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RightsCon Tunis 2019

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.

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Ahmed Medien

Meedan
Tunisian Elections Program Lead
London, United Kingdom

twitter.com/ahmedmedien

Ahmed is the Tunisian elections program lead at Meedan, a civic tech organisation whose mission is to provide journalists with open tools to fight misinformation. He holds a Master's of Science in Operations Research from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He is a strong advocate of open knowledge technology, freedom of expression, youth participation in the global dialogue on internet governance and public policies that will drive access and sustainable development inside disadvantaged communities. He is also interested in computational political communication as well as understanding and countering misinformation in science and public health communication. Ahmed was previously a Senior Manager at Africa's largest e-commerce venture, Jumia, and a Senior Data Officer at a USAID-funded "good governance" initiative in Tunisia.

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5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Big Tech and the Future of Journalism: Reinventing news and information in the age of Google and Facebook Oya 2 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Machine Learning 101 for Human Rights Activists: Everything you wanted to know about machine learning but were afraid to ask Hannibal (Laico)

12:00pm BST

The Digital Language Divide: Why Prioritizing Underrepresented Languages Matters. Adean (Palais)

1:00pm BST

AI for Justice: Opportunities and limitations to analyzing today's human rights data troves Cyrene (Laico)

3:45pm BST

The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Carthage 1 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Using Machine Learning for Human Rights Carthage 1 (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais)

10:30am BST

Dynamics of Doing Research in Closed Societies: What we can learn from audience research from online exiled media L'Escale (Laico) "Challenge Hate” - Countering “hate speech” against LGBTQ people in MENA Amilcar (Laico) Does Social Media Deserve a Sin Tax? The impact of Internet service levies on human rights and sustainable development in Africa Utique (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Global Citizen Laico Buffet Restaurant Regional Lunch: MENA Laico Side Restaurant Methods measuring freedom of internet Cyrene (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Media Heroes: Safety matters – An interactive online and offline session on safety for Arabic speaking media makers in conflict areas Elydhafa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Visual Investigations at the New York Times: Innovations in Truth Telling Adean (Palais)

3:45pm BST

How Smaller and Less Resourced Media Outlets Can Unlock the Value of Analytic Activities Without Triggering a Privacy Backlash Jelsa (Laico) Elections and Public Discourse in Africa: Do social media platforms level the playing field? Oya 3 (Laico) Harnessing Technology for the Public Good: Improving local government performance and accountability through new technologies El Jem (Laico)

5:15pm BST

AI 2050: Imagining AI trajectories in the Global South Elydhafa (Laico) Beyond Bots: Anticipating challenges from future tech and disinformation Oya 3 (Laico) Online Media and Misinformation: You ask, youth answers Leptis (Laico) Studying the impact of shutdowns from the lens of gender, conflict, and ethnicity Hannibal (Laico)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Don't Stand So Close to Me: Curbing harassment in virtual reality and emergent media Adean (Palais) An Innovative Equation for Improved Local Governance: Behavioral sciences + digital tools = new meaningful civic spaces Leptis (Laico) Testing New Methods for Social Media Monitoring by Civic Groups in Elections Amilcar (Laico) The Dangers of Consuming Content (and other framing mistakes) Jelsa (Laico)

10:30am BST

Mapping the Response to ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women in Morocco and Tunisia: Grassroots-level action research Leptis (Laico) Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Report, Rinse, Repeat! Learn to report on tech and human rights violations with Global Voices and Ranking Digital Rights Biscay (Palais)

1:00pm BST

Tech Demos: Fact or fiction – tools for verification Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Tech Policy, AI and Investment in the GCC: A path to digital development or digital dystopia? Carthage 3 (Laico) Doing Data Journalism Without Data: Against all odds, the "Yemeni Data Journalism Network" Leptis (Laico) Social Media, Mis/Disinformation, and Human Rights: Messages from Nations' Elections Biscay (Palais)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)