Dear Oonitarians,
Happy New Year!
We wish you and your family good health and happiness, and an amazing 2021!
We hope 2021 brings more joy, love, peace, health, and social justice to
the world.
We feel very grateful for being in this community with you. And with
your support, we're excited to keep fighting internet censorship around
the world.
Thank you for all that you do!
Happy holidays!
Love,
OONI team.
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Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
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Hello,
We published a post, "Year in Review: OONI in 2020", which shares:
* OONI highlights from 2020
* Exciting ways that community members made use of OONI data in 2020
* Upcoming OONI projects in 2021
You can read this post here: https://ooni.org/post/ooni-in-2020/
Warm thanks to our amazing community for making our work possible!
We thank every OONI Probe user out there, and we're excited for 2021!
Happy holidays! Hope you stay safe and healthy.
Warmly,
OONI team.
--
Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
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Hello friends,
We just published a new OONI Partners page on the OONI website:
https://ooni.org/partners
Since 2016, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with many great
digital rights organizations from around the world on censorship
measurement research.
The new OONI Partners page features these organizations, highlighting
their important work, and sharing the research projects we have
collaborated on.
If you're interested in the OONI Partnership Program, learn more here:
https://ooni.org/get-involved/partnership-program/
I would like to grab this opportunity to share my warmest thanks to all
of our partners for their commitment to fighting internet censorship and
for providing us the opportunity to work with them! <3
As always, please feel encouraged to share your ideas and feedback on
how we can strengthen collaborations going forward.
Warmly,
Maria (on behalf of the OONI team).
--
Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
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Hi friends,
Interested in creating localized internet shutdown resources for use in
Sub-Saharan Africa?
Apply now to Internews for funding:
https://internews.org/updates/small-grants-produce-localized-internet-shutd…
The deadline to apply is 21st December 2020.
Through their small grants program (which offers between $1,000 and
$5,000 USD per project), Internews aim to support projects such as the
following:
* Case study research to provide best practices and recommendations on
how to respond to a shutdown
* Resources to improve advocacy approaches and outreach to relevant
stakeholders such as government bodies, ISPs, and other important actors
* Guides on using circumvention tools during shutdowns, fighting
shutdowns in courts, or measuring and documenting shutdowns
* Translations of existing resources and guides for specific contexts,
audiences, or languages
* Training curricula relevant to predicting, preventing, or responding
to an internet shutdown
Resources produced as part of these projects need to be openly available
so that they can be used by others in the internet freedom community.
Please share this opportunity with your networks!
Thanks,
Maria.
--
Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
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Hello,
The OONI team warmly welcomes you to join us tomorrow for our monthly
community meeting.
=> Where? OONI Slack channel: https://slack.ooni.org/ (bridged with IRC:
ircs://irc.oftc.net:6697/#ooni)
=> When? Tuesday, 24th November 2020 at 14:00 UTC (for 1 hour)
Please add topics that you'd like to discuss during the meeting in this
pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ooni-community-meeting-keep
The monthly OONI community meetings aim to:
* Collect community feedback on OONI tools & methodologies
* Address questions in relation to the use of OONI tools and OONI data
* Foster discussions on internet censorship issues
* Receive updates from the community
We'd love to hear from you, and we hope you can join us!
All the best,
~ OONI team
--
Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
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Hi friends,
We have released OONI Probe Mobile 2.7.1
(https://ooni.org/install/mobile) which includes the following
noteworthy changes:
* We have removed the "Include Network Info" setting (which enabled you
to opt-out of ASN collection): Now ASN information
(https://ooni.org/support/glossary/#asn) is collected by default. We
decided to do this because measurements that don't include ASN
information are non-actionable.
* We have removed the setting which enabled you to share your IP address
(on an opt-in basis): We decided to remove this setting because we think
the potential risk associated with sharing IP addresses is greater than
the benefit (over the last years, when users chose to share their IP
addresses, we did not find them particularly useful).
Through these changes (in OONI Probe Mobile 2.7.1), we aim to make OONI
Probe measurements both more secure and more actionable. :)
As you will see in the mobile app, we no longer have the "Sharing"
setting (since the above options have been removed), and we have moved
the "Publish Results" setting (which is enabled by default) under the
Privacy tab of the app.
Happy to address any questions.
Thanks,
Maria.
--
Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
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Hi friends,
We just released a new version of the OONI Probe desktop app for Windows
and macOS!
Update now: https://ooni.org/install/desktop
With the latest version (3.1.0) you can:
* Choose the categories of websites that you want to test (by
enabling/disabling website categories in the settings)
* Change the language of your OONI Probe desktop app (thanks to support
from the Localization Lab community!)
The latest version also features a new settings screen layout.
Please share with your networks!
Thanks,
~ OONI team.
--
Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E
Hello,
Our friends at India's Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) implemented
a new OONI experiment (called `dnscheck`) for measuring the blocking of
encrypted DNS transports!
This experiment is currently available via the `miniooni` research
client
(https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine/tree/v0.19.0#building-miniooni)
and we plan to integrate it as part of the Web Connectivity test
(Websites card) in the OONI Probe apps.
CIS India published a great research report ("Investigating Encrypted
DNS Blocking in India") based on this test, which I encourage you to
read:
https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/investigating-encrypted-dns-…
And we published a short blog post about this here:
https://ooni.org/post/2020-encrypted-dns-blocking-india/
Warm thanks to our friends at CIS India!! It's always super exciting
when community members contribute new experiments to OONI Probe. <3
Stay tuned for the integration of `dnscheck` into OONI Probe!
Cheers,
Maria (on behalf of the OONI team).
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Maria Xynou
Research & Partnerships Director
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.org/
PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E