Iraq
Day 5 of a series of two-hour shutdowns of access to the Internet for everyone in Kurdistan region in Iraq, the local government belief that this will reduce cheating during high school exams.
We have repeatedly written about here on Pulse, Internet shutdowns cause great harm to a country’s economy and society and are in our opinion NOT the appropriate mechanism to cope with potential exam cheating.
The shutdown is visible on IODA graphs for the regions of Arbil and Al-Sulaymaniah as well as on Cloudflare Radar, as detailed in the graphs below.
Cloudflare Radar
Please note that the anomaly shown on August 11 is due to internal issue faced by Cloudflare, and does not indicate access limitation from the networks covered.
IODA
Internet Connectivity for As-Sulaymaniyah
Internet Connectivity for Arbil
