Pathogens & Disease Immunity | Toronto Open Science Code Sprint

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Join us in Toronto this March at our first ever Mozilla Toronto Open Science Code Sprint on Sat/Sun March 07-08 2015. At this 2-day event we will be bringing together researchers working on open science projects with developers, designers and other scientists from the community to collaborate on tools helping further science on the web. Every day this week, we’ll feature a guest post on one of the projects we’ll be sprinting on: Contributorship Badges, Cytoscape.js, Matplotdash, Pathogens & Disease Immunity, WormBase.

Today’s guest post is from Madeleine Bonsma, an MSc student in Dr. Sid Goyal’s group at the University of Toronto. Don’t forget to register to collaborate with us on open science!

Microorganisms are all around us, and they have profound impacts on their environments in ways we are only beginning to understand. An individual human is host to more microorganisms than human cells, and research has linked our microbiome to such things as immune disorders, cancer, and obesity. Thanks to improved sequencing technology, much progress has been made in characterizing microbiomes in many environments, but of the available data, only a small fraction has been utilized to its full potential.

Bacteria and bacteria-targeting viruses (called bacteriophages) are co-evolving under intense pressure, each trying to out-manoeuver the other in a constant evolutionary arms race. Just under ten years ago, an adaptive immune system was discovered in bacteria, called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). Bacteria possessing the CRISPR system incorporate small pieces of phage DNA in their own genome, allowing them to easily recognize and target repeat phage invaders.

The Pathogens and Disease Immunity project is seeking to track down and organize publicly available CRISPR data that provides an “immunization record” of interactions between bacteria and phages. The goal of this project is to make a database of CRISPR genome regions across many bacteria and archaea. Such a database will be a valuable starting point for a host of researchers studying microbiomes, enabling them to find patterns across large amounts of data and a wide variety of organisms and environments.

The main challenge of this project is to consolidate data from multiple sources and to automate data gathering. There may also be genetic data assembly challenges, depending on specific data sets. The input of developers, testers, and bioinformaticians would all be welcome. For more information on this project and on previous work in the same theme, visit https://github.com/goyalsid/phageParser and http://collaborate.mozillascience.org/projects/pathogens.

Madeleine Bonsma is an MSc student in Dr. Sid Goyal’s group at the University of Toronto. She loves biology, physics, data analysis, and writing short scripts in Python, but she knows hardly anything about development and bioinformatics. She is excited to make connections in the wider community of people who love science.

ICYMI: Chattanooga Joins the GENI Community

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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga announced yesterday that it has added a cutting-edge computing resource to its campus network that will benefit both campus researchers and subscribers to the EPB Fiber Optics network.
In partnership with The Enterprise Center and US Ignite, UTC has acquired and activated a GENI rack. The GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) rack is linked with similar racks in 60 other leading universities in smart cities in the U.S. and internationally. The racks act collectively as a programmable nervous system for researching and deploying the next generation of the Internet and cloud computing.
The Chattanooga rack is unique in that it will be able to connect to Chattanooga homes and small businesses with gigabit Internet service from EPB Fiber Optics. This arrangement will enable Chattanoogans the opportunity to develop, test and provide feedback on advanced next-generation Internet applications in education, healthcare and public safety.
As a catalyst for the national movement to create and deploy such applications, US Ignite has been working with Chattanooga and EPB since US Ignite’s formation, and the GENI rack and its connections will now enable Chattanoogans to be among the first to experience them. Chattanooga’s 2015 GIGTANK accelerator will include an emphasis on leveraging this advanced infrastructure.

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An early adopter enjoying Viditor at the Creative Discovery Museum during Startup Week Chattanooga. (Photo Credit: Andy Gooch)


