Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogONI Burma Report – Pulling the Plug
The OpenNet Initiative has compiled a bulletin on the recent demonstrations in Burma and the Burmese government’s shutdown of the Internet there. ONI conducted a technical analysis of the Internet’s uptime, documenting a complete shutdown in Burma, followed by intermittent periods of up-time throughout early October, with an apparent return to full connection on October…
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✴︎ blogEveryone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide — NEW RELEASE
I am pleased to announce that we have finished the Citizen Lab’s latest output, Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide and also available for download here This guide, which is intended for the non-technical user, provides tips and strategies on how to by-pass content filters worldwide. It is now in English but…
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✴︎ blogIFEX, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor
I am attending the IFEX general meeting in Uruguay, where I gave an opening address on Internet censorship, the work of the OpenNet Initiative and psiphon projects. It is a very dynamic meeting, with many different rights organizations collaborating and exchanging ideas. Much of the discussion is focused on events unfolding in Burma. There was…
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✴︎ blogTVO The Agenda Interview on Burma/ONI/Psiphon
I did a one on one interview with host Steve Paikin of TVO’s the Agenda. The episode page is here, where you can downoad the video and audio podcast of the interview. We cover events in Burma, the OpenNet Initiative and psiphon.
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✴︎ blogMyanmar's Net Curtain Begins To Lift
From Forbes.com According to Ron Deibert, director at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and an investigator at the OpenNet Initiative. “Now that the government’s crackdown has succeeded, they’re beginning to let information trickle out again,” he says. Deibert speculates that even for a country as repressive as Myanmar, the cost of shutting off all…
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✴︎ blogBurma and the Internet – some recent news items
I have done some recent interviews about Burma and the role the Internet is playing in getthing the message out, including attempts by the government to shut it down. Two CBC radio interviews that I did with Eli Glasner, slightly different, can be found here and here. There is also a New York Times report…
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✴︎ blogBBC Getting Information out of Burma
I did an interview with Clark Boyd about Burma here The reclusive military regime in Burma — or Myanmar — can’t stop the news of protests there from spreading around the world. Information technology like the Internet and cell phones are helping Burmese pro-democracy activists get the word out. That wasn’t the case in 1988…
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✴︎ blogpsiphon story on Al Jazeera's Listening Post (December 2006 air date)
Al Jazeera International has a great show called Listening Post hosted by Richard Gizbert. I wish we were able to see this show in Canada! Last December 2006, the Listening Post did a feature story on psiphon around the time of its public release. Thanks to the kind folks at the Listening Post we were…
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✴︎ blogTech-Savvy Students for a Free Tibet
Globe and Mail, August, 2008 The group of pro-Tibet activists in China that caught the world’s attention this week by chronicling a series of stunts over the web used an “age-old tactic” with a savvy, modern twist, says an expert in the field. From GlobeandMail
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✴︎ blogCBC Dispatches Interview
CBC Dispatches invited me back to discuss Internet censorship, the state of blogging in the Middle East, and psiphon. The interview can be found HERE.