Country profile · BW
A closer look at internet access.
The score, the signals, the source.
30-day index score
Unavailable
No publishable score in this snapshot. Missing coverage does not establish freedom.
Snapshot fetched
Outside the scored OONI profile
Available source records for Botswana are shown with their dates and measurement limits. An absent score does not imply unrestricted internet access.
This source branch has no complete scored OONI editorial profile. Current incident and model sources remain independently available.
The original site falls back to the country API and incident records for Botswana. No unique OONI editorial narrative is available in that branch.
Editorial text is preserved as source context. Product recommendations do not guarantee unrestricted access. The source tier may differ from the measured score because the two have different definitions.
Score window: Unavailable days. Snapshot fetched . Content first seen . Upstream serve-time . These timestamps do not date the all-time OONI observations.
All-time measurements accumulate from an older source file without an observation window or timestamp. The all-time blocked ratio is not the confidence-shrunk score. Zero counts and absent fields are kept distinct.
All-time measurement archive
No collection date or complete-country coverage claim is attached to this archive. Protocol fields can be incomplete and need not sum to the historical total.
Country incident records
ioda · BW-2026-0027
2 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0026
2 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0025
2 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0024
5 source measurements · incident confidence 70.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 5 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0023
2 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0022
1 source measurements · incident confidence 65.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 1 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0021
2 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0020
2 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0019
3 source measurements · incident confidence 67.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 3 critical alerts recorded.
ioda · BW-2026-0018
1 source measurements · incident confidence 65.0%
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 1 critical alerts recorded.
Statuses come from each record; “active” is not inferred from severity or an absent end date. Incident confidence is a source field, not independent certainty that censorship occurred.
This is the source mix in the latest returned incident sample, not independent corroboration of the country score. A record can name multiple sources; the counts can overlap.
Dataset version: 2026.10.03. Malformed rows omitted: 0. All readable returned records appear above; each links to its complete evidence and citation page.
Measurement context
This fallback averages up to 50 incident anomaly fields and sums their source measurement counts. It can combine IODA and other signals; it is not an OONI sample block rate or an independently comparable country score.
Source generated: . This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
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"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 5 critical alerts recorded.",
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"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.",
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"createdAt": "2026-08-18T12:00:07.075930",
"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 1 critical alerts recorded.",
"duration": null,
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"id": "BW-2026-0022",
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"readableId": "BW-2026-0022",
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"createdAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:07.516448",
"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.",
"duration": null,
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"hashId": "0ea350f6b2a0",
"id": "BW-2026-0021",
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"readableId": "BW-2026-0021",
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"country": "BW",
"countryName": "Botswana",
"createdAt": "2026-07-20T18:00:07.556619",
"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 2 critical alerts recorded.",
"duration": null,
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"flag": "🇧🇼",
"hashId": "c4a425eb8f2c",
"id": "BW-2026-0020",
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"readableId": "BW-2026-0020",
"reportUrl": "https://api.voidly.ai/data/incidents/c4a425eb8f2c/report?format=markdown",
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"country": "BW",
"countryName": "Botswana",
"createdAt": "2026-06-20T18:00:15.148880",
"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 3 critical alerts recorded.",
"duration": null,
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"endTime": null,
"flag": "🇧🇼",
"hashId": "8bbc88377c76",
"id": "BW-2026-0019",
"incidentType": "disruption",
"measurementCount": 3,
"mechanism": "Infrastructure outage",
"readableId": "BW-2026-0019",
"reportUrl": "https://api.voidly.ai/data/incidents/8bbc88377c76/report?format=markdown",
"revision": 1,
"severity": "critical",
"severityGrade": "B",
"sources": [
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"startTime": "2026-06-20T11:40:00Z",
"status": "active",
"title": "Internet connectivity disruption in BW",
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"anomalyRate": 0.22093023255813954,
"confidence": 0.65,
"country": "BW",
"countryName": "Botswana",
"createdAt": "2026-06-02T06:00:04.326194",
"description": "IODA detected significant connectivity drop in BW. 1 critical alerts recorded.",
"duration": null,
"durationHours": 0,
"endTime": null,
"flag": "🇧🇼",
"hashId": "bed91185c619",
"id": "BW-2026-0018",
"incidentType": "disruption",
"measurementCount": 1,
"mechanism": "Infrastructure outage",
"readableId": "BW-2026-0018",
"reportUrl": "https://api.voidly.ai/data/incidents/bed91185c619/report?format=markdown",
"revision": 1,
"severity": "critical",
"severityGrade": "A",
"sources": [
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"startTime": "2026-06-02T00:10:00Z",
"status": "active",
"title": "Internet connectivity disruption in BW",
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"sources": [
"ioda"
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"affectedServices": [],
"status": "low",
"score": 14
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"lastUpdated": "2026-10-03T20:14:37.484Z"
}Quality measures evidence confidence, not censorship probability. A small or absent sample cannot establish country-wide access. Quality generated: Date unavailable.
