Ciao a tutti vi segnalo un summer workshop che stiamo organizzando all'Universita' di Toronto, precisamente al Citizen Lab, un lab interdisciplinare che si occupa di ricerca su nuove tecnologie e diritti umani (cybersecrity, internet censorship, surveillance, DDOS, azione collettiva online, eccetera). Il Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights e' aperto a dottorandi e advanced researchers, e sara' dedicato principalmente alla discussione di metodi e metodologie dal punto di vista interdisciplinare. Date da ricordare: il workshop e' a luglio (22-26), la deadline per le applications e' il 1 giugno. Per maggiori info: https://citizenlab.org/2013/04/connaught-summer-institute-2013/ o qua sotto. Per qualsiasi domanda contattatemi pure. Ciao, Stefania ----- Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights Call for Applications The University of Toronto is convening a week-long workshop taking place on July 22-26, 2013 focused on monitoring Internet openness and rights from a multidisciplinary perspective. We would like to invite leading researchers, students, and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss research on the study of information controls, present latest work, facilitate research review and mentorship, discuss research ethics, and engage in intensive research methods training. Information controls can be broadly conceptualized as actions conducted in and through information and communication technologies (ICTs) that seek to deny, disrupt, monitor, or manipulate information for political and economic ends. These controls can be mandated by states or implemented by private actors. Information controls include a range of technical measures (e.g. Internet filtering, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, electronic surveillance, targeted malware, etc.) and non-technical means (e.g. media regulation, licensing regimes, content removal, and broad use of defamation and slander laws). Over the past decade there has been a steady increase and spread of information controls across the globe in both democratic and authoritarian states. The spread of information controls has a number of potentially negative impacts for the public interest. Privacy, civil liberties, and freedom of expression in both cultural and political spheres are often and increasingly threatened by state and corporate actors that have now developed potent means of controlling and monitoring digital information flows. Information controls (such as censorship and surveillance) are processes that lack transparency, often taking place beyond the scrutiny of public debates, and which therefore increases the risk of abuses against civil and political rights. Hence, there is a pressing need to know more about how and why information controls take place, so that robust evidence can be generated, analysed, and inform policy discussions. Requirements We encourage submissions on a wide range of relevant topics. Submission that explore multidisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged. Possible topics include but are not limited to: Measuring Internet censorship, detecting surveillance, new tools and research methods, research ethics, legal and regulatory frameworks, role of private sector actors in censorship and surveillance, analysis of the social, economic and political impacts of censorship and surveillance. Interested participants should send a one page abstract summarizing what they plan to present at the workshop as well as any relevant experience or topics of specific interest. The abstract should also indicate the preferred presentation format for the work (poster, short talk, or tutorial) and indicate if the person will require travel support to attend the institute. A limited pool of travel support is available and will be allocated based on strength of the abstract and demonstrated need. Please submit abstracts to info at citizenlab.org with the subject "Summer Institute 2013" by June 1, 2013. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.