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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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Clara Tsao

TSPA
Former Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology, 5G and IOT at Department of Homeland Security, Halcyon Principles Advisor
Washington D.C. Metro Area

https://claratsao.com

Clara Tsao is a national security expert and technology entrepreneur currently building a new industry organization focused on the trust and safety profession (Trust & Safety Professional Association). Clara has worked across various national security roles in US Government, serving as a senior advisor and Chief Technology Officer focused on emerging technology policy, countering terrorist use of the internet, and foreign influence operations online. Clara sits as the Chair of the Board/President of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation and a Senior Advisor at the UN-CTED backed Tech Against Terrorism. Clara is also a non-resident fellow at German Marshall Fund and a former technology policy fellow at Mozilla and Google.

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9:00am BST

Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico) Big Tech and the Future of Journalism: Reinventing news and information in the age of Google and Facebook Oya 2 (Laico) Millimeter Waves, Small Cells, Beamforming, Oh My! Anticipating and addressing human rights impacts in a 5G environment Carthage 2 (Laico) The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

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) 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) Terrorist online content regulations in Europe and beyond: changing the platform liability paradigm? Leptis (Laico) Making Civic Tech Work for Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia, Nigeria, and Taiwan Biscay (Palais) Protecting the Integrity of the Global Information Space Celtic (Palais) Working it out - journalism in the digital area : why we need an international pledge for Information and Democracy now more than ever Jelsa (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Cyberstability and Human Rights: Friends or Foes? An Interactive Dialogue with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Elyssa (Laico)

1:00pm BST

The Benevolent Accomplices of Authoritarian Regimes on the Internet Carthage 1 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Are we seriously going to trade away our privacy like cars, rice, or bananas? Carthage 3 (Laico) Data Trust Models in the Digital Era: A public, private and people matter Celtic (Palais) Fighting for Human Rights and Democracy in the Digital World: New tools, new actors – How to be more efficient? Village Stage (Laico) Internet Regulation - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: A model for regulatory effectiveness Oya 1 (Laico) Strategically Litigating Internet Shutdowns and Cybercrime Laws in Africa: Reflecting on steps taken and the road ahead Oya 2 (Laico) Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais) What role for regulators in the digital era? Caspian (Palais)

3:45pm BST

The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Carthage 1 (Laico) Tracker versus Trackee: The chasm between individuals’ understanding of online tracking and the real data collection (and processing) power of trackers and what can be done to bridge the divide Oya 2 (Laico) Tracking Takedown Transparency Today and Tomorrow: Lessons learned and next steps for the emerging practice of transparency reporting on content moderation Dougga (Laico) From Crypto-wars to Crypto-Peace: How do we improve encryption policy in the real world? Hannibal (Laico) Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais) Prepare Don't Panic: Strategize a human rights-based response to deepfake technologies, synthetic media, and increasing volumes of visual misinformation Elydhafa (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (Laico) Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change? Celtic (Palais) Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais) Digital Cooperation, Solved? Assessing the UN High Level Panel Utique (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

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) Technology in Conflict: Assessing platform companies’ human rights responsibility and accountability in high-risk settings El Jem (Laico)

10:30am BST

Data Trusts: Getting beyond the hype Biscay (Palais) Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico) One Cross-Border Treaty to Rule Them All: The Budapest Convention Protocol Elydhafa (Laico) Defending Encryption: Lessons from the Australian frontline Village Stage (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Balancing Data Protection and Access to Information: Internet RTBF case Utique (Laico) Defending Democracy from Foreign Interference in a Digital Age Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

It’s the business model, stupid! Targeted advertising and human rights Utique (Laico) Warning! Access to the Internet Is Suspended for Security Reasons – A policy discussion on the effectiveness of Internet shutdowns L'Escale (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Demystifying the Definitions, Demands, and Data of “Direct Access” Limes (Laico) The Ranking Digital Rights 2019 Corporate Accountability Index: Which companies have improved their respect for your rights? Adean (Palais)

5:15pm BST

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) The fight for digital privacy in the face of authoritarianism and surveillance capitalism Village Stage (Laico) Beyond Bots: Anticipating challenges from future tech and disinformation Oya 3 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Countering hate, preserving free expression Caspian (Palais) It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico) Aligning cybercrime laws with international human rights standards Carthage 3 (Laico) Is Russian intelligence that intelligent? How to resist state-sponsored hacking Village Stage (Laico) Surveillance Tech and Oppressive Governments: Exploring cases of abuse and avenues for global cooperation going forward Carthage 1 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

If I Can't Find It, It's Not the Law: Toward minimum standards for access to human rights law and information Carthage 2 (Laico) Tunis +13¾: From the Tunis Agenda to RightsCon Tunis, it’s been a lifetime of internet governance Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

SWOTing the Christchuch Call Carthage 1 (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)