Name: Shedding light on Internet Blackouts
Start: 2018-05-16T14:30:00-0400
End: 2018-05-16T15:45:00-0400

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Shedding light on Internet Blackouts

An Internet blackout happens when the connectivity of a particular region or even a whole country is completely disrupted.

This panel will bring together the technical and social perspectives of this phenomenon. We will be explaining how we can gain a technical understanding of how internet blackouts happen, why they happen through a contextual analysis and who are most affected by them. Some of the panelists have first person experience dealing with and responding to internet blackouts, while others are working on developing a technically sound methodology for measuring blackouts when they occur.

We will give an overview of the state of the art and present some of the findings from the past years.

Moderators

Maria Xynou

Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

Maria works with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a free software project that aims to increase transparency of internet censorship around the world. She manages OONI's partnerships, engaging human rights communities worldwide with censorship measurement research... Read More →

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