Freedom House: Georgia improves Freedom on the Net ranking
Freedom House says that internet freedom has improved in Georgia, due to ‘no reported arrests’ linked to people’s online activity. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Tweet 
Share
Georgia has improved its Freedom on the Net ranking by one point compared to last year for a score of 77.
Georgia’s Internet status is now listed as free and the country stands above all its neighbours.
Freedom House says that Internet freedom improved in Georgia, due to ‘no reported arrests’ linked to people’s online activity.
However, several challenges related to the number of cyberattacks and domestic content manipulation were observed during the coverage period,” Freedom House stated.
Image: Freedom House.
It also said that ‘Georgia holds regular and competitive elections’, and its democratic trajectory ‘showed signs of improvement’ during the period surrounding a change in government in 2012–13.
However, progress has stagnated in recent years. Oligarchic actors hold outsized influence over policy and political choices, and the rule of law continues to be stymied by political interests,” Freedom House said.
Freedom House assessed the level of Internet freedom in 70 countries around the world in its report.
Georgia has scored 61 points in the Freedom in the World 2020 report by Freedom House, an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, covering developments in 195 countries and 15 territories between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.
Georgia has improved its Freedom on the Net ranking by one point compared to last year for a score of 76, bringing the country from tenth to seventh place in the global ranking, Freedom House reports.
Freedom House has released its Freedom in the World 2019 Report, which says that Georgia holds regular and competitive elections, and its democratic trajectory shows signs of improvement.
Georgia is among the world’s top ten countries, which enjoy freedom on the net, based on the Freedom House report released earlier today. The Freedom on the Net report assessed 65 countries between June 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019.
Georgia has shown an improvement in the World Bank's recent study Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) of 2020 in terms of political stability and absence of violence and regulatory quality compared to the results of 2019. Georgia received 30.66% from the total 100% scale for political stability and absence of violence.