Mozilla, the firm behind the popular web browser Firefox, announced this week that four organizations have joined its latest Data Futures Lab group. As ZDNet reports, Place Trust, Driver Seat Cooperative, DriversCop and Digital Democracy will all receive a $100,000 grant as well as access to a network of Mozilla Fellows and experts who can help them build their platforms.
Apps will also get support for implementing specific user-centric data governance features, policies and practices. Mozilla’s senior program officer, Mehn Jayasuriya, said the four projects “will combine new models for data management with existing communities and provide real-world examples of how users and communities can be given greater ownership and control over their own data.” could”.
The Place Trust is a non-profit organization working to create maps of cities that are “open, reliable and accessible and to place them in a permanent legal trust in the public interest”. Digital Democracy is an organization that uses an app called Mapio to collect and share evidence. In relation to the violation of human and environmental rights.
New York City-based Drivers Cop is a collectively owned rideshare app with more than 5,000 drivers and 40,000 riders already using it. Driver’s Seat – a cooperative owned and controlled by rideshare and delivery drivers – is trying to put power back in the hands of those working on the ground, giving drivers more data and insight into how they can make money.
Champika Fernando, lead of the Data Futures Lab at Mozilla, told ZDNet that Mozilla has worked to raise consumer awareness of the data collection practices of many of the most popular apps. But now they wanted to promote and support options that respect data privacy.
According to Fernando, the challenge is that it’s extremely tempting for apps like Uber, GrubHub, and others to collect as much information as possible, knowing that someone will eventually pay money for it.
The Data Futures Lab was launched in 2020 as a way to support people around the world by building products and services that aim to disrupt a digital economy that is sucking up as much data as possible. has become dependent.
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