MacArthur Foundation awards the Citizen Lab

February 20, 2014

The MacArthur Foundation has selected U of T’s Citizen Lab as a recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions.
 

 
The Citizen Lab, which is based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, is an interdisciplinary laboratory that operates at the intersection of human rights, global security, and the digital world. The Lab develops new approaches for researching and documenting information controls – such as network surveillance and censorship – that impact the openness and security of the Internet and that pose threats to human rights.

See more at: http://www.macfound.org/maceirecipients/80

The Citizen Lab also helps other nonprofits monitor governmental political activities in cyberspace and the human rights violations that could result. The organization gained prominence in 2009, when it issued a report documenting cyber espionage that targeted and compromised computer systems in the Offices of the Dalai Lama. The espionage was linked to China’s hacking community.

Political Science Professor Ron Deibert is the Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

Read more about the award and the other recipients at:

New York Times – Foundation Awards $1M Grants to Several Nonprofits