Under their “Creative Media” awards track, Mozilla is offering a total of $250,000 in awards comprised of two $50,000 awards ($47,500 award + $2,500 MozFest travel stipend) and five $25,000 total prize packages ($22,500 award + $2,500 MozFest travel stipend). Mozilla says they’re specifically looking for projects that focus on AI and machine learning.
Mozilla wants these grants to go to researchers who can help the public to better understand how threats to a “healthy internet” are impacting their lives. These projects can be presented in a variety of mediums such as videos, games, browser extensions and data visualizations.
To be eligible for this award, projects must already be in-progress, at either the conceptual or prototype stage. They also have to be “freely available on the web,” have the ability “to be broadly shared,” and must include “privacy-respecting mechanisms.”
This isn’t Mozilla’s only project that has the aims of teaching people more about the changing face of technology.
It's hard to express just _how useful_ Mozilla's technical documentation about web technology concepts has gotten. Kudos to all my friends at Mozilla putting in the mostly thankless work to make new CSS and JavaScript concepts easily learnable with a Google search.
— Justin Searls (@searls) June 3, 2018
From briefs to explainers to graphics, Mozilla has been attempting to make it easier for people to understand how things work.
DNS has been leaking parts of your browsing history since the beginning of the web
Here's what we're doing in @firefox to fix this → May 31, 2018
Applications for this grant are open now and close on August 1.
