Censorship Monitoring Project Strategic Plan

This is a strategic plan for the Censorship Monitoring Project. It is currently under discussion by the ORG Technical Volunteers community on the talk page and on our mailing list.

Mission

To end the imposition of web blocking by holding ISPs and the government accountable, providing a place where people can learn about the real effects of filters, offering mechanisms to report problems, and maintaining an open record of online censorship, releasing our code and data under permissive licenses for others to reuse or extend.

Opportunities

Stimulate and inform public debate about the pros and cons of default-on web filtering; make the real behaviour of these filters transparent; improve the supervision of children online by informing society about filter effectiveness; reduce the potential for infringement of the rights of children (and others) to access information and express themselves online; help website owners check whether a given filter has blocked their site erroneously; improve processes for correcting censorship mistakes; research and document current censorship methods and technologies; and produce code and data that can be reused by others subject to censorship.

Areas of collaboration

• Website
• Software
• Testing
• Interpretation of results
• Documentation
• Advocacy and publicity

Skills required

• Requirements management
• Infrastructure management
• User experience design
• User interface design
• Programming (probes, middleware, API)
• Web design
• Bug triage
• Data analysis
• Copywriting
• Documentation