Tag: Open Net Initiative
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✴︎ blogRadio Free Europe
June 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) – State censorship of the Internet is growing and the techniques used are becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a partnership of British, US, and Canadian universities. The group has released an initial list of countries engaged in Internet censorship, which includes China, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. The…
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✴︎ blogIrrepressible.Info Amnesty International
I will be participating in Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.info one year anniversary conference, the details for which can be found here. We at the OpenNet Initiative have been providing background information and data for the campaign. Here is a Guardian/Observer story on the upcoming event, and the way in which the campaign has had an impact…
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✴︎ blogONI Oxford Conference — Media Coverage
The first ONI woodstock is over. I had a very productive time, and particularly enjoyed the debate at the Oxford Union. Here are a few selected media stories about the ONI’s reports: International Herald Tribue Sci-Tech Today National Post archived here locally CityTV …and here is a separate news item in the Guardian UK on…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Conference May 18th 2007 Oxford
The OpenNet Initiative is holding its first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide. The conference will be hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and held at the University of Oxford on May 18, 2007. The conference is free of charge and open to the public. Results from the…
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✴︎ blogBerkman Center at Harvard Lunchtime Talk and Radio Free Europe
I had the pleasure recently of giving a talk to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, home of many friends and colleagues of the OpenNet Initiative. My talk was about securing human rights online, focusing in particular on the psiphon project. You can see the entire talk here. And here…
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✴︎ blogEcommerce and Vancouver Sun
ecommerce on the ONI Vancouver Sun on Internet censorship in China
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✴︎ blogpsiphon media roundup
The psiphon launch and worldwide public release went very well. Thanks to my colleague Rafal Rohozinski at the University of Cambridge, and lead engineer Mike Hull, Anton, Eugene, Nart, Jane, Sarah, and James for working so hard and getting it out there. It has, and continues to be, a real Citizen Lab team effort. Thanks…
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✴︎ blogFar Eastern Economic Review essay
I wrote an essay for the Far Eastern Economic Review that can be accessed here. The article discusses some of of the analytical findings raised by the research of the OpenNet Initiative project, and discusses the potential implications of our psiphon censorship circumvention tool.
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative releases Report on Vietnam
In a recently issued report, ONI finds an increase in Internet censorship in Vietnam. Drawing from technical, legal, and political sources, ONI’s research finds that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is focusing its filtering on sites considered threatening to its one-party system. Furthermore, the technical sophistication, breadth, and effectiveness of Vietnam’s filtering are increasing with…
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✴︎ blogsTwo Interviews
Two recent interviews of mine have been published. The first is with the South Korean online publication Ohmynews, which discusses the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative and other projects in which I’m involved. The second is a transcript of a conversation with Sharon Hom of Human Rights in China and Nart Villeneuve and me on…