How Kurdish language divisions hinder access to information
This article was written by Tara Aziz and published on Global Voices on September 6, 2023. Nestled within the Kurdistan mountains near the Iranian border, the Iraqi town of Halabja…
Memo from Baghdad: Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Iraqi Documenters
In a moment when free speech is under direct threat in Iraq, our recent needs assessment with Open Archive offers an insightful glimpse into the realities, challenges, and opportunities that…
No More Voting in the Dark: The Need to Illuminate Iraq’s Internet During Elections
Keyboard: Cathryn Grothe, Research Associate at Freedom House and Hayder Hamzoz, Founder of INSM network for digital rights in Iraq. On October 10th, Iraqis head to the polls to vote…
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
“Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled “Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL” because we were worried…
Facts on #DataPrivacyDay
10 billion trackers are blocked in Firefox each day globally 86% of Mozilla products in 2020 #PrivacyNotIncluded guide met the Minimum Security Standards of the company The US Does not…