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From YouTube: Day 1: Measuring the Internet
Description
The Internet Society Pulse platform curates data from trusted sources to help everyone understand the health, availability and evolution of the global Internet. As part of this session, we'll have a look at the insights available on Pulse. We'll also hear from community representatives, the data partners who collect data, and those who use that data to support their work and policy positions, notably when it comes to Internet shutdowns.
Speakers: Mat Ford, Maria Xynou, Dieudonné Munganga, Harold Adjaho, Susannah Gray
A
Good
morning,
good
afternoon
and
good
evening,
everybody
welcome
to
the
measuring
the
internet
session
of
the
internet
society
community
week,
2021,
I'm
susanna
gray,
director
communication,
part
of
the
measuring
the
internet
project
team
today
we'll
be
giving
a
short
overview
of
the
internet
society
pulse
platform
and
the
insights
available
on
it.
We're
also
joined
by
harold
ajaho
president
of
the
isak
benin
chapter
and
he'll,
be
talking
to
us
about
how
his
chapter
campaigned
against
a
planned
internet
shutdown
in
his
country.
A
A
If
you
could,
please
show
the
slide.
Thank
you.
Please
engage
respectfully
and
responsibly
follow
us
and
use
the
community
week.
Hashtag
on
twitter
interpretation
into
french
and
spanish
is
available,
but
this
is
the
english
channel,
and
if
you
want
to
listen
in
french
or
spanish,
you
will
need
to
exit
the
room
and
select
your
preferred
language
from
the
agenda
and
rejoin.
A
B
A
The
chat
for
sharing
comments
and
asking
questions
in
english,
french
or
spanish
and
please
format,
format,
format,
those
questions
with
your
first
name
and
country.
Finally,
this
session
is
being
recorded
and
the
recording
will
be
made
available
on
the
platform
right
here.
After
the
event,
I'm
now
going
to
hand
over
to
my
colleague
matt
ford,
who
is
the
technology
program
manager
here
at
the
internet
society
and
he's
going
to
give
us
a
brief
overview
of
the
pulse
platform.
C
You
can
sign
up
to
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mailing
list.
If
you
want
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prize
of
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we'll
now
run
a
short
video
that
gives
you
an
overview
of
the
pulse
platform
before
we
hear
from
our
our
speakers
today.
Thanks.
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C
As
I
mentioned,
our
newly
launched
focus
area
on
internet
society
pulse
is
about
internet
resilience
and
it
launched
today
with
an
initial
focus
on
the
africa
region.
This
focus
area
is
built
upon
a
joint
project
that
we're
working
on
together
with
afrinic
the
regional
internet
registry
for
africa.
The
project
is
called
mira
measuring
internet
resilience
in
africa
and
internet
society.
Early
career
fellow
judone
munganga
has
been
involved
in
this
project
and
I'll
hand
over
to
him
now
to
talk
about
why
measuring
internet
resilience
is
so
important.
E
Thank
you
thank
you
for
the
introduction,
so
I'm
gonna
talk
about
intent,
measurements
in
general
and
and
about
the
mirror
projects
about
the
resilience
of
the
internet
and
then
finalize
sharing
about
my
involvement
in
the
project
as
a
american
fellow.
So
as
we
all
know,
the
internet
plays
a
critical
society
today,
situations
such
as
the
curve
and
then
it
has
further
underlined
the
importance
of
reliable
internet
connectivity
for
everyone
in
africa.
E
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E
The
second
element
is
the
quality
of
service
of
the
network
from
the
end
user's
perspective
and
the
stability
of
the
network
in
terms
of
reachability
throughput
and
legacy
to
selected
target
servers.
The
third
element
is
the
availability
and
performance
of
the
domain
name
system
ecosystem
and
some
commonly
fights
to
the
phone
book
of
the
internet.
So
the
the
level
at
which
it's
available
and
how
it
performs
being
also
contributes
to
resilience
of
the
internet.
E
E
E
What
motivated
me
to
to
get
involved
in
this
particular
project,
so
I
I
got
involved
in
the
new
project
prior
to
to
recall
for
application
of
the
early
career
fellowship
program.