Some gigabit-enabled applications are currently being developed in Chattanooga through the Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund. Adagio, created by local musician Jonathan Susman, is a cloud-based audio remixing tool that will reach national and international audiences thanks to the GENI rack and its connections to other leading universities and smart cities. Viditor is a collaborative video-editing tool created by two entrepreneurial students at UTC.
Other smart gigabit cities are developing applications in virtual reality (e.g., to immerse students in the Gettysburg battlefield or perhaps explore the biological structure of living cells). More than 200 faculty members worldwide are engaged in this work on the next-generation Internet and its applications. The GENI rack is the resource needed to add Chattanooga to this prestigious list.
“We expect this capability to accelerate our efforts to match UTC researchers with those at the best research universities in the country,” says Steve Angle, chancellor of UTC.
One of the next-generation capabilities provided by the GENI racks is the ability to wall-off or isolate sensitive traffic. For example, the network could be configured to provide secure gigabit channels for telemedicine. Chattanooga was one of the first cities to demonstrate gigabit telemedicine by showing that gigabyte medical images could be examined by radiologists from their homes in the middle of the night in emergency cases.
Ken Hays, president and CEO of The Enterprise Center, confirms that, “We are receiving many inquiries from leading-edge researchers who seek a critical mass of gigabit users. With the GENI connection, we will be working with such researchers across the country focusing initially on smart grid, additive manufacturing and healthcare services.”
Engage 3D and EPB used an early prototype of the GENI network to conduct the first city-to-city demonstration of student-controlled 3D television. Using the Ranger Rick program at the Tennessee Aquarium, a special camera captured not only video images, but also a representation of the 3D shapes of Ranger Rick, his animals and their surroundings. Because a digitized description of all of the objects in the scene was being sent, students watching the transmission in Chicago could control their vantage point, looking up, down and around the animal being shown. Each student could view the same or different vantage points simultaneously. Sending a complete description of the scene 30 times per second required nearly a gigabit of bandwidth to the aquarium, the Chattanooga Public Library and the local STEM high school.
Launched with support from the National Science Foundation, GENI supports next-generation architectures for sharing advanced applications that require symmetric gigabit speeds, advanced local cloud computing (locavore computing) and/or software-defined networking.
“We look forward to connecting other cities to Chattanooga and research universities via the GENI network so that new public-benefit applications can be developed collaboratively and shared for the benefit of many of the current set of US Ignite cities,” says William Wallace, executive director of US Ignite.
(Via a press release from UTC, USIgnite and the Enterprise Center.)

WormBase | Toronto Open Science Code Sprint

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Join us in Toronto this March at our first ever Mozilla Toronto Open Science Code Sprint on Sat/Sun March 07-08 2015. At this 2-day event we will be bringing together researchers working on open science projects with developers, designers and other scientists from the community to collaborate on tools helping further science on the web. Every day this week, we’ll feature a guest post on one of the projects we’ll be sprinting on: Contributorship Badges, Cytoscape.js, Matplotdash, Pathogens & Disease Immunity, WormBase.

Today’s guest post is from Sibyl Gao, web developer for WormBase.org. Don’t forget to register to collaborate with us on open science!

WormBase: explore worm biology

Some organisms are used by scientific researchers as models for studying biology and disease. A lot of research studies have been done and a lot of knowledge accumulated about these organisms, making these organisms even more valuable tools for research. The knowledge obtained needs organizing and a channel to reach other researchers, who may benefit from it. WormBase is among those that try to help with this.

We focus on the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny transparent free-living worm species. WormBase (http://www.wormbase.org/) is a project dedicated to supporting C. elegans research community with curated data and open source tools for accessing them. Our curators have developed a rich set of schemas for different data types. Some types are about biological entities (e.g. genes, constructs, molecules), and some are about biological events (e.g. interactions, expression, phenotype). Different types of data describe associations with each other. Snippets of data are also associated with references that identify the source, such as a paper. Following association links, as well as using our custom search, to find data objects of interest is an important use case of WormBase website.

WormBase website is developed using Catalyst, a Perl based web framework. A RESTful API exposes data searching and data fetching functionalities that allow development of a site front-end without setting up the full dependencies. This approach is what has been used for developing our mobile site, a lightweight front-end developed with Backbone.js that consumes JSON objects obtained from the API.

I’d like to take the opportunity of this code sprint to explore data visualization tools and enhance user interface, using our mobile site as a testing ground. So far WormBase has an individual page for each data object/instance, describing it in great detail and presenting its relations in lists and tables. But we haven’t offered any visualization or analysis tools to make better sense of all the information available. Maybe our users would like to select several data objects and visualize how they relate to each other. Maybe they’d like to compare some sequences or compare lists that each object has. Another area to explore is our user interface: navigating sites with many links can make people feel lost. How quickly help them reorient themselves and keep track of where they’ve been maybe something useful.