Quality sourceCountry-origin probe records: Unavailable. Flagged in that sample: Unavailable (Unavailable).
Global core + community active nodes: 41. Core active nodes: 15. Global probes in the last 24 hours: 132,104. Network source updated: .
Global infrastructure totals do not prove that this country was tested from every location. A node’s reported status and country reflect network infrastructure, not national internet freedom.
No country-origin nodes were returned in this network response.
Model outlook
7-day event probability
Unavailable
A censorship or connectivity event within seven days of the model’s as-of date, relative to the country’s baseline. It does not predict an exact shutdown date or measure standing freedom.
Model: v1
Model as-of date: Date unavailable
Source generated: . This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
fixed in-sample model confidence, NOT a per-forecast calibrated probability
Use for cross-country RISK RANKING, not precise within-country day-of-shutdown timing.
This forecast scores the ONSET of a new recorded incident, not how censored a country already is. A permanently and stably blocked network generates no new anomaly, so it scores LOW. Measured 2026-07-31: China 0.015 and India 0.023 both rank BELOW Denmark 0.062 — China is probed 30/30 days across 836 domains and has logged nothing for 71 days, while Denmark is probed 2/30 days. A low score here means 'no CHANGE expected', never 'this country is free'. For standing severity use /v1/atlas/score-v2 or the censorship index instead.
Training ROC AUC 0.954 came from a RANDOM stratified split (consecutive country-days in an incident window are near-duplicates, inflating it). No target leakage: features use [date-7,date], label uses [date+1,date+7].
~0.85-0.90 (dual-holdout temporal gate)
ML_LEAKAGE_AUDIT.md (forecast v1/7day row).
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"aci": {
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"alpha": 0.108,
"empirical_coverage": 0.9003,
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"q_applied": 0.35,
"q_raw": 0.913
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"confidence": 0.85,
"country": "BW",
"country_name": "BW",
"covered": true,
"forecast": [
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"date": "2026-10-03",
"day": 0,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.017
},
{
"date": "2026-10-04",
"day": 1,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.021
},
{
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"day": 2,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.01
},
{
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"day": 3,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.01
},
{
"date": "2026-10-07",
"day": 4,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.01
},
{
"date": "2026-10-08",
"day": 5,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.03
},
{
"date": "2026-10-09",
"day": 6,
"drivers": [],
"risk": 0.035
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"honest_caveat": {
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"correct_use": "Use for cross-country RISK RANKING, not precise within-country day-of-shutdown timing.",
"detects_change_not_state": "This forecast scores the ONSET of a new recorded incident, not how censored a country already is. A permanently and stably blocked network generates no new anomaly, so it scores LOW. Measured 2026-07-31: China 0.015 and India 0.023 both rank BELOW Denmark 0.062 — China is probed 30/30 days across 836 domains and has logged nothing for 71 days, while Denmark is probed 2/30 days. A low score here means 'no CHANGE expected', never 'this country is free'. For standing severity use /v1/atlas/score-v2 or the censorship index instead.",
"headline_auc_note": "Training ROC AUC 0.954 came from a RANDOM stratified split (consecutive country-days in an incident window are near-duplicates, inflating it). No target leakage: features use [date-7,date], label uses [date+1,date+7].",
"honest_temporal_holdout_auc": "~0.85-0.90 (dual-holdout temporal gate)",
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"GET /v1/forecast/onset-skill (honest onset / forward skill)"
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"source": "ML_LEAKAGE_AUDIT.md (forecast v1/7day row)."
