State of Mozilla: Mark Surman ''How are we teaching the world about the Web?''

Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, explains how Mozilla Webmaker can help people take control of their online lives and move the Web forward during the 2013 Mozilla Summit in Toronto, Canada.

To learn more about Mozilla Webmaker visit: https://webmaker.org

People love to learn together

It is at the core of what Webmaker is invitation to do

To use community to teach and learn

It's at the core of how we do App Days

It's not people just watching a Youtube or it isn't people watching a Youtube video

It's our community teaching and learning with people

That's how Mozilla teaches

Community's at the core of it

It is in our DNA

But the thing is, if we want to teach at this scale, we are gonna need to do,

In order to even move the mobile market where we wanted to be with the web,

And certainly if we imagine the kind of level of web literacy that I think is needed

In order for people to really take control of their own online lives

We are gonna need to massively scale,

the community people who help us teach the web to the world

So, this is where Webmaker fits in

which is new, still in it's infancy

The sky is the limit, in terms of what we can build their as we call people to action to do that teaching

To teach regular people how to move from being users of the web to makers of the web

But the other thing that's there now is the most significant seed I think what we need to do

is this idea of maker parties

The idea just getting people into a room

and teaching them a little bit about the web

Whatever the ideas, using those tools on the site or other tools

In over the last 3 months, we did almost 1700 of them with our community

we, this teaching piece of it,

while really cored to our mission,

really cored to the idea of the internet as a public benefit, open to all

is also key to winning in the market