Internet Watch Report: Belarus
Thursday, May 4 the OpenNet Initiative released its first Internet Watch Report "The Internet and Elections: The 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus. "
The report presents the findings of ONIs effort to monitor the Internet during Belarus recent presidential elections. Amidst fears that the authoritarian regime of President Aleksandr Lukashenka was going to close down Belarus political cyberspace during the elections, ONI testing found little evidence of systematic and comprehensive filtering, despite earlier ONI investigations that established the regimes capability to do so. ONI monitoring during the elections showed that, on average, opposition and independent media websites remained accessible throughout the monitoring period.
Click here to read the report.
Click here to read the press release.
The New York Times covered the story here.
The OpenNet Initiative is a university-based research effort, of which the Berkman Center is a partner.
The report presents the findings of ONIs effort to monitor the Internet during Belarus recent presidential elections. Amidst fears that the authoritarian regime of President Aleksandr Lukashenka was going to close down Belarus political cyberspace during the elections, ONI testing found little evidence of systematic and comprehensive filtering, despite earlier ONI investigations that established the regimes capability to do so. ONI monitoring during the elections showed that, on average, opposition and independent media websites remained accessible throughout the monitoring period.
Click here to read the report.
Click here to read the press release.
The New York Times covered the story here.
The OpenNet Initiative is a university-based research effort, of which the Berkman Center is a partner.