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The Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST)

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

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Pakistan

The tool can calculate what the economic loss is by country and service eg if Facebook were shutdown in Pakistan for three days. The tool empowers activists, journalists and policy officials to be more creative in how to affect change around censorship and shutdowns.

Project type
Tool or platform
Language(s)
English
Added
2021-06-22
Last modified
2026-03-23T11:02:34.000Z

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