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A fire in a major Internet hub in Cairo has significantly disrupted multiple major Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country.

A local voluntary civil society group has developed a project to track Internet shutdown and digital censorship events in Bangladesh and develop awareness of the impact of these events within the local community.

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.

Initiative is working to solve economic barrier of Internet access in Bangladesh via ad funded WiFi hotspots.

As of the end of 2023, governments and other actors across 18 countries intentionally disrupted Internet connectivity or blocked access to specific Internet services for their citizens.

A fire in a Bangladesh tower has disrupted Internet connectivity for around 40% of Internet users and exposed major Internet resiliency challenges.

To date, 153 countries have DNSSEC-enabled ccTLDs with Bangladesh (.bd) and Türkiye (.tr) joining this group in the second quarter of 2023.

The challenges of developing a resilient Internet in South Asia are numerous even when discounting political tensions, economic crises, and natural disasters that currently and historically destabilize the region.

With the two largest populations in the world, India and China are also boasting the most IPv6 users in the world.