Countering Internet censorhsip in Hong Kong Trends Report
January 2020 – December 2022
Description: “Netalitica director Igor Valentovitch investigated incidents of Internet filtering in Hong Kong over a period of two years. Igor shared some findings of his research in a webinar for civil society organizations on August 23rd, 2023”
Download Igor’s presentation here. The full version of his research paper on the topic will be available for download on this page by September 30th, 2023
Countering Censorship in India – Building Indian Test List
The Bachchao Project: (9-10 October, 2021)
Description: “The event is an opportunity for all of us to take a look at censorship in India and contribute to Citizen Lab test list used by researchers, academicians, organisations and policy makers to test for censorship in India. We will discuss the challenges various sectors of civil society face when it comes to freedom of expression and censorship, and collectively work towards building a list of websites to be added to the Citizen Lab test list.”
Netalitica presentation “Updating Indian test list for measuring censorship” can be downloaded here
Internet Measurement Village
Internet Freedom Festival (Valencia, Spain – April, 2020)
Netalitica run a workshop that introduced the audience to the database for measuring Internet censorship (aka Citizen Lab test lists), discussed structure of test lists and most common problems associated with them. We offered step-by-step instructions how to tackle problematic entries and update the database. In the second part of the workshop, Netalitica presented results from measuring Internet filtering in mainland Russia and Crimea during the 2018 presidential elections to share insights into conducting network measurements and processing raw data.
Our presentation “Test lists for measuring internet censorship – applicability, problems & solutions (IFF)” can be downloaded here
Workshop on Measuring Internet Censorship
Open Technology Fund Summit (Taipei, Taiwan – November, 2019)
The workshop introduces existing databases for measuring internet censorship, looks into their major flows and ways to fix them. The second part of the workshop presents findings from a comparative study of Netalitica’s measuring of online filtering in Russia and Crimea during the Russian presidential elections in 2018.
Our presentation “Test lists for measuring Internet censorship – OTF Summit” can be downloaded here
Workshop on Measuring and Analyzing Internet Censorship
Internet Freedom Festival (Valencia, Spain – April, 2019)
Probing for blocking of critical online platforms is a key component of every project that aims to assess information controls in censorship hotspots around the world. We used OONI Probes to conduct web connectivity tests in six former Soviet Union countries over a period of three months. In this workshop, Igor shares his experience from preparing and conducting these tests. The workshop is geared towards Internet researchers, activists, media and human rights organizations. It offers practical advice regarding the following issues:
How to organize and prepare for network connectivity tests?
How to recruit and train testers?
How to update Citizen Lab test lists?
How to diversify your tests with innovative testing approaches?
Data processing and analysis
Alternative network measurement tools
Netalitica’s presentation “Conducting network measurements in censorship hotspots – lessons from the field” can be downloaded here
Citizen Lab Summer Institute
Munk School of Global Affairs – University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada – August, 2019)
Netalitica’s presentation “Improving test lists of censored online content” can be downloaded here
Dear friends, thank you for sending us your applications for country researchers. We do not have openings at the moment but stay tuned as we are planning to add more countries to our project.
Netalitica is a research organization investigating information controls and Internet filtering in censorship hotspots around the world. Our main project – Improving Test Lists of Censored Online Content – aims to update the largest database (aka Citizen Lab Test Lists) that network measurement tools use to uncover blocking of websites in 200+ countries. Netalitica hires researchers to update local test lists. The latter are used by research institutions, think tanks and activists to probe for Internet censoring. To meet our project objectives, we partner with major stakeholders in the network measurement field such as Citizen Lab, Open Observatory for Network Interference and local digital rights organizations from Latin America, Africa, MENA, Asia, Europe and the CIS. So far, we have updated the test list of 50 states.
Our main project – Improving Test Lists of Censored Online Content – aims to update the largest database (aka Citizen Lab Test Lists) that network measurement tools use to uncover blocking of websites in 200+ countries.
Netalitica has set up test lists for entire regions. They offer the opportunity to determine the accessibility of online platforms that are popular across multiple countries in a given geographical location.
Internet censorship is broadly defined as blocking access to websites, Internet outages and shutdowns, online trolling and self-censorship online. Netalitica focuses on investigating Internet blocking occurring on the network level such as blocking of websites and applications by local Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Netalitica has set up test lists for entire regions. They offer the opportunity to determine the accessibility of online platforms that are popular across multiple countries in a given geographical location.
