ORGANIZATION
Mozilla Foundation
Nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to steward the open-source web and, in partnership with the Ostrom Workshop, develop practical data commons governance frameworks for the AI era.
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to steward open-source internet technologies and advocate for the public-interest dimensions of digital infrastructure. Its collaboration with the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University has produced some of the most operationally useful work on data commons governance in the AI era, translating Ostrom's design principles into frameworks communities and organizations can apply to the specific case of AI training data.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Mozilla's institutional position — commercially viable through Firefox and related products, but organizationally committed to public-interest technology — makes it one of the few actors in the AI ecosystem capable of pursuing data commons governance that neither privatization-oriented corporations nor regulation-oriented governments are well positioned to develop. The partnership with the Ostrom Workshop connects this operational capacity to the institutional analysis expertise required to make the governance frameworks empirically grounded rather than aspirational.
The resulting framework identifies four institutional features that data governance arrangements require: clear boundaries (what data is included, who