[AfrICANN-discuss] Call for Applications / Cyber Stewards Program / Deadline - July 16th

[Seun Ojedeji]

Hi thanks for your mail, by "South based" do you mean southern African
based nationals?

Regards

OJ
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On Jul 11, 2012 3:45 PM, "Robert Guerra" <rguerra at privaterra.org> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Are you a South-based cyber security scholar, advocate, or practitioner
> interested in articulating a vision of cyber security in which rights and
> openness are protected on the basis of shared research and empirical
> knowledge ?
>
> If so, please do consider applying to the Cyber Stewards Program at the
> Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (Canada Centre) and the Citizen
> Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs , University of Toronto.
>
> Suffice it to say, I and others on the selection committee would be
> delighted to have candidates apply from the African region!
>
> The deadline is July 16th, next week! Further details are below..
>
> regards
>
>
> Robert
> --
> Robert Guerra
>
> Senior Advisor, Citizen Lab
> Munk Centre for Global Affairs, University of Toronto
> Phone: +1 416-893-0377 Cell: +1 202 905 2081
> Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom
> Email: robert at citizenlab.org
> Web: http://citizenlab.org
>
>
>
> ---
>
>
> https://citizenlab.org/2012/06/university-of-torontos-canada-centre-and-citizen-lab-announce-the-cyber-stewards-program/
>
> University of Toronto’s Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Announce the Cyber
> Stewards Program
>
> The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (Canada Centre) and the
> Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
> (with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC ))
> 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 , 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 everyone’s rights, while
> keeping it secure. Networking South-based Cyber Stewards with the
> University of Toronto’s Canada Centre and Citizen Lab’s 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
> 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 Canada Centre for
> Global Security Studies at the 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 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 Lab’s ongoing research network includes the OpenNet Initiative
> , OpenNet Eurasia, and Opennet.Asia as well as the Cyber Security Stewards
> network. The Citizen Lab was a founding partner of the 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
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> twitter.com/citizenlab
> r.deibert at utoronto.ca
>
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