The Deeper Root Cause of the Fastly and Akamai Outages – CircleID

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The Deeper Root Cause of the Fastly and Akamai Outages – CircleID, 28 June, 2021

Pulse Webinar: MIRA, 21 July 2021 – Register Now!

Published in Past Event.

Join us for a webinar on 21 July 2021, at 13:00 UTC, for a webinar on Measuring the Internet in Africa (MIRA). The joint Internet Society – AFRINIC initiative on Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA) seeks to determine levels of Internet resilience in African countries. The initiative has already began conducting various measurements as […]

Pulse Webinar: MIRA, 21 July 2021 – Register Now!

Understanding India’s Internet Shutdowns

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India is widely considered to be the world’s largest democracy, yet it also holds the dubious distinction of having the highest number of Internet shutdowns worldwide. In 2020 alone, 109 shutdowns occurred in the country. By contrast, the nation with the second highest number of shutdowns (Yemen), had only six. The Indian government typically justifies these […]

Understanding India’s Internet Shutdowns

Why the Internet Is Vulnerable to Outages – LifeWire

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Why the Internet Is Vulnerable to Outages – LifeWire, 22 June, 2021

Ethiopian Resources for Open Access and Digital Safety

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Responding directly to a request for easy to share information about circumvention tools during a shutdown, Localization Lab has created short animations in 4 local languages and a video overviewing how to download and use a VPN when one is no longer able to use messaging applications or access content online. Localization Lab has also […]

Ethiopian Resources for Open Access and Digital Safety

Free My Internet: A Graphic Journey From Infrastructure to Shutdowns

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https://freemyinternet.info

Accelerate networking with HTTP/3 and QUIC

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https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10094/

India signs G7 statement condemning “politically motivated Internet shutdowns”

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Another Internet Blackout In Syria During Exams

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This blog post was originally authored by Ali Sibai and posted on the SMEX website. It is reposted here with permission. In recent years, internet outages in Syria have become a familiar, dystopian tradition during the Official High School Exams. The Syrian government has unplugged the internet during exams every year since 2016, plunging the country […]

Another Internet Blackout In Syria During Exams

Update from the LACNIC 35 Meeting 

Published in Pulse News.

On 13 May, 2021 the Internet Society’s Kenneth Olmstead gave an overview of the Pulse platform during the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC) 35 Meeting. Pulse was presented during the technical forum, and Kenneth gave a quick walk-through of the Pulse platform itself and the various data that the team collates on […]

Update from the LACNIC 35 Meeting 

Keeping the Internet on during Benin’s Presidential Elections

Published in Shutdown.

This article was originally published on the Internet Society’s blog. With protests intensifying and social media interruptions reported in the weeks leading up to Benin’s presidential elections on 11 April 2021, many Internet and civil rights organizations were growing nervous about the potential for another Internet shutdown. Internet access was cut for almost 24 hours […]

Keeping the Internet on during Benin’s Presidential Elections

Regulating IPv6 Deployment

Published in Technology.

I was recently honoured to be asked to present and participate on a panel of experts for the BEREC public technical workshop on IPv6 deployment across Europe. BEREC is the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications with the aim to foster ‘independent, consistent and high-quality regulation of digital markets for the benefit of Europe and its […]

Regulating IPv6 Deployment

MIRA Project to Provide Overview of Internet’s Resiliency in Africa

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , , , .

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 […]

MIRA Project to Provide Overview of Internet’s Resiliency in Africa

BEREC IPv6 deployment workshop, 19 May

Published in Past Event.

https://berec.europa.eu/eng/events/berec_events_2021/280-berec-public-technical-workshop-on-ipv6-deployment-across-europe

IETF 111, 26-30 July

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IETF 111, 26-30 July: https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/111/

RightsCon 2021, 7-11 June

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RightsCon 2021, 7-11 June: https://www.rightscon.org/

Africa Internet Summit (AIS), 31 May – 4 June

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Africa Internet Summit (AIS), 31 May – 4 June: https://www.internetsummit.africa

RIPE 82, 17-21 May

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RIPE 82, 17-21 May: https://ripe82.ripe.net/

LACNIC 35, 10-14 May

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LACNIC 35, 10-14 May: https://www.lacnic.net/lacnic35

NIXI unveils three new initiatives to create awareness about IPv6

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Read more at:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/nixi-unveils-three-new-initiatives-to-create-awareness-about-ipv6/articleshow/82102938.cms

Twitter and Internet Society hold lectures for journalism students

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https://www.telecompaper.com/news/twitter-and-internet-society-hold-lectures-for-journalism-students-at-american-university-in-dubai–1376634

Why faster connectivity means faster economic growth for Kenya

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Mind the Gap: Understanding tech bans and outages in the Middle East

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Read more at: https://www.zdnet.com/article/mind-the-gap-understanding-tech-bans-and-outages-in-the-middle-east/

Digital Safety: Internet shutdowns

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Three More Countries Join the DNSSEC Club

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In the first three months of 2021, three countries have joined the ranks of those with DNSSEC-signed country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and security keys deployed in the DNS root zone. Just about every Internet communication starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. The DNS is an essential piece of Internet infrastructure that translates […]

Three More Countries Join the DNSSEC Club

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

Uzbeks Celebrate Birthday of .uz by Deploying DNSSEC

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The administrators of the Uzbek country-code top-level-domain (ccTLD) are celebrating the 26th birthday of .uz in the best way possible: by deploying DNSSEC. In their announcement of this happy news, UZINFOCOM highlight that the .uz ccTLD now boasts 92,000 registered domains, having grown by over 50% in just the last three years. The celebrations include the release […]

Uzbeks Celebrate Birthday of .uz by Deploying DNSSEC

Opposing Shutdowns Proactively

Published in Shutdown.

