Civil Society and Democracy in Iran conference
I participated in the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics Civil society and Democracy In Iran workshop, held 14-15 May 2010 at the University of Toronto. I was participating in the panel on “Exploring the Youth Movement in Iran,” and spoke about the challenges of cyberspace controls for youth activism in and outside of Iran [...]
NPR Here and Now interview
I did an interview with NPR’s Here and Now about psiphon and The Use of Proxy Servers in Iran.
Psiphon, Iran, and OpenNet Initiative
There is a lot going on right now on so many exciting fronts. We at the OpenNet Initiative have released three major reports: An Asian regional overview, and country reports on China and Iran. We released these at the ONI Asia regional meeting in Penang Malaysia. Thanks to the ONI team for all of their [...]
Psiphon wins Index on Censorship Economist New Media Award
We were very pleased to hear that Psiphon was the recipient of the Economist New Media Award at the Index on Censorship 2009 Free Expression Award Ceremony in London yesterday. Details here. Although we are proud to win the award, we feel that this award belongs to the others on the shortlist as well. In [...]
A Censored Network: Iran
Richard Rogers’ Govcom.org foundation has been doing cutting edge research on online networks for years, producing visually rich outputs that show connections among major nodes, typically using their issue crawler tool. We at the OpenNet Initaitive have entered into a collaboration with Rogers and his team at Govcom.org to produce a series of issue-crawler maps [...]
Red Herring Article on Iranian Internet Filtering
Red Herring has an article on Iranian content filtering that refers to our ONI report. There are some extensive quotations from Nart Villeneuve, Director of Technical Research at the Citizen Lab.
Today Online Story on Iranian Internet Activists
I did an interview for an article in Today Online on Iranian Internet activists. Along with myself, there are interviews with Hoder and my colleague John Palfrey.
BBC, BBC5, and BBC Persian Interview
Among all of the press coverage of our recent Iran report, I thought I’d post this one from BBCPersian, which has an interview with me translated into Farsi. You can listen to the realaudio package here. As an addendum, here is a nice BBC story by Clark Boyd, with a great interview with Nart Villeneuve, [...]
Iranian Internet Censorship Report ONI
We at the ONI have just released our report on Internet Filtering in Iran (in PDF format). Although it was known before, our report confirms the use of the US commercial filtering product, Smartfilter. Our report allso reveals patterns of Internet content targeted for filtering, including opposition websites, some lesbian and gay sites, and a [...]
Newsforge article about ONI Advisory
Another one, from Newsforge, about the OpenNet Initiative Advisory on the IBB/Anonymizer we just released. I must object to Lance Cotrell’s comments about Iranian monitoring and our analysis of the insecurity of the IBB/Anonymizer system. Does anyone really believe the IBB and/or State Dept has intelligence “on the ground” that determines how and when Iranians [...]