Ronald Deibert wins writing prize
Cybersecurity expert Ronald Deibert is this year’s winner of Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The Toronto political science professor received the $25,000 honour for “Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society,” published by House of Anansi Press. The Writers’ Trust awarded the prize Wednesday.
Deibert is the director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he studies internet censorship, digital surveillance and cybersecurity issues.