Several governments around the world turn to limiting or shutting down access to the Internet as an easy solution to quell potential local problems. In the past few years, we’ve noticed that Internet shutdowns occur around periods of local unrest, elections, or national school/university exams. We have also noticed that shutdowns rarely serve their purpose […]

Opposing Shutdowns Proactively

Next Level Web Machinery Is Ready To Roll

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After 5 years of discussing, coding and testing, and 34 revisions to the draft specification, a new version of the technology underpinning the web, and many other Internet applications these days, is nearly ready for publication by the IETF and more widespread adoption. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) serves as the foundation of data communication for the […]

Next Level Web Machinery Is Ready To Roll

Why Benin’s Internet Should Not be Disrupted During the Presidential Election 

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Note: This blog post originally appeared on the Internet Society Benin Chapter’s website here, in French. It has been translated and re-posted here with the permission of the Benin Chapter.  Internet shutdowns are rife today. The reasons often mentioned are the following: to prevent the spread of social unrest, to fight against the dissemination of […]

Why Benin’s Internet Should Not be Disrupted During the Presidential Election 

Understanding Saudi Arabia’s IPv6 Boom

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IPv6 is the latest version of the fundamental technology (Internet Protocol) that powers the Internet. The previous version, IPv4, is still in operation on many networks around the world but it can only support an Internet of a few billion devices. By contrast, IPv6 can support an Internet of billions of billions of devices and […]

Understanding Saudi Arabia’s IPv6 Boom

Internet Security – Are You Up To Date?

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Many popular Internet applications like e-mail and web browsers use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure traffic against eavesdropping and against data being tampered with while in transit between clients and servers. Over time, flaws in early versions of TLS have been identified leading to substantial improvements to the protocol. The documents defining version 1.0 and […]

Internet Security – Are You Up To Date?

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

Internet Shutdowns: How to Undermine Trust in the Network of Networks

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This article was first published on the Internet Society blog. The Indian government’s recent Internet shutdown during farmer protests impacted over 50 million residents. It is a stark warning of the danger of tampering with the foundations that make the Internet work for everyone. Internet shutdowns are a dangerous tactic increasingly used by the state to quell situations […]

Internet Shutdowns: How to Undermine Trust in the Network of Networks

Myanmar Military Blocks Facebook as Global Internet Disruptions Intensify

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This article was first published in Coindesk on 4 February 2021 by Sandali Handagama. (c) Sandali Handagama / Coindesk. Internet disruptions are costly, but that doesn’t stop governments from shutting down access. The new military government in Myanmar has reportedly ordered telecommunications companies to temporarily block access to Facebook citing the platform is a threat to the […]

Myanmar Military Blocks Facebook as Global Internet Disruptions Intensify

The Cost of Internet Shutdowns: Uganda, January 2021

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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

Published in Pulse News. Tags: , , , , , , .

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!

Published in Pulse News. Tags: , .

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!

The Future of Web Browsing Coming to Firefox 83

Published in Technology. Tags: , , .

In a recent blog post, Mozilla announced the introduction of a new feature coming to Firefox in version 83 that allows users to enable always-on security for their web browsing. By enabling HTTPS-only mode, users can be confident that their browsing is always secure from eavesdroppers. When this new mode is enabled, Firefox will attempt […]

The Future of Web Browsing Coming to Firefox 83

Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , .

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 […]

Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa

The Economic Impact of Internet Shutdowns

Published in Shutdown.

One of the indicators we provide as part of our Insights platform is the economic cost of shutdowns. In our data, we rely on a tool developed with Netblocks.org, the Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST). The COST builds upon indicators from the World Bank, ITU, Eurostat and U.S. Census to estimate the economic impact of […]

The Economic Impact of Internet Shutdowns

Internet Society Pulse – On Track for Launch

Published in Pulse News. Tags: .

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/3 Adoption Made Easier by Apple

Published in Technology. Tags: , .

Apple’s iOS 14 release (and upcoming MacOS 11 release) has included client support for HTTPS records, allowing connections to be upgraded to QUIC when the HTTP/3 parameter is returned in the DNS record. Apple has reported that so far, of the population that has manually enabled HTTP/3 on iOS 14, 8% of the QUIC connections had […]

HTTP/3 Adoption Made Easier by Apple

TLS1.3 Adoption Boosted by Amazon CloudFront

Published in Technology. Tags: .

Amazon has announced that their content distribution service CloudFront will now support TLS1.3 for viewer connections. Amazon identify the improved security and performance provided by the latest version of the TLS protocol as key benefits. Their testing shows latency reductions of up to 33% for ‘time-to-first-byte’, meaning more responsive websites for end users. Many popular […]

TLS1.3 Adoption Boosted by Amazon CloudFront

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

Impact of Internet Shutdowns on Kashmiri Youth

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The Kashmir Observer has documented the impact of long-lived Internet shutdowns on the young people in Kashmir. As is clear from our map of the frequency of shutdown events, India is a repeat offender where Internet shutdowns are concerned. The political unrest in the Kashmir region has been used to justify the long-lived shutdown of […]

Impact of Internet Shutdowns on Kashmiri Youth

Integrating IPv6 With AWS Just Got Easier

Published in Technology. Tags: , .

Many organizations are required to use their own IPv6 addresses for compliance or regulatory reasons. A new release from Amazon enables such customers to create their IPv6 applications in AWS with minimal disruptions. Additionally, applications may be using trusted IPv6 addresses that business partners and customers have whitelisted in their firewalls. These applications can now […]

Integrating IPv6 With AWS Just Got Easier
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