[kictanet] Internet Censorship in Kenya: An Assessment

[Ali Hussein]

Thanks.

Ali Hussein
Principal
Hussein & Associates
+254 0713 601113 

Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
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"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 30 Dec 2016, at 1:34 PM, Moses Karanja <mosekaranja at 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 at 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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> 
> -- 
> Moses Karanja
> www.moseskaranja.com/blog 
> 
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