The Monash IP Observatory - Internet Insights for Social Good

Since 2022, the Monash IP Observatory (powered by KASPR Datahaus) has supported human rights monitoring globally, by providing daily anomaly data to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In addition, we have partnered with Reuters, the Washington Post, The Economist, The ABC, and many other journalists and international legal teams to provide trusted information, analysis and insights on critical internet events during natural disasters, cyber attacks, authoritarian suppressions, and conflict.

The Approach

The internet is the most important communication and information technology of our times.

Uninterrupted access to the Internet is not only a human right, we believe it is an essential utility: to ensure the free flow of information around the globe; to enable financial services that drive economic activity and development; to support accountability, transparency, and political freedoms, especially in repressed societies; and of course, to support community building and human connecteness.

AIM: To provide Internet insights for Social good.

Approach: We pursue our aim by remotely, safely, and unobtrusively monitoring the availability and quality of the Internet during critical events such as elections, natural disasters or conflicts, using scientific-grade methods, to make our data available to key partners, academic collaborators and the public at large.

We believe that internet measurement, and specifically, anomaly detection, is best pursued by a plurality of independent laboratories and organisations around the world, in a similar way to the diverse, international monitoring efforts that support the United Nations’ Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

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