[ux] ACM LIMITS '17: "Limits to Internet Freedoms" mentions Tor

[Nathan of Guardian]

Strange that Orbot isn't in Turkish, given the rapid adoption we have
seen there, at times, and the work we have put in with Localization
sprints, etc. We should do a full review to make sure everything is
updated from Transifex.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Linda Naeun Lee wrote:
> David:
> 
> Thanks for the report! It's important to remind ourselves that
> internationalization is important to adoption.
> 
>   Linda N. Lee
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> 
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:40 PM, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > This paper is based on interviews with 100+ people in Zambia, Turkey,
> > and Mongolia over a couple of years. It briefly mentions Tor and Orbot
> > in a section on the limitations of existing tools for Internet freedom
> > (3.2 and 3.6).
> >
> > "Limits to Internet Freedoms"
> > Michael Nekrasov, Lisa Parks, Elizabeth Belding
> > http://acmlimits.org/2017/papers/limits17-nekrasov.pdf
> >
> >          In our research, we found that many technically proficient
> >          users knew about Tor,  but that new users found the concept
> >          confusing and suffered language barriers when attempting to
> >          install and use it themselves.
> >
> >          When discussing security in Turkey, we attempted to introduce
> >          users to Tor. We found that Orbot, an Android application for
> >          Tor, was not available in Turkish. This was a barrier to usage
> >          as all instructions and user interfaces required explanation
> >          and translation.
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