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So, that’s it for today’s live (or lagging behind live) blogging of the ONI conference on freedom of expression and the Internet (and more particularly, filtering and the release of the ONI data). I hope that it has been useful to readers - and I’ll tidy up / add links / etc later on. [...]

Some highlights from the final plenary session (there’s some great live-updating going on on the screen - by Jonathan Zittrain - so here’s hoping that that ends up being blogged, as there’s no incentive to keep up with a much better job!). Other good blogging: Tobias.
One thing that’s emerged is that the conference and [...]

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Further migration later, but broadly speaking we’re back in business!

Here I am at the second workshop of the day, on international responses to Internet filtering. About 30 (very engaged) people, chaired by John Palfrey (who is also blogging this - there’s multitasking).
Avon Edward Foote wondered if there was support at the table for an approach that varies expectation according to FoE history. [...]

The first workshop I attended was on circumvention - and it was a real roll-call of the various projects involved in providing for circumvention of filtering and blocking. We had Peacefire, Anonymizer, TOR, Psiphon, DynaWeb, Tactical Tech and more…
Note: this post needs links, but is otherwise mostly complete
Some highlights:
Peacefire - two tools, CGI-proxy on [...]

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Sincere apologies.

Ron Deibert (University of Toronto’s CitizenLab) introduced the OpenNet Initiative and the various partners involved in the project. Berkman does legal, coordination; Cambridge does a lot of the technical research; Oxford does policy, conferences, and development of a distributed application; Toronto - tools, circumvention etc. Also NGOs/individuals/etc are involved. The working [...]

Jonathan Zittrain (OII) gave the introductory addresses, noting that the conference was primarily to mark the launch of first set of ONI results - the first detailed academic studies of filtering worldwide. He talked about how the Internet was founded without measurement built in - i.e. it’s different from other networks in that you [...]

Blogging today from the OpenNet Initiative’s conference (with the above title; conference information here) at St. Anne’s College in Oxford. We’re just underway, about an hour in - but just got on the network now. More to follow