As part of our work with UN Women to teach key digital skills to young women we’ve been busy launching Mozilla Clubs in Nairobi and Cape Town and I recently had the opportunity to visit both communities and run a Mozilla Club Leadership Training in each city. Though the experiences were different in each city,ContinueContinue reading “Mozilla Club Leadership Training in Nairobi and Cape Town”
Category Archives: Technology
Mapping Community Data (the quick and easy edition)
As someone who has spent years understanding how to take community curated content like media, data and events and share them publicly (re: mapping community videos at My City Lives, events for Maker Party, club locations for Mozilla Clubs), I’ve learned some valuable lessons. Here’s just a few: A map can be a powerful representationContinueContinue reading “Mapping Community Data (the quick and easy edition)”
Embedding Diversity and Inclusion Practices into Your Daily Work
At our last staff meeting we were asked to share practices, projects or initiatives that promote diversity and inclusion in an individual or team’s current work. The list was great benchmark on how to embed diversity and inclusion tools into the work environment so I wanted to share a list of examples as told byContinueContinue reading “Embedding Diversity and Inclusion Practices into Your Daily Work”
State of Mozilla Clubs – what’s left for 2015?
Since the launch of Mozilla Clubs at the beginning of the year, we have been in an ever developing lean model of create, test, adapt and share. As we continue through this cycle and develop a new program, we’ve had our share of learning. Throughout it all, a lot has worked! In the last fewContinueContinue reading “State of Mozilla Clubs – what’s left for 2015?”
Building, Learning and Evolving (Q + A)
Recently, Mark (Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation) asked me to do a bit of personal reflection on my time at Mozilla and answer a few questions. He then asked me to share my answers with our organization while at a retreat in Portland. I’ve read through these answers a few times already and thought theyContinueContinue reading “Building, Learning and Evolving (Q + A)”
Appmaking at Mozcamp in Bangalore
Less than a week later I’m still feeling energized from having spent time with our community in Bangalore, India. The energy, passion and dedication that is felt when filling one room with 80+ active volunteers who are working with you to help build communities and teach the web is just amazing. The weekend was filledContinueContinue reading “Appmaking at Mozcamp in Bangalore”
How can we do better?
A couple weeks ago I came across this article on “The Massive Gender Gap At The Biggest Tech Companies” which was an overview of this impressive looking infographic created by Ri Lui and Tracy Chou that shows how large the gender gap is in some of the post popular tech companies. Highlighted at the topContinueContinue reading “How can we do better?”
Who’s looking out for the inner-city youth of Toronto?
Overtime, I’ve attended my fair share of technology events for youth in Toronto. Though technology events for kids is still a new a relatively new concept in our city, there are a bunch of fabulous organizations in the city leading the charge of helping put more and more youth in-front of computers and technology-focused roleContinueContinue reading “Who’s looking out for the inner-city youth of Toronto?”
2014. Year of new. Year of change. Year of focus.
I found much of 2013 was spent searching for directions and finding where I fit. Exploring opportunities and talking to many (many) people allowed for a level of self-understanding that I cannot be more blessed for. Knowing yourself, your skills, and what you can bring to the table is invaluable wherever you want to be.ContinueContinue reading “2014. Year of new. Year of change. Year of focus.”
Maker Party’s around the world: 4 month review
As I’m still living the high after having witnessed the “mother of all Maker Party’s”, The Mozilla Festival (MozFest), I thought it was due time to look back at the last four months and do a little deconstructing on what went on. The success Four months ago I wrote this post describing my new positionContinueContinue reading “Maker Party’s around the world: 4 month review”
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