Media and recognition
KASPR data in the news.
Journalists and research teams use KASPR measurements to show what happens to the internet during conflict, disasters, shutdowns and outages. Every story below links to the original publication.
Media coverage and recognition
KASPR in the news
Journalists and research teams use KASPR measurements to show what happens to the internet during conflict, disasters, shutdowns and outages. Every story below links to the original publication.
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26 June 2025 “Iran has come back online—for now”
Read on The Economist
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9 November 2023 “Australia to investigate Optus outage as customers seek compensation”
Read on Reuters
- 30 October 2023
“Israel's ground assault hits Gaza's communication network”
Read on The Economist
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27 February 2023 “The battle to keep Ukraine connected to the internet amid Russian missile attacks”
Read on ABC News
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29 August 2022 “How to shut down the internet – and how to fight back”
Read on The Guardian
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21 September 2021 “The draconian rise of internet shutdowns”
Read on Wired
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25 August 2021 “Data shows the military blocked the Internet for increasingly longer periods”
Read on The Washington Post
- 7 April 2021
“Myanmar's internet suppression”
Read on Reuters
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31 January 2017 “The trillion internet observations showing how global sleep patterns are changing”
Coverage of the founding team's research at Monash University, which became KASPR Datahaus.
Read on MIT Technology Review
Through the Monash IP Observatory, KASPR has supported reporting and international legal teams on critical internet events including natural disasters, cyber attacks, shutdowns and conflict. We can provide district-level timelines, comparisons with surrounding regions and plain-language interpretation, and we are clear about what the data can and cannot show: it records timing and depth of change, not cause.