We are part of the 5 projects supported by Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab!
Data Science Law Lab has joined the cohort of Mozilla’s 2024 Data Futures Lab Infrastructure Fund awardees: five ambitious projects building tools that address issues of transparency, privacy, bias, and agency in the data lifecycle.
These projects will each receive up to $50,000 (almost, ZAR1million) along with support and training from Mozilla staff and fellows. Mozilla released an open call for awardees in July 2023, and received more than 250 applications from 54 countries.
As an experimental space for instigating new approaches to data stewardship challenges, the Data Futures Lab is the perfect place for these projects to build and release tools and methods that can be leveraged by developers. All projects will make their code available under a public repository.
For this cohort, Dr Okorie’s research group, Data Science Law Lab will work on the project, “Designing a more responsible data license” and is the only recipient from Africa and amongst the 2% who were awarded the grant. Our research will address the shortcomings of using creative commons licenses in certain contexts (such as reinforcing extractive practices and digital colonialism) and will create a prototype for a new data license based on their findings.
