The SecDev Group has released a study of Internet censorship and surveillance
in Turkmenistan. The report was commissioned and financially supported by the
Open Society Foundations. It is posted on the ONI Website , and can also be
downloaded from here
Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan’s Digital Doldrums
Abstract
Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli
Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of
new technology for economic development and more efficient governance. Hundreds
of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the country faces
serious challenges as it prepares to go digital. Infrastructure is primitive,
and public access is enforced by a state monopoly. Slow speeds, exorbitant
pricing, and technological illiteracy all constitute major hurdles. A new study
from the SecDev Group highlights the ambivalent policies and practices that
have left Turkmenistan mired in the digital doldrums, torn between its desire
to join the worldwide web and its compulsion to control cyberspace.
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