Nick Merrill
Director
Helping decision makers anticipate and address structural risks to the global Internet through measurements, visualizations and analysis
The internet is central to the lives of most people, but there is little public awareness of the infrastructure that powers the internet. Here at the UC Berkeley’s Internet Atlas Project we work to make that infrastructure better understood: to define its strengths and weaknesses so as to yield actionable insights for a more stable and secure internet, and to expand who has access and can benefit from the upsides of the digital information revolution.
Original IA measurement tools:
- See a map or a force-directed graph of similarity between countries’ patterns of website blocking
- See a visualization of network interference globally
- Access this project’s code, data, and analysis on Github
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Read more by Nick Merrill on the Internet Atlas:
- Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet. The Conversation
- Web site blocking as a proxy of policy alignment. First Monday, 26(1)
- Internet Fragmentation: Beyond “free” and “closed.” CLTC Bulletin
Internet Atlas in the News:
Resources:
- See a map or a force-directed graph of similarity between countries’ patterns of website blocking
- See a visualization of network interference globally
- Access this project’s code, data, and analysis on Github
Watch videos about this project:
CLTC invites individual, foundation and industry collaborators and supporters to contact Nick Merrill or Shanti Corrigan to discuss opportunities to advance the Internet Atlas project. We thank the following for early support to launch this concept:
