Here is a look back at what we achieved, and what we started in the year 2014. Bolo Bhi means ‘Speak up’, in Urdu. We are a not-for-profit geared towards advocacy, policy and research in the areas of gender rights, government transparency, internet access, digital security and privacy. We are a team of individuals with diverse backgrounds who are passionate about the same causes and believe it is crucial to bridge the gap between rights advocates, policy makers, media and citizens. It is by bridging this gap that one can move ahead to chart a way forward and resolve issues through consensus.

1. BOLO BHI
2014 IN REVIEW
THIS RE

2. HIGHLIGHTS OF 2014
February
Pakistan’s Internet BANwagon- A Bolo Bhi Documentary
July
Alliance for Access
October
Stories Beyond Borders
Partnership with ZABMUN 2014

3. November
Bolo Bhi’s Survey Report: Access is my Right
December
Bolo Bhi’s State of IT Governance Report
Bolo Bhi Challenges the IMCEW in the Islamabad High Court.
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2014

4. Pakistan’s Internet BANwagon, a Bolo Bhi documentary on Internet
censorship and policymaking

5. The Alliance For Action Conference
Panel: Cost of Censorship on Education Panel: Leveraging the FoI Act

6. The Alliance For Action Conference
Panel: Talking Solutions with Policymakers Panel: Privacy and Surveillance

7. Stories Beyond Borders Website
Stories Beyond Borders Android App
Stories Beyond Borders Vimeo Channel
Share Your Story!
Bolo Bhi launched Stories Beyond
Borders, a cross-platform, crowd-sourced
human storytelling initiative for advocacy.

8. Bolo Bhi and ZABMUN Academic Partnership Report

9. Access Is My Right- And I
Paid For It Too!
Access Is My Right Survey
Report

10. The State Of IT Governance in
Pakistan- A report by Bolo Bhi on
the evolution of Internet in Pakistan
and its current and future
challenges.

11. BOLO BHI’S COURT PETITION CHALLENGING THE IMCEW
Bolo Bhi FOI Request: What is the IMCEW?
Bolo Bhi Files Petition Challenging the IMCEW
Bolo Bhi’s Petition Challenging IMCEW – Hearing Updates
Some Disclosure At Last

12. BOLO BHI’S COURT PETITION CHALLENGING THE IMCEW
Timelines
Tracking Bolo Bhi’s IMCEW Petition in Media - Timeline
The IMCEW Challenge Timeline – Updates by Bolo Bhi

13. WHAT WE WORKED ON IN 2014
Gender in 2014
Internet Censorship and Policy
The Protection of Pakistan Act
Media

14. GENDER - BOLO BHI 2014
Blogs
Timelines
Projects

15. Pale Realities: Pakistan’s Obsession With Fair Skin
Rape in a Time of Social Media
It’s Your Fault- A Pakistani Guide To Rape Culture Part 1
It’s Your Fault- A Pakistani Guide To Rape Culture Part 2
A Guide to Gender-Neutral Language
GENDER - BLOGS

16. Throttled By Honour
Child Marriage Restraint Act: Is Three Years In Prison Enough?
GENDER - BLOGS

17. Child Marriage in Pakistan
A History of Legislations Against Gender Abuse
GENDER - TIMELINES

18. HERstory- Tracking the women’s movement in Pakistan
through personal stories of Pakistani feminists
Gender Media Watch- A story map of all news stories regarding
gender
GENDER - NEW ACTIVITIES

19. Visit the HERstory website
View videos on the HERstory Vimeo channel

20. Media Watch on Storify here and here
Media Watch Timeline

21. INTERNET CENSORSHIP AND POLICY
Internet Censorship
Freedom of Information (FoI)
Internet Policy and Legislation
YouTube Ban
Privacy and Surveillance

22. INTERNET CENSORSHIP
Blogs
Press Releases
Timelines

23. Now Blocking in Pakistan: IPs and ‘Grey Traffic’
Facebook Transparency Report: Since When Is Criticism of the State
Illegal in Pakistan?
Top 7 Ways To Deal With Trolls That Are Better Than Blocking the Internet
Digital Fortress: From China to Pakistan
Pakistan: The Chilling Effects of Twitter’s Country Witheld Content Tool
INTERNET CENSORSHIP - BLOGS

24. Dailymotion Must Operate in Pakistan Without Compromising Rights of
Internet Users
Twitter Reverses Blocking Decision Amid Criticism
Storify: Access Denied: Users Report Instagram Blocked in Pakistan
INTERNET CENSORSHIP
- PRESS RELEASES

25. Sindh High Court Censorship Timeline
E-Regulations Timeline
INTERNET CENSORSHIP
- TIMELINES

26. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI) REQUESTS
Blogs
Press Releases
Timelines

27. FOI REQUESTS - BLOGS
Bolo Bhi Files FoI Request Seeking Disclosure On Filtering
Equipment
Tracking Right to Information Requests
Why Knowing Takes Precedence Over Not Knowing
Shehri launches Coalition for Transparency And Access to
Information

28. FOI REQUESTS - PRESS RELEASES
Bolo Bhi Files FoI Request Seeking Disclosure On Filtering Equipment
Authorities fail to respond to FOI requests, Bolo Bhi Files Complaint
With Federal Ombudsman
PTA Says It Does Not Conduct Surveillance
Tracking Bolo Bhi’s Right to Information Requests

29. FOI REQUESTS - TIMELINES
Tracking Freedom of Information Laws

30. INTERNET POLICY AND LEGISLATION
Blogs
Reports and Analyses
Storify

31. INTERNET POLICY AND LEGISLATION-BLOGS
State Minister Anusha Rahman’s First Six Months in Office: A
Performa
The Internet Hall of Shame
Teardrops on My Router
Ranking Pakistan in Accordance with the Necessary and
Proportionate Principles
Of Legal Theory and Pakistani Politics

