Gigabit Community Fund
Next-generation networks with the power to transform learning.
What is Mozilla Gigabit?
The Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund provides grant funding in select U.S. communities to support pilot tests of gigabit technologies such as virtual reality, 4K video, artificial intelligence, and their related curricula. In so doing, our goal is to increase participation in technology innovation in support of a healthy Internet where all people are empowered, safe, and independent online.
The Gigabit Approach
Our approach to taking gigabit discoveries out of the lab and into the field is threefold:
Fund and Support
We support the development of gigabit applications and associated curricula through the Gigabit Community Fund. Grants support pilots that take gigabit technologies out of the lab and into learning spaces in select cities across the United States.
Innovate and Spread
We catalyze the creation, adoption, and spread of these innovations through Hive Learning Networks. Hives are a local network of teachers, informal educators, technologists, and community members working together to advance the promise of the web for learning.
Scale and Grow
We leverage Mozilla’s national networks to share these successes across Hive cities, other gigabit cities, and beyond. Our open innovation practices facilitate the adoption of gigabit technologies by diverse new communities of users.
Where are Mozilla Gigabit Cities
Get in touch with your local Gigabit Hive community
Featured Updates
Blog
A Public-Private Partnership for Gigabit Innovation and Internet Health
Mozilla, the National Science Foundation and U.S. Ignite announce $300,000 in grants for gigabit internet projects in Eugene, OR and Lafayette, LA
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Mozilla Festival 2016
October 28-30, 2016 (London)
Join influential thinkers from around the world to build, debate, and explore the future of a healthy internet.
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Raspberry Python Music Genie
Local students are learning how to build their own air synthesizer by using Python coding languages and a Raspberry Pi. The resulting technology, Stage Genies, will be showcased by the Chattanooga Ballet at an event in downtown Chattanooga.
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Gigabit Project Portfolio
Learn more about projects that are transforming education through gigabit technology.
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3D Multi-School Learning
Lead Org: aSTEAM Village
A project featuring next gen telepresence technology to teach Computer Programming and Video Game Design, providing a key STEAM pathway for students in a multi-school setting. [...]
Accelerate, Augmented Reality for Workforce Training
Lead Org: Austin Free-Net
Accelerate, Augmented Reality for Workforce Training will leverage gigabit connectivity to design an augmented reality tool that supports entry level IT learning for adults. [...]
Adagio
Lead Org: Adagio
The brainchild of Gig City Production‘s Jonathan Susman, Adagio is a cloud-based remote audio mixing tool co-developed with UTC Computer Science Professor Craig Tannis and several of his graduate stud [...]
Augmented Reality
Lead Org: Bonner Springs Fire Department
The Bonner Springs Fire Department led this project to develop a specialized training system that equips first response trainees with heads-up displays (currently Google Glass) to share live video and [...]
Building an App from the Ground Up
Lead Org: Creative Discovery Museum, Spartan Systems Inc.
A collaboration between the Creative Discovery Museum‘s Museum Apprentice Program and developers from Spartan Systems, Inc., Building an App from the Ground, Up is both a platform and toolbox for othe [...]
CERN+KC Gigabit Challenge
Lead Org: ElevateEDU
A citizen science project leveraging gigabit capacity to support CERN's Large Hadron Collider and provide science and technology lessons. [...]
Cross-City Gigabit Enabled Learning Platform
Lead Org: Genesee Intermediate School District
The proposed pilot provides a new platform for cyber learning, biology research, and citizen science across cities, schools, and science centers. This iniatitive is a cross-city collaboration building [...]
Digital Mock City Council
Lead Org: Austin Monitor
Digital Mock City Council is an online, open-source, digital budget debate platform and curriculum designed for middle and high school students to explore civic challenges and priorities. [...]
Eduity
Lead Org: Eduity, LLC
The Community Technology Leadership Program takes the technology leadership program model from the corporate setting to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) make greater use of ultrafast netw [...]
Gigabit Cafe
Lead Org: Roncilliation Services
This project piloted the first public test of the Software Lending Library in Kansas City. The project aims to bring the benefits of gigabit internet connectivity to clients and neighbors in an unders [...]
