Researchers Receive $1M+ to Track Internet Outages, Censorship in Iran and Elsewhere Around the World

Authoritarian regimes worldwide have weaponized the internet, using censorship, restricted access, and outages to control their citizens.

To counter these tactics and raise awareness, researchers with Georgia Tech’s Internet Intelligence Lab will use $1.4 million in new grants to advance the state-of-the-art in global internet connectivity detection, tracking, and analysis.

The Open Technology Fund awarded Associate Professor Alberto Dainotti and Research Scientists Zachary Bischof and Amanda Meng $960,840 to improve research infrastructure and methods to study internet censorship worldwide.