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"model_version": "v1",
"summary": {
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{
"contribution": -0.036,
"direction": "down",
"name": "gdelt_unrest_30d",
"source": "model"
},
{
"contribution": 0.035,
"direction": "up",
"name": "day_decay_t+7",
"source": "overlay"
}
]
}
]
}The returned daily shape belongs to legacy v1. It is not independently validated and does not describe the honest 7-day headline model above. Its peak day, fixed confidence and interval must not be attached to that headline.
| Date | Legacy value | Source drivers |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-03 | 1.7% | |
| 2026-10-04 | 2.1% | |
| 2026-10-05 | 1.0% | |
| 2026-10-06 | 1.0% | |
| 2026-10-07 | 1.0% | |
| 2026-10-08 | 3.0% | |
| 2026-10-09 | 3.5% | |
| 2026-10-10 | 5.1% |
Original display confidence field: 85.0%. The source describes this as fixed in-sample model confidence, not calibrated per-forecast certainty.
Separate multi-horizon model. Each mark is the point estimate; its bar is the source’s 90% conformal interval.
36.4% · 90% interval 26.7%–46.1%
58.8% · 90% interval 40.1%–77.6%
95.2% · 90% interval 45.2%–100.0%
Model: multi-horizon-h-v1. Longer-horizon intervals can be very wide; these estimates do not support precise within-country timing.
Source consistency: within the model’s monotonicity tolerance.
Per-horizon breakdownSource generated: . This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
AUC (e.g. 1d ~0.91) OVERSTATES usefulness — per-horizon F1 is much lower (~0.45 at 1d) because shutdown-positive days are rare and the 7/30-day target is a sliding window that is highly autocorrelated day-to-day (a leakage-prone label).
Conformal bands widen sharply at 30d (often ~[0.45, 1.0]) — the 30d point estimate is low-confidence.
Use for cross-country RISK RANKING within the watched panel, NOT precise within-country day-of-shutdown timing. Data-backed for covered countries only (see the 'covered' flag).
This forecast scores the ONSET of a new recorded incident, not how censored a country already is. A permanently and stably blocked network generates no new anomaly, so it scores LOW. Measured 2026-07-31: China 0.015 and India 0.023 both rank BELOW Denmark 0.062 — China is probed 30/30 days across 836 domains and has logged nothing for 71 days, while Denmark is probed 2/30 days. A low score here means 'no CHANGE expected', never 'this country is free'. For standing severity use /v1/atlas/score-v2 or the censorship index instead.
Per-horizon AUC is leave-one-country-out on the SPOTLIGHT (watched) panel, NOT all 130 countries; see /v1/forecast/multi-horizon/info for the per-horizon F1.
{
"consistency": {
"monotonic": true,
"violations": []
},
"country": "BW",
"country_name": "BW",
"covered": true,
"generated_at": "2026-10-03T20:14:38.526102",
"honest_caveat": {
"auc_caveat": "AUC (e.g. 1d ~0.91) OVERSTATES usefulness — per-horizon F1 is much lower (~0.45 at 1d) because shutdown-positive days are rare and the 7/30-day target is a sliding window that is highly autocorrelated day-to-day (a leakage-prone label).",
"conformal_caveat": "Conformal bands widen sharply at 30d (often ~[0.45, 1.0]) — the 30d point estimate is low-confidence.",
"correct_use": "Use for cross-country RISK RANKING within the watched panel, NOT precise within-country day-of-shutdown timing. Data-backed for covered countries only (see the 'covered' flag).",
"detects_change_not_state": "This forecast scores the ONSET of a new recorded incident, not how censored a country already is. A permanently and stably blocked network generates no new anomaly, so it scores LOW. Measured 2026-07-31: China 0.015 and India 0.023 both rank BELOW Denmark 0.062 — China is probed 30/30 days across 836 domains and has logged nothing for 71 days, while Denmark is probed 2/30 days. A low score here means 'no CHANGE expected', never 'this country is free'. For standing severity use /v1/atlas/score-v2 or the censorship index instead.",
"metrics_are": "Per-horizon AUC is leave-one-country-out on the SPOTLIGHT (watched) panel, NOT all 130 countries; see /v1/forecast/multi-horizon/info for the per-horizon F1."
