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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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Christel Dahlskjaer

Private Internet Access
CCO
UK

https://privateinternetaccess.com

Christel Dahlskjaer is the CCO of Private Internet Access, a leading VPN service provider specialising in secure, encrypted VPN tunnels which create several layers of privacy and security to help users stay safe on the internet. She is keen on community, privacy and freedom of expression, passionate and opinionated about internet governance, and she has extensive experience from the Free and Open Source Software community, serving as the Project Lead of freenode for the last 13 years. She is a GNOME Foundation member, and currently also serves on the advisory council to the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund and is mid-way through a two-year term as one of the two co-chairs of the Internet Society's Organisational Membership Advisory Council.

My Friends

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

10:30am BST

Hey, That’s My Vote! The Emerging Science of Digital Election Observation L'Escale (Laico) There's No Party Like a CryptoParty? Oya 3 (Laico) 2018 Human Rights Heroes Awards The BeeHive (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico) BLACKED OUT: A documentary about the longest internet shutdown ever recorded.." Leptis (Laico)

1:00pm BST

North Koreans Need Real Information Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

This is Not Legal Advice: How lawyers navigate troubled waters and keep the NGO afloat Utique (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Is Open-Source Your Unicorn? Dialogue on the sustainability, data security, and ethics of human rights apps Biscay (Palais)

9:00am BST

Delegated Repression: How do the Russian state forces private actors to censor and to surveil? Oya 1 (Laico) Do Moderators Dream of Electric Sheep? The potential for AI in regulating online content L'Escale (Laico) A multi-stakeholder dialogue on internet platforms, sexual content, and child protection Utique (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Landmark: The Business of Privacy – How to Profit from Protecting Personal Data The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Mapping safety and security challenges between human rights defenders and funders Carthage 1 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Detecting, Understanding, and Countering Censorship of Wikipedia Adean (Palais)

9:00am BST

You're Not Just a Pretty Face: Biometric surveillance has moved beyond face recognition - how do we stop it? Hannibal (Laico)

10:30am BST

Is Russian intelligence that intelligent? How to resist state-sponsored hacking Village Stage (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Agent Provocateur: The threat of government agents impersonating journalists Celtic (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

My Moderators Sessions

10:30am BST

Hey, That’s My Vote! The Emerging Science of Digital Election Observation L'Escale (Laico)