultivation. She’s also is a game designer

digital inclusion

whose recent designs focus on generating interesting conversations or discussions. She draws inspiration from the media, social/cultural commentary, and design.

Hannah Kane

@hannahkane

Hannah is a Project Manager and facilitator, with a longstanding commitment to creating safe, neutral spaces for positive social change. Her professional experience includes leading teams, managing products, planning events, and managing social media programs. She is the co-author of ScrumYourWedding.com, and can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under three minutes.

Joe Nash

@jna_sh

Joe is the student Program Manager at GitHub, helping the next generation of tech leaders create inclusive and diverse communities. He’s a strong believer in the educational benefits of hacker culture, and supports student hackers through both his professional work and community leadership. He’s also a level 10 Triton sorcerer.

Chrystian Rodriguez Chrystian is the Network Manager for Mozilla, Hive NYC. He strengthens the network as a space for learning, innovation, and leadership by co-designing digital peer professional development opportunities to transform learning in NYC. He also teaches film at Third World Newsreel and is a collector of film soundtracks on vinyl.

Leah Ruffin Leah writes, develops strategy, fosters collaboration and stewards resources based on empathy, authenticity, justice and love. She is deeply inspired by nature and enjoys a variety of body movement activity. Leah’s work at Mozilla involves funding pilot projects that integrate emerging technology and cross-sector partnerships to foster learning and career opportunities for youth.

Michael Saunby

@msaunby

Michael is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Exeter, CTO of Nano-Lit Technologies, occasional organiser of hackathons, maker of some things, collector of other things, dabbler, and procrastinator. Michael has also spent many years as a scientific programmer in remote sensing, climate prediction and visualisation.

Martha Sedgwick Martha mainly encourages people to play with knives and fire (in a safe, controlled way). Working with children, she is fascinated by their different interpretations of our shared world. She wants the internet to be more inclusive and equitable for everyone.

Christos Bacharakis

@bacharakis

Christos is a computer science engineer, and a free & open source advocate based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He runs workshops on open source technologies and tools in a local hackerspace and believes that true collaboration

open innovation

and open practises are the foundations of excellence and innovation.

Mehan Jayasuriya

@mehan_j

Mehan is a technologist and writer based in Portland. At Mozilla, he oversees the WINS wireless innovation challenges. He has worked for a variety of technology companies, academic institutions and non-profits, and he writes about culture, technology and policy.

Jenn Beard Jenn is a naturally curious person who collects new experiences through learning and travel. She works for Mozilla on a grant-making program to create high-speed Internet technologies for education. Jenn’s favorite area of innovation at the present time is craft cocktails.

Raegan MacDonald

@ShmaeganM

Raegan leads Mozilla’s public policy work in the EU, covering copyright, net neutrality, privacy, and data protection. A policy wonk, she’s worked in Brussels, both as manager of Access Now Brussels and with the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network.

Aurelia Moser

@auremoser

Aurelia is a web-cartographer and coder in Brooklyn, NYC. She works at Mozilla on open source projects and open science fellowships. She also co-leads the NYC chapter of Girl Develop It, teaches web-programming, and gives talks and writes books on geospatial tech.

Natalia Mileszyk

@nmileszyk

Natalia is a lawyer and public policy expert dealing with digital rights, copyright reform and open policies at Centrum Cyfrowe, a Polish think-and-do-tank exploring society’s response to the development of technology. She’s a member of Communia Association for Public Domain and legal expert for Creative Commons.

Phillip Smith

@phillipadsmith

Phillip is currently a Mozilla Senior Fellow for media, misinformation & trust and a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow working on business models for investigative reporting. He’s a veteran digital product developer with more than two decades working with some of the world’s top newsrooms & publishers.

Kirstie Whitaker

@kirstie_j

Kirstie is a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science. She studies adolescent brain development and the emergence of mental health disorders in the teenage years. A 2016 Mozilla Fellow for Science, she’s a passionate advocate for reproducible research and diversity in STEM.

Privacy & security

Brett Gaylor |

@remixmanifesto

Brett is a documentary filmmaker and the Commissioning Editor for Advocacy Media at the Mozilla Foundation. His privacy documentary Do Not Track is the recipient of the International Documentary Association award for best nonfiction series, the 2016 Peabody Award, and the Prix Gemaux for Best Interactive Series.

Jonathan Kingston @kingstontime | Jonathan works on the Privacy and Security team for Mozilla which mostly entails improving user interface for security features within Firefox.

Mavis Ou |

@ohmmmavis

Mavis is a Software Engineer at Mozilla Foundation.

StĂŠphanie Ouillon StĂŠphanie is a Security Engineer at Mozilla working on Firefox. She is passionate about privacy, security and their implications for people in their online and offline lives. Among other activities, she focuses on sharing technical knowledge beyond the Free and Open Source Software communities.

David Ross |

@sw1ayfe

David has strengths in customer service, flagship retail management, hospitality, staff training, and self-taught tech expertise. His default is always open source and is building an open endurance sports platform. A MozFest regular since 2014, he brings a strong sense of community, diversity focus, and no fear of stairs.

web literacy

Julie Neville |

@artsaward

Julie is a Project Manager, facilitator and photographer who champions Arts Award and youth voices by empowering young people to take the lead. Arts, culture and creative activities help to make the world inclusive, which is why she places the arts at the heart of digital learning.

