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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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David Carroll

Carter Center
Director, Democracy Program
Atlanta, GA, USA

https://cartercenter.org

David Carroll is director of the Carter Center's Democracy Program and leads the Center's work on developing and building consensus on international standards. He also coordinates a Carter Center team working to develop a methodology and related tools to assess the impact of social media on elections and political participation.

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) Improving Cooperation to Advance Human Rights Online Amilcar (Laico)

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) Enabling Digital Civic Space: A Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clement Voule Caspian (Palais) Hey, That’s My Vote! The Emerging Science of Digital Election Observation L'Escale (Laico) From Call to Action: Visions for a Contract for the Web Carthage 2 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico) Cyberstability and Human Rights: Friends or Foes? An Interactive Dialogue with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Elyssa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) 20 Years Since the Human Rights Defenders Declaration was Adopted at the UN, Over 150 HRDs Got Together in Paris to Celebrate Achievements, Discuss Current Challenges and Devise an Action Plan Cyrene (Laico) 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) Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments Village Stage (Laico) The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Carthage 1 (Laico) Tracking Takedown Transparency Today and Tomorrow: Lessons learned and next steps for the emerging practice of transparency reporting on content moderation Dougga (Laico) Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais) Improving the Net: Applying UNESCO’s internet universality R.O.A.M indicators for evidence-based policy-making Carthage 3 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change? Celtic (Palais)

9:00am BST

Do Moderators Dream of Electric Sheep? The potential for AI in regulating online content L'Escale (Laico) With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Keeping public sector algorithms accountable Carthage 1 (Laico) Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais)

10:30am BST

Political Ads on Social Networks: Tearing the curtains of opacity Elyssa (Laico) Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico) One Cross-Border Treaty to Rule Them All: The Budapest Convention Protocol Elydhafa (Laico) Who said What to Whom? Disinformation and anonymous speech Leptis (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)

5:15pm BST

Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico) Election Watch: Addressing information freedom on the internet and the dangerous trend of internet shutdowns Carthage 2 (Laico)

9:00am BST

Kunyamazisha: Gagging online free speech in Sub-Saharan Africa Celtic (Palais) Where will your values take AI? Co-designing a Moral Labyrinth (and taking one home!) Elyssa (Laico) Don't Stand So Close to Me: Curbing harassment in virtual reality and emergent media Adean (Palais) How to Impact the Global Human Rights Agenda: Recommendations from the UN High-level Panel Carthage 1 (Laico) Testing New Methods for Social Media Monitoring by Civic Groups in Elections Amilcar (Laico) Lightning Talks: Trends in transparent tracking Village Stage (Laico) The Tone from the Top: Setting responsible regulation for tech Cyrene (Laico)

10:30am BST

The Ghost in the Machine: Remedy for algorithmic discrimination Limes (Laico) Mapping the Response to ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women in Morocco and Tunisia: Grassroots-level action research Leptis (Laico) Enhancing Processes and Empowering People: Exploring the potential of new technologies in private remediation of business-related human rights abuse Cyrene (Laico) Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Protecting Freedom of Expression in a Complex World: The role of courts and tribunals L'Escale (Laico) The anatomy of tech-related Violence Against Women Cyrene (Laico) Causing an UPROAR! over internet freedom at the Universal Periodic Review Utique (Laico)