Lean Data Practices for Startups and Entrepreneurs

Lean data practices (or LDP) is a flexible framework that anyone can use to advance privacy, security, and innovation in their organization. It is useful for anyone with access to personal data, whether that data is for consumers of your technology, your employees, or even your business partners. Organizations can use the LDP framework to build trust and reduce risk to their consumers and brand. To date, Mozilla has reached more than 100 organizations all over the world (including in India, Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada) through live and remote training, as well as roundtable discussions.

As part of its Reimagine Open initiative and Africa Innovation Mradi (Kiswahili for “program”) for the African continent, Mozilla’s first self-paced Lean Data Practices (LDP) course was designed for the startup and innovation community, especially those with little knowledge on privacy and security concepts. However, many of the learnings in this course are applicable regardless of the size of your organization, your industry, or your geographical location. This course dives into how you as the Learner can apply the LDP framework in your own area of expertise, with a focus on technology-based products. Mozilla also uses case studies throughout the course to highlight real life applications of the LDP concepts.

Special thanks (in alphabetical order) to the following individuals for their assistance with the development of this course:

Alex Arce, Andy Kochendorfer, Dr. Ben Mkalama, Prof. Bitange Ndemo, Kathleen Siminyu, Khanh Nguyen, Nekesa Were, Nneka Soyinka, Noémie Hailu, Rebecca Ryakitimbo, Tony Recendez, Tunji Ogunoye, and Uchenna Obi.

This course was designed and animated by Uchenna Obi and Tunji Ogunoye. Voiceovers were provided by Kathleen Siminyu and Rebecca Ryakitimbo.