Learn more about us:
Website: http://www.wormbase.org/
Mobile: http://m.wormbase.org/
Publication: WormBase 2014: new views of curated biology

How to contribute:
Github (for WormBase mobile): https://github.com/WormBase/website-mobile
Issue tracker: https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues

Looking for help in:
(Developer) Data visualization tools
(Designer) Interface design
(Developer) Complex query search
(Biologist) Insight on use cases that need better support

Digital Age Skills for Educators

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Within 10 years there will be five billion citizens of the web. Learning to read, write and participate in the digital world has become the 4th basic foundational skill next to the three Rs – reading, writing, and arithmetic in a rapidly evolving, networked world. In the 21st century, learning can take place anytime, anywhere, at any pace, and with the learner at the center.
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This is not new to us at Mozilla. Our mission is to provide people with open access to the skills and know-how needed to use the web to improve their lives, careers, and organizations. Individuals need to have the ability to develop new knowledge, and the new basics combined with 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity everywhere and any time. These skills are quickly becoming inextricable and for the sake of simplicity, I am for now calling this combination of web literacy and 21st century skills – digital age skills.
In traditional U.S. education settings, this notion is still at an early stage, and discovering ways to put the student at the center and make learning that happens inside and outside of school “count” is a growing conversation in K-12 and higher education. The conversation has moved beyond subjects and grades to considering the skills and competencies that are needed for one to actually be college- and career-ready.
We have recently kicked off two exciting new planning projects to help in and out of school educators identify and teach digital-age skills, and to prototype badges with clear learning and achievement outcomes related to those skills. We’ll work with an advisory group drawn from our Mozilla community, industry, higher education, policymakers, and others to ensure the content and evidence is grounded in real-world application. Finally, we’ll make sure to document lessons learned for broader reach and information back to interested stakeholders.
The Leveraging Linked Learning and Career-ready Badges project, funded by the Irvine Foundation, will create and prototype digital badges with Linked Learning educators in California. The Afterschool, Digital Age Skills Badges and Competency-based Learning project, funded by the Mott Foundation, will also create a set of digital badges for prototyping and piloting, as well as to influence policymakers on the important role of afterschool programs in supporting and supplementing learning.
Over the next year and a half, these projects will work in alignment with the Learning Networks team to refine and strengthen the curriculum, training and badges to empower educators, and all learners, to grow their digital age skills. Stay tuned for more updates as the projects progress!

Cytoscape.js | Toronto Open Science Code Sprint

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Join us in Toronto this March at our first ever Mozilla Toronto Open Science Code Sprint on Sat/Sun March 07-08 2015. At this 2-day event we will be bringing together researchers working on open science projects with developers, designers and other scientists from the community to collaborate on tools helping further science on the web. Every day this week, we’ll feature a guest post on one of the projects we’ll be sprinting on: Contributorship Badges, Cytoscape.js, Matplotdash, Pathogens & Disease Immunity, WormBase.

Today’s guest post is from Max Franz, lead developer of Cytoscape.js. Don’t forget to register to collaborate with us on open science!

Cytoscape.js is a library written purely in JS for graph theory. It covers both the typical drawing and user interaction use case as found in apps and also the lower level, algorithmic use case for analysing graph data. Because Cytoscape.js focuses solely on graphs, the developer’s code is much more terse and readable as compared to if more generic visualisation libraries were used; and it means that the developer does not have to re-invent the wheel with regards to well established graph theory algorithms and traversal strategies.

My name is Max Franz, and I am a Software Engineer. I have designed and built Cytoscape.js, and I have also worked with many collaborators to improve and add to Cytoscape.js. This project is special to me, because graph theory has such diverse applications — such as how Google’s search works, social network analysis, circuit analysis, decision making (i.e. by game theory), biological data analysis, and so on — and especially because Euler, the father of graph theory, is one of my heroes.

To give a sense of the power and flexibility of Cytoscape.js, it would be relatively straightforward to create an app that primarily uses Cytoscape.js to spider the web, organise that spidered index via Google’s PageRank algorithm, and build a search user interface that is not only textual but also visual. In essence, you could create your own Google using Cytoscape.js.