32. Dissecting Proposed Cybercrime Legislation: A First Look
The Pakistan Penal Code and Online Content
State of IT Governance in Pakistan – A Report by Bolo Bhi
INTERNET POLICY AND LEGISLATION - REPORTS AND
ANALYSES

33. INTERNET POLICY AND LEGISLATION
- STORIFY
The Internet Governance Forum Day 1
The Internet Governance Forum Day 2
The Internet Governance Forum Day 3
The Internet Governance Forum Day 4

34. YOUTUBE BAN
Blogs
Press Releases
Timelines

35. YOUTUBE BAN - BLOGS
Blocking YouTube: What’s Legal, What’s Not
The Government of Pakistan Must unban YouTube Now
To Block or Not to Block YouTube
MoIT Says Will Only Comply With Court – But Has It?
Submission to Court in YouTube Case: May 13, 2014

36. YOUTUBE BAN - BLOGS
Technology Experts Submit Report to the LHC in YouTube Case
YouTube Ban: Where Do We Stand?
So What Do You Know About The YouTube Ban?
Beating Around the Bush on YouTube – Again

37. YOUTUBE BAN - PRESS RELEASES
Senate Human Rights Committee Passes Resolution to Lift Ban
on YouTube
National Assembly Unanimously Passes Resolution to Lift Ban
on YouTube
Senator Nasreen Jalil Urges PM to Lift Ban on YouTube

38. YOUTUBE BAN - TIMELINES
Peshawar High Court: YouTube Case Timeline
The YouTube Ban Timeline
YouTube Ban Court Case Updates

39. PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE
Blogs
Press Release s
Timelines

40. PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE - BLOGS
Filters, Morality and the Element of Choice
Netsweeper in Use in Pakistan
Who is the Control Freak in the Cyberspace
Right to be Forgotten: Privacy, Censorship, or Neither?
What do Jennifer Lawrence’s Nudes Tell You About Privacy?

41. The American Nightmare: Privacy Vs Security
Facebook’s Data Loophole: Of course It’s Accidental
Whither Privacy: Unkept Promises of Social Media Apps
In Search of Utopia
PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE - BLOGS

42. PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE - PRESS RELEASES
Freedom Online Coalition Must Hold Canadian Government
Responsible
One Step Forward In Curbing NSA’s Mass Surveillance
PTA Says It Does Not Conduct Surveillance

43. PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE - TIMELINES
NSA Prism Leaks Timeline

44. PROTECTION OF PAKISTAN ACT
Blogs
Press Releases
Timelines

45. PROTECTION OF PAKISTAN ACT - BLOGS
The Dreaded PPO
“The Protection of Pakistan Act should be scrapped” – Zohra Yusuf
Protection of Pakistan – Ordinance to Act: Is There a Difference?
“Authorities should give up efforts to legitimise disappearances” –
I.A. Rehman
An Analysis of the Protection of Pakistan Act

46. PROTECTION OF PAKISTAN ACT - PRESS RELEASES
The PPO Returns With A Vengeance

47. PROTECTION OF PAKISTAN ACT - TIMELINES
Bolo Bhi’s PPA Resource Guide
The Protection of Pakistan Act Timeline

48. BOLO BHI MEDIA
Ab To Bolo Bhi - TV Show
Video Interviews on ICTs and Policymaking
Bolo Bhi Opinions

49. BOLO BHI MEDIA - AB TO BOLO BHI
Ab to Bolo Bhi Episode 09: Flawed Cybercrime Law: Getting The Act
Together
|Part 1| |Part 2| |Part 3|
Ab To Bolo Bhi Episode 10: The Return of the Firewall
|Part 1| |Part 2| |Part 3|
Ab To Bolo Bhi Episode 11: Our Right To Information
|Full Episode|

50. BOLO BHI MEDIA - VIDEO INTERVIEWS ON POLICYMAKING
& ICTS
Policy Makers
Internet Freedom & Censorship: Senator Mushahid Hussain talks to
Bolo Bhi
Access to Information, Internet Censorship & Policymaking: Bolo Bhi
Speaks to Bushra Gohar
Policymaking & the ICT Sector: A Policymaker's Perspective: Bolo Bhi
Speaks to Shireen Mazari
Policymaking in the ICT Sector: Bolo Bhi Speaks to Dr. Farooq Sattar

51. BOLO BHI MEDIA - VIDEO INTERVIEWS ON POLICY-MAKING
& ICTS
Experts
Approach to Policymaking in the ICT Sector: Bolo Bhi Speaks to Salman
Ansari
Policymaking and the Industry: Bolo Bhi Speaks to Jehan Ara
Internet Policy, Law & Fundamental Rights: Bolo Bhi Speaks to Babar
Sattar
ICTs for Empowerment: Bolo Bhi talks to Mobeen Ansari

52. BOLO BHI MEDIA - VIDEO INTERVIEWS ON POLICYMAKING
IN THE ICT SPACE
Experts
Khurram Zafar explains MITM attack
Potential & Dilemma for Start-ups in Pakistan: Bolo Bhi Speaks to
Hometown
Policymaking & the Industry: Convenor ISPAK speaks to Bolo Bhi
Tech Talk: State-level Filtering vs Blocking at Home

53. BOLO BHI MEDIA- OPINIONS
Pakistan: Transparency Report
There And Back Again: Pakistan's YouTube Ban
Internet Freedom — Censorship, Cyberspying and Other Challenges