The Citizen Lab currently has an opening for a full-time technical researcher to be based at the University of Toronto. The incumbent will provide technical and analytical support for research projects on Internet censorship, surveillance, cyber security and attacks (e.g. denial-of-service attacks, malware, etc), and related topics.
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) is pleased to announce the availability of our summarized global Internet filtering data as a downloadable CSV file under a Creative Commons license.
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) is pleased to release In the Name of God: Faith Based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries. This occasional paper analyzes the Internet censorship policies and practices of majority Muslim countries and finds that in many of these countries online information controls are primarily based on the Islamic faith and interpretations of its instructions
Dr. Rafal Rohozinski, Senior Scholar at the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, testified before United States Congress on Friday July 15th, 2011 on Internet Freedom in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
On March 27-28 2011 the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the SecDev Group (Ottawa) convened a public forum entitled Securing the Cyber Commons: a Global Dialogue .
This video presents highlights of the two day event. A full video of the opening plenary and panel will be made available soon. For information on the upcoming 2012 Dialogue and future sponsorship opportunities please contact: info@citizenlab.org
Dr. Rafal Rohozinski, Senior Scholar at the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, will be testifying before United States Congress on Friday July 15th, 2011 on Internet Freedom in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
For further details see here
In light of the controversy around the use of Canadian-made software being used in the Middle East and North Africa, it is remarkable that the Ontario Centres of Excellence, the Information Technology Association of Canada, and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs would choose to honour an Internet Service Provider that pervasively filters access to information using Canadian made software.
See the OpenNet Initiative post here
On March 25 Professor Ron Deibert will deliver the keynote for Mesh 2011 Canada’s Web conference. He will discuss state control and surveillance of the internet, and how citizens are responding.
For full details see the Mesh 2011 website
Today the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs announced Jonathon Penney as its 2011 Google Policy Fellow. Jon is currently a pursuing a doctorate in information and communication sciences at Oxford University.
Before Oxford, Jonathon spent time studying and researching at Columbia Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and at Victoria University , where he was a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in the law faculty. A graduate of Dalhousie University and native Nova Scotian, he has served as Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and worked as a lawyer and as a policy adviser at the federal level.
Welcome Jon!
Full details can be found here.
The Citizen Lab seeks qualified applicants for a Senior Researcher position. Under the supervision of the Director of the Citizen Lab the Senior Researcher will coordinate research projects and undertake scholarly work on the political and social dimensions of information controls. This research area will include but not be limited to the following topics: Internet censorship, mobile technologies, and election monitoring.
Full details can be found here.
