Information Warfare Monitor

IWM are Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and Rafal Rohozinski from the The SecDev Group

The Information Warfare Monitor is an advanced research activity tracking the emergence of cyberspace as a strategic domain. They are an independent research effort. Their mission is to build and broaden the evidence base available to scholars, policy makers, and others. They aim to educate and inform. The Information Warfare Monitor is public-private venture between two Canadian institutions: the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and The SecDev Group, an operational think tank based in a Ottawa (Canada). The Secdev Group conducts field-based investigations and data gathering. Their advanced research and analysis facilities are located at the Citizen Lab. The IWM was established in 2002 by Ronald Deibert (Citizen Lab) and Rafal Rohozinski (The Secdev Group, previously director, Advanced Network Research Group, University of Cambridge). The current directors of the IWM are Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski. The research of the Information Warfare Monitor is supported by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (University of Toronto), a generous grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The IWM benefits from donations from a variety of sponsors including Psiphon Inc, and Palantir Technologies. Psiphon Inc is a censorship circumvention and managed content delivery solutions. It was developed at the Citizen Lab and spun out of the University of Toronto as a private company in 2009. Psiphon Inc. made a sizeable donation of computer, networking, and software tools to the Citizen Lab and provides personnel and resources on an ongoing basis as part of a strategic partnership with the Citizen Lab, which are tasked to the IWM project. Palantir Technologies is an information visualization and analysis tools, used by the U.S. and Canadian defense and intelligence community, but which operates around ethical principles concerning privacy and human rights. Palantir Technologies made a sizeable software donation of its analytical platform to the Citizen Lab, which is used in IWM research.