A Censored Network: Iran

By: nart on 19 June 2006
Posted in Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Richard Rogers' Govcom.org foundation has been doing cutting edge research on online networks for years, producing visually rich outputs that show connections among major nodes, typically using their issue crawler tool.

We at the OpenNet Initiative have entered into a collaboration with Rogers and his team at Govcom.org to produce a series of issue-crawler maps of Internet censorship. The first of these is called A Censored Network (PDF), showing censored sites in Iran. Rogers and his team ran one of our high impact lists from our Iran Report through their issue-crawler. The discovered sites linking to those high impact sites were then fed through the ONI's testing system to discover 30 additoinal blocked sites.

Stay tuned for more outputs from this collaboration.

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