Luum is seeking an Online Technology Policy Designer to develop governance models and user policies for their new online platform. The position will be based in Toronto, collocated at the Citizen Lab, at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

The Citizen Lab has a full-time opening for a Software Developer to engage in software development to support a range of research projects at the intersection of information communications technologies, global security, and human rights.

This edition of the MENA Cyber Watch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger arrests, cyber attacks and more.

We are pleased to announce that Phillipa Gill has joined us as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.

The July 2012 issue of Southeast Asia CyberWatch covers related developments in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

This issue of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cyber Watch covers issues such as blogger and netizen arrests, Internet and social media use, censorship and filtering, hacktivism, government control, and cyber warfare.

Senior Advisor Robert Guerra acted as a moderator at the IGF-USA, an event which defined and assessed the challenges of an open Internet at Georgetown Law Center.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan is taking part in the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

In the French edition of Slate magazine, Citizen Lab is featured in an article about the Dark Comet software application that has recently been linked to attacks on activists in Syria.

A roundup of cyber news from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This week’s post includes updates on Syria, use of Internet technology in Tunisia to advance freedom, blogger arrests, and social media news.