*New* Funding Opportunity @ Responsible Computing Challenge (Due 3/1/23)
Posted: 2/23/2023 (Funding)
The Mozilla Foundation has launched the Responsible Computing Challenge to advance the redesign of undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to support a next generation of technologists. The challenge awards range from $100k to $150k.
The Responsible Computing Challenge – supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla – fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated. By reimagining and redesigning undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to be both intentionally interdisciplinary and inclusive of diverse perspectives, the goal is to support a new wave of technologists who will:
- understand social and historical context
- think more critically about the design and use of technology
- deploy cultural sensitivity to recognize when and how technology work may perpetuate or deepen inequality
- create visions for more equitable systems across the technology sector and in related fields to ultimately build more responsible and ethical tools, applications, platforms, policies, and social norms.
Track I (up to $100,000): Track I awards up to $100,000 to a single institution for one year to support the conceptualization, development, and piloting of approaches that integrate responsible computing into existing undergraduate courses in the Humanities, Library and Information Science, Social Sciences, Computer Science, or closely related disciplines. This might look like the integration of computing topics into an existing undergraduate humanities course in ways that address the social-justice implications of relevant tech, or the integration of humanities topics into existing computing courses to highlight the kinds of knowledge needed to make responsible computing choices. Prioritized projects will broaden the diversity of perspectives in technology and represent those groups disproportionately impacted by technological harms.
Track II (up to $150,000): Track II awards up to $150,000 to partnerships across departments or institutions for one year to support the interdisciplinary conceptualization, development, and piloting of a scaled approach to integrating responsible computing into existing undergraduate courses across the Humanities, Library and Information Sciences, Social Sciences, and Computational fields. This might look, for instance, like computer science and gender and sexuality studies faculty coming together to revise multiple courses and/or allow cross-listing across departments for courses that integrate their approach to responsible computing.
Eligibility:
Faculty & Pls
The Responsible Computing Challenge is open to accredited institutions of higher education in the United States. The Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigators (PI/Co-PIs) listed on the award application must be eligible to receive and lead grants at their institution. PIs may work individually to execute the outlined concept, if funded, or with a collaborative, cross-disciplinary team with members that may come from both inside and outside of the institution of higher education. Such teams should include representatives from across departments, student researchers, industry partners and independent researchers.
Deadline: 03/01/2023