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Internet shutdown in Benin: an Internet measurement perspective
1. Presented by: Yazid AKANHO
IGB@NET, www.igbanet.bj
AIS’19 - Kampala, 16 June 2019
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Internet shutdown in Benin:
An Internet measurement perspective
3. Benin Internet community: an approach of the multistakeholder model !
Freedom of opinion & expression but pay attention with the Digital Act (Code du
Numérique).
Recall on presidential decree 2018-341: additional tax on social media.
#TaxePasMesMo (Aug - Dec 2018).
the parliament elections of 28 April 2019: special one with a complete Internet
blackout: #BeninShutdown.
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Context overview
https://2019.internetsummit.africa
6. • understanding of the Internet’s structure and behavior
• QoS
• Service availability
• ...
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Why measurements?
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7. • civil society group working at the intersection
of digital rights, cyber-security and internet
governance
• a set of tools for mapping Internet freedom in
real time: Internet Shutdown Observatory,
COST (the Cost of Shutdown Tool), other open
technology projects.
• a censorship checker web app or NetBlocks
hardware measurement probe.
• free software, global observation network for
detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic
manipulation on the internet since 2012.
• various tests designed to examine the
blocking of : websites, instant messaging
apps, Tor, proxies and VPNs. Also tests
network speed and performance.
• Versions: RaspberryPi, OS X & Linux, Android
& Apple.
• check the rights in the country you are.
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Measurement tools:
Netblocks & OONI
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Open Observatory of
Network Interference
8. • quick reports on shutdowns and Internet
disruptions: Liberia, Kazakhstan, Benin,
Soudan, ...
• only web app version available.
https://netblocks.org/scan/ , runs
automatically every 5 min and gives network
health and latency.
• Install on VM:
• instructions depending on OS:
https://ooni.torproject.org/install/oonipr
obe/
• install Vagrant on Ubuntu/Debian or
Ubuntu service.
• Results available at:
https://explorer.ooni.io/world/
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Open Observatory of
Network Interference
Measurement tools:
Netblocks & OONI
9. • open source project with multiple contributors
• provides the largest collection of open and
verifiable Internet performance
data/visualizations on the world.
• founded in 2009 by New America’s Open
Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium,
Google, and a group of academic researchers
following the series of conversations done
between Vint Cerf and Internet researchers in
2008
• small devices that actively measure Internet
connectivity through ping, traceroute, DNS,
SSL/TLS, NTP and HTTP measurements
• Volunteers all over the world host these small
hardware devices
• purposes: network outages investigations,
DNS anycasting, IPv6 connectivity check,
resource monitoring, …
• Hosting a RIPE Atlas probe benefits the entire
measurement community
• data collected, aggregated and shared
publicly by the RIPE NCC
• ...
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Measurement tools:
Ripe Atlas &
Measurement Labs
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12. • Netblocks: no details on how is the network health calculated.
• OONI GUI interface doesn’t allow to save customized list for future
use.
• Need points to run Ripe Atlas measurements.
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Measurement tools:
reminder!
13. • Measurement WG: measurement-wg@afrinic.net
• Be friends with ISP’s network engineers/managers
• (Be)Prepare and train : BGP, traceroute, ping, DNS, network health, Social
media tests, …
• Organize yourself … for measurements
• Keep the rest “secret”: government and “bad guys” are here! And NEVER
TRUST WHAT POLITICIANS SAY!
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Ready for
measurements???
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1- Here I will do a review of Benin context: how is the country performing in terms of Internet penetration, key actors (ISPs, government and ICT agencies, civil society and organizations), how do the citizens use the Internet and for what purposes.
2- I will also come back to the 0.05 $/ Mo tax on social media the government imposed in august 2018 and the success of #TaxePasMesMo campaign. Then I will do transition to the special parliament elections we faced in April 2019 with the complete Internet shutdown.
1- Here I will do a review of Benin context: how is the country performing in terms of Internet penetration, key actors (ISPs, government and ICT agencies, civil society and organizations), how do the citizens use the Internet and for what purposes.
2- I will also come back to the 0.05 $/ Mo tax on social media the government imposed in august 2018 and the success of #TaxePasMesMo campaign. Then I will do transition to the special parliament elections we faced in April 2019 with the complete Internet shutdown.
I don’t know much about M-Lab,
M-Lab was founded in 2009 by New America’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google, and a group of academic researchers following the series of conversations done between Vint Cerf and Internet researchers in 2008.
