1. Analyze the archive of RosKomNadzor*
*Russian State Censorship Agency
Deliverable
“What the censors are talking about” – analyze the archive of RosKomNadzor at http://ddosecrets.com/, study, find unusual stories, recreate the logic of surveillance and censorship, give a general overview of the archive.
Deliverable: data-study with quotes and conclusions
Prize $800
Prize + publication and promotion of your investigation on the resources of the Teplitsa. Technologies for Social Good (at your request, with attribution or not)
2. CENSINT: data-investigation of acts of blocking
Deliverable
Analyze blocking acts since 02/24/2022 (data-analysis), present hypotheses of the block decision-making model.
Prize $500
Prize + publication and promotion of your investigation on the resources of the Teplitsa. Technologies for Social Good (at your request, with attribution or not)
3. Censorship in the Discourse of Russian Politicians
Deliverable
Analyze the last 5 years in the speeches of any Russian politicians, judges and officials who speak out about censorship and blocking.
Prize $500
Prize + publication and promotion of your investigation on the resources of the Teplitsa. Technologies for Social Good (at your request, with attribution or not)
4. Visualize the connection between the internet shutdown and the fighting
The KeepItOn campaign, run by Access Now, monitors internet outages around the world. We are seeing an increase in the number of Internet outages in Ukraine, especially in the territories under the control of Russian forces, caused both by the destruction of infrastructure and by the decisions of the Russian authorities.
Deliverable
Using the resources below and other publicly available information, we propose to find a visually illustrative solution to show the relationship between the Internet shutdown and the activity of hostilities in a particular region of Ukraine since February 2022.
Prize $450
Useful links:
- https://www.accessnow.org/spotlight/russia-ukraine/
- https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/, Access Now, last update 15 August 2022 (discontinued)
- https://www.accessnow.org/stop-internet-shutdowns-in-ukraine/, Access Now, 17 March 2022
- https://www.top10vpn.com/research/digital-rights-violations-ukraine/, Top10VPN, 23 August 2022
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/10EWOoqNFtY3eBKktWm2mxzY8QNIXhwFd/view, Internews, August 2022
- Kentik https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/09/technology/ukraine-internet-russia-censorship.html, New York Times
- https://www.kentik.com/blog/rerouting-of-kherson-follows-familiar-gameplan/, Kentik
- https://ooni.org/ (OONI)
- https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/ (IODA)
5. How companies leave the Russian Internet market
Russia within the Administrative Boundaries is becoming more and more uncomfortable environment for doing business, including in the field of Internet business. Companies are closed, sold to loyal owners. The growth of the Russian Internet stopped, stagnation and a slow decline began.
Deliverable
Find out and show how the Russian Internet “died”. Which companies ceased to exist, which went abroad.
An Internet company probably has identifiers on the Internet: an autonomous system, IP addresses, domain names. These identifiers have some binding to the country, registration and use. We want you to investigate how Internet resources have been migrating out of Russia since February 24, 2022, and maybe even since the start of repressive regulation. You can also see what is happening with resources and companies from Ukraine. There are studies about the migration of resources from Ukraine to Russia in connection with the occupied territories. Is there something more going on?
Results: research in the form of text + infographics, cards for social networks will be a bonus.
Prize $450
Prize + publication and promotion of your investigation on the partner resources (at your request, with attribution or not)
6. Research – new Internet borders of Russia
Despite the fact that Russia was not completely disconnected from the global Internet, its external connectivity clearly decreased after 02/24/2022.
Ukraine has been one of the main transport destinations of the Russian Internet for independent companies. How did the requirement of the Ukrainian regulator affect the Russian Internet? How did Western private Internet operators of the company refuse to work with Russian ones? What services are no longer available to Russians? What happened, what are the trends? How can you continue to monitor this?
Results: research in the form of text + infographics, cards for social networks will be a bonus.
Prize $450
Prize + publication and promotion of your investigation on the partner resources (at your request, with attribution or not)
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