MICE: Measuring the Information Control Environment

The Measuring the Information Control Environment (MICE) AI Exploration Opportunity aims to develop algorithms and prototype open-source software that measures how authoritarian regimes employ digitally repressive techniques, such as censorship, blocking, or throttling, at scale over the internet, as well as the technical capabilities used to enable such activities. 

\The goal of MICE is to develop technology that will continuously and automatically update and feed into easily-understood dashboards that provide comprehensive, real-time ground truth understanding of how countries conduct domestic information control. MICE will measure how countries censor, block, or throttle specific internet-based activities. MICE will also try to determine the technical capabilities that countries use to enable such repressive activities.

To comprehensively understand the scope of these activities, MICE technologies will aim to discover and track changes over time to adversary techniques across various abstractions of the information environment from the network level (e.g., netflow, DNS, IP address, protocol, applications, etc.) to the information level (e.g., topics, images, audio, video, etc.).