Tag: Open Net Initiative
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✴︎ blogA Censored Network: Iran
Richard Rogers’ Govcom.org foundation has been doing cutting edge research on online networks for years, producing visually rich outputs that show connections among major nodes, typically using their issue crawler tool. We at the OpenNet Initaitive have entered into a collaboration with Rogers and his team at Govcom.org to produce a series of issue-crawler maps…
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✴︎ blogAmnesty International Irrepressible.info and ONI flash map
Amnesty International and the Observer have jointly launched a major global campaign on Internet censorship called Irrepressible.info to commemorate Amnesty’s 45th anniversary. The objective of the campaign is to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress. You can sign their pledge and post fragments of irrepressible information…
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✴︎ blogONI Releases Belarus Internet Watch Report
The OpenNet Initiative today released “The Internet and Elections: the 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus.” The report presents the findings of ONI’s effort to monitor the Internet during Belarus’ recent presidential elections. Amidst fears that the authoritarian regime of President Aleksander Lukashenka was going to close down Belarus political cyberspace during the elections, ONI testing…
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✴︎ blogNY Times OpEd on OpenNet Initiative
There is a very interesting article by Xeni Jardin in today’s NY Times that references some of the recent findings of the OpenNet Initiative. Xeni points out that the issue of commercial filtering technologies goes far beyond China, and notes our findings concerning those technologies being used in several other countries, like Yemen, Iran, Saudi…
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✴︎ blogInternet Filtering in Yemen. Yet Another Western Filtering Story
We (the OpenNet Initiative) have just released our new report on Internet filtering in Yemen. Two things to note about this report. First, the Yemen report is the first that we are releasing in simultaneous English and Arabic translations. It is important to us to have an impact among the constituencies that matter most to…
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✴︎ blogDes fissures dans la Web muraille de Chine (Le Monde)
Une technologie développée conjointement par plusieurs laboratoires de prestigieuses universités canadienne, américaine et anglaise pourrait arriver à détourner la censure numérique qui sévit dans plusieurs pays du monde, et notamment en Chine. Ce système est en phase d’achèvement au Canada, et pourrait rendre rapidement un peu d’ ” e-liberté ” aux quelque cent dix millions…
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✴︎ blogChina Web Registration Regulation OpenNet Initiative Bulletin 11
The OpenNet Initiative has just released a new bulletin on China’s Web registration regulations. These new regulations add yet additional threads to the country’s web of constraints on freedom of speech. By requiring citizens to register their blogs and websites, and shutting down the sites of those who do not comply, the Chinese authorities are…
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✴︎ blogUSA Today and Radio Canada International
The debates over corporate responsibility when it comes to Internet filtering and surveillance are growing in leaps and bounds, thanks in part to the work of the OpenNet Initiative. Kevin Maney’s column in USA Today points out that the recent debates over Google and Yahoo in China are only the tip of the iceberg, with…
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✴︎ blogGlobe and Mail article about Psiphon and Citizen Lab
Yesterday there was a good piece in the Globe and Mail about the Citizen Lab’s latest software project, called Psiphon. Psiphon is a circumvention technology that works through social networks of trust. Psiphon is funded by a generous grant from the Open Society Institute, and benefits from our collaborative relationships with the OpenNet Initiative and…
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✴︎ blogToronto SUN, Jane's Intelligence Review
There have been a couple of news items recently covering the work of the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative, and some of our other projects — from rather different ends of the media spectrum. The Toronto Sun‘s Mike Strobel did a great piece on his visit to the Lab and his impressions of our activities.…