The Citizen Lab
Jennie Phillips, Ph.D., currently serves as Project Director at Media Ecosystem Observatory, focusing on the Canadian Digital Media Research Network. As an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University and a Director at the Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab, Phillips emphasizes the intersections of digital ethics and global health. Experiences include multiple roles at academic institutions, research fellowships, and entrepreneurial leadership at ellips design + consulting. Research areas encompass election monitoring, emergency management, digital volunteerism, and social innovation, with a strong academic foundation built through a Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and a Master's degree in Educational Technology. Phillips also gained practical insights as a researcher for the United Nations’ Digital Humanitarian Network.
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The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security. We use a “mixed methods” approach to research combining practices from political science, law, computer science, and area studies. Our research includes: investigating digital espionage against civil society, documenting Internet filtering and other technologies and practices that impact freedom of expression online, analyzing privacy, security, and information controls of popular applications, and examining transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies regarding personal data and other surveillance activities.