OONI-Research

Project

Open Culture Foundation (OCF), as a partner of the OONI community, supports censorship measurement from a local perspective and shares internet censorship findings with the public.

Apps

The OONI project primarily observes whether the network it is located in delivers unexpected browsing content to the end-user through intervention. It provides real-time and publicly available analysis of network censorship observation data.

Research Items

Censorship Measurement with an ASN Coverage Rate Analysis

• status: ongoing
• subject: Analyzing OONI's current observational data alongside the known ASN coverage in different regions, to observe whether the data is evenly distributed across various telecommunications or network infrastructures in different areas.
• methods:
  • Create a local database using the OONI Data Mining (from AWS S3) approach for preliminary comparisons with a global known ASN list.
  • Develop online charts to display observation coverage data in various regions.
  • Establish real-time data integration with OONI Data on the backend.

Country-specific Test Lists Updated

• status: in-progress
• subject: Check if the website list in the TW test list is accessible.
• methods:
  • Write the scripts or modify the citizenlab/test-lists scripts to support country-specific testing.
  • Check if there are website lists ending with .tw in other regions.
  • Update the list of websites to be included in observation testing.

Localization(l10n)

• status: in-progress
• subject: Translations for the web, applications, documents of OONI in zh-tw, zh-hant.
• methods:
  • Compile a list of OONI-related products and note whether they currently support Traditional Chinese language and how to contribute, include the platform for translation.
  • Review the content that had been translated.
  • Maintain a glossary list for zh-tw and zh-hant.

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