Arthur Gwagwa

Nov 30

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By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-11-30
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Rwanda’s Resilient and Consistent Censorship Regime

By: Arthur Gwagwa Key Findings The Open Observatory on Interference (OONI) technical measurements collected between1st July 2018 to 15th November reveal web connectivity anomalies caused by Domain Name System (DNS)-based censorship. Manual tests on a sample of 5 of the technically tested websi...

Nov 12

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By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-11-12
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Africa Cybersecurity Multi-Stakeholderism- the good, the bad and the ugly

By Arthur Gwagwa Post- Sony Pictures & Pentagon Cyber attacks Landscape In the aftermath of the massive attack on Sony Pictures and the Pentagon’s social media accounts in 2014, discussions on the preparedness to safeguard critical infrastructure have escalated, for example, Microsoft’s ...

Aug 03

In: Blog
By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-08-03
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Zimbabwe’s main ISP ‘TelOne’ takes down a key and critical Election website.

Zimbabwe ‘new dispensation’ narrative unraveled in just 48 hours after the election when violence erupted following the opposition’s disquiet with the results that have been announced so far. In the process the country’s leading ISP blocked the country’s most investigative election webs...

Aug 01

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By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-08-01
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Dynamic Data Obfuscation Ahead of Zimbabwe’s Elections

Zimbabwe’s pro-democracy groups have alleged significant information security breaches of voters’ personal data ahead of the Monday 30 July elections. While there haven’t been any reported significant network disruptions so far, nevertheless, these breaches, some of which the electoral commiss...

Jul 19

In: Blog
By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-07-19
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Kenya’s 2017 Election(s): A Failure of Technology or Good Governance?

BY: Jeffrey Smith and Arthur Gwagwa The Kenyan Supreme Court’s ruling that nullified last month’s re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta was a watershed moment. Hailed as the first of its kind in Africa, Kenya became the first country to have its election result annulled, and a fresh election o...

Jul 19

In: Blog
By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-07-19
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Verifiability and Trust: Two Key Ingredients to a Credible Election in Zimbabwe.

By Arthur Gwagwa and Kuda Hove: A credible election requires a verifiable and auditable paper trail to evidence that every vote counted and the election result was accurate. In the event of inaccuracies, such paper trail provides the basis for a remedy. Election management bodies (EMBs) are entrust...

Jul 19

In: Publications
By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-07-19
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Could Ethiopia Be The Next Outpost For Internet Freedom Community Cyber Dialogue?

By Arthur Gwagwa, London, U.K. and Melaku Girma, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Abstract Since 2005 when it became a modern constitutional republic, Ethiopia has faced a dilemma, with the choice between increasing digital freedoms that can facilitate national development and participation in the globa...

Jul 19

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By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-07-19
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How Undermining Encryption threatens Online User Security in Africa

By Arthur Gwagwa Encryption as in integral component of anonymity and circumvention of encryption has come under threat in an already embattled right to privacy and free expression landscape in Africa. This is evidenced by recent events in Uganda, where the government ordered telecommunication servi...

Jul 11

In: Blog
By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-07-11
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What Can We Learn From Zimbabwe’s 2013 Election DDOS Attack Ahead Of The 2018 Poll?

In the weeks leading up to and following Zimbabwe’s disputed 2013 election, Zimbabweans were hit by significant Internet-based attacks. Because the incident was not widely reported, it did not gain traction at all in the Internet Freedom Community. Yet the incident was one of a kind to be document...

Jul 10

In: Blog
By: Arthur Gwagwa
Date: 2018-07-10
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Sustainable Development in Ethiopia Requires Freedom of Expression.

Media sector reform can facilitate Ethiopia’s development agenda. In his inaugural acceptance Speech on April 2, 2018, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali, acknowledged how free flow of information and activities, including through the use of technology can “reverberate”...

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