Faculty generate 10 of top 25 world-changing ideas
Source: Elaine Smith, University of Toronto
The December 2009 issue of Toronto Life magazine features 25 World Changing Ideas from the Smartest Torontonians and 10 of them – 40 per cent — come from research done by professors based at U of T and its teaching hospitals.
Professor Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, and his team grabbed the top spot on the list for Psiphon, a tool that allows broad Internet access to citizens of countries where use is censored by the government without the fear of their being detected, since the tool uses safe serves outside their home countries. Toronto Life hails them for making “Internet use is a human right.”
“We are proud to have one of our projects recognized as being a world-changer by Toronto Life, as that’s what we set out to do with Psiphon — challenge the growing trends worldwide restricting access to information and freedom of speech online,” said Deibert.