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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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RightsCon is brought to you by Access Now.

Christel Steigenberger

Wikimedia Foundation
Trust & Safety Specialist
christel@wikimedia.org

Protecting people online against harassment and prosecution from individuals as well as from organisations or institutions. Protecting free knowledge online.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

Improving Cooperation to Advance Human Rights Online Amilcar (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Access No_! Voices from conflict zones Celtic (Palais) The Digital Language Divide: Why Prioritizing Underrepresented Languages Matters. Adean (Palais)

1:00pm BST

The Benevolent Accomplices of Authoritarian Regimes on the Internet Carthage 1 (Laico) Help We Are Under Attack! A peek into the community of rapid responders Carthage 2 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Fighting for Human Rights and Democracy in the Digital World: New tools, new actors – How to be more efficient? Village Stage (Laico) Organizing a Global South Led Movement for Platform Accountabilty with the Next Billion Coalition L'Escale (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Cyber Harm, Let's Avoid It: Building cybersecurity capacity that protects human rights El Jem (Laico)

5:15pm BST

The Incomplete Guide to Harassment Campaigns; Focusing on Harassment Outside of the Global North Limes (Laico)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

9:00am BST

Hope for Resilience: Shifting the narrative, advancing wellbeing Carthage 3 (Laico) Decolonising Cyberpolicy: Developing a Cyberpolicy Framework Relevant to the Global South Limes (Laico)

10:30am BST

Separating human rights activism from regime change Cyrene (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Global Citizen Laico Buffet Restaurant Balancing Data Protection and Access to Information: Internet RTBF case Utique (Laico)

1:00pm BST

A Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Oya 1 (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) The humanitarian cybersecurity and privacy problem Oya 1 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Ethical AI Career Pathways: Preparing tomorrow’s leaders to innovate ethically Oya 2 (Laico) Co-designing and Threat-modeling Accountability Tools for Restricted Civic Spaces: the Egypt Social Progress Indicators platform Biscay (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico) Dispatches From the Front Lines of Civil Society's Pushback Against Closing Space Biscay (Palais) Studying the impact of shutdowns from the lens of gender, conflict, and ethnicity Hannibal (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Let's talk about local capacity, how to build, not kill Elydhafa (Laico)

10:30am BST

Solve My Problem: Indigenous Data Sovereignty El Jem (Laico)

12:00pm BST

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

1:00pm BST

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

2:15pm BST

Protecting digital communities in democracies from the global reach of authoritarian countries Oya 1 (Laico) Lightning Talks: Building a Rights-Respecting Future – Innovative ways forward Village Stage (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)