work on denial, disruption, manipulation, or monitoring of information for political ends
December 4, 2018 • 7 min read
Contrary to theoretical promises of the Internet as a technology to diversity information sources, the lived experience of the majority of the popu...
April 13, 2018 • 2 min read
The events of the last few weeks, most recently the US Senate hearing on Facebook and data protection (and lack of it), and of the next few weeks, ...
April 2, 2018 • 6 min read
Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali was sworn-in as the next Prime Minister of Ethiopia on 2 April 2018. He will succeed Hailemariam Desalegn who resigned in the mi...
March 13, 2018 • 2 min read
A new report by The Citizen Lab uncovers the apparent use of middleboxes (Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices) for malicious ends, likely by natio...
July 18, 2017 • 1 min read
17 July 2017: South Sudan National Communication Authority, the official communication sector regulator in the Eastern Africa country, blocked seve...
May 31, 2017 • 2 min read
Ethiopian Internet users woke up to no connectivity, thanks in part to the grade 10 national examinations.
January 1, 2017 • 1 min read
In an interview with Der Spiegel, Germany’s Parliamentary Chief of the Social Democratic Party, Thomas Oppermann, has hinted at a proposed legislat...
December 1, 2016 • 2 min read
Internet traffic monitors noticed a sharp drop in Gambian connectivity around 20:00 UTC (8PM local time). Akamai’s State of the Internet, a report...
September 25, 2016 • 1 min read
In summary, between Jan 1 and September 25, we have documented 13 shutdown instances in 11 countries. Most of the shutdowns are national in nature ...
September 18, 2016 • 4 min read
Gabon, a Central African country of roughly 1.8 million people, has evidently resorted to an Internet curfew as a form of information control follo...
August 11, 2016 • 1 min read
Nearly 100 deaths and thousands of arrests have been reported in Ethiopia over the last days, as part of protests against the marginalization and p...