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Jordan: Issa Mahasneh, Jordan Open
Source Association
Kazakhstan: Adil Nurmakov, independent
researcher; Yelzhan Kabyshev, director of Digital
Paradigm Foundation
Lebanon: Marianne Rahme, SMEX
Libya: Muhammad Jaballa, independent researcher
Malawi: Jimmy Kainja, University of Malawi
Malaysia: Kelly Koh, Sinar Project
Mexico: Mariel García-Montes, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Myanmar: Free Expression Myanmar
Nicaragua: Abdías Zambrano, Gabriel Cajiga, and
Marion Briancesco, IPANDETEC Central America
Nigeria: 'Gbenga Sesan, Paradigm Initiative
Serbia: Mila Bajić, Bojan Perkov, and Anka Kovačević,
SHARE Foundation
Singapore: Kirsten Han, independent researcher
South Africa: Okyerebea Ampofo-Anti, AmpofoAnti Consulting
South Korea: Yenn Lee, SOAS University of London
Sri Lanka: Raisa Wickrematunge,
independent researcher
Sudan: Reem Abbas, independent researcher and writer
Taiwan: Ming-Syuan Ho, independent researcher
Thailand: Emilie Pradichit, Manushya Foundation
The Gambia: Demba Kandeh, University of The Gambia
Tunisia: Yosr Jouini, independent researcher
Turkey: Gürkan Özturan, Media Freedom Rapid
Response Coordinator at the European Centre for Press
and Media Freedom
Ukraine: Olga Kyryliuk, independent legal practitioner
and researcher
United Kingdom: Aaron Ceross, University of Oxford
United States: Alex Rochefort, Boston University
Uzbekistan: Ernest Zhanaev, independent researcher
Venezuela: Raisa Urribarri, Universidad de Los
Andes (Emeritus)
Vietnam: Trinh Huu Long, Legal Initiatives for Vietnam
Researchers for Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, China,
Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Pakistan,
Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe wished to
remain anonymous.
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Advisers
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Christopher Ali, Associate Professor for Department of
Media Studies at the University of Virginia
Endalkachew Chala, Hamline University
Ernesto Falcon, independent researcher
K Kabilan, independent researcher
Ndesanjo Macha, independent researcher
Alice E. Marwick, Associate Professor of Communication
and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information,
Technology, and Public Life at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bulanda T. Nkhowani, Program Officer, Southern Africa
at Paradigm Initiative
Lizzie O’Shea, Co-Founder and Chair, Digital Rights
Watch Australia
Riana Pfefferkorn, Stanford Internet Observatory
Xiao Qiang, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China
Digital Times and research scientist at the School of
Information, University of California Berkeley
The Freedom on the Net team expresses their gratitude to
the global internet freedom community, including the many
individuals and organizations whose tireless and courageous
work informs this report.
HOW TO CITE THIS REPORT
Shahbaz, Funk, Slipowitz, Vesteinsson, Baker, Grothe, Vepa,
Weal eds. Freedom on the Net 2021, Freedom House, 2021,
freedomonthenet.org.
Shahbaz and Funk, “The Global Drive to Control Big Tech,” in
Shahbaz, Funk, Slipowitz, Vesteinsson, Baker, Grothe, Vepa,
Weal eds. Freedom on the Net 2021, Freedom House, 2021,
freedomonthenet.org.
“Angola,” in Shahbaz, Funk, Slipowitz, Vesteinsson, Baker,
Grothe, Vepa, Weal eds. Freedom on the Net 2021, Freedom
House, 2021, freedomonthenet.org.
freedomhouse.org
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