MacArthur Foundation Awards $3M to OpenNet Initiative and Harvard Law's Berkman Center to Advance Global Internet Filtering Research
U.S. Newswire, January, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $3 million to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its partners to advance their collaborative study of state-sponsored Internet filtering worldwide through the OpenNet Initiative.
In the past two years, the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project among the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the Harvard Law School, has produced reports on state- mandated filtering in, among others, China, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tunisia, and Iran. These reports combine data derived from technical means with extensive contextual research to map rich snapshots of the state of the Internet.
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