Ronald Deibert

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Ronald J. Deibert (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, specializing in media, technology, and world politics, and the director of the Citizen Lab, based at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto (http://www.citizenlab.org/). The Citizen Lab sponsors research at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics. Deibert was a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies from 2002-2004, and has served on the advisory boards of Human Rights in China, the Advanced Network Research Group (Cambridge University, UK), InfoTechWarPeace (Watson Institute, Brown University), and TVOntario's Educational Programming Committee.

He is the author of the book Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), as well as numerous published articles on topics relating to Internet politics, civil society and global politics, earth remote sensing and space policy, and social science epistemology. He presently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Explorations in Media Ecology, Astropolitics, Fast Capitalism, International Studies Perspectives, and International Political Sociology.

Deibert's current research and other scholarly activities focus on the nexus of global security, human rights, and the Internet. He is a co-founder and one of the principal investigators of the OpenNet Initiative, a project of the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University, and Oxford Internet Institute, which documents patterns of Internet censorship worldwide. He is the principal investigator of the psiphon censorship circumvention project. Deibert is presently working on a book manuscript on the politics of Internet security.