},
"honest_horizons": [
"1d",
"30d",
"7d"
],
"horizons": {
"1d": {
"conformal_90": {
"halfwidth": 0.0968,
"lower": 0.2672,
"upper": 0.4608
},
"horizon": "1d",
"horizon_days": 1,
"probability": 0.364,
"top_features": [
{
"feature": "week_of_year",
"shap_value": -0.8378445506095886
},
{
"feature": "risk_tier",
"shap_value": 0.058542247861623764
},
{
"feature": "recent_shutdown",
"shap_value": 0.05544596537947655
},
{
"feature": "gdelt_unrest_30d",
"shap_value": -0.05096934735774994
},
{
"feature": "block_rate_roll14_mean",
"shap_value": -0.03886796906590462
}
]
},
"30d": {
"conformal_90": {
"halfwidth": 0.5,
"lower": 0.4521,
"upper": 1
},
"horizon": "30d",
"horizon_days": 30,
"probability": 0.9521,
"top_features": [
{
"feature": "week_of_year",
"shap_value": -0.6930654644966125
},
{
"feature": "critical_incident_7d",
"shap_value": 0.4860103726387024
},
{
"feature": "risk_tier",
"shap_value": 0.1869172304868698
},
{
"feature": "recent_shutdown",
"shap_value": -0.107398122549057
},
{
"feature": "month",
"shap_value": -0.09687148034572601
}
]
},
"7d": {
"conformal_90": {
"halfwidth": 0.1875,
"lower": 0.4009,
"upper": 0.7759
},
"horizon": "7d",
"horizon_days": 7,
"probability": 0.5884,
"top_features": [
{
"feature": "week_of_year",
"shap_value": -0.4971531927585602
},
{
"feature": "recent_shutdown",
"shap_value": 0.12018689513206482
},
{
"feature": "block_rate_roll30_mean",
"shap_value": -0.06830137223005295
},
{
"feature": "incident_count_7d",
"shap_value": -0.05682261660695076
},
{
"feature": "gdelt_unrest_30d",
"shap_value": -0.05537840351462364
}
]
}
},
"model_version": "multi-horizon-h-v1"
}Model evaluation and labels differ. Honest 7-day model · Multi-horizon evaluation. An API response date is not the date of the underlying training data.
Additional signals
Each source answers a different question. Missing signals stay visible.
Unavailable
Separate from the index score. A weighted signal composite; sparse evidence can pull it toward zero.
Source freshness is unknown.
Date unavailable
Score methodSource generated: Date unavailable. This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
213 median days
Scenario: a critical censorship incident in Botswana. This is not a timer for an existing incident.
Source interquartile range: 13–401 days.
Exploratory · source model is below its promotion threshold.
Model trained: . Censoring in training data: 78.4%.
Source generated: Date unavailable. This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
This read-only inference endpoint requires a POST request:
POST https://api.voidly.ai/v1/forecast/duration
Content-Type: application/json
{
"country": "BW",
"severity": "critical",
"incident_type": "censorship"
}{
"country": "BW",
"features_used": {
"continent_Africa": 1,
"continent_Americas": 0,
"continent_Asia": 0,
"continent_Europe": 0,
"continent_Oceania": 0,
"country_risk_tier": 3,
"first_seen_month": 10,
"first_seen_year": 2026,
"prior_shutdowns_count_24mo": 0,
"severity_critical": 1,
"severity_warning": 0,
"type_censorship": 1,
"type_mixed": 0
},
"honest_caveats": [
"model below promote floor (c=0.55, n=343) — treat as exploratory",
"censoring rate in training set: 78%"
],
"incident_type": "censorship",
"iqr_days": 388,
"median_days": 213,
"median_hours": 5112,
"model": {
"censoring_rate": 0.7842565597667639,
"class": "RandomSurvivalForest",
"feature_names": [
"country_risk_tier",
"first_seen_year",
"first_seen_month",
"prior_shutdowns_count_24mo",
"continent_Africa",
"continent_Americas",
"continent_Asia",
"continent_Europe",
"continent_Oceania",
"severity_critical",
"severity_warning",
"type_censorship",
"type_mixed"
],
"name": "shutdown_duration_rsf_v1",
"trained_at": "2026-05-21T12:01:30.451711Z"
},
"model_c_index": 0.5455,
"n_training_samples": 343,
"p25_hours": 312,
"p75_hours": 9624,
"promoted": false,
"severity": "critical",
"survival_curve_summary": [
{
"hours": 120,
"survival_prob": 0.9
},
{
"hours": 312,
"survival_prob": 0.75
},
{
"hours": 5112,
"survival_prob": 0.5
},
{
"hours": 9624,
"survival_prob": 0.25
},
{
"hours": 17880,
"survival_prob": 0.1
}
]
}Follower estimate unavailable.
