Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights

Participants are free to drop by the Lab between 2:00-5:00 pm to see the space and meet with Citizen Lab researchers. Participants should go to the reception desk on the first floor and have the receptionist call the Lab.

Tutorial

• "Welcome to Oz: Beyond a Black and White Debate on Internet Regulation (and Control)"

– Jon Penney (Berkman Centre/Oxford Internet Institute/Citizen Lab) and Ryan Budish (Berkman Centre/Herdict)

Commercialization of Information Controls

• "Regulators, Politicians, and Deep Packet Inspection: Who's Driving What and Why" – Chris Parsons (University of Victoria)
• "Fingerprinting Internet Filtering Products" – Jakub Dalek (Citizen Lab)
• "Cash Rules Everything Around Me: The Commercialization of Online Spying" – Bill Marczak
  (UC Berkeley)

Circumvention / Attacks 1

• "Collateral Freedom" – David Robinson (Robinson + Yu)
• "Remedy: Relays Monitoring and Deployment" – KheOps (Telecomix)
• "Fake Domain Attacks on Civil Society Groups" – Michael Carbone (Access)

Characterization / Measurement 1

• "Iran through the Eyes of Big Data" – Collin Anderson (Independent Researcher)
• "Measurement, Detection, and Comparison of Surveillance Data" – Praveen Selvasekaran (Simple Tech Life)
• "Filbaan: What is Filtered Today?"

Identity Systems and Monitoring

• "Desperately Seeking the Names: Examining the Historical Progression of Real Name Policies on the Chinese Internet" – Lianrui Jia (Carleton University)
• "India's Civil Liberties Crisis: Digital Free Will in Free Fall" – Malavika Jayaram (Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore)

Poster and Demo Session
Light refreshments will be served

• "User-side Approach for Censorship Detection: Home-router and Client-based Platforms" – Giuseppe Aceto (University of Naples Federico II)
• "The Cyber Losers" – Aaron Brantly and Katrin Verclas (National Democratic Institute)
• "What is the Impact of Internet Censorship in China?" – Carlotta James (Psiphon Inc.)
• "Open Integrity Index" – Jun Matsushita
• "M-Lab: Exploring the Possibilities for Open, Global Censorship and Surveillance Detection" – Stephen Soltesz (Open Technology Institute) and Meredith Whittaker (Google Research)
• "Mapping Google: Global Business Infrastructure and Implications for Openness " – John Harris Stevenson (University of Toronto)
• "Chat Program Censorship and Surveillance in China: Tracking TOM-Skype and Sina UC" – Greg Wiseman (Citizen Lab)
• "The Growth and Spread of Cyberspace Controls" – Benjamin Zaiser (Free University of Berlin)

Characterization / Methodology 2

• "Refining the Tor Censorship Detector" – Sam Burnett (Georgia Tech)
• "From Internet Security to Internet Freedom: The case of the RPKI" – Sharon Goldberg (Boston University)
• "Running Software in Albuquerque to Measure Censorship Anywhere" – Jeffrey Knockel (University of New Mexico)
• "Social Media as Labratory: What We Can Learn about Chinese Politics from Sina Weibo Censorship and Online Discussion" – Jason Q. Ng (Citizen Lab)

Circumvention 2

• "VPNthnography: Hacking the Great Firewall for Fun and Profit"
• "Economics of Web Proxy Networks" – Bennett Haselton (Peace Fire/Citizen Lab)
• "Censors Working Overtime" – Karl Kathuria (Psiphon Inc.)

• "Network Censorship Techniques, Detection, and Localization" – Nick Weaver (ICSI)

Panel: Bridging Activism and Research (5 minute talks + discussion)

• Ali Bangi (ASL19 / Citizen Lab)
• Stefania Milan (Tillburg University)
• Deji Olukotun (PEN)
• John Scott-Railton (Citizen Lab / UCLA)
• 'Gbenga Sesan (Paradigm Initiative Nigeria)

Jurisdictions and Borders Online

• "Cyberconflict and the Legal-Territorial Paradox" – Cameran Ashraf (UCLA)
• "Beyond Borders: Legislative Challenges to the Management of Records in the Cloud" – Elaine Goh (University of British Columbia)
• "Civil Society 2.0: The Global Struggle to Govern the Democratic Impacts of ICTs" – Muzammil M. Hussain (University of Michigan)
• "The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Networked Public Sphere: How to avoid a Convergent Crisis" – James Losey (Open Technology Institute)

Tutorial

• "Ranking Companies on Digital Rights: Challenges and Synergies" – Rebecca MacKinnon (New America Foundation)

Surveillance and Monitoring

• "Revisiting Webtapping: Learning From Five Years’ of U.S. Cyber and Intel Policy" – Chris Bronk (Rice University)
• "Who Watches the Watchmen?: Detecting Stealth and Unattributed Information Controls" – Herve Saint Louis (University of Toronto)
• "IX Maps" – Andrew Clement (University of Toronto)
• "Technologies of Control, ‘National Security’ and Systemic Abuse of Minorities in the East and Horn of Africa" – Clara Gutteridge (Equal Justice Forum)

Light refreshments will be served

The half day will be dedicated to giving participants the opportunity to break into small groups to further discuss, share, and hack on topics raised during the workshop.