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Internet freedom in West Africa: technical support for journalists and democracy advocates

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The U.S. State Department's Internet Freedom agenda is being adapted to help them communicate without DNS and IP address filtering.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 5
May 2018
104 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3210350
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