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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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Althea Middleton-Detzner

PeaceTech Lab
Director, Hate Speech and Africa Lab
Washington D.C. Metro Area

peacetechlab.org

Althea is the Director of Hate Speech Programs and the Africa Lab at PeaceTech Lab. She has worked for over a decade in the broader peacebuilding field, with expertise in nonviolent movements, civil resistance, and corporate-community conflicts. Prior to working at the Lab, Althea worked on Education and Field Programs at International Center on Nonviolent Conflict from 2005-2016 and was a Curriculum Development Specialist for the Global Campus in the Academy at the United States Institute of Peace. Althea has an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. in International Affairs and Development from George Washington University.

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5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

Building the First Global Perceptions of Gender and Online Violence Leptis (Laico) Lightning Talks: Understanding and combating misinformation The BeeHive (Palais)

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) Change the Terms: Approaches for addressing a new era of hate online Carthage 1 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Access No_! Voices from conflict zones Celtic (Palais)

1:00pm BST

Social Media and Conflict: Research and product case studies Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) Fighting for Human Rights and Democracy in the Digital World: New tools, new actors – How to be more efficient? Village Stage (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments Village Stage (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)

9:00am BST

Do Moderators Dream of Electric Sheep? The potential for AI in regulating online content L'Escale (Laico) Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais)

10:30am BST

Imagine an Internet Free From Hate...It’s Easy If You Try: A strategy workshop on combating gender-based hate speech online Adean (Palais) Moderate Bias? Exploring anti-bias training in the context of online content moderation Carthage 2 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Safety of Female Journalists Online: #SOFJO panel Celtic (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Collective Intelligence Approaches to Expanding Violations Monitoring in Conflict Zones Biscay (Palais) How to build civil society cross-expertise in response to disinformation Carthage 1 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Combating harassment of women journalists in extremism-ridden online spaces Utique (Laico) Demystifying the Definitions, Demands, and Data of “Direct Access” Limes (Laico) Elections and Public Discourse in Africa: Do social media platforms level the playing field? Oya 3 (Laico) Taking an Ethical Stand: Building tech companies of the future L'Escale (Laico) Threat Modeling for Activists in Latin America Caspian (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Lightning Talks: Fighting censorship, surveillance, and disinformation around the Globe The BeeHive (Palais) Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico) Between the Silicon Valley-China Spectrum: Towards a democratic regulation to promote a free and open Internet Amilcar (Laico) Old Crisis, Novel Means: Applying new tools to encourage company action in support of civic freedoms and human rights defenders Limes (Laico) Dispatches From the Front Lines of Civil Society's Pushback Against Closing Space Biscay (Palais) Online Media and Misinformation: You ask, youth answers Leptis (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Democratising religious discourse through technology Limes (Laico) Don't Stand So Close to Me: Curbing harassment in virtual reality and emergent media Adean (Palais)

10:30am BST

Countering hate, preserving free expression Caspian (Palais) Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Tech Demos: New tools and tactics for better digital security Limes (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Co-creating Tools for Ethical Design Elyssa (Laico) Tech Demos: Fact or fiction – tools for verification Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Addressing Hate Speech Online: Recipes for a rights-based approach Celtic (Palais) Voter Beware! Lessons from the ground Oya 3 (Laico) Social Media, Mis/Disinformation, and Human Rights: Messages from Nations' Elections Biscay (Palais)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)