Citizen Lab's latest news and announcements.
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.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Sarah McKune attended the Conference on China and Cybersecurity hosted by the Naval War College and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation in UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
At the 2012 International Studies Assocation Convention in San Diego, California, Citizen Lab Director Ronald Deibert is organizing a panel on Comparative Cyber Security Strategies: Theory and Practice.
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.
The Citizen Lab currently has an opening for a Jr. Software Developer to be based at the University of Toronto. The incumbent will develop existing and new projects, assisting with all phases of software development from requirements gathering and implementation to testing and deployment. This position requires strong organizational capabilities and programming skills.
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.
