The #KeepItOn campaign unites and organizes global organizations and
efforts to end internet shutdowns. The campaign was launched by a coalition
of about 70 organizations in 2016 at RightsCon in Silicon Valley. Membership
of the coalition has since increased rapidly to more than 334 members from
106 countries around the world ranging from civil society, rights, and advocacy
groups to research centers, detection networks, foundations, and media
organizations.
This report is a publication of Access Now for the #KeepItOn coalition and was
written by Zach Rosson, Felicia Anthonio, and Carolyn Tackett in collaboration
with the Access Now team.
The authors would like to especially thank Donna Wentworth, Ángela Alarcón,
Bridget Andere, Golda Benjamin, Raman Jit Singh Chima, Giulio Coppi, Marwa
Fatafta, Osei Manu Kagyah, Natalia Krapiva, Jaimee Kokonya, Namrata
Maheshwari, Peter Micek, Kassem Mnejja, Wai Phyo Myint, Shruti Narayan,
Laura O’Brien, Naro Omo-Osagie, Gaspar Pisanu, Prateek, Alexia Skok, Vakau,
Aymen Zaghdoudi, and Anastasiya Zhyrmont for their contributions. We would
also like to thank Advocacy Assembly Shutdown Academy, Athan, Cloudflare,
Digitally Right, Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA), Kentik, Miaan
Group, Myanmar Internet Project, Open Observatory of Network Interference
(OONI), Software Freedom Law Centre India (SFLC.in), and other members
of the #KeepItOn coalition for providing valuable information and insights,
reviewing data and sources, and contributing to the report. Any errors,
misrepresentations, or inaccuracies are ours alone, and we welcome your
feedback.
Design and data visualization by Loren Giordano and Sage Cheng.
A note on our data
This #KeepItOn report looks at incidents of internet shutdowns documented
by Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition in 2023. While we try to build a
comprehensive database, our data relies on technical measurement as well
as contextual information, such as news reports or personal accounts. The
constraints of our methodology mean that there may be cases of internet
shutdowns that have gone unreported, and numbers are likely to change if and
when new information becomes available after puiblication. In 2023, we gained
insight into shutdowns from previous years that were added to the dataset
retrospectively, and documentation of these changes can be found here:
https://accessnow.org/keepiton-data. All data below reflects the most up-todate information as of publication.
Visit https://accessnow.org/keepiton-data-methodology for the latest
information on our methodology, commonly asked questions, and ongoing work.
May 2024