However,
before
applying
to
the
program,
I
consulted
some
of
the
internet
experts.
I
was
collaborating
with
as
a
way
to
to
show
my
interest
and
to
to
get
to
hear
what.
E
E
E
A
B
B
Thank
you
susanna,
and
thank
you
adiodone
and
harold
for
your
excellent
talks
before
and
before
judeon
mentioned
talked
about
the
importance
of
internet
measurements
and,
as
part
of
this
very
brief
presentation,
I'm
going
to
discuss
how
you
can
actively
measure
internet
censorship
and
why
internet
censorship.
Well,
I
think
literally,
every
country
in
the
world
has
some
form
of
internet
censorship.
B
So
this
leaves
us
with
a
question
of
given
that
censorship
can
vary
and
does
vary
from
country
to
country
and
often
from
network
to
network,
and
given
that
censorship
can
and
does
change
over
time,
often
in
correlation
with
political
events,
how
can
we,
the
people,
have
a
clear
over
overview
and
an
insight
into
what
is
blocked
where,
when?
Why
and
how?
B
B
The
basic
idea
behind
ernie
is
that
we
want
to
enable
everyone
to
have
the
ability
to
independently
measure
the
network
that
they're
connected
to
and
investigate
and
check
whether
various
forms
of
internet
censorship
are
on
their
network,
but
having
us
all
individually
check.
Our
networks
for
censorship
is
not
enough,
because
that
doesn't
inform
us
about
you
know.
B
So
practically,
how
can
you?
How
can
you
get
involved?
You
can
install
our
app
it's
called
uniprobe.
Uniprobe
is
available
for
both
mobile
and
desktop
platforms
on
mobile
platforms.
You
can
install
it
on
android,
android
and
ios
on
desktop
platforms.
You
can
install
it
on
windows,
linux
and
mac
and,
as
you
can
see
here
from
the
slide,
uniprobe
has
a
variety
of
different
tests
and
you
can
run
the
test
by
tapping
on
the
run.
Button.
B
B
One
thing
that
I
would
really
like
to
highlight
is
the
importance
of
automated
testing,
and
basically,
what
this
means
is
that,
instead
of
having
to
remember
to
manually,
run
tests
through
the
uniprobe
app,
you
can
go
to
the
settings
of
the
uniprobe
app
and
enable
automated
testing.
This
means
that
uniprobe
will
automatically
run
the
tests
for
you,
depending
on
the
platform.
B
B
So,
in
order
to
minimize
potential
risk,
there
are
various
choices
you
can
make
for
sure.
We
recommend,
speaking
to
lawyers
and
experts
in
your
country
to
receive
relevant
consultation,
but
from
a
practical
perspective,
you
can,
for
example,
limit
your
testing
to
the
specific
tests
that
you
feel
comfortable
with.
Instead
of
running
all
tests,
for
example,
it
might
be
in
some
contexts
somewhat
safer
to
run
a
speed
test
in
comparison
to
a
test
which
tests
a
bunch
of
banned
websites.
B
We,
the
reason
why
it's
enabled
by
default
is
because,
as
mentioned,
this
will
help
the
global
community,
but
if
you
don't
feel
comfortable
in
doing
so,
you
can
disable
this.
Another
thing
that
you
can
do
is
that
you
can
contribute
to
the
test
list,
which
are
the
lists
of
websites
that
are
tested
by
uniprobe.
B
The
tesla
specifically
are
hosted
by
the
citizen
lab,
which
is
a
research
institute
at
the
university
of
toronto,
and
they
publicly
host
these
lists
on
github,
where
you
can
review
them.
These
lists
include
the
websites
that
are
tested
by
uniprobe
and
there
are
two
types
of
test
lists.
On
the
one
hand,
there
is
a
globalist
which
includes
internationally
relevant
websites
such
as
facebook.com
and
twitter.com,
and
these
websites
are
tested
by
all
only
probe
users
globally,
but
it
also
includes
country
specific
test
lists,
which
only
include
websites
that
are
relevant
to
a
specific
country.
