Masala Canada - Saturday, December 24th 2011

Conversations with Robert Fox and Ron Deibert

MASALA CANADA with WOJTEK GWIAZDA

On this edition of MASALA CANADA (originally broadcast November 12, 2011) I talk to Robert Fox, the Executive Director of the international aid organization Oxfam Canada. He describes the crisis flood situation in Pakistan, and the lack of urgency and funding from world governments for relief aid for the millions affected in Pakistan. This past November Oxfam, along with three other aid agencies, warned some of the relief work may have to stop after December because more money is not being made available.

And I talk to Dr Ron Deibert, the Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab focuses on the surveillance of the Internet by governments, on cyber warfare, and on privacy and human rights issues on the Internet. We’ll discuss his concerns about these issues and the tendency of people to transfer their data from their computers and other devices to the computers of “cloud-computing” providers.

WEB LINKS:

Oxfam Canada website – www.oxfam.ca

Rebecca Nazz music and info – www.myspace.com/rebeccanazz

Citizen Lab website – www.citizenlab.org

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