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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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Dmitri Romanovski

SprintUX
Founder
Prague, Czech Republic

I run a boutique Design Sprint consultancy based in Prague and operating across CEE, Russia, and Central Asia. I help organisations to reduce risks of innovation by validating their most important business or product ideas with real clients in just 4 days. I work with SME, startups, foundations, nonprofits, and international organisations.

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5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

Let's See the Evidence! Algorithmic decisions in real life - where and how are they used? El Jem (Laico) Tech Demos: Open (source) for business Caspian (Palais) Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico) Tech Demos: Mischief managed – measuring and mapping for human rights Limes (Laico)

10:30am BST

There's No Party Like a CryptoParty? Oya 3 (Laico) Defense Against the Dark Arts: Meme Campaigns and Propaganda Elydhafa (Laico) Making Civic Tech Work for Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia, Nigeria, and Taiwan Biscay (Palais)

12:00pm BST

RightsCon Info Session: Where to start? Oya 2 (Laico) Lightning Talks: Exploring the complex world of artificial intelligence The BeeHive (Palais) Tech Demos: Blowing the Whistle – Data leaks and digital dropboxes Village Stage (Laico) Access No_! Voices from conflict zones Celtic (Palais) Let's Get Playin': A demo of SMEX's board game on online mobile safety Limes (Laico) BLACKED OUT: A documentary about the longest internet shutdown ever recorded.." Leptis (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Freedom of expression for LGBT, HIV, and gender equality activists in Ukraine Oya 2 (Laico) Help We Are Under Attack! A peek into the community of rapid responders Carthage 2 (Laico) Tech Demos: AI for Maps and Chats Elydhafa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (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) 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

A Warrant for Your DNA: What the Golden State Killer, Police, and Genetic Testing Services Share in Common Oya 1 (Laico) Lookie Here: The good, the bad, and the ugly of location services Cyrene (Laico) Hacking Hackathons with a feminist perspective Adean (Palais) Getting a Handle on Facial Recognition Tech Elyssa (Laico) Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais) Votek: e-Governance solution for participatory democracy Leptis (Laico) "Data Driven" Foreign Aid and "Digital Development" Strategies: Are we disrupting disenfranchisement - or scaling It? L'Escale (Laico) From Failure to Hockeystick Growth - Human Centered Design and Lean Start-Up to Scale Social Impact Celtic (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Lightning Talks: The cost of speaking up – defending freedom of expression The BeeHive (Palais) Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (Laico) Using Machine Learning for Human Rights Carthage 1 (Laico) Is Open-Source Your Unicorn? Dialogue on the sustainability, data security, and ethics of human rights apps Biscay (Palais) If you keep suggesting blockchain, I swear to God I will f—ing scream Oya 1 (Laico) Climate change under construction: an environmentally sustainable Internet Oya 2 (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

9:00am BST

Delegated Repression: How do the Russian state forces private actors to censor and to surveil? Oya 1 (Laico) Returning Protest to the People: A campaign to destigmatise protesters Village Stage (Laico) Hope for Resilience: Shifting the narrative, advancing wellbeing Carthage 3 (Laico) One Size Fits All? Taking global human rights apps to scale for use in wildly different local contexts Elydhafa (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

Rights and Ethics: When technology knows how you feel Hannibal (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: Europe Palais Cafe / Dining Tent Regional Lunch: Global Citizen Laico Buffet Restaurant Safety of Female Journalists Online: #SOFJO panel Celtic (Palais) Balancing Data Protection and Access to Information: Internet RTBF case Utique (Laico) Lightning Talks: What technology can('t) solve The BeeHive (Palais) Tech Demos: Collecting, bridging, and connecting for inclusion Village Stage (Laico) Surveilling Dissent: Online spy mechanisms used by police against protestors L'Escale (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Eastern Europe/Central Asia Laico Lower Community Village Safety of Female Journalists Online: A Dark Place film screening Celtic (Palais) Lightning Talks: Hey, what are you doing with my data? Village Stage (Laico) A Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Oya 1 (Laico) Tech Demos: Privacy across ages and spaces Carthage 3 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

It’s the business model, stupid! Targeted advertising and human rights Utique (Laico) #DigitalPolitik and the Internet's Warring States Period Carthage 2 (Laico) Landmark: The Business of Privacy – How to Profit from Protecting Personal Data The BeeHive (Palais) Callisto: Combating sexual assault through cryptography Jelsa (Laico) Visual Investigations at the New York Times: Innovations in Truth Telling Adean (Palais)

3:45pm BST

How Smaller and Less Resourced Media Outlets Can Unlock the Value of Analytic Activities Without Triggering a Privacy Backlash Jelsa (Laico) Harnessing Technology for the Public Good: Improving local government performance and accountability through new technologies El Jem (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Beyond Bots: Anticipating challenges from future tech and disinformation Oya 3 (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm BST

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

10:30am BST

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

2:15pm BST

Fact-checking Content Made by Users in the Age of Social Media and the Amount of Fake News in It Limes (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)