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Recently we added Internet Users by Gender to the Pulse Country Reports.

Exam-related Internet shutdowns increased from 75 to 83 from 2023 to 2024 despite the efforts of the #NoExamShutdown campaign.

Internet poverty in Asia has decreased from 252 million in 2023 to 166 million in 2024, led by India and Indonesia.

Pakistan authorities have blocked free VPN services, requiring Internet users to register to use select paid services.

Measuring and evaluating digital government initiatives is crucial to ensuring the resilience of the Internet.

The recent use of DNS hijacking by Malaysian authorities to block certain content reveals a dangerous precedent for Internet regulation in Malaysia.

DNS usage patterns are sometimes influenced by external factors like censorship or surveillance. Understanding these patterns can give important insights into the local Internet landscape.

Internet resilience is usually considered from a technical point of view, with little consideration given to social implications that impact connectivity decisions.

Bangladesh is experiencing slightly slower Internet connectivity to international hosted services due to an outage to one of the two submarine cables connecting the country.

A resilient Internet infrastructure, alongside where the epicenter of the earthquake was located, seem to have enabled Taiwan’s Internet to weather the earthquake extremely well.

Afghanistan and other war-torn countries have shown that conflict doesn't need to stifle the progress of a country's Internet.

Thailand has done an admirable job at increasing its Internet infrastructure in the past decade, with an understanding that this will form the foundation for its long-term digital vision.