This report guides you through real-life scenarios of government-driven splinternets, from Iran to Cuba and Russia. It then dives deeper into the tools and methodologies for censored networks and the splinternet. It is built from abstracts of the conference talks and presentations.

  • A brief summary of the history of NIN
  • Mobile Internet and surveillance in Iran
  • Splinternet in action: methods of Iranian censorship
  • Stone soup: Russian national technologies of splinternetization
  • Cuba’s digital evolution: from an Intranet to the Internet and back
  • Tools for the Splintered Networks
  • Living in a splinternet, a demo

SplinterCon,
Montreal’23

This report presents an analytical summary and key outcomes of the first SplinterCon (Montreal, Dec 7-9, 2023). It gives you the overview of the most recent research on the phenomenon of splinternet, network fragmentation, national intranets and digital sovereignty. It walks you through country-specific cases and first-hand user stories, from Iran to Ukraine. Finally, the report brings you state of the art technological solutions against informational isolation, provides illustrative infographics and key numbers relevant to the Splinternet.