{"id":2169,"date":"2019-08-28T10:52:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T09:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2019-08-28T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T09:52:38","slug":"more-than-2500-global-activists-working-to-create-a-healthier-internet-will-attend-weeklong-festival-in-london-from-october-21-to-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2019\/08\/28\/more-than-2500-global-activists-working-to-create-a-healthier-internet-will-attend-weeklong-festival-in-london-from-october-21-to-27\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE THAN 2,500 GLOBAL ACTIVISTS WORKING TO CREATE A HEALTHIER INTERNET WILL ATTEND WEEKLONG FESTIVAL IN LONDON FROM OCTOBER 21 TO 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Former YouTube engineer Guillaume Chaslot, algorithmic bias researcher Safiya Umoja Noble, and Dutch lawmaker Marietje Schaake among leaders headlining Mozilla\u2019s 10th Annual MozFest\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>London (August 28th, 2019) <\/strong>&#8212; Leaders at the forefront of making artificial intelligence more responsible and ethical, including former YouTube engineer Guillaume Chaslot, algorithmic bias researcher Safiya Umoja Noble, First Draft co-founder Claire Wardle, and Dutch lawmaker Marietje Schaake, will headline a weeklong gathering this October of more than 2,500 global activists working to create a healthier internet.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by Mozilla, the nonprofit creator of Firefox and other open source tools, the 10th Annual <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mozillafestival.org\/\">MozFest <\/a><\/u>will take place including events from October 21-25 at the RSA and the main festival on October 26 and 27 at Ravensbourne University London. The event will feature talks, panels, interactive art installations, product demos, and workshops exploring the most critical issues facing the health of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s festival is \u201cMore Responsible Artificial Intelligence,\u201d with programming exploring topics ranging from how to make recommendation engines less toxic to ensuring search engine algorithms don\u2019t promote racism and sexism.<\/p>\n<p>Internet health leaders from around the world, including Kenya, the Netherlands, India, Germany, and Spain, are among this year\u2019s <u><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mozilla-festival\/activists-lawmakers-engineers-speakers-at-mozfest-2019-c219b7f89138\">speakers<\/a><\/u>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineer <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=guillaume+chaslot&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjKmP_EtsPdAhWxVN8KHR9ABecQ_AUIDigB&amp;biw=1072&amp;bih=588\">Guillaume Chaslot<\/a><\/u>, who helped build YouTube\u2019s recommendation algorithm but is now leading efforts to spur greater transparency into how online platforms recommend content.<\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/ted2019.ted.com\/program#claire-wardle\">Claire Wardle<\/a><\/u> is the co-founder of First Draft News, a first-of-its-kind nonprofit dedicated to fact-checking online media and user-generated content. Wardle recently collaborated with The New York Times on a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/14\/opinion\/deepfakes-adele-disinformation.html\">video op-ed<\/a><\/u> on \u201cdeepfakes\u201d in which she initially appeared to be the singer Adelle.<\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/safiyaunoble.com\/\"> Safiya Umoja Noble<\/a><\/u>, author of the book \u201c<u><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/ideologies-of-boring-things-the-internet-and-infrastructures-of-race\/#!\">Algorithms of Oppression<\/a><\/u>\u201d<em>, <\/em>which exposes the racial and gender biases embedded in search engines.<\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovationforums.c4dlab.ac.ke\/speaker\/prof-bitange-ndemo\/\">Professor Bitange Ndemo<\/a><\/u>, who radically transformed Kenya\u2019s technology infrastructure as Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Information and Communications from 2005-2013.<\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/marietjeschaake.eu\/en\">Marietje Schaake<\/a><\/u>, a former member of the European Parliament who has been called Europe\u2019s \u201cmost wired politician\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Says Mark Surman, Mozilla\u2019s Executive Director: \u201cThe AI that shapes our lives is often opaque \u2014 we the users don\u2019t understand how it works. Tech giants like Amazon and Google seem omnipotent. And we see new technology deployed without asking, Is this responsible? Is this ethical?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt MozFest 2019, we\u2019ll focus the collective power of the internet health movement on making today\u2019s AI more humane. For one full week in London, we\u2019ll create art to showcase how flawed AI can sometimes be \u2014 and then write code to fix it. We\u2019ll brainstorm products and policies that put social responsibility, ethics, and the user first. And we\u2019ll envision the challenges and opportunities of the decade to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The weeklong MozFest will take place in two locations. From Monday, October 21 to Friday, October 25, MozFest will hold workshops, talks, one-day conferences, and film screenings at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozillafestival.org\/en\/house\/\">MozFest House<\/a><\/u> (Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam St, London WC2N 6EZ). The weekend programming takes place from Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27th at Ravensbourne University London (6 Penrose Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0EW, UK).\u00a0 Weekend tickets can be purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozillafestival.org\/en\/tickets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former YouTube engineer Guillaume Chaslot, algorithmic bias researcher Safiya Umoja Noble, and Dutch lawmaker Marietje Schaake among leaders headlining Mozilla\u2019s 10th Annual MozFest\u00a0 London (August 28th, 2019) &#8212; Leaders at &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2019\/08\/28\/more-than-2500-global-activists-working-to-create-a-healthier-internet-will-attend-weeklong-festival-in-london-from-october-21-to-27\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}