Trends in Internet Control in Southeast Asia and China
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
What are the current trends in internet control in China and Southeast Asia? How has increasing state control over the internet impacted human rights and civil liberties in the region? What implications do such trends hold for Canada?
As a fast-growing region with increasing ties to Canada, issues of technology, security, privacy and surveillance across Asia cannot be ignored. From increasing threats to press freedom in the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte to the broad monitoring of telecommunications in Singapore, Southeast Asia is home to numerous examples of state control over the internet, media, and speech at large. Such a discussion would be incomplete without considering China, where the Communist regime continues to tighten its grip on information flow across cyberspace. And with the recent Sino-Canadian dispute over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, the presence of Chinese cybertechnology in Canada and the intersection between cybertechnology issues and the Asia-Pacific at large have been thrust to the forefront of socio-political discourse in our country.
Irene Poetranto is a Senior Researcher for the Citizen Lab and a Doctoral Student in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her primary research interest is on the cybersecurity policy development in the Global South, especially in Asia. Her dissertation project focuses on the issue of Internet controls in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. She obtained her Master’s degree in Political Science and Asia-Pacific Studies from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
Lotus Ruan is a researcher at The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the interplay of the state and private companies in terms of internet management and innovation in the digital age with an area focus on China. Prior to joining University of Toronto, Lotus received her master’s degree in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at the University of British Columbia and worked as a journalist and news editor in China for over two years.
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