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country page: contextual pages/sections

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OONI network measurement data is great, but context is required. To this end, I propose that we account for some "contextual pages" in the revamped OONI Explorer that are open for community contributions/editing.

In previous community meetings and discussions, we identified the following types of contextual information that would be great to have in OONI Explorer:

  1. Network landscape (types of ISPs, network infrastructure, etc,).

  2. Internet penetration (percentage of internet access, services commonly used, etc.).

  3. Laws & regulations around:

  • Censorship
  • Freedom of expression
  • Press freedom
  • Access to information
  1. Reported cases of internet censorship (news articles, research reports, etc.).

Since a lot of the information required for the above sections can't be synthesized in a way that would be spreadsheet friendly, I suggest using a sort of Wiki that enables contributors to edit freely.

The above types of information can not only help contextualize OONI measurements, but they can also help identify additional URLs to add to test lists (i.e. sites that were previously reported to be blocked).

Each OONI Explorer country page would include the 4 above sections of contextual information, providing a button (or something) that allows community members to edit the content in those sections. For some (or many) countries, these contextual sections may be blank (at the start, at least), but hopefully we'll be able to engage more community members with the editing of those sections over time.

We have already collected the above information in many of our research reports (https://ooni.torproject.org/post/), which can be added directly to their respective OONI Explorer country pages.

Things to consider:

  1. To enable community contributions, it's crucial that we make the process of editing as simple as possible (in order words, let's refrain from requiring community members to use git). Perhaps linking OONI Explorer to a wiki would work?

  2. In each OONI Explorer country page, we obviously want to highlight the main OONI Probe findings and other OONI measurements. However, this means that there's the risk that the contextual sections may be buried at the end of the page (which means that fewer people are likely to notice them and thus contribute). I'd like to discuss UX ideas in terms of how to make the contextual sections as easy to find as possible, while still highlighting the OONI measurements.

@hellais @elioqoshi looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions on all of the above! :)

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