Cytoscape.js is used in a number of research areas, especially biology — for things like pathways, gene-gene interactions, and the like. However, the scope of Cytoscape.js is wide enough such that the varied developers who use it tend to contribute back to it, thereby benefiting the research community where it was founded even more than if its scope were more specialised.

In terms of this opportunity for collaboration, generously hosted by Mozilla in Toronto, there are several options: Features may be added directly to the library itself in a modular manner via extensions. Extensions may also be used to create re-usable user interface components on top of the library. For the even more ambitious or creatively inclined, a project that uses Cytoscape.js could be created at the event. In any case, we would love to work with anyone interested — even if you would just like to give your opinions and feedback.

This event presents an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in coding, user interface design, or biology to help make Cytoscape.js better for you, the users. All those involved in Cytoscape.js appreciate your feedback and contributions. You can get in touch with us though the issue tracker on Github regarding bugs or feature requests, the main Github repository for code contributions, Stackoverflow for your questions, and you can even contact me directly if you wish.

Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you at Mozilla’s soon upcoming event.

Mozilla Science Lab Week in Review, February 2-8

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Shoutouts

Many thanks to Kathi Unglert for contributing our first Study Group lesson. Check it out and share your lessons on coding, data wrangling and community leadership with us there!

In & Around the Lab

The Science Lab opened a call for discussion & contributions this week to its new Study Group project. Getting together with a familiar group of friends and colleagues every few weeks to take up a new idea is a great way to share skills and learn from each other; we’d like to explore ways to facilitate those discussions, and we’re starting by collecting example lessons and material from the community. If you have a short lesson (even just some rough notes!) on anything in open science, whether it’s coding, data science, open practice, community building or a social media primer for scientists, send us a pull request or open an issue – we’d love to include your ideas and share them with the wider community.

Outside the Lab

President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget has reaffirmed the US’ commitment to open data, seeking to “open up Government-generated assets, including data and the results of federally funded research and development—such as intellectual property and scientific knowledge—to the public” (pp 74); read more in Heather Joseph‘s article from SPARC.

Don’t miss Carl Boettiger‘s recent paper on the use of Docker to support reusable and reproducible scientific code in rapidly changing development environments; containerization promises to be an integral practical element in reproducible scientific code, and Carl’s exploration is both practical & insightful.

Near-Term Forecast

Kaitlin Thaney & Bill Mills are heading to Australia for the Research Bazaar Conference – an event at University of Melbourne on open research technology. We’ll be running trainings as well as talking to researchers and lab heads from across Australia and New Zealand about open science. We’ll also be announcing our first Science Lab Hub – which we’re piloting with the University of Melbourne to help serve as open science boots-on-the-ground in Australia. Stay tuned for more.

This coming Thursday, February 12 is our next community call, at 11 AM ET. We’ll be hearing from Kathi Unglert on the skills-sharing study group she’s helping out with at UBC, and from the project leads from the upcoming Toronto Open Science Code Sprint, hosted by the Mozilla Science Lab. We’ll be hearing from the Lab’s own Abby Cabunoc on Contributorship Badges for open science; Christopher Ing on Matplotdash, a Collaborate project seeking to build a monitoring dashboard for large scientific computational jobs; Sibyl Gao on WormBase, a successful collaboration and communication platform in the nematode genetics & biology community; Madeleine Bonsma on Pathogens & Disease Immunity, another Collaborate project that seeks to build a database of phage and bacteria genomes for studying how bacteria resist infection, and Max Franz on Cytoscape.js, a graph theory library in JavaScript. The Toronto Sprint promises to be an excellent opportunity to meet the community behind these projects and explore them together; we hope you’ll join us to learn how you can get involved, too!

Get Involved

Check out a few of these projects, from the Science Lab and our friends:

  • Study Group lessons: looking for short lessons on coding, data management, open science practice, community building and social media in the lab, for use in small, casual study groups.
  • Open Science Comes to Campus brainstorm & discussion: Shauna Gordon-McKeon of Open Hatch is working with Bill Mills and the rest of the Lab to create a one-day workshop to introduce the skills and ideas of open science and open source projects to students – we’d love to hear your ideas on the project in general on the forum, or join in the ‘How to Start an Open Science Project’ brainstorm etherpad.

