Turkey Blocks: Censorship monitoring app nabs Digital Activism Award
by Jane Whyatt
An app deisgned by the Turkish-British Alp Toker has been honoured with a Freedom of Expression prize. It aims to beat back censorship and the online blocking of critical journalists in Turkey.
Alp Toker becomes one of four Index fellows receiving Freedom of Expression Awards in different categories, 20 April 2017.
Toker's Turkey Blocks received the Digital Activism Award from Index on Censorship at a recent ceremony in London. And now the inventor and technologist aims to offer the application to groups in other countries where critical reporting and individual journalists or NGOs are censored online.
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