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SUMMARY:Ron Deibert and David Runciman on Reclaiming the Internet for Civi
 l Society - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:In his 2020 Massey Lectures and in Reset: Reclaiming the Inter
 net for Civil Society\, the book on which the lectures were based\, the po
 litical scientist and security expert Ron Deibert carries out a compelling
  stocktaking of the networked era in which we find ourselves. He conducts 
 a penetrating re-examination of the communications ecosystem in which we l
 ive\, contemplates its now-manifest dangers and argues for a ‘reset’ 
 — the computational term for a measure that terminates a runaway process
  and leads to a system reboot. His diagnosis of the problems of the networ
 ked world synthesises much of the research and scholarship to date\, and p
 rovides the underpinning for an exposition of novel ideas of how a long tr
 adition of theorising about security\, liberty and power can be harnessed 
 to reclaim the Internet for civil society and bring the concentrations of 
 unaccountable power which it has enabled under democratic control.\n\nRona
 ld Deibert is a professor of political science and Director of the Citizen
  Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He
  founded the Citizen Lab in 2001 as an interdisciplinary laboratory focusi
 ng on research\, development\, and high-level strategic policy and legal e
 ngagement at the intersection of information and communication technologie
 s\, human rights\, and global security. The idea behind the Lab was to use
  the powerful methods\, tools and techniques in computer science and engin
 eering to uncover what goes on beneath the surface of the networked world 
 — to conduct an ongoing “MRI of the Internet” and build a “counter
 -intelligence agency for global civil society”. He is also a co-founder 
 and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information War
 fare Monitor projects.\n\nIn this Webinar\, Ron will be in conversation wi
 th David Runciman\, Professor of Politics at Cambridge and author of a str
 ing of influential books about democracy (including How Democracy Ends\, T
 he Confidence Trap\, Where Power Stops and The Politics of Good Intentions
 ). He is also a Contributing Editor of the London Review of Books and foun
 der and host of the weekly Talking Politics podcast which in its five year
 s has racked up 20m downloads and currently has over 150\,000 monthly list
 eners.
LOCATION:http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29573
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