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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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Beni Goldenheart

La Red Hispana - Canyon Communications
founder
Washington, DC

canyoncommunications.tv

40 years mentoring media producers & journalists producing multi-media campaigns promoting human rights and environmental awareness. Fluent in Spanish. Contact me if you are interested in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, Palestine, Israel and the MENA region. Let us know if we can help you meet other journalists and creative activists working in those countries to work with you to engage large audiences with in-language, culturally appropriate mass media designed to reach large audiences.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Measuring Respect for Human Rights – Using benchmarks to create a race to the top in the ICT sector Celtic (Palais) Big Tech and the Future of Journalism: Reinventing news and information in the age of Google and Facebook Oya 2 (Laico) Lightning Talks: Understanding and combating misinformation The BeeHive (Palais)

10:30am BST

Developing New Models for Censorship: The cases of the Russian RuNet, the Great Firewall of China, and Iran’s Filternet Limes (Laico) 2018 Human Rights Heroes Awards The BeeHive (Palais) Defense Against the Dark Arts: Meme Campaigns and Propaganda Elydhafa (Laico)

12:00pm BST

RightsCon Info Session: Where to start? Oya 2 (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Wide Whistleblowing: 9 NGOs, 10 countries, and 250 anonymous digital dropboxes Oya 3 (Laico) Pegasus Spyware Threatens Press Freedom, From Mexico to Saudi Arabia Biscay (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Authoritarianism killed radio stars Biscay (Palais) Busting Out of the Echo Chamber: an inclusive approach to build diverse online communities and generate constructive conversations between polarized youth Carthage 2 (Laico) Fundraising in the Post-Election Era: How to respond to unpredictable events and prepare for them in the future. Carthage 1 (Laico) Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments Village Stage (Laico) "Data Driven" Foreign Aid and "Digital Development" Strategies: Are we disrupting disenfranchisement - or scaling It? L'Escale (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

The Palestinian Cause for Digital Freedom Leptis (Laico) Returning Protest to the People: A campaign to destigmatise protesters Village Stage (Laico) How you can start using data analytics to grow your organizations impact and resources...tomorrow! Adean (Palais) Reverse-Engineering an RFP: Making Beneficiaries the Boss Dougga (Laico)

10:30am BST

Dynamics of Doing Research in Closed Societies: What we can learn from audience research from online exiled media L'Escale (Laico) Separating human rights activism from regime change Cyrene (Laico) Political Ads on Social Networks: Tearing the curtains of opacity Elyssa (Laico) Lightning Talks: User experience and access in closed societies The BeeHive (Palais) Meet the Funders: An OTR Q&A with donors Carthage 1 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Latin America Laico Lower Community Village

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: North America Laico Buffet Restaurant 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

Who wants to be a terrorist? The radicalisation of free speech control through measures against terrorist content online Oya 2 (Laico) It’s the business model, stupid! Targeted advertising and human rights Utique (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Fear, Friction, and Flooding: New models of censorship in the MENA region (the case of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) Carthage 3 (Laico) How Smaller and Less Resourced Media Outlets Can Unlock the Value of Analytic Activities Without Triggering a Privacy Backlash Jelsa (Laico) Co-designing and Threat-modeling Accountability Tools for Restricted Civic Spaces: the Egypt Social Progress Indicators platform Biscay (Palais) Threat Modeling for Activists in Latin America Caspian (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Media Beyond Borders: Resilient content strategies for reaching audiences in closed societies Celtic (Palais) How Small Countries Survive: A human rights dilemma with respect to asymmetrical disinformation war Jelsa (Laico) Online Media and Misinformation: You ask, youth answers Leptis (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm BST

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Online Dissidence in the Global South El Jem (Laico)

10:30am BST

Platforms, free speech, and pluralism: Is there a role to play for media authorities? Adean (Palais) Is Russian intelligence that intelligent? How to resist state-sponsored hacking Village Stage (Laico) Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico) Network Propaganda in a Comparative Perspective: a South-North dialogue about democracy, privacy and free speech Oya 3 (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Landmark: Voter Beware! - Microtargeting in Political Elections and Campaigns The BeeHive (Palais) Agent Provocateur: The threat of government agents impersonating journalists Celtic (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Voter Beware! Lessons from the ground Oya 3 (Laico) Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais) Social Media, Mis/Disinformation, and Human Rights: Messages from Nations' Elections Biscay (Palais)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)