Gigabit Girls - Austin Public Housing
Lead Org: Latinitas
This VR introductory course will be taught to girls engaged with Latinitas programming and living in Austin Public Housing. The project will also include recruitment of VR professionals to support the [...]
Gigabit VR: MBK Coding WebVR Scenes
Lead Org: Changing Expectations
To foster an inclusive computing culture, Changing Expectations will add WebVR coding projects to the My Brother's Keeper Coding Makerspace to prepare boys of color for the VR workforce. The MBK stude [...]
GigBridge
Lead Org: GlobalEXCEL
GigBridge, proposed by GPS senior Anjali Chandra and funded through the second round of the Gigabit Community Fund, leveraged the gig to connect students via streaming video at Chattanooga Girls Leade [...]
Gigtank 4K: Scaling from Micro to Macro
Lead Org: Enterprise Center
The project harnesses the power of the Gig and 4K video microscopy to create connections and collaborations for powerful STEM learning opportunities in Chattanooga and beyond. A team participating in [...]
Giving Garden Technology Lab Project
Lead Org: Catoosa County Public School System
The Giving Garden Tech Lab project allows students to experience Life Science in a new, interactive way utilizing innovative technology, like virtual reality and 4K streaming. [...]
Global Kids Chattanooga Haunts
Lead Org: Global Kids
Haunts is a STEM program for youth ages 14-18 that supports historical-based community exploration through geo-locative game development. [...]
Housing Smart Cities
Lead Org: University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design & Planning
The University of Kansas seeks to deploy Population Health strategies in smart cities through the design of smart, sustainable, and affordable prefabricated housing. University of Kansas students will [...]
Hyperlocal Hyperaudio
Lead Org: Hyperaudio, Inc.
Hyperaudio, Inc. – designers of an open-source tool for remixing audio and video – partnered with the Chattanooga Public Library to produce a “hyperlocal” platform tied to archival material fromWTCI, [...]
Immersive VR for Local and Remote Medical and Anatomical Education
Lead Org: Trinity Animation
Trinity Animation will use high realism medical VR for anatomical education, both local on HTC VIVE and remote via gigabit monitoring. [...]
Input Genies - Technology and Curriculum
Lead Org: Studio MindStride
Input Genies teaches youth how to code or build tools for other youth, who cannot easily use a keyboard or mouse. [...]
LOLA in the classroom
Lead Org: The Enterprise Center
Hamilton County Department of Education, the Enterprise Center and the Public Education Foundation are using LOw LAtency technology to expand access to arts education across the city of Chattanooga, a [...]
Minecraft Oculus Rift for Community Development
Lead Org: Kansas City Public Library
This virtual reality project piloted by the Kansas City Public Library gave kids a way to design their ideal neighborhood in two of Kansas City's urban areas through and provided a gamed-up way to bui [...]
Next Generation Professional Learning
Lead Org: Hamilton County Department of Education
This project creates a collaborative lab for teacher professional learning by harnessing the gigabit network, utilizing multiple telepresence robots and leveraging the experience across Hamilton Count [...]
Northland CAPS
Lead Org: Northland CAPS
High school students at Northland CAPS worked with business partners to develop a suite of application based communications, monitoring and treatment tools for clinicians and high-risk patients to red [...]
Open Data 3D Models
Lead Org: PlanIT Impact
PlanIT Impact is putting its big data 3D modeling technology in the hands of students in Kansas City to advance education around sustainable design. Summer semester architecture students at the Kans [...]
Pennez: Read2Think
Lead Org: Pennez
Pennez is a live- time digital assessment tool for measuring a child’s reading fluency. The application utilizes machine learning technology to assess speed, vocabulary, understanding, sight word, pro [...]
PlanIT Impact KC
Lead Org: PlanIt Impact
A first of its kind platform, the PlanIT Impact application provides visually immersive feedback about envrionmental impact and building design based on open geospatial data and the development projec [...]
Project Bright Spots
Lead Org: The Lean Lab
Using the gig as a collaboration tool for video and live sharing, The Lean Lab aims to rapidly spur community dialogue and space for collaboration around innovation in education by sharing examples of [...]
