Understand Your Rights Starts With Measuring What's Wrong
Measurements are only as powerful as the reforms they bring.
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This session will discuss how:
- Measuring as a critical foundation: how developing local measurement systems helps set baselines, track digital rights changes, and validate policies.
- Indigenous Internet measurement systems provide higher resolution of Internet performance/regional Internet outages/shutdowns.
- Empowering communities through localized responses: sharing best practices and case studies on how localized open data initiatives empower communities to recognize, report, and actively resist digital manipulation and censorship.
- Data and analysis improve policies that encourage greater competition and development, as well as protect end users.
- Collaboration for amplified impact: highlighting strategies in order to maximize the impact of localized efforts.
- Identifying weaknesses can strengthen local Internet resilience and enhance policies that foster greater competition and development, while also protecting end-users ' performance, reducing the impact when the Internet is distressed.
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Understand your rights starts with measuring what's wrong
| Speaker(s) | Organisation | Title | Documents | Videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siti Nurliza Samsudin | Sinar Project | Internet Censorship Data for Consumer Rights | - | |
| Robbie Mitchell | Internet Society | Measuring and Making Sense of the Internet for Everyone | - | |
| Pavel Farhan | IO Foundation | Localizing Digital Rights Responses Using Internet Measurements | - | |
| Nazura Abdul Manap | Malaysia Cyber Consumer Association | Promised Internet Speeds in Malaysia: The Legal Consequences of Misleading Claims | - |