Trigger attribution is probabilistic, not causal. Noisy-OR aggregation can overstate risk when triggers share a cause.
Source generated: Date unavailable. This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
Similarity of measured blocking patterns, not governments or intent. Sparse feature coverage lowers confidence.
Source generated: . This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
Similarity here is BEHAVIORAL, not political. Two countries are near each other because they BLOCK in similar ways — comparable method mix, target categories and temporal shape — which does NOT imply comparable governments, laws or intent. A stable democracy with seasonal sports-piracy blocks can sit near an authoritarian state if their measured blocking footprints rhyme. Feature vectors are SPARSE for low-coverage countries (flagged sparse=true, <3 of 5 behavioral feature families populated) — their neighbors are dominated by regime/continent/cohort one-hots and should be read with low confidence. The 2D graph projection (UMAP or PCA) compresses a 32-dimensional space to 2 and loses information — use the cosine `neighbors` list, not pixel distance in the projection, for any quantitative claim.
{
"country": "BW",
"generated_at": "2026-09-28T05:10:10.998506+00:00",
"honest_caveat": "Similarity here is BEHAVIORAL, not political. Two countries are near each other because they BLOCK in similar ways — comparable method mix, target categories and temporal shape — which does NOT imply comparable governments, laws or intent. A stable democracy with seasonal sports-piracy blocks can sit near an authoritarian state if their measured blocking footprints rhyme. Feature vectors are SPARSE for low-coverage countries (flagged sparse=true, <3 of 5 behavioral feature families populated) — their neighbors are dominated by regime/continent/cohort one-hots and should be read with low confidence. The 2D graph projection (UMAP or PCA) compresses a 32-dimensional space to 2 and loses information — use the cosine `neighbors` list, not pixel distance in the projection, for any quantitative claim.",
"method": "standardized-cosine + pca",
"nearest": [
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "ZM",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.971,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "BF",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.9062,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "MZ",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.876,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "AO",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.8696,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "NE",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.8535,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "CI",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.8507,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "CG",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.8044,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": null,
"country": "CF",
"risk_tier": null,
"similarity": 0.8007,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": null,
"country": "BZ",
"risk_tier": null,
"similarity": 0.7984,
"sparse": false
},
{
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "GA",
"risk_tier": 3,
"similarity": 0.7914,
"sparse": false
}
],
"query_meta": {
"continent": "Africa",
"country": "BW",
"dtw_cohort": null,
"evidence_count": 65,
"feature_families_present": 3,
"feature_families_total": 5,
"risk_tier": 3,
"sparse": false
},
"version": "v1"
}Grades are source rubric categories. They do not independently establish deliberate blocking.
Grading rubricSource generated: Date unavailable. This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
{
"distribution": {
"A": 13,
"B": 3,
"C": 0,
"F": 0
},
"filters": {
"country": "BW",
"incident_type": null
},
"rules": {
"A": "else",
"B": "n_sources >= 1 AND avg_confidence >= 0.7",
"C": "n_sources >= 2 AND n_domains >= 3",
"F": "duration_hours >= 24 AND n_sources >= 2"
},
"total": 18,
"ungraded": 2
}No sufficiently covered headline recommendation is available.
Full measurement tableSource generated: . This is a source timestamp, not proof that every underlying observation is current.
