Cuba second to last in Internet freedom

de buena tinta kubiche que siempre son jeroglificas: van a abrir el banderin.
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Tracey Eaton

Freedom House rates Internet freedom on 0-to-100 scale

The State Department plans to award up to $15 million for Internet freedom programs in countries where the Internet is restricted.
Grants will range from $500,000 to $2 million each, although individual Internet freedom grants of $1.5 million or more are unusual.
Up to $7 million of the $15 million will focus on programs aimed at:

• Assisting digital activists in "acutely hostile Internet environments"
• Enhancing "Internet freedom technology, training, policy and diplomacy."

The remaining $8 million will focus on technology, specifically the "development and support of web and mobile anti-censorship technologies to expand open and uncensored access to information and communications."
Priority will be given to the development of:

• "High-risk, high-reward" tools used to get around censors and communicate securely.
• Expansion or improvement of existing Internet freedom tools.
• Merging or modifying existing technologies "to address specific unsolved or under-solved real-world Internet freedom challenges." These technologies include "alternative network infrastructures."

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