Category: Resilience
- How Resilient are E-Gov Services? ()
Electronic government (e-gov) services enable citizens and residents to interact with their governments digitally via the Internet and are considered an indicator of resilient local Internet service. The Domain Name System (DNS), which maps domain names to Internet addresses, underpins e-gov services. Therefore, if the DNS services of e-gov domains fail, government services become unreachable. […]
- Measuring Africa’s Internet Resilience — What’s Changed ()
With the new Internet Resilience Index, we can now see how African countries compare to the rest of the world
- How Governments Can Identify Weaknesses in Their Country’s Internet ()
Decision-makers and advocates can use Pulse to identify weaknesses in their local Internet ecosystem and make evidence-based, public policy decisions to address these.
- The Challenges of Measuring Decentralized Networks: The Case of the InterPlanetary File System ()
The decentralized web, also known as Web 3.0, is an innovative approach to the traditional web we currently use. It provides users with more resilience, security, and control of where their data is stored. However, because of its decentralized and peer-to-peer (P2P) structure, Web 3.0 makes measuring and monitoring its performance challenging. In this post, […]
- How Hygienic is Your Website and Email Service? ()
The Internet Hygiene Portal allows consumers to assess the level of security of website and email services to help them make informed choices to safeguard their digital transactions from cyber threats.
- A Standard to Increase Availability, Accessibility of Terrestrial Fiber Infrastructure Data ()
Open Fibre Data Standard seeks to streamline the process of making sense of the data and enable public and private sector stakeholders to make data-driven decisions about terrestrial fiber projects.
- Measure the Health of the Internet, Help Collect Local Traffic Measurements ()
Do you live in one of the following countries? Bolivia Iraq Morocco Brazil Kazakhstan Palestine Burkina Faso Madagascar Philippines Democratic Republic of Congo Malawi Samoa Georgia Maldives Sudan If so, the Internet measurement community needs your help and you don’t need any technical knowledge to contribute! The Internet Society Pulse team is developing a methodology to […]
- Philippines Internet Resilience Trending in the Right Direction ()
Climate and geography makes maintaining the Internet in the Philippines expensive.
- Italy’s Internet Outage a Perfect Storm ()
Italy’s recent Internet outage was a failure that was years in the making and could have been negated through greater interconnectivity.
- Fewer than 20% of networks in Latin America, the Caribbean are vulnerable to inbound IP spoofing ()
Source Address Validation is a key technique to mitigate anti-spoofing.
- Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months? ()
It’s now been a full two months since Rogers Telecom suffered a nationwide Internet outage, leaving tens of millions of Canadians without telecommunications services. On the morning of 8 July 2022, Rogers subscribers across Canada found themselves without Internet service. The outage spread to cable, mobile services, and fixed line telephony, including access to E911 […]
- Internet Perspectives: Ukraine and Russia ()
As events unfold in Ukraine and the world is focused on following what is happening, it’s important to remember that critical Internet infrastructure plays a key role in keeping people connected, providing access to all kinds of crucial information and support and helping people stay in contact with loved ones across borders. At the Internet […]
- Ukrainian Internet Shrinks by Over 15% ()
Data from the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis tool (IODA) shows a decline in the reachability of Ukrainian Internet address space since the beginning of the recent conflict with Russia. Over 15% of previously reachable Internet addresses are no longer responsive to probes from IODA. The regions most impacted are unsurprisingly those where we know […]
- Severed Internet Access in Yemen: A Wake Up Call ()
Yemen was forced into an Internet shutdown on Friday, 21 January, 2022 when the communications building in the city of Hodeidah was destroyed in a nighttime airstrike. The building is home to the only Internet cable landing point, connecting Yemen to the global Internet network, and the airstrike severed Yemen’s Internet gateway. In the aftermath, […]
- The Gambia’s Internet Outage Through an Internet Resilience Lens ()
On the 4 January, 2022, The Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, was completely cut off from the Internet for more than eight hours, leaving almost 2.5 million people without connectivity. Gamtel, the state-owned operator, released a communique on 5 January, explaining the reasons of the outage. What Happened? Most of the international traffic of The Gambia is routed […]
- Internet Society India – Hyderabad Chapter: Internet Measurements, Global Policy and Online Privacy Workshop ()
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” – Lord Kelvin On November 11, 2021. The Internet Society India – Hyderabad Chapter organized a one-day workshop on Internet Measurements, Global Policy and Online Privacy. Held in virtual mode, the workshop was moderated by Internet Society Pulse Internet Resilience expert, Amreesh Phokeer, and was attended […]
- A New Tool to Measure Internet Resilience—Why It Matters ()
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that the Internet plays a critical role in society, and it’s underlined the importance of reliable Internet connectivity for everyone. It’s also highlighted a stark reality. Not all countries are on a level playing field with a resilient Internet infrastructure—one that maintains an acceptable level of service in the […]
- AFRINIC – Internet Society MIRA Webinar ()
The Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA) project team held its first quarterly update meeting on 16 September, 2021. MIRA is a joint initiative between African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) and the Internet Society. The project uses Internet measurements gathered by measurement devices called MIRA pods, which are located within African countries, to: Determine levels of […]
- MIRA Launch Webinar ()
On 21 July, 2021, we held a webinar to launch the Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA) project. The joint Internet Society – AFRINIC initiative seeks to determine levels of Internet resilience in African countries. The initiative has already began conducting various measurements as outlined in the MIRA project overview and MIRA measurement infrastructure has been deployed […]
- MIRA Project to Provide Overview of Internet’s Resiliency in Africa ()
Internet resilience is the ability of a network to maintain an acceptable level of service at all times. The Internet plays a critical role in society and the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of reliable and stable Internet connectivity. However, not all countries have Internet infrastructure that is robust enough to provide an acceptable […]
- How We’re Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa ()
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 […]
- Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa ()
This article was first published on the Internet Society Blog For many in the African region, Internet interruptions or service degradations occur frequently, which results in a disjointed Internet experience. In order to help improve this experience, we need to track and measure various Internet characteristics through network telemetry. This data can help to identify […]