FOTN 2017 Acknowledgements
Donors
U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor (DRL)
German Federal Foreign Office
Internet Society
Yahoo
Golden Frog
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Freedom House Research Team
Sanja Kelly, Director, Freedom on the Net
Mai Truong, Program Manager, Africa Editor
Adrian Shahbaz, Research Manager, MENA Editor
Madeline Earp, Senior Research Analyst, Asia Editor
Jessica White, Research Analyst, Americas and Europe Editor
Rose Dlougatch, Senior Research Associate, Eurasia Editor
Report Authors and Advisors
- Argentina: Valeria Milanes, Eduardo Ferreyra, Jeannette Torrez, Leandro Ucciferri, Free Expression & Privacy team, Association for Civil Rights (ADC)
- Armenia: Artur Papyan, Editor and Contributor, RFE/RL, and media development consultant
- Australia: Dr. Alana Maurushat, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Co-Director, Cyberspace Law and Policy Community, The University of New South Wales
- Azerbaijan: Arzu Geybulla, Azerbaijani journalist
- Brazil: Fabrício Bertini Pasquot Polido, Tenured Professor, Law School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Founder of the Research Institute of Internet and Society (IRIS)
- Canada: Allen Mendelsohn, Canadian lawyer specializing in internet and technology law and lecturer of internet law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law
- Colombia: María Juliana Soto, Juan Diego Castañeda, Joan López, Fundación Karisma
- Cuba: Ted Henken, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Baruch College, CUNY
- Ecuador: Andrés Delgado-Ron, Researcher, Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial
- Estonia: Katrin Nyman Metcalf, Professor, Institute of Law, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, and Programme Director of Research and Legal Aspects, e-Governance Academy
- France: Jean-Loup Richet, Researcher, University of Nantes and ESSEC
- The Gambia: Demba Kandeh, Lecturer, School of Journalism and Digital Media, University of The Gambia
- Georgia: Teona Turashvili, Analyst, Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI)
- Germany: Philipp Otto, Founder and Head, iRights. Lab think tank and iRights.Media publishing house, Editor in Chief, iRights.info, political strategist, advisor to the German government and companies; Henning Lahmann, Senior Policy Advisor, iRights.Lab
- Hungary: Dalma Dojcsák and Máté Szabó, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
- Iceland: Caroline Nellemann, independent consultant, specialist in digital media and civic engagement
- India: Sarvjeet Singh, Programme Manager, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi; Nishtha Sinha and Vaibhav Dutt, Students, B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), National Law University, Delhi
- Indonesia: Indriaswati Dyah Saptaningrum, Senior Researcher, ELSAM (The Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy)
- Iran: Kaveh Azarhoosh, independent researcher and student at the Oxford Internet Institute
- Italy: Philip di Salvo, PhD candidate at Università della Svizzera and freelance journalist; Antonella Napolitano, Communications Manager, Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (CILD)
- Japan: Dr. Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba
- Jordan: Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA)
- Kazakhstan: Adilzhan Nurmakov, Senior Lecturer, KIMEP University
- Kenya: Moses Karanja, Researcher, The Citizen Lab
- Kyrgyzstan: Artem Goryainov, IT Programs Director, Public Foundation CIIP
- Lebanon: SMEX
- Libya: Fadil Aliriza, journalist, researcher, political analyst, and Tunisia Project Manager, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Malawi: Gregory Gondwe, journalist
- Malaysia: K Kabilan, Managing Editor, BeritaDaily.com, and online media consultant
- Mexico: Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Associate Research Professor, School of Humanities and Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Morocco: Bouziane Zaid, Visiting Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah
- Myanmar: Min Zin, Executive Director, Institute for Strategy and Policy: Myanmar
- Nigeria: ‘Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative
- Pakistan: Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan; Shmyla Khan, Project Manager, Digital Rights Foundation
- Singapore: Cherian George, Professor, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University
- South Africa: Zororo Mavindidze, independent researcher
- South Korea: Dr. Yenn Lee, Doctoral Training Advisor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Sri Lanka: N.V. Nugawela, independent researcher, Colombo
- Sudan: Azaz Elshami, independent researcher and development consultant
- Syria: Dlshad Othman, information security expert
- Uganda: Lillian Nalwoga, Policy Officer, CIPESA, and President, Internet Society Uganda Chapter
- Ukraine: Dariya Orlova, Senior lecturer at KyivMohyla School of Journalism
- United Kingdom: Aaron Ceross, Researcher in Cyber Security, University of Oxford
- United States: Laura Reed, independent researcher
- Uzbekistan: Daniil Kislov, Editor-in-Chief of Ferghana News Agency; Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor of Ferghana News Agency
- Venezuela: Raisa Urribarri, Emeritus Professor at Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, and Journalist, Researcher and Consultant on ICT issues
The analysts for the reports on Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe are independent internet researchers who have requested to remain anonymous.
Freedom House would also like to thank the Internet Society (ISOC) and ISOC country chapters representatives -- including: Olga Kyryliuk, ISOC global; Amrita Choudhury, Treasurer, ISOC India-Delhi chapter; Winthrop Yu, ISOC Philippines chapter; Tawanda Maguze, ISOC Zimbabwe chapter; Alan Levin, Chairman, ISOC South Africa chapter; and Enrico Calandro, Policy WG Chair, ISOC South Africa chapter; as well as ISOC chapter representatives who have asked to remain anonymous -- for providing valuable feedback on Freedom on the Net 2017 country reports.