Mozilla DFL Infrastructure Fund

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Mozilla's Data Futures Lab Infrastructure Fund

The fund aims to support the development of open-source software needed to foster a more fair and just data ecosystem, investing in technical tools to address issues of privacy, security, bias, ethics, and agency in how datasets are collected, processed, used, shared, and governed.

Who sponsors this fund?
Mozilla Foundation

Where can you find more information?
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/data-futures-lab/grantmaking/infrastructure-fund/

Details

The Data Futures Lab is an experimental space for instigating new approaches to data stewardship challenges. It provides funding, scaffolding for collaboration, convening around emerging ideas, and a place to workshop approaches to data stewardship which give greater control and agency to people.

There is a deadline to submit your Letter of Intent (LOI), which informs your interest in applying for the grant and includes key eligibility information about your project and organization. Submit Your LOI!

• 🗃️ Areas: Tools to address issues of privacy, security, bias, ethics, and agency in how data is collected, processed, used, shared, and governed.
• 🌍 Eligibility: All types of organizations anywhere in the world; nonprofits will be prioritized and especially from members of the Global Majority or Global South; ​​Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color; women, transgender, and/or gender diverse applicants; migrant and diasporic communities; and/or persons coming from climate displaced/impacted communities, etc.
• 💰 Level of funding: up to $50,000 USD
• 📅 Timeline: application process, starting December 1st, 2023.
• ⏰ Deadline for applications: August 31, 2023