Reading List

NASA’s Physical Science Informatics Database Now Open to the Public | Spaceref

gh-publisher: Continuous Integration for papers published on GitHub | Ewan Mellor et. al.

Better Software Delivers Better Science | Tessella

Community Insights on Web Literacy Clubs

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The emergence of Web Literacy Clubs began with the question: “How can we deepen how people teach the web with Mozilla, so that their teaching experience with us is of higher quality, their learners learn more, and their community leadership is fostered?”
To get started, we asked 45 community leaders and organizations ranging from the Hive Learning Networks, Maker Party partners, classroom teachers, afterschool educators, and librarians from around the world to share with us their insights, hopes, and concerns about this approach. What we got back were rich conversations filled with expert knowledge, very thoughtful feedback, and great ideas. The information is tremendously useful, and is helping us to shape our next steps. We are deeply grateful to all who participated, and plan to conduct these interviews on a regular basis.
Here is a snapshot of the findings:
Here are a few more highlights, or you can read the full data summary and results here.

  • Successful ongoing engagement might involve: the ability to learn cohesive, connected, and meaningful skills; having access to incentives such as competition, awards, or badges; and giving club leaders platforms to share/adapt/network in-person and online.
  • Ideas for sustaining web literacy clubs include: working directly with schools; allowing for different kinds of curriculum for different learning styles; meeting often, and for shorter periods of time.
  • The best curriculum and resources can exist, but good coaching/mentoring is critical for success.
  • Create modular curriculum that is flexible to mentor/learner needs.
  • Develop resources that are both online and offline, and printable.

What’s Next?

  • The first section of our Web Literacy Basics curriculum is being field-tested, consisting of two 45 minute activities designed by our community hero, MOUSE.
  • The second section of the curriculum is in active development and will be ready for testing starting next week.
  • We will be facilitating working groups in curriculum creation, localization, professional development and leadership, and best practices.

Webmaker’s Field Research Report from Kenya

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After completing our first research trip in Bangladesh, Webmaker went to Kenya!
These trips are part of an ongoing research program we are conducting to study technology and design approaches that enable greater participation on the mobile Web and help grow the creation of local content. 
We spent three weeks in November between Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa and Nakuru, to understand how people adopt, use and leverage the Web in their personal and professional lives.
We conducted in-depth interviews with 59 research participants from all walks of life (artists, students, teenagers, business owners …) and organised a Design Day  with 14 university students, where we brainstormed about content creation, and paper prototyped mobile apps.
From this experience, we extracted findings such as:
* Many people are not aware that a greater Internet exists beyond Whatsapp, and are limiting their use of the Web to Social Media, 
* People in Kenya have a unique way of using mobile data, almost like a currency, 
* There is a crucial lack of local content, blocking non-english speakers to access the Web, 
* Making, as an activity, is not considered cool,
* Remixing is viewed as a crime,

and more !

Based on this research, we mapped Webmaker‘s potential users according to their digital literacy levels and their motivations and constraints when using the Web, and we wrote a set of personas portraits, to understand better who we are designing for.
You can discover all of this research in the Webmaker’s Field Research Report from Kenya.
We are currently in India doing our next phase of research. Watch this space for our report from that trip and please contact us with any feedback at: mobileopportunity@mozilla.org.

Save the Date: Toronto Code Sprint & Open Science Study Groups, Thursday, February 12

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Our next community call will take place this Thursday, February 12. The call is open to the public and will start at 11:00 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad (where you can also find notes and the agenda) and on the wiki. (If you have trouble with the toll-free number, try one of the numbers at the bottom of this post.)

The Science Lab meeting is our community call, taking place each month, highlighting recent developments and work of the community relevant to science and the web. Join us to hear more about current projects, find out how you can get involved, and hear from others about their work in and around open research.

