We caught up with fellow Mozillian Christian Heilmann, who was at the Browser ID stand. Browser ID is an organisation where a single email address and password will let you sign into any web site on the Internet. Browser ID will verify your email address and vouch for your ownership of it for a “Streamlined one-click experience”. All you need to do is click on your favourite website that supports   Read More ...

I talked to Chris Lawrence; of the New York City Hive Learning Network, at the Mozilla Festival to talk about his background in education and if he thinks higher education is worth the time and money… “When I was in college I studied Mass Communications and journalism and radio and I did a lot of stuff with radio and then that sort of took me on a path of doing   Read More ...

Peer 2 Peer University is an online learning community, which allows you to learn skills and subjects all for free. It gives the user the freedom to learn what they want when they want and also gives them the opportunity to become mentors and help out others with subjects they might know. Users must create an account, which will store all their educational information. I spoke to John Britton who   Read More ...

This afternoon’s conference started with an introduction to the building and staff at Ravensbourne. The main reason for the conference was to officially introduce everyone to the festival and explaining how the event will work over the next few days. ‘Media, freedom and the web’ is this year’s theme and the first speaker was Mitchel, the chairwoman at the Mozilla foundation, who started by telling us that Mozilla want to   Read More ...

The Science Fair event started late Friday afternoon with a great buzz before even the press event for it had started. The science Fair is a mix of Mozilla projects that exemplifies and puts together the essence of Mozilla. Concretely the guests are also recruiting for the hack fest that is going on during the weekend. The fair proved to be a successful turn out with a large crowd standing   Read More ...

The first day of the Mozilla Festival has kicked off starting with the Hive Learning Network event. The Hive Learning Network event included various digital technology activities with professional specialists in digital technology such as, Chris Lawrence, Cydney Gray and Jess Klien. The event started off well with Woolwich Poly school students arriving to enjoy a range of activities such as, designing apps, becoming a reporter, thinking and talking about   Read More ...

The Mozilla Foundation is a global non-profit organisation. It supports The Mozilla project which aims to put users in total control of their online experience and help educators work more effectively in the electronic classroom. Mozilla believe that  “the Internet is a public resource that must remain open and accessible to all. With this in mind, our efforts are ultimately driven by our mission of encouraging choice, innovation and opportunity   Read More ...

CHLOE VARELIDI – From Athens Greece New York based educational game designer Runs a large games festival in Athens Enjoys teaching, building installations and designing CAREER HISTORY Recently joined Peer to Peer University (P2PU) as a Design Assessment Specialist to create game based learning systems for Mozilla’s School of Webcraft. The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners   Read More ...

We aim to activate 21st century citizens who engage deeply with the world. We do it by leveraging the power of games. We bring together game design, rigorous research practices and strong interdisciplinary partnerships to create, study and promote game-based materials, strategies and systems as critical tools for personal and social development. Institute of Play is a registered 501(c)(3) corporation. We were founded in 2007 by a group of game   Read More ...

Poet & software engineer, has a passion for literature, ideas, and transforming opportunities through civic tech. Gradstudent at the MIT. Makes art, software and charities which people can use to become more creative, more effective, and more informed. He also does academic research for fun. lived in Cambridge, UK since 2006. I moved to Boston and joined the MIT Media Lab in Sept 2011.