October 29 2020, MENA Meetup
Icarus Project: Testing and Analyzing Internet Censorship Circumvention Solutions
- Who: Mohamed Tita, Icarus Project
- Date: Thursday, October 29th
- Time: 5pm CEST / UTC+2 (Berlin/Cairo)* Note: Daylight savings ends for Europe/UK. Please check the times below to make sure you have the correct time for your region.
- Language: English & Arabic
In the last few years the MENA region has witnessed unprecedented rise of internet censorship. Countries like Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Saudia Arabia have been blocking and restricting access to websites of their adversaries and also independent media outlets and human rights organizations. In this context of rising control and restriction of online freedom, new Internet freedom tools and projects have been developed by technologists and human rights activists. In our second MENA Community Knowledge Session (CKS), we are thrilled to host Mohamed Tita who will present Icarus Project, an online repository for documented Internet censorship circumvention techniques and methods.
Mohamed Tita is a 2019 Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellow. He worked with the Stratosphere Research Laboratory at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT) on testing and documenting Internet censorship circumvention solutions and methods, the result being the Icarus Project.
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