Raspberry Python Music Genie
Lead Org: Art120
Local students are learning how to build their own air synthesizer by using Python coding languages and a Raspberry Pi. The resulting technology, Stage Genies, will be showcased by the Chattanooga Bal [...]
SensED IoT Student Innovation Challenge
Lead Org: KC Social Innovation Center
SensED is a project-based social innovation program for 7-12 graders to highlight and provide real-world experiences in the emerging field of Internet of Things. The project will (1) create a mapped c [...]
Streaming 4K Content for Learning Experiences
Lead Org: Enterprise Center
4K streaming content in Ultra-HD creates engaging learning environments through enhanced access to community assets for learners in three schools and two community centers. Utilizing real-time streami [...]
The Gigabots Cross City Connected Robotics
Lead Org: Big Bang
The Gigabots bring real-time internet connectivity to educational robotics platforms between schools in Kansas City and Austin, TX. [...]
The GigLab
Lead Org: Chattanooga Public Library
The GigLab is a unique space offering public access to gigabit enabled tools, technology and education. Housed on the celebrated 4th Floor, this second round Gigabit Community Fund project pushes the [...]
Urban Farming Guys Smart Greenhouse
Lead Org: The Urban Farming Guys
Urban Farming Guys IoT Smart Greenhouse and aquaponics will benefit the local community via food production and education through an open source community. [...]
ViatoR VR
Lead Org: ViatoR, LLC
ViatoR uses VR to submerge users in an immersive environment for an interactive, engaging language learning experience. [...]
Viditor
Lead Org: GeonCode
Viditor is an open-source, collaborative video editor, leveraging gigabit speed to allow multiple users to create and edit projects in real time and from any device with a modern browser. It was the [...]
Virtual Realities in Culture: Explorations of the African Diaspora
Lead Org: V Form Alliance
Youth Powered LLC will work with students to create virtual field trips to landmarks in KS and MO that are important to black history. [...]
Virtual Reality STEM Lessons
Lead Org: UT Foundation (UofT UTeach Outreach)
UTeach will design robust, validated, lessons for gigabit-connected middle school classrooms that support Google Expeditions and Unity game design software to create virtual reality experiences that i [...]
Wireless Earth Watchdogs
Lead Org: Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, Hixson High School
Science classes from the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences partnered with Hixson High School to build a real-time water quality monitoring network, using big data to effect environmental ch [...]
World Explorer Virtual Exchange
Lead Org: PenPal Schools
PenPal Schools connects over 100,000 students (ages 9+) in 170 countries to collaborate through high-quality online courses and learn about global challenges while practicing essential technology skil [...]
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Gigabit Events
We offer global and local opportunities that facilitate group and in-person collaboration. Join us!
Gigabit Community Fund RFP Info Session
Virtual
If you’re interested in learning more about the funding priorities and processes for this round, please join us for this RFP Information Session by viewing the live webstream at the link below. A recording will be made available following the session.
Mozilla Gigabit Open House
Ford Alumni Center - Lee Barlow Giustina Ballroom - 1720 East 13th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403
Come meet with local innovators, educators, entrepreneurs, students, and community advocates and learn about what it means to be a Mozilla Gigabit City.
2017 Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo
Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701
The 2017 Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo, presented by U.S. Ignite, brings together over 200 Cities and their respective leadership to prospect and partner with innovative technology and service providers; linking progressive cities with state-of-the-art solutions and best practices.
Mozilla/NSF WINS San Francisco Meet-Up
Mozilla's San Francisco Office - 2 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94105
Mozilla and the National Science Foundation are partnering to give away $2M in prizes for wireless solutions that help connect the unconnected. Full details at wirelesschallenge.mozilla.org. This meet-up will cover the WINS Challenges, and includes a panel of local community wireless networking experts and an opportunity to network with others interested in the Challenges.
Gigabit City Summit
Plexpod Westport Commons - 300 E 39th St, Kansas City, MO 64111
The 2017 Gigabit City Summit goes beyond the smart city hype to prepare cities to pursue sustainable community change models. Powered by KC Digital Drive, the event explores opportunities for investing in a tech-capable infrastructure and the steps needed to continue to grow and evolve.
MozFest
Ravensbourne College, London
Join the Mozilla Foundation's annual festival and be part of the global network fighting to keep the web open and free.