B
We
encourage
you
to
review
these
lists
and
to
contribute
to
them,
especially
since
the
quality
of
the
data
really
depends
on
what
is
being
tested,
and
we
believe
that
local
communities
are
best
positioned
to
determine
what
should
be
tested
in
their
countries
and,
if
you're
interested
in
contributing.
Please
refer
to
the
guide
on
our
website,
which
is
also
linked
over
here.
B
If
you
are,
on
the
other
hand,
interested
in
testing
the
websites
that
are
in
the
citizenlab
test
list,
but
would
only
want
to
test
the
categories
of
websites
that
you
feel
comfortable
with,
you
can
enable
and
disable
the
categories
of
websites
of
your
choice
through
the
relevant
settings
of
the
app,
as
illustrated
in
the
right
screen.
So,
for
example,
if
you
only
care
to
test
news
media
websites,
you
can
disable
all
the
other
categories
and
just
leave
news.
Media
enabled.
B
B
All
you
do
is
copy
paste.
Your
list
of
websites
click
the
generate
button,
and
this
will
generate
a
mobile,
deep
link
that
you
can
then
use
with
your
uniprobe
mobile
app
to
test
directly
your
list
of
websites,
but,
more
importantly,
uni
run
has
been
a
powerful
tool
for
coordinating
censorship
testing
in
a
decentralized
way
around
the
world.
B
Over
the
years,
our
community
members
frequently
use
onlyrun
in
order
to
generate
links
based
on
the
testing
of
specific
websites
that
they
care
about,
and
they
share
these
links
with
their
communities
in
various
countries
around
the
world
in
order
to
do
targeted
testing,
particularly
in
response
to
emergent
censorship.
Events
during
protests
and
elections.
B
All
of
these
test
results
are,
as
mentioned,
openly
published
in
real
time,
and
one
of
the
places
where
they're
published
is
uni.
Explorer
uni
explorer
is
a
web
platform
that
we
have
built
in
order
to
enable
the
public
at
large
and
specifically,
human
rights
defenders
and
researchers
to
more
easily
navigate
through
the
data,
explore
the
data
and
you
know,
find
and
find
charts
and
and
other
things
that
can
be
of
use
specifically.
B
What
I
think
is
probably
currently
one
of
the
most
powerful
features
of
an
explorer
is
the
search
tool
where,
through
the
search
tool,
you
can
filter
the
measurements
based
on
the
country
and
the
networks
that
you
care
about,
and
you
can
also
filter
the
results
based
on
confirmed
blocks.
In
this
example.
B
If
you're
interested
in
performing
your
own
analysis-
and
we
definitely
encourage
you
to
do
so-
you
can
get
only
data
from
the
uni
api
where
you
can
download
it
in
the
json
format.
However,
please
use
the
only
api
primarily
for
lightweight
queries,
because
only
explorer
relies
on
the
api,
and
so
basically
we
do
database
heavy
queries.
There's
the
risk
that
explorer
will
go
down
for
everyone
else,
so
instead,
if
you're
interested
in
batch
analysis.
B
In
that
case,
we
recommend
fetching
uni
data
from
the
amazon
s3
buckets
and
we
have
a
blog
post,
where
we
explain
how
you
can
specif
practically
fetch
the
data
and
based
on
all
this
data
that
has
been
contributed
by
community
members
around
the
world.
We
regularly
publish
research
reports
in
collaboration
with
our
partners
around
the
world
where
we
document
various
censorship
events
we're
a
small
team
of
six
people.
B
So
that
being
said,
we
do
hope
that
you
feel
inspired
to
run.
Uni
probe,
contribute
measurements
and
get
involved.
These
are
our
contact
details
if
you'd
like
to
stay
in
touch
with
the
uni
team.
If
you
have
any
questions
and
if
you'd
like
to
interact
with
the
community,
please
do
join
us
on
the
uni
slack
channel
and
we'll
be
following
up
now
to
share
a
link
through
which
you
can
install
a
new
probe
thanks
a
lot.
A
A
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we
didn't
get
around
to
answering
your
question
or
which
we
didn't,
because
we
were
quite
pressed
for
time,
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us
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back
to
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as
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and
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flex
optics
who
has
provided
interpretation
and
captioning
to
you
today.
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you.
Merci
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