Building the Internet Health Movement

Mozilla Festival Sessions
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This session is facilitated by Dirk Slater, Chad Sansing

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About this session

Participants will identify how they currently contribute to movement building for internet health, and then we will review other movement building efforts and finish with a brainstorm on how we might engage others in buiding the movement, identifying action steps for post-mozfest

Goals of this session

For participants to understand how to contribute to and build the internet health movement.

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We are building off of the online discussions ‘Movement Building’ that Chad started. Here are the notes from those discussions. Movement Building Support Call 1 & Movement Building Support Call 3

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Here’s another reference for our session.

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Here is our session plan, what we will do during the session:

  1. Go Round, your name, where you are from. One sentence on why you came today

  2. Quick review of the agenda;

  3. Small groups: 1. What did you see/experience at MozFest that you would like to get more involved with/do more of? Was there a session, installation? 2. How would you like to get involved? 3. Post-it note generation / clustering

  4. Quick talk about the role of MozFest in internet health movement building. 1. Come with an idea and leave with a network is movement-building 2. Scaffolding to support internet health movement-building activities. 3. Examples of movement building at MozFest.

  5. Small groups: What activities will you be doing over the next week, month, or year to contribute to internet health?

  6. Wrap up. Final go round - what is your take-away from this session.

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Great session! Is there further discussion post MozFest?

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Notes from the session

Based on what the participants experienced at MozFest (sessions, etc) here are actions they will take to contribute to Internet Health.

Personal

  • Practice better self-care
  • Put in practice
  • keep in discussion with the facilitator
  • Somehow, become more involved in MozFest.
  • Join the ‘whose knowledge’ email list and pay attention
  • Get involved with the transformative justice movement and see how these issues can be tackled.
  • Further implementations for this personal data storage/collaborations with own skill sharing initiative
  • Say no sometimes

Friends & Family

  • one-to-one preach -> tell others what I’ve heard
  • delete facebook completely
  • empathise more with people I might not have much in common at a first glance
  • Board/game used to educate about internet health/privacy
  • Be an intentional bridge builder
  • Build networks & connect with others who are different more intentionally
  • Social network analysis - research in effective community influencing
  • Spread the word about the Yogyakarta Principles through social media & reporting.

Wider local (work, school, neighbours)

  • Ethics and tech reading list
  • Continue to embed on ethics approach in my projects, training, etc.
  • Hold my coworkers’ hostage at lunch and learns where I talk about ethics, inclusion and sociocracy.
  • Use some of the approaches or ideas I’ve encountered in my own work.
  • Use the structure and tools provided by first feminist principles in my work on Wikipedia

Global

  • Help develop an open events manual
  • Think about how internet health movement can work with UN agencies.

Things you’d like to do before the next mozfest

  • Connect Mozilla people to UN people I know
  • More bridge building for learning!
  • Start a new project around transformative justice
  • Communicate these ideas to people outside of this space
  • facilitate conversations between people who are very different
  • Organise lunch & learns in workplace
  • Talk about applying ethical thinking to workplace/product development
  • How can mental health and internet health interconnect in a prosperous way
  • Help my daughter to become a critical & health active citizen of the internet, when she develops her own agency online.
  • Use the structure and tools provided by first feminist principles in my work on Wikipedia.
  • Facilitate the “Design Your App” workshop, where we teach kids on Design Thinking = think the way you are doing something and & empathising with people. It was targetted to kids but design thinking could be applied to solve any complex problem at any age.
  • look to find an intersection between higher education and internet health.
  • Identify dev-or-tech focused sessions with a check on schedule, vs more tech adjacent sessions.

We finished the session with a go-round where participants shared what they felt would be their immediate actions when they get home.

  • Help our children become critical users w/ agency
  • Share new learnings / family re: Internet & Social Media addiction; develop common vocals
  • Review my notes and highlight key things to show at work in and in personal life; prioritise items to share.
  • Tell my colleague what I learned; review my own internet safety habits and learn how to be safe now.
  • Write a tweet thread about new learnings like feminist principles of the internet
  • Review my notes and notes from other sessions; think about how to communicate these ideas to people outside this community
  • Thanks the people I learned from
  • Broaden networks of people I connect to include other open organisations
  • Review schedule and book to learn more about what I missed.
  • Follow a bunch of people on twitter
  • Send out newsletter
  • Type up and share these notes. Follow up with facilitators
  • Connect this work to MF 2020.