with great enthusiasm and spirit to hunt down and document patterns of Internet content filtering and surveillance worldwide. They are truly Net Ninjas.
As a Citizen Lab senior research fellow responsible for the ONI’s ‘‘deep dives’’ into Asia, Dr.
Francois Fortier has helped convene and lead a dynamic group of researchers in the region.
Although relatively new to the project, his tremendous organizational and intellectual skills
already have contributed invaluably, and we look forward to his ongoing and expanding role
in the project in the years to come.
Over the years, numerous programmers and researchers have worked at the Citizen Lab,
bringing ingenuity and dogged determination to the ONI’s forensic investigations. These include, in no particular order, Graeme Bunton, Sarah Boland, James Nicholas Tay, Eugene
Fryntov, Anton Fillipenko, Michael Hull, Pat Smith, Tim Smith, Oliver Day, Julian Wolfson, Stian
Haklev, Konstantin Kilibarda, David Wade-Farley, Peter Wong, and Liisa Hyyrylainen.
Jane Gowan, of Agent5 design, has brought her remarkable creativity and artistic sensibilities to help enrich and enliven the ONI’s presentation of its work, including our 2006 poster
of Internet censorship, many of the graphics and other visualizations included herein, and the
striking cover art that frames this volume. Her professionalism, enthusiasm and creativity are
much appreciated.
As Director of the Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert would like to thank the staff at the Munk Centre
for International Studies for providing such a supportive environment for the Lab and the
ONI’s research activities, in particular its director, Janice Stein, and Marketa Evans, Wilhelmina
Peters, and Penny Alford, as well as the Munk Centre’s technical support staff. Thanks also to
the University of Toronto’s Computing and Network Services, in particular Eugene Sicunius,
for tolerating and supporting our (at times) unconventional methods.
As the list of the contributors makes plain, the OpenNet Initiative is an expensive project to
operate. There would be no global data set and no book were it not for the vision of our program officers and the willingness to take risks of the boards of their foundations. We owe
deep thanks to all at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a multiyear,
$3 million grant that has provided the bulk of the funding for this book project. In particular,
the foundation’s president, Jonathan Fanton, its vice president Elspeth Revere, and program
officer John Bracken have provided invaluable counsel and, of course, financial support. The
Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation provided the ONI its first grant; it was Jonathan Peizer, then the OSI’s chief technology officer, who connected us—fittingly enough, by
e-mail—in the first place. Darius Cuplinskas and Vera Franz of the OSI’s Information Program
have earned our unending thanks for their loyal support of the ONI and its work. Ron Deibert
and Rafal Rohozinski owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Anthony Romero and the Ford
Foundation for seed funding that helped contribute to the realization of the Citizen Lab and
the Advanced Network Research Group. We are very grateful to the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada for providing funding for ONI’s continuing engagement in
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As a Citizen Lab senior research fellow responsible for the ONI’s ‘‘deep dives’’ into Asia, Dr.
Francois Fortier has helped convene and lead a dynamic group of researchers in the region.
Although relatively new to the project, his tremendous organizational and intellectual skills
already have contributed invaluably, and we look forward to his ongoing and expanding role
in the project in the years to come.
Over the years, numerous programmers and researchers have worked at the Citizen Lab,
bringing ingenuity and dogged determination to the ONI’s forensic investigations. These include, in no particular order, Graeme Bunton, Sarah Boland, James Nicholas Tay, Eugene
Fryntov, Anton Fillipenko, Michael Hull, Pat Smith, Tim Smith, Oliver Day, Julian Wolfson, Stian
Haklev, Konstantin Kilibarda, David Wade-Farley, Peter Wong, and Liisa Hyyrylainen.
Jane Gowan, of Agent5 design, has brought her remarkable creativity and artistic sensibilities to help enrich and enliven the ONI’s presentation of its work, including our 2006 poster
of Internet censorship, many of the graphics and other visualizations included herein, and the
striking cover art that frames this volume. Her professionalism, enthusiasm and creativity are
much appreciated.
As Director of the Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert would like to thank the staff at the Munk Centre
for International Studies for providing such a supportive environment for the Lab and the
ONI’s research activities, in particular its director, Janice Stein, and Marketa Evans, Wilhelmina
Peters, and Penny Alford, as well as the Munk Centre’s technical support staff. Thanks also to
the University of Toronto’s Computing and Network Services, in particular Eugene Sicunius,
for tolerating and supporting our (at times) unconventional methods.
As the list of the contributors makes plain, the OpenNet Initiative is an expensive project to
operate. There would be no global data set and no book were it not for the vision of our program officers and the willingness to take risks of the boards of their foundations. We owe
deep thanks to all at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a multiyear,
$3 million grant that has provided the bulk of the funding for this book project. In particular,
the foundation’s president, Jonathan Fanton, its vice president Elspeth Revere, and program
officer John Bracken have provided invaluable counsel and, of course, financial support. The
Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation provided the ONI its first grant; it was Jonathan Peizer, then the OSI’s chief technology officer, who connected us—fittingly enough, by
e-mail—in the first place. Darius Cuplinskas and Vera Franz of the OSI’s Information Program
have earned our unending thanks for their loyal support of the ONI and its work. Ron Deibert
and Rafal Rohozinski owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Anthony Romero and the Ford
Foundation for seed funding that helped contribute to the realization of the Citizen Lab and
the Advanced Network Research Group. We are very grateful to the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada for providing funding for ONI’s continuing engagement in
xiv
John Palfrey