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Ron Deibert’s blog.
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✴︎ blogCyberspace Confidential (Globe and Mail essay)
“We have immersed ourselves in a technological environment of our own making, called cyberspace, which we take for granted as our communications and media ecosystem. We leave electronic traces of ourselves scattered across the servers of this vast geographically extended domain like granules of sand on an endlessly mutating, ever-expanding beach. But who controls this…
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✴︎ blogONI Global Summit 2010
Online registration is required and can be done online here
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✴︎ blogTechnology Review “Militarizing Cyberspace”
I wrote a short piece for Technology Review magazine here. The issue also has a lengthy feature on cyber security issues called “Moore’s Outlaws,” which can be found here.
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✴︎ blogNetChange: Canada, check your privacy settings
Net Change Week 2010 – Canada, check your privacy settings from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo. I participated in the MaRs NetChange panel on the topic of “Canada, check your privacy settings,” with Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian and moderated by Jesse Hirsh.
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✴︎ blogNew Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Deibert says one major question now is how to preserve privacy amid such efforts. “The key questions, as always, will concern the substance of those negotiations: will we see a charter for global cyberspace that protects and preserves this domain as an open, global commons of information? Or will we see the further imposition of…
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✴︎ blogNED Event May 25, 2010
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is hosting a panel conversation for the OpenNet Initiative’s new volume Access Controlled. Attending the panel discussion will be Ron Deibert, John Palfrey and Rafal Rohozinski from the ONI, and Bob Boorstin from Google. Moderating the discussion will be Mr. Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy magazine. Details are…
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✴︎ blogAccess Controlled book website (and review)
We have a new website for the ONI’s latest book, Access Controlled, which can be found here. We also have our first review, by Andy Greenberg of Forbes.
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✴︎ blogToward a Cyber Security Strategy (Vanguard)
Ron Deibert, “Toward a Cyber Security Strategy,” Vanguard (March/April 2010), pp.10-11.
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✴︎ blogCivil Society and Democracy in Iran conference
I participated in the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics Civil society and Democracy In Iran workshop, held 14-15 May 2010 at the University of Toronto. I was participating in the panel on “Exploring the Youth Movement in Iran,” and spoke about the challenges of cyberspace controls for youth activism in and outside of Iran…
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✴︎ blogHarvard-MIT Joint Seminar Explorations in Cyber International Relations
I am in Boston for a presentation to the Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar Explorations in Cyber International Relations at MIT. The title of my presentation is “The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: From Militarization to Arms Control.”