Mozilla Internet Health Reports
The challenge of democracy in the digital era
Is the internet helping or hurting democratic processes around the globe? In most countries, it is doing both.
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An open source alternative for “the cloud”
Cloud services have become the default tools many people use to get their work done. But this can mean giving up privacy and control. Some open source alternatives are now offering tools to put people back in charge.
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Django Girls: Communities of code from Argentina to Zimbabwe
“What excites me the most is inspiring another woman to fall in love with programming,” says Anna Makarudze who organizes Django Girls workshops in Zimbabwe. “Just knowing that I am making a difference in somebody else’s life is really a great feeling. Through this, I meet so many women,
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Building a multilingual Internet
Typing and reading online in a non-English language with a non-Latin script is not always easy. Speakers of the Indic language Malayalam used to depend on buggy, badly rendering fonts to write on the Internet. But a dedicated decade-long effort has made typing and writing Malayalam on the Internet a
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The hidden costs of an open Internet
Open source software is everywhere. On phones, laptops, watches and even household appliances. The appetite for this type of free, public code is ferocious, but a scarcity of resources to maintain some of the less visible software, on which other software is dependent, has left key parts of the ecosystem
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Creative Commons has a new global network strategy
Creative Commons, the organization that enables millions of people to bypass traditional copyright, and openly share or reuse works, is embarking on a new mission to make online sharing more purposeful, and the connections between people more meaningful. Creative Commons was founded in 2001, when the idea of the Internet
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The world’s first ambassador to technology companies
As a career diplomat for the Kingdom of Denmark, Casper Klynge was previously stationed in Indonesia. Now, with a team distributed between Copenhagen, Silicon Valley and Beijing, China, he spearheads a diplomatic mission to technology companies, some of whose gross incomes rival those of his entire country. He is the