Internet Society Pulse

November 2023
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How You Are Using Pulse

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What are you trying to achieve with Pulse?

It can currently help you:

• Increase your professional development regarding the Internet
• Understand Internet availability, accessibility, and usage
• Assess Internet shutdowns
• Be alerted about Internet shutdowns before they happen

In the future:
• Engage and be a part of a community

It won't help you:

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About
• Launched December 2020.
• Launched December 2020.
• We curate Internet measurement data from
• trusted
We sources
curate to help
Internet everyone gain
measurement datadeeper,
from trusted
sources to help
data-driven everyone
insight gain
into the deeper, data-driven
Internet.
insight into the Internet.
Trusted data from multiple sources:
• Trusted data from multiple sources:
• Benefit: Helps to assess whether efforts to
• ensure that
Helps to the Internet
assess whetherremains
efforts open, globally
to ensure that the
Internet remains
connected, secure,open, globally connected,
and trustworthy secure,
are working.
and trustworthy are working.
• Benefit: Allows policymakers, researchers,
Allows policymakers,
• journalists, researchers,
network operators, civil journalists,
society
network
groups, operators,
and others tocivil society
better groups,the
understand and others
to better understand the health, availability, and
health, availability,
evolution and evolution of the Internet.
of the Internet.

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Pulse Data Partners
• Data is provided by our trusted data partners

pulse.internetsociety.org/partners
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Focus Areas
• Internet Shutdowns
• Tracking artificial Internet limitations
happening around the world.
• Only government-mandated shutdowns are
listed on the Pulse tracker.
• Multiple data sources corroborated by
government orders of media reports.
Pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns

• Calculating the economic loss of Internet

shutdowns, including the:
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) lost
• Change in unemployment
• Amount of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) lost
• Probability that a country will experience Economic Loss
another shutdown USD $1.4B
pulse.internetsociety.org/netloss
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Focus Areas
• Enabling Technologies
• Help the Internet to keep growing,
evolving and meeting the changing
expectations of users.
• IPv6, TLS 1.3, HTTPS, DNSSEC, Route
Validation and Route Origin Authorization
(ROA) validation
• pulse.internetsociety.org/technologies

• Internet Concentration
• Tracking which core Internet services are
distributed or concentrated among a few
actors.
• Two views:
• Market Concentration: The concentration
of providers in a given market
• Country Market Shares: The jurisdiction of
providers in a given market.
pulse.internetsociety.org/concentration
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Focus Areas
• Internet Resilience
• Measuring how resilient networks are
using the Internet Society Internet
Resilience Index (IRI).
• The IRI draws upon more than 20 open
data sources and uses best current
methodologies to calculate a snapshot
of a country’s Internet resilience in
terms of its: Infrastructure, security,
market readiness and performance.
• Tracks Internet resilience for more than
170 countries
pulse.internetsociety.org/resilience

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Focus Areas
• Country Reports
• Consolidate and provide context for the
data that we collect and curate via the
four Pulse research tracks.
• Pulse Country Reports can assist:
• Policy and decision makers to understand
local and regional differences regarding
various aspects of the Internet. This can help
target improvement plans and work towards
enabling policies to support development.
• Civil society groups and journalists to
advocate and lobby for more investment and
targeted improvements to infrastructure.
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/reports

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Pulse Blog
• Analysis and commentary on key
issues.

• Guest posts on relevant topics

welcome.

• Those experiencing Internet

shutdowns are encourage to share
how the incident affected them

pulse.internetsociety.org/blog

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Your Questions

• Does Pulse take into account the national cuts of an ISP?

• How can it offer help in policy advocacy?
• How can I use Pulse to improve connectivity?
• How do you calculate your metrics of success?
• What is Internet's health, availability, and evolution?
• Do you contact public/designated national authorities responsible to report on key
Internet indicators to fact check/corroborate data obtained from third parties;
especially when there is material discrepancies between reported data?
• Are there attempts to localize pulse. If yes I would like to be part of the process
• How does internet resilience contribute towards the adaptation and adoption of ICT
interventions for development?

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Your Questions

• I believe an Internet shutdown occurred, how can I report this to Pulse?

• How can Pulse help and prevent Internet Shutdown by governments in Africa during
elections or public protests?
• As a journalist, would it be possible to arrange an interview with a subject matter
expert who can discuss the NetLoss calculator and its relevance to Internet
shutdowns?
• When is your training?
• Are there plans for an app?

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Feature and Data Requests

• User numbers, including gender and age breakdown

• Rural vs urban Internet resilience and connectivity
• Live feed of the Internet's health and availability/ trending events
• More training sessions (virtual) for regulators/policy makers
• Network speed, bandwidth, network availability, packet duplication, user quality
experience, latency, packet loss, VoIP quality, throughput.
• Real-time cyberattacks

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