{
"country_code": "BW",
"do_not_share_card_without_caveats": true,
"endpoints": {
"info": "/v1/atlas/circumvention/info",
"upstream_evasion_table": "/v1/atlas/evasion/BW"
},
"generated_at": "2026-10-03T06:00:05.657065+00:00",
"honest_caveats": [
"PROBE SUCCESS != REAL-USER SUCCESS. DPI vendors increasingly rate-limit real client traffic while letting OONI / Voidly synthetic measurement probes through. Success rates here are an UPPER BOUND on what a real user will see.",
"Recommendations can become stale within hours. Censorship adapts. If a try_first tool stops working, the next probe rotation (cron daily 06:00 UTC) will catch it but you will see it before we do.",
"'Try first' is NOT 'safe'. It means 'highest measured success rate, highest probe confidence.' Operational security (unique device, throwaway account, no SIM, no DNS leak, etc.) is the USER's responsibility — none of that is captured here.",
"Domain-fronted tools (Snowflake, Lantern, Psiphon) are SYSTEMATICALLY UNDER-ESTIMATED. Bootstrap-domain probes do not measure the rotating tunnel endpoints those tools actually use.",
"Self-hosted WireGuard / OpenVPN on a private IP is INVISIBLE to OONI probes and is not represented here. If you have one, trust it over any commercial recommendation.",
"Tor rows roll up vanilla / obfs4 / Snowflake / Meek transports. Per-transport granularity needs raw OONI nettests, out of scope for v1.",
"DO NOT share this recommendation as a forum-shareable card without the caveat block. The do_not_share_card_without_caveats flag in the response is on by design."
],
"informational_disclaimer": "This endpoint is informational, not a safety guarantee. Do not share as a forum-shareable card without the caveat block.",
"insufficient_coverage": true,
"lookback_days": 30,
"n_tools_measured": 0,
"n_total_probes": 0,
"note": "No circumvention-tool probe measurements found for BW in the last 30 days. This usually means OONI probe coverage is absent in BW, NOT that every tool works. We cannot recommend anything for a country we cannot measure.",
"schema": "voidly-circumvention-recommendation/v1",
"tiers": {
"avoid": [],
"fallback": [],
"try_first": []
},
"tools_ranked": []
}Editorial service list
Undated editorial context. Check current evidence before treating a service as blocked.
No editorial blocked-service list is available in this source branch.
Check a specific domainCountry guidance
The original country recommendations are preserved below. They are undated guidance, not a guarantee of access or safety.
Questions, answered
This dated index does not have a publishable score for this country. Missing measurement coverage is not evidence of unrestricted access.
Use the recent records and their original sources to investigate a particular restriction. Disruption alone does not establish intentional censorship.
There is no scored OONI editorial profile in this source branch. Use the dated incident evidence and domain checks for specific services.
Results can differ between networks, measurement times and targets. Country incident records and the country API preserve source details.
The index score snapshot was fetched . Its source serve-time can advance without changes in the underlying scores. The accumulating historical OONI file has no dated observation window.
Current country data, incidents, network state and models have independent source dates. The page requested those sources . It does not continuously refresh. Missing, stale and uncovered responses remain labeled.
Subscribe to source feedsOpen the accessibility checker. For a source query, use the country code with the domain you are investigating:
GET https://api.voidly.ai/v1/accessibility/check?domain=twitter.com&country=BW MCP server: npx @voidly/mcp-server Tool: check_domain_blocked Arguments: domain="twitter.com", country="BW" CLI: npx @voidly/cli check twitter.com BW
Inspect the returned timestamp, measurement coverage and method. A sampled result is not a guarantee for every user. API documentation · MCP tools.
Use the canonical country URL, https://voidly.ai/bw, with your access date and the date of any source snapshot you quote. The citation below supports plain text and BibTeX copy/download. A model generation or page access date is not a publication date.
Voidly-original analysis is CC BY 4.0. Upstream records keep their own attribution and licenses.
Open evidence
Voidly Research. (n.d.). Botswana Internet Censorship Profile. https://voidly.ai/bw (accessed 2026-10-03).
Citations use the public /bw URL. Access date is not publication date. Cite the individual source, observation time and model version when using a number.
Voidly-original analysis and annotations are CC BY 4.0. Upstream OONI, IODA and Censored Planet records retain their own licenses. Read and attribute the underlying evidence.