Luke Pacholski |

@flukeout

Luke is a coder, designer and all-around web enthusiast. At the Mozilla Foundation, he’s spent most of his time building web-based tools—like Thimble—that allow people to create content for the web. He hopes this year’s MozFest attendees will teach and inspire each other to do just that.

Jonathan Prozzi |

@jonathanprozzi

Jonathan has worked with youth for nearly 10 years through academic coaching, cognitive training, teaching audio engineering, and as a maker educator. He is Director of Education of the Center of Excellence at the Digital Harbor Foundation where he develops resources for teaching technology and maker skills to youth and educators.

Fredrick Sigalla |

@mwakaswanga

Before joining DOT Tanzania as an IT & Digital Engagement Manager, Fredrick worked with different organisations, including Techno Brain Group and Medical Education Partnership Initiative Project as a Web Developer. Fredrick is enthusiastic about information technology and internet entrepreneurship, and has founded various IT initiatives, including Kasuku, a mobile business directory.

Edoardo Viola |

@edovio

Edoardo is a Technical Office Manager for a small biotech corp and a tutor within the University of Cagliari in Italy. Besides his formal activities, he’s a singer, a community coach and he helps citizens to build and improve their digital skills. In general, Edoardo is an open source enthusiast and a community addict.

Mariana Delgado also contributed to this space.

Connor Ballard-Pateman

youth zone

@connorbanona | Connor has been an active member of the maker community, having participated in numerous events and programmes over the past four years. He is currently an office and events manager at pi-top. Connor Graduated from the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologist programme in 2016, and possesses a diploma in Creative Arts.

Dorine Flies

@epikhub

Dorine’s interest in sociology and anthropology led her to explore how digital culture can build resilience and inclusion across communities. A keen RPG gamer, Dorine’s years spent assembling raid teams of young people in World of Warcraft lead her to a second career in HR supporting engineers (naturally)!

Andrew Mulholland @gbman | A computer science student currently studying at Queens University in Belfast, Andrea is passionate about getting kids excited and involved in computer science and digital making. In his free time, he can be found working with schools and running events including the Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam.

Shwetal Shah |

@IamShwetal

Shwetal works at Drumroll HQ developing a video game teaching programming to kids. She runs Explore-Science, which promotes women scientists’ work, has made two documentaries to empower youth and women, and is working on Morsel, a project to tackle isolation. She received the 2017 Business Launchpad Female Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Grace Owolade-Coombes Grace is co-founder of South London Raspberry Jam and delivers autism and Tourette’s Syndrome-friendly digital making workshops. She’s a certified Raspberry PI educator and specialist in specific learning difficulties. A proud parent to two young coders, Grace explores the transformative experience of learning in informal shared spaces and advocates peer learning.

experiences

Artist open studios

Luca M Damiani

Visual artist Luca M Damiani works and practices internationally in the fields of arts & design, technology and visual culture. He’s digital studio producer at Tate and lecturer in graphic and media design at University Arts London. Luca is always creating ongoing conversations about the role of the arts in society.

Irini Papadimitriou Irini is a curator and producer, working at the forefront of digital culture. As Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A Irini is responsible for the annual Digital Design Weekend. Irini is also Head of New Media Arts Development at Watermans and co-founder of Maker Assembly, a gathering about maker cultures.

Angela Plohman

@angelaplohman

Angela is the Executive Vice President of the Mozilla Foundation. She has spent close to two decades playing key leadership roles in the fields of art, culture and open source technology. Prior to Mozilla, she was Director of Baltan Laboratories, a laboratory for art and technology based in Eindhoven (NL).

curated programming Emrys Green

@emrysgreen

Emrys is a project manager working across the cultural & digital sector. He’s the projects manager at Upstart Projects and manages the Arts Award Youth Network. He’s UK-based and works mostly developing national projects connecting young people & creative opportunities – where digital connectivity plays a key part.

Erika Owens

@erikao

Erika is a journalist and organiser based in Philadelphia. As Deputy Director with OpenNews, Erika convenes people and projects in journalism tech, and builds enduring connections by creating inclusive, caring spaces for the news nerd community. Erika also co-organises Hacks/Hackers Philadelphia. She loves nonprofit journalism, people watching, and laughing heartily.

Melissa Romaine

@melechuga

Melissa connects a network of open internet activists to support initiatives ensuring many voices and perspectives are reflected in the movement for Internet health. Originally from Japan, she worked on web literacy, education policy, and digital inclusion efforts in Latin America, Europe, and the US.

wayfinding & recognition Tim Riches

@triches

Tim has worked in education for the past 13 years, first with arts groups, helping develop web -based participation projects and then co-founding award-winning open learning platforms including Radiowaves & NUMU. His main focus is working with partners and developing international partnerships and projects to drive the adoption of digital credentials.

How to

work open

A Network for Internet Health The Internet is a vital global resource, connecting billions of us to the people, places, and ideas that matter most. Online, we come together to learn, share, and collaborate.

The Internet— a dynamic, complex, interconnected ecosystem

Today, there is a growing

of people, ideas, information— thrives when we collaborate and

movement for Internet health

share information and skills widely and freely. If you’re new to

— a movement to keep the web

working open, here are three principles to get you started.

decentralised, inclusive, secure, open, and understandable. Mozilla fuels this movement by supporting its leading individuals and communities.

Invite participation. Welcome as many diverse

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find ways to let anyone

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better, more powerful and more useful for it.

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