India Shuts Down the Internet in West Bengal to Prevent Cheating During School Exams

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

Note: After this blog post was published, the High Court of Calcutta dismissed the order to shutdown the Internet in West Bengal. Read more about how quick legal action meant that hundreds of thousands of citizens in West Bengal were able to stay online in this blog post. Over the last few years, a worrying […]

India Shuts Down the Internet in West Bengal to Prevent Cheating During School Exams

How You Can Contribute to Internet Measurements: Run the OONI Probe

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The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a global community measuring Internet censorship around the world. In this short video, Maria Xynou, OONI’s Research & Partnerships Director, explains how you can take part by running the OONI Probe app to detect internet censorship where you are. She also explains how you can use the […]

How You Can Contribute to Internet Measurements: Run the OONI Probe

Welcome Cloudflare, OONI and W3Techs

Published in Pulse News. Tags: , , , .

The Internet Society Pulse platform provides curated insights into the overall health, availability, and evolution of the Internet. This quarter, we’re excited to announce that we have three new Data Partners – Cloudflare, OONI and W3Techs. Cloudflare: Bolstering Internet Shutdowns Data To help everyone gain deeper, data-driven insight into the Internet, we need to present […]

Welcome Cloudflare, OONI and W3Techs

Data, Collaboration and Internet Society Pulse

Published in Pulse News.

This article was first published in dot.magazine as part of a series on collaboration. The Internet’s distributed and synergistic nature makes measuring individual aspects of the Internet on a global scale difficult, explains Susannah Gray from the Internet Society. For most people, the Internet is something that is accessed on their device – a ubiquitous […]

Data, Collaboration and Internet Society Pulse

Tracking Internet Shutdowns

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Internet shutdowns harm societies, economies and the global Internet infrastructure – that’s why we’re tracking disruptions on the Internet Society Pulse platform. There are thousands of disruptions to Internet access every day all over the world, but not all of them are the result of deliberate shutdowns. Lengthy outages are usually the result of technical errors, […]

Tracking Internet Shutdowns

How We’re Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa

Published in Resilience.

A resilient Internet connection is one that maintains an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges to normal operation. Internet Resiliency is a new focus area for Pulse for 2021 and we’re still working on defining the data and metrics for this section. Once finalized, we’ll  track resiliency metrics to help support […]

How We’re Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa

New Year, New Name

Published in Pulse News.

In order to align better with the Internet Society’s brand strategy, and to further differentiate our platform from other products with similar names, we have decided to rename our measurement platform. As of 1 March, 2021, Insights will be known as Internet Society Pulse.    The new URL is: https://pulse.internetsociety.org/  A redirect will be implemented so […]

New Year, New Name

The Cost of Internet Shutdowns: Uganda, January 2021

Published in Shutdown.

On 13 January, ahead of the Ugandan 2021 General Elections, our data sources began showing evidence of Internet disruption in Uganda signaling that a wide scale outage was underway. Over 17.5 million Internet subscribers in the country and countless business, services and educational institutions were affected.     Prior to the shutdown, Reuters,  NYTimes, and AccessNow had […]

The Cost of Internet Shutdowns: Uganda, January 2021

Why We’re Helping to Measure the Internet

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This article was first published on the Internet Society Blog Here at the Internet Society, we’ve always known that the Internet can be an integral part of our existence. 2020 has shown us that we need stable, reliable, and available Internet for everyone, everywhere. Much of our work – and the work of the organizations that facilitate the […]

Why We’re Helping to Measure the Internet

Internet Society Pulse Now Live!

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This article was first published on the Internet Society Blog There are many people, projects, and organizations that are collecting data on various facets of the Internet, but there’s no single site that provides a curated set of insights. To help address this gap, we’ve launched Internet Society Pulse to help everyone gain deeper, data-driven insight into the […]

Internet Society Pulse Now Live!

Internet Society Pulse – On Track for Launch

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This article was first published on the Internet Society Blog Things might have seemed quiet on our Measuring the Internet activities for the last few weeks, but lots of work has been taking place behind the scenes to ensure that the Internet Society Pulse platform will be ready for phase one of its launch in December 2020. What We’re Working […]

Internet Society Pulse – On Track for Launch

HTTP/2 and IPv6: Making Websites Faster and More Available

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A recent report – Milliseconds make Millions – commissioned by Google and published by Deloitte, has shown that mobile website speed has a direct impact on user experience. Reducing latency and decreasing load times by just 0.1 second can positively affect conversion rates potentially leading to an increase in net earnings. Over a four-week period, Deloitte’s research team analyzed mobile web […]

HTTP/2 and IPv6: Making Websites Faster and More Available
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