From 18-19 April 2012, Citizen Lab Special Advisor Robert Guerra and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune attended the Stockholm Internet Forum.
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan was interviewed about her new role as consultant in new media to the Italian Minister of Education, University and Research, Francesco Profumo.
In a recent special feature on Internet censorship, The Guardian newspaper profiled the work of the OpenNet Initiative.
Citizen Lab joined a global coalition of NGOs to call for the withdrawal of censorship plans in Pakistan.
Source: Elinor Mills, CNET
In December 1998, a U.S.-based hacker group called Legions of the Underground declared cyberwar on Iraq and China and prepared to protest human rights abuses in those countries by disrupting their Internet access.
On Friday, 16 March the ICANN Board appointed Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra to the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan gave a talk on cloud protesting at the Unlike Us 2, Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology conference at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will speak at a luncheon on April 3, 2012 at University of California, Irvine. Prof. Deibert will address the role of Big Data and the political economy of cyberspace controls.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman was interviewed for a recent Wharton School article entitled, “Watch What You Type: Social Media a Tool for Revolutionaries, and Increasingly, for Security Agencies”
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Senior Fellow Rafal Rohozinski and Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata have published an article in the February 2012 issue of Security Dialogue titled Cyclones in cyberspace: Information shaping and denial in the 2008 Russia–Georgia war.