Presentation and links

• slides_impakt.odp: Impakt presentation open-search, odp
• slides_impakt.pdf: Impakt presentation open-search, pdf
• Internet_Utrecht.ppt: Nicholas Daerden's presentation from irrepressible.info, ppt

Here are some of the pages shown during, and for the preparation of, the panelsession.

• irrepressible.info
• greatfirewallofchina.org test live if a site is blocked in China or not
• http://www.opennetinitiative.org/ investigates censorship in a lot of countries
• psiphon can be used to avoid censorship
• images google.com vs google.cn
• compare search in google.com vs google.cn
• compare search (from ONI) google.com vs google.cn
• Google censorship FAQ
• Tegenlicht webspecial on Google
• cenSEARCHip allows you to explore the differences in the results returned by different countries' versions of the major search engines.
• Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind
• The web interface to AOL's 500K user search logs
• A flash movie from smartfiler, one of the most common routers used to filter and block content.

Maps

• Digital Divide Cartogram (May 2005) pdf
• Divide Divide Cartogram (inverted) (May 2005) pdf
• A Censor's Network: Iranian Social, Political and Religious Sites. A Hyperlink Analysis Method for Censored Website Discovery (June 2006) updated pdf
• Two Providers, Two Internets. The Case of the United Arab Emirates (November 2006) pdf
• Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Blocked Content on Unblocked Sites in Pakistan - The Baloch Case (November 2006) method pdf
• Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Blocked Content on Unblocked Sites in Pakistan - The Baloch Case (November 2006) story pdf
• The Internet Treats Censorship as a Malfunction and Routes around it? A Semi-manual Approach to Internet Censorship Circumnavigation (June 2005) updated pdf

The Future of Free Expression on the Internet

University of Oxford on May 18, 2007.

Results from the first global study of Internet filtering carried out by the OpenNet? Initiative will be on the table for a day of discussion involving ICT development experts, speech and human rights advocates, journalists and bloggers, international laywers and scholars, and others interested in state responses to online information flows.

Description

www.impakt.nl

DISSIDENTS AND RESTRICTIONS Both democratic movements and repressive regimes acknowledge the value of the Internet. Dissident democratic movements like OTPOR (Serbia) and Pora (Ukraine) owed their success in part to the Internet and other modern means of communication enabling them to create a climate of change and mobilize people. Totalitarian regimes, in turn, attempt to gain and increase control over their citizens and the way they use the Internet. In doing so, these regimes often receive support from large multinationals, which compromise the basic principle of the Internet – the free availability of information and the uncensored exchange of ideas – in exchange for a substantial market share. Especially China draws attention in this respect. Microsoft, for instance, removed the work of one of China’s most famous bloggers who expressed politically sensitive ideas. Yahoo passed on information to the authorities, which led to the arrest of people who had sent emails with political content. And Google, Microsoft and Yahoo allow censorship of their search engines localized in China. But the Chinese regime is not alone. According to Amnesty International, the governments of Iran, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Israel, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Vietnam also exercise repression and censorship on the Internet. This couch.club features the stories of 'cyber dissidents' and representatives of Amnesty International, discusses the technical side of Internet censorship and includes presentations of projects like irrepressible.info and greatfirewallofchina.org. With a.o. Koen Martens and Erik Borra (www.open-search.net), David Danish (Iranian born writer, journalist and expert on the Middle-East) and Nick Dearden (www.irrepressible.info / Amnesty International UK).

Saturday 31 March, 14.00 hours, Centraal Museum, Refectory