The Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship program is seeking host organizations: like-minded groups working on the front lines of internet health<\/i><\/p>\n
Today, we\u2019re launching the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship call for host organizations. If your organization is devoted to a healthy internet for all users, we encourage you to apply<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now entering its fourth year, the Open Web Fellows program is part of a growing movement to build global leadership around public interest technology and open web advocacy. Backed by the Ford Foundation<\/a> and Mozilla<\/a>, the program partners emerging technologists (fellows) with civil society organizations (hosts) for a 10-month period of collaboration and creative work to support public awareness around online policy, to defend digital rights, and to champion internet freedom.<\/p>\n In the past four years, the fellowship has partnered with 21 host organizations around the globe, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Derechos Digitales, European Digital Rights, Freedom of the Press Foundation and many more<\/a>, across sectors and specialties, united by a shared goal to protect public interaction on the open web.<\/p>\n Says Ford Foundation\u2019s Michael Brennan, who helps manage the fellowship program: \u201cTechnology suffuses every aspect of our lives, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for civil society and social justice are greater than ever. It\u2019s very important that civil society organizations understand the technical landscape, and how developing technologies can serve the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n