¶ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an American philanthropic corporation led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
¶ History
In January 2017, CZI acquired a Toronto-based artificial intelligence company called Meta, which functioned as a search engine for scientific literature.[1][2]
CZI was a founding sponsor of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Toronto's MaRS Discovery District in March 2017.[3]
¶ COVID-19
CZI provided funding to the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to lead CommuniVax, a research project to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among Black, Latino and Hispanic Americans, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.[4][5]
On October 28, 2021, CZI announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022.[6] Also on October 28, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be changing its corporate name and branding to Meta in order to fully embrace the company's direction towards implementing the Metaverse.[7]
CZI awarded a $200,000 grant to McMaster University to explore using “Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens.” The grant was co-administered by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.[8]
¶ Activities
CZI has provided notable funding to:
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)[9]
- CommuniVax[5:1][4:1]
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security[5:2]
- McMaster University[8:1]
- Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence[3:1]
- Wikimedia Foundation[10]
¶ External links
Siu, A. (2017, January 25). Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes first buy, a Canadian artificial intelligence startup. San Francisco Business Times. http://archive.today/2023.07.05-230826/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/25/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-meta-ai.html ↩︎
Elizabeth Caley. Creative Destruction Lab. Retrieved February 27, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.01.22-190753/https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/mentors/elizabeth-caley/ ↩︎
Williams, K. (2017, March 30). News release: New Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Launched in Toronto. Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705224908/https://vectorinstitute.ai/press-release-new-artificial-intelligence-research-institute-launched-in-toronto/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Home. CommuniVax. Retrieved July 15, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.07.15-232217/https://www.communivax.org/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Research Projects. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved July 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.11-201712/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/center-research-projects ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative. (2021, October 28). Meta Transition. Medium. https://web.archive.org/web/20211217022923/https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475 ↩︎
Ortutay, B. (2021, October 28). Facebook is changing its name to Meta to emphasise “metaverse” vision. The Sydney Morning Herald. http://archive.today/2022.02.27-203413/https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/facebook-is-changing-its-name-to-meta-to-emphasise-metaverse-vision-20211029-p5946l.html ↩︎
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Grand Challenges, Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens. Research & Innovation. (2021, November 19). McMaster University. http://archive.today/2021.12.01-210632/https://research.mcmaster.ca/funding/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-global-grand-challenges-metagenomic-next-generation-sequencing-to-detect-identify-and-characterize-pathogens/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Honor Roll of Support - 2019. (2019). Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. https://web.archive.org/web/20220617124816/https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/honor-roll-2019.pdf ↩︎
Donors. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved June 27, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240627202914/https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2019-annual-report/donors/#section-5↩︎ ↩︎