This month, we’ll be hearing from participants on the upcoming Toronto Open Science Code Sprint, hosted by the Mozilla Science Lab. The lab’s own Abby Cabunoc and Arliss Collins have organized a coding sprint for March 7-8 at the Toronto Mozilla office for local projects and contributors to get together, meet one another and learn & work on some projects together. We’ll be hearing from Abby on Contributorship Badges for open science; Christopher Ing on Matplotdash, a Collaborate project seeking to build a monitoring dashboard for large scientific computational jobs; Sibyl Gao on WormBase, a successful collaboration and communication platform in the nematode genetics & biology community; Madeleine Bonsma on Pathogens & Disease Immunity, another Collaborate project that seeks to build a database of phage and bacteria genomes for studying how bacteria resist infection, and Max Franz on Cytoscape.js, a graph theory library in JavaScript. The Toronto Sprint promises to be an excellent opportunity to meet the community behind these projects and explore them together; we hope you’ll join us to learn how you can get involved, too!

Also on the call this Thursday, we’ll be hearing from Kathi Unglert on the UBC Earth & Ocean Science Study Group she is currently helping teach and run. Small study groups of friends and colleagues are a friendly, low-pressure way to share and practice skills in coding, data wrangling and community leadership; Kathi will tell us about her experiences organizing a study group on the ground at UBC, and give you some ideas on how you can start a group of your own at your own institution. We’ve already started assembling ideas and lessons here; we’d love to have you join the call, learn more, and contribute your own ideas to the project, too.

Have an update, blog post or event you’d like to share relevant to open science? Add it to the etherpad (see ‘Non Verbal Updates’, line ~80). It’s a great way to share what you’re working on and/or interested in with the community. Don’t be shy. Have a look at last month’s notes for an idea of what others contributed to the conversation.

Mark your calendars, tune in and help us spread the word – everyone is welcome. For call-in details and links to the etherpad, visit our wiki page. We hope you’ll join us.

Celebrating One Year in Chattanooga

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A year ago today, the Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund launched in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In front of a crowd of more than 250 community members, education leaders, and technology innovators, we kicked off the next phase of the partnership between the National Science Foundation, US Ignite and Mozilla aimed at bringing gigabit innovation out of the lab and into classrooms and informal learning spaces across Chattanooga.

Brainstorming at the Kickoff Event in February 2014 (Photo Credit: Mary Barnett, Chattanooga Public Library)


Over the last 12 months, we’ve awarded $167,000 to 8 community projects that have shown the impact of our high-speed network on learning. From real-time environmental monitoring with micro-controllers to cloud-based audio remixing, the ideas supported by the Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund have pushed forward the bleeding edge of next-generation technological development. By engaging learners as beta testers and educators as co-designers, these projects have also empowered diverse new groups of Chattanoogans as creators of gigabit technology while helping to reimagine the relationship between educators, technologists, and entrepreneurs in our city.
These successes in Mozilla’s first year of work in Chattanooga were made possible through collaboration with dozens of like-minded organizations, schools, and businesses across our community. These collaborations with the Public Education Foundation, the Company Lab, and so many others have fueled the rapid development of Hive Chattanooga, our city-based learning community that has – together with our partners – convened 4,800+ Chattanoogans at more than 50 events since February 6, 2014.
Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund Project DevLearn at Mini Maker Faire Chattanooga (Photo Credit: Jason Oswald)

Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund Project DevLearn at Mini Maker Faire Chattanooga (Photo Credit: Jason Oswald)


Hive Chattanooga has brought together community members to explore the intersection of technology and education, pushing forward the conversation about how to best leverage next-generation networks while recognizing the necessity of web literacy at every level. Indeed, we have seen again and again in our work here in Chattanooga the symbiotic relationship between basic digital literacy education and next-generation tech development. To use a media-rich web app in a classroom setting, after all, students need not only a high-speed connection but also a basic understanding of what a web browser is. And to be inspired to learn basic coding skills, students need to see how these skills fuel the innovations happening all around them in their own classrooms and communities. Web literacy education builds a user base for gigabit innovations, while gigabit innovations inspire web literacy learning.
This powerful symbiotic cycle is what the Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund has fed and deepened in Chattanooga over the past 12 months. In the weeks and months to come as we begin year two, we’re going to work on better telling the story of this cycle – what’s happened and why does it matter for Chattanooga? As part of sharing this story, we’re also going to be looking at how we can take the projects we’ve supported to new audiences in new organizations and new cities while bringing lessons from other Hive communities back to Chattanooga. So stay tuned – there are exciting things ahead for the Mozilla Gigabit Fund and Hive Chattanooga.
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