The Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows Program — a collaboration between the Ford Foundation and Mozilla — is an international leadership initiative that brings together the best emerging technology talent and civil society organizations to protect the open Web. The program fills a critical niche: it provides an ecosystem for the next generation of open Web advocates to make an early impact. As threats to digital freedom proliferate, it’s critical to have capable leaders.
Each year, Fellows spend 10 months embedded at leading advocacy organizations to safeguard the Internet as a global public resource. The 2015 host organizations are:
- American Civil Liberties Union, Massachusetts
- Amnesty International
- Association for Progressive Communications
- Free Press
- Open Technology Institute
- Public Knowledge
2015 Fellows
Tim Sammut, Amnesty International
I like people that speak their mind, dislike the people that silence them, and am working with the Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty International.
Fellowship projects
- Secure Communications Framework: Building a thing that does this thing do that people can more safely do that other thing.
- Community Incident Response: Internet baddies are attacking human rights defenders over the Internet and we're building capacity to help them respond to active attacks.
Personal projects
- ThunderSec: DKIM, SPF, DNSBL plug-in for Mozilla Thunderbird addons.mozilla.org, GitHub repo
- Run Tor nodes
- Making Linux on Macbook Pros less terrible
Things created
- Blog 20 September 2015, Human Rights Education Threat Modeling
- Conference Proposal 12 September 2015, Promoting Freedom of Expression with Tor
- Slides 11 August 2015, Tor vs. VPNs and Proxies