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Mozilla's $3.5M Plan to Teach Ethics to Coders
Each day brings a new headline about the negative effects of technology. Whether it's cyberbullying, harassment, election meddling, content policing, or the latest major data breach, Silicon Valley stalwarts like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have all taken hits over the last few years for contributing to a toxic online culture.
Now, Mozilla wants to tackle the problem at the grassroots level. The nonprofit technology company, responsible for the Mozilla web browser, announced a partnership with Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies to integrate ethics and accountability into computer science undergraduate programs in the United States.
The Responsible Computer Science Challenge initiative will offer prizes up to $3.5 million to "promising approaches to embedding ethics into undergraduate computer science education, empowering graduating engineers to drive a culture shift in the tech industry and build a healthier internet," the company said.
The awards will be given out in a series of stages between December 2018 and July 2020.
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