The Citizen Lab engages in research and development at the intersection of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), human rights and global security. Our aim is to monitor, analyze, and impact the exercise of power in cyberspace.
The Citizen Lab accomplishes these goals through collaborative partnerships with leading edge research centers and organizations around the world, and through a mixed methods approach that combines technical reconnaissance, field investigations, and data mining, analysis, and visualization.
Financial support for the Citizen Lab’s research and development has come from the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), The Canada Centre for Global Security Studiesthe SecDev Group, Psiphon Inc., the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Donner Canadian Foundation, and the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation. The Citizen Lab has benefited by generous donations of software and support from Palantir Technologies and Oculus Info Inc
The Information Warfare Monitor was a joint project of the Citizen Lab and The SecDev Group, (Ottawa Ontario). The aim of the Information Warfare Monitor was to monitor and analyze the exercise of power in cyberspace. infowar-monitor.net The IWM project was completed in 2012 and is no longer active.
The OpenNet Initiative is a partnership with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and The SecDev Group. The aim of the ONI is to document patterns of Internet censorship and surveillance world wide. opennet.net
The aim of Opennet.Asia is to engage academic, policy, and civil society stakeholders in each of the countries of the regions concerned by surveillance and censorship to build institutional capacity and networked resources to conduct research and public policy advocacy around those issues. opennet.asia
Psi-Lab is a joint activity of the Citizen Lab and Psiphon Inc, oriented around advanced research of circumvention technologies, threat analysis, and the consideration of political and legal issues surrounding their use in denied environments.
