Governments are working toward further regulation, with the end result possibly being its fragmentation into national networks. To avoid such fragmentation of the Internet, states should negotiate a framework convention on cyberspace. Read the full article here.

"The State Department have spent at least $50 million to create an independent cellphone network in Afghanistan using towers on protected military bases inside the country." Read the full article here.

Aided by a half-dozen stealthy media organizations outside North Korea, citizen-journalists are using technologies new and old to break the regime’s iron grip on information. Will the truth set a nation free? Read the full article here.

“I strongly believe that we need strong, anonymized and useable censorship circumvention tools. But I also believe that we need lots more than censorship circumvention tools, and I fear that both funders and technologists may overfocus on this one particular aspect of internet freedom.” Read the full article here.

On the eve of the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders Friday will award its 2011 Netizen Prize to the founders of a Tunisian blogging group named Nawaat. Read the full article here.

The recent uprising in Egypt that toppled the country’s long-sitting president, had no leader and no single hero, according to Wael Ghonim, a Google marketing manager in Egypt and one of the revolution’s galvanizing forces. Instead, every Egyptian was a leader and every Egyptian a hero. Read the full article here.

"Our intelligence suggests that Al Qaeda targeted a weak point in Americas cyber defenses: 45-year-old stay-at-home mom Maryanne Halberstroff of Jacksonville, Florida, who's been known to forward up to 12 chain emails and make over 45 Facebook posts about Farmville every day." Read the full article here.

Emails obtained by The Daily Beast show that Facebook executives took unusual steps to protect the identity of protest leaders during the Egypt uprising. Mike Giglio on how the social media giant scrambled to keep pace with Egypt's revolution. Read the full article here.

In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage US diplomacy. It was a public statement exposing what the US Govt really thought about the regime: a statement that was vivid, honest, raw, undiplomatic, extremely well-timed — and completely inadvertent. Read the full article here.

Must a revolt be filmed and photographed to succeed? It is difficult to qualify the role of social media in the popular uprisings gaining momentum across the Arab world, but it is even more difficult to quantify the effect of the perception of being ignored. Read the full article here.

From Egyptian Facebookers to WikiLeaks to China's Great Firewall, the State Department's efforts to promote an open global Internet just got a lot more complicated. Read the full article here.

With tens of thousands of individual encrypted servers, there would be no one place where a repressive government could find out who was publishing or reading “subversive” material. Read the full article here.

Wi-Fi is fast, can go long distances, and is very affordable. Best of all, anyone can learn to use wireless to extend existing Internet into other areas. You can start with Wireless Networking in the Developing World, a free book about designing, implementing, and maintaining low-cost wireless networks. Read the full article here.

Activists should remember that free access does not mean freedom of expression. Social media tools have been used for surveillance in a number of countries, and are easily exploited. Read the full article here.

Mitigating authoritarian Internet control by governments will likely require a much broader approach that focuses not only on circumvention tool development, but also on the much harder solutions to the various other kinds of Internet control. Read the full article here.

In what seems to be an elaborate joke, the US State Department made a surprising announcement. Let’s just say that it is probably not what most people expected during these hectic days. Kind of makes you wonder. And, don’t miss the link to Facebook. Read the full article here.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the US diplomatic cables. Read the full article here.

It is only logical that an article about online censorship would be censored. But last week’s censorship of such an article by the Shanghai-based business weekly Diyi Caijing Zhoukan has again highlighted the extremes to which the propaganda agencies go to ensure that any discussion of the way the Communist Party censors the Internet is nipped in the bud. Read the full article here.

A few years ago the countries in the West condemned China for taking away “unwanted” content from the internet. It was seen as conflicting with freedom of speech, and utterly foreign to our “traditions of democracy”. Today, most internauts shrug their shoulders… whatever man, we are doing that everyday anyways. Read the full article here.

The “Law of Computer Crimes” (one law with 56 articles) was approved by Iran's parliament in January 2009. It has been instrumental in the prosecution and repression of several cyber-activists and bloggers, but its articles have never received much public attention or scrutiny. Read the full article here.

At the joint European Parliament and European Commission net neutrality summit in Brussels on 11 November there was a clear political message – that interference with Internet traffic is permissible as long as companies tell their consumers that it is happening. Read the full article here.

Transparency International conducts an annual survey of corruption perception. This website provides a global corruption perception map, results by country, a link to the full report and information on the methods used. Read the full article here.

In May 2009, the Obama administration started putting raw government data on the Web. It started with 47 data sets. Today, there are more than 270,000 government data sets, spanning every imaginable category from public health to foreign aid. Read the full article here.

The computer scientists behind the Global Internet Freedom Consortium supply circumvention tools to people all over the world. Read the full article here.

But what starts out as a conventional Rap News interview soon descends into mayhem as the live feed is hijacked by News World Order, eager to spin the record like a disc jockey on crack. But beware of imitators; not all is what it seems to be! Join us for a rollercoaster episode of Rap News, featuring a very very special guest appearance. Read the full article here.

While high-speed Internet is still out of reach for many people in low-income countries, mobile telephony is becoming ubiquitous, with access to mobile networks now available to over 90% of the global population. ITU’s new data indicate that among the estimated 5.3 billion mobile subscriptions by the end of 2010, 3.8 billion will be in the developing world. Read the full article here.

Rap News resumes its lyrical forays into the world of rhyme and reason, exploring the importance of the Internets. Read the full article here.

"Our latest world press freedom index contains welcome surprises, highlights sombre realities and confirms certain trends," Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said as his organisation issued its ninth annual index today. Read the full article here.

Circumvention tools allow users to bypass Internet filtering to access content otherwise blocked. In the following report, we use a variety of methods to evaluate the usage of the first three of these four types of tools. Read the full article here.

Richard Clarke: “We created a new military command to conduct a new kind of ­high-tech war, without public debate, media discussion, serious congressional oversight, academic analysis or international dialogue.” Read the full article here.

It is now the ayatollahs’ turn to be censored. It seems that the Islamic Republic’s government can no longer tolerate the views of some of Iran’s leading clerics. Several news and information websites have been blocked in the past few days. Read the full article here.

The internet is meant to help activists, enable democratic protest and weaken the grip of authoritarian regimes. But it doesn’t—in fact, the web is a boon for bullies. Read the full article here.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to harness the power of broadband Internet access to accelerate progress towards the achievement of the development goals intended to alleviate poverty and speed up social and economic advancement in poorer countries. Read the full article here.

Burmese exiled media groups are calling for international support in ending cyber attacks that have crippled two news websites over the past week. Read the full article here.