Internet Censorship in Kenya: An Assessment
Hello KICTANet Find a blog post we did with Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) based on our tests of Internet censorship in Kenya for the last 5 months. https://ooni.torproject.org/post/kenya-study/ If you are based outside Nairobi, and would like to run tests from your vantage point, please reach out. With censorship mutating to regional level (as compared to the national-level), it is important that we capture wider experiences. Nairobi is NOT Kenya so our measurements in Nairobi do not necessarily represent the country. -- Moses Karanja www.moseskaranja.com/blog
Moses Thanks for this initiative. Very helpful. Let's sambaza it widely listers. Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
On 27 Dec 2016, at 9:41 PM, Moses Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hello KICTANet
Find a blog post we did with Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) based on our tests of Internet censorship in Kenya for the last 5 months.
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/kenya-study/
If you are based outside Nairobi, and would like to run tests from your vantage point, please reach out. With censorship mutating to regional level (as compared to the national-level), it is important that we capture wider experiences. Nairobi is NOT Kenya so our measurements in Nairobi do not necessarily represent the country.
-- Moses Karanja www.moseskaranja.com/blog
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Thank you Ali. There are two resources I would like to point you to for detailed data. One is explorer.ooni: https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/world/ It details the specifics of each website and in case it is censored, how it is being done. This helps advocacy efforts on anti-censorship (like which tool to use, who is responsible for the censorship and such). We are currently doing IM testing (WhatsApp, Messenger and working on Viber and Telegram) on top of the website lists. From this work, we have identified how Ethiopia censors the Internet, Rwanda, Uganda among others in the region. Another resource is the ICLAB data which we contribute to: https://iclab.org/ Anyone who would like to contribute to this work is invited. It could be as simple as adding websites you think are suspect to censorship or hosting a Raspberry Pi in your office or home network and in the near months, a mobile version will be available. Moses. On 30/12/2016 13:16, Ali Hussein wrote:
Moses
Thanks for this initiative. Very helpful. Let's sambaza it widely listers.
*Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
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On 27 Dec 2016, at 9:41 PM, Moses Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
Hello KICTANet
Find a blog post we did with Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) based on our tests of Internet censorship in Kenya for the last 5 months.
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/kenya-study/
If you are based outside Nairobi, and would like to run tests from your vantage point, please reach out. With censorship mutating to regional level (as compared to the national-level), it is important that we capture wider experiences. Nairobi is NOT Kenya so our measurements in Nairobi do not necessarily represent the country.
-- Moses Karanja www.moseskaranja.com/blog <http://www.moseskaranja.com/blog>
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
-- Moses Karanja www.moseskaranja.com/blog
Thanks. Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
On 30 Dec 2016, at 1:34 PM, Moses Karanja <mosekaranja@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Ali. There are two resources I would like to point you to for detailed data.
One is explorer.ooni: https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/world/
It details the specifics of each website and in case it is censored, how it is being done. This helps advocacy efforts on anti-censorship (like which tool to use, who is responsible for the censorship and such). We are currently doing IM testing (WhatsApp, Messenger and working on Viber and Telegram) on top of the website lists. From this work, we have identified how Ethiopia censors the Internet, Rwanda, Uganda among others in the region.
Another resource is the ICLAB data which we contribute to: https://iclab.org/
Anyone who would like to contribute to this work is invited. It could be as simple as adding websites you think are suspect to censorship or hosting a Raspberry Pi in your office or home network and in the near months, a mobile version will be available.
Moses.
On 30/12/2016 13:16, Ali Hussein wrote: Moses
Thanks for this initiative. Very helpful. Let's sambaza it widely listers.
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sent from my iPad
On 27 Dec 2016, at 9:41 PM, Moses Karanja via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hello KICTANet
Find a blog post we did with Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) based on our tests of Internet censorship in Kenya for the last 5 months.
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/kenya-study/
If you are based outside Nairobi, and would like to run tests from your vantage point, please reach out. With censorship mutating to regional level (as compared to the national-level), it is important that we capture wider experiences. Nairobi is NOT Kenya so our measurements in Nairobi do not necessarily represent the country.
-- Moses Karanja www.moseskaranja.com/blog
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KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
-- Moses Karanja www.moseskaranja.com/blog
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