Herdict is a tool that seeks to provide insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility.
By crowdsourcing data from individuals around the world, it allows you to see what is inaccessible, where and for how long.
People can participate by reporting websites that they cannot access, testing sites that others have reported, or downloading the browser add-on for reporting sites on the fly.
(At the moment the add-on is just for Firefox, but it may be coming soon for Explorer; official site here).
It has been officially launched a couple of days ago, out of the OpenNet Initiative, a collaborative partnership of various academic institutions.
The OpenNet Initiative aims to analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices.
The idea is to find out efficiently how Internet censorship is reducing the availability of information, hampering the development of online communities, limiting the ability of citizens to report on the activities of governments, and so on.
Two interesting projects, to keep an eye on, or maybe even better, to partecipate in; and closely related to the issues of Network Neutrality and Digital Divide.
Find out more:
OpenNet
Source: Yvette Wohn / Future Of The Internet
