Nadia Caidi

Nadia Caidi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. Her primary research interests are information policy and social/community informatics. She is also involved in cross-cultural and comparative studies, researching the influence of culture on the production, distribution and use of information and its technologies. Nadia's research on information control and the public's right to know in times of crisis has been awarded two three-year grants (2004-2007, 2007-2010) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Canada. She is currently completing a book on this topic (to be published by Blackwell Publishing). A forthcoming article on “Information Practices of Canadian Muslims Post 9/11” will appear in Government Information Quarterly (2008).