RES: [governance] University of Toronto's Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Announce the Cyber Stewards Program

Sun Jun 10 10:16:44 EDT 2012

Hi Robert, nice to hear about it

I will be quite interested in such studies in my country, since I am very
involved with several activities regarding cybersecurity  focused on women
and children.

Thanks for sharing this.  We can talk more during ICANN meeting in Prague, I
hope you will be there. Though my agenda as chair of NomComm will be full, I
will certainly set some priority to talk with you!

All the best, 

Abrazos,

Vanda Scartezini

Polo Consultores Associados 

IT Trend

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Tel + 5511 3266.6253

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De: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] Em nome de Robert Guerra
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 8 de junho de 2012 09:04
Para: Internet Governance Caucus
Cc: Ron Deibert
Assunto: [governance] University of Torontos Canada Centre and Citizen Lab
Announce the Cyber Stewards Program

Dear Internet Governance colleagues,

Let me share with all of you the following announcement. I think some of you
might find it of interest. 

regards

Robert Guerra

Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom  Email: robert at citizenlab.org
Web: http://citizenlab.org

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University of Torontos Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Announce the Cyber
Stewards Program

The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (Canada Centre) and the
Citizen Lab <http://citizenlab.org/>  at the Munk School of Global Affairs
<http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/> , University of Toronto (with the
support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC
<http://www.idrc.ca/> )) are pleased to announce the launch of the Cyber
Stewards program.  

The Cyber Stewards program is designed to address the urgent need to support
South-based cyber security scholars, advocates, and practitioners to
articulate a vision of cyber security in which rights and openness are
protected on the basis of shared research and empirical knowledge.

Cyber Stewards will be selected from across the global South. They will work
locally while networking globally through the auspices of the Canada Centre
and Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. 

Cyber Stewards will define their own scope of work and activities based on
their local context and pressing concerns. The expectation will be that
Cyber Stewards will map, analyze, and ultimately impact the cyber security
priorities of their own countries and regions on the basis of shared
knowledge and practices.  

We are excited about this opportunity, and the prospects that the Cyber
Stewards network can accomplish, says Ron Deibert
<http://deibert.citizenlab.org/> , Director of the Canada Centre and Citizen
Lab. Working together, we envision the Cyber Stewards will help contribute
to a growing global movement of citizens, scholars and practitioners - a
community of practice - whose aim is to protect cyberspace as a secure but
open commons of information in which human rights are respected.

Detailed Overview

As cyberspace expands and deepens in the global South, there are growing
concerns around how cyberspace will be governed and constituted.  The
security of cyberspace is now an urgent concern. A cyber arms race among
governments and non-state actors has begun in earnest. Facing a growing
number of threats, from cyber crime to espionage and warfare, governments
are developing ambitious cyber security strategies, some of which include
far-reaching and potentially ominous censorship, surveillance, and
information operation components. 

Unless proper checks and balances are instituted locally, there will
continue to be strong pressures to build surveillance-by design into newly
built infrastructure -- particularly the newly emerging mobile and social
media ecosystems.  These troubling trends of information control and
securitization portend the gradual disintegration of an open and secure
commons of information on a global scale. 

It is essential that the process of cyber securitization taking place in the
South includes local voices who can articulate a vision of cyber security in
which rights and openness are protected on the basis of shared research and
empirical knowledge.  

The aim of the Cyber Stewards project is to help support and develop those
local voices.

Why Steward? Stewardship is typically defined as an  ethic of responsible
behaviour in a situation  of shared resources, typically with respect to the
natural environment and the commons, such  as the oceans and outer space.
Although cyberspace is more of a mixed pooled resource that cuts across
public and private sector than a commons per se, the concept of stewardship
still carries considerable merit: it implies behaviour that goes beyond
self-interest to accomplish something in the service of a wider public good.
It emphasizes the need for balance and the appreciation of the complexity of
the system.  It carries with it a connotation of custodianship and
citizen-based monitoring, all of which mesh with the aims of the network we
are setting out to build.

Why should South-based scholars and practitioners link up with a North-based
institution, like the University of Toronto? Moving forward, it is
imperative that stewards of cyberspace include representation from all
stakeholders in the global communications environment, and that bridges are
built between communities across North, South, East and West.  Although the
challenges of each locality are unique, together we live in a shared
communications space that is becoming increasingly dense and interconnected.
We have a shared responsibility to sustain that space in a manner that
supports everyones rights, while keeping it secure. Networking South-based
Cyber Stewards with the University of Torontos Canada Centre and Citizen
Labs already existing network of collaborative partnerships will help
accomplish that goal and hopefully build a broad community of global Cyber
Stewards that empowers us all collectively.

Who will make up the Cyber Stewards program and how will it operate? There
will be a diversity in research topics and methods, as well as regional and
disciplinary backgrounds, in the constitution of Cyber Stewards. We
anticipate that the group will form a network of peers, in which the Cyber
Stewards regularly interact with each other, engage in knowledge sharing and
joint research and development, and mutual mentorship.  Cyber Stewards will
interact virtually as well as through occasional joint workshops and major
conferences, facilitated by the Canada Centre and Citizen Lab.

Interested parties from any of the following regions should send a CV and a
five page outline that details project ideas to
<mailto:cyberstewards at citizenlab.org> cyberstewards at citizenlab.org (Central
America, Caribbean, South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North
Africa, and Asia).

About the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
The <http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/canadacentre/>  Canada Centre for
Global Security Studies at the <http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/>  Munk
School of Global Affairs is a centre of interdisciplinary research, policy
development, and other activities in emerging security issues that are
critical to Canada's future. Established in spring 2010 with a grant from
the Government of Canada, the Canada Centre's areas of interdisciplinary
study include cyber security, global health, food security, and
region-specific concerns, such as the future of the Arctic, post-Soviet
Europe, the new Asian powers, and the changing face of the Americas.

About the Citizen Lab
The  <http://citizenlab.org/> Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory
based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto,
Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of
digital media, global security, and human rights.

We are a hothouse that combines the disciplines of political science,
sociology, law, computer science, engineering, and graphic design. Our
mission is to undertake advanced research and engage in development that
monitors, analyses, and impacts the exercise of political power in
cyberspace. We undertake this mission through collaborative partnerships
with leading edge research centers, organizations, and individuals around
the world, and through a unique mixed methods approach that combines
technical analysis with intensive field research, qualitative social
science, and legal and policy analysis methods undertaken by subject matter
experts.  

The Citizen Labs ongoing research network includes the
<http://opennet.net/> OpenNet Initiative, OpenNet Eurasia, and Opennet.Asia
as well as the Cyber Security Stewards network. The Citizen Lab was a
founding partner of the  <http://www.infowar-monitor.net/> Information
Warfare Monitor (2002-2012). The Citizen Lab developed the original design
of the Psiphon censorship circumvention software, which spun out of the lab
into a private Canadian corporation (Psiphon Inc.) in 2008.

Ronald Deibert

Director, the Citizen Lab 

and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies

Munk School of Global Affairs

University of Toronto

(416) 946-8916 <tel:%28416%29%20946-8916> 

PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt

http://deibert.citizenlab.org/
twitter.com/citizenlab
r.deibert at utoronto.ca

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