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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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Emna Mizouni

Digital Citizenship
Director
Tunisia

Emna, a Tunisian-Maghrebi, is a digital communications Specialist and the Director of Digital Citizenship. She is the President-Founder of Carthagina organisation, working to promote Tunisia globally through digitising heritage. She is an advocate for Open Culture and Open Knowledge, a 2019 Wikimedian of the Year. Emna is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Tech and Human Rights and part of Access Now's board of directors. Emna is also a member of the Women’s Rights network of the international organisation Karama. She previously worked in the corporate sector then she moved to the non-profit sector where she occupied several positions in marketing, monitoring & evaluation and communications.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

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) 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) 2018 Human Rights Heroes Awards The BeeHive (Palais) Making Civic Tech Work for Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia, Nigeria, and Taiwan Biscay (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Tech Demos: Blowing the Whistle – Data leaks and digital dropboxes Village Stage (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Pegasus Spyware Threatens Press Freedom, From Mexico to Saudi Arabia Biscay (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Cyber Harm, Let's Avoid It: Building cybersecurity capacity that protects human rights El Jem (Laico) "Data Driven" Foreign Aid and "Digital Development" Strategies: Are we disrupting disenfranchisement - or scaling It? L'Escale (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Digital Cooperation, Solved? Assessing the UN High Level Panel Utique (Laico)

9:00am BST

A multi-stakeholder dialogue on internet platforms, sexual content, and child protection Utique (Laico) How you can start using data analytics to grow your organizations impact and resources...tomorrow! Adean (Palais)

10:30am BST

Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: MENA Laico Side Restaurant Balancing Data Protection and Access to Information: Internet RTBF case Utique (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Media Heroes: Safety matters – An interactive online and offline session on safety for Arabic speaking media makers in conflict areas Elydhafa (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Fear, Friction, and Flooding: New models of censorship in the MENA region (the case of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) Carthage 3 (Laico) Ethical AI Career Pathways: Preparing tomorrow’s leaders to innovate ethically Oya 2 (Laico) Putting Human-Rights based Cybersecurity Strategies into Practice: A focus on Africa Elydhafa (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Detecting, Understanding, and Countering Censorship of Wikipedia Adean (Palais) Business for Better Cybersecurity: How the private sector can promote economic growth and digital rights Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00am BST

How to Impact the Global Human Rights Agenda: Recommendations from the UN High-level Panel Carthage 1 (Laico) رؤية المجتمع للمدونين وصحافة المواطنة Oya 3 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Tunis +13¾: From the Tunis Agenda to RightsCon Tunis, it’s been a lifetime of internet governance Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Protecting digital communities in democracies from the global reach of authoritarian countries Oya 1 (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

My Moderators Sessions

3:45pm BST

Fear, Friction, and Flooding: New models of censorship in the MENA region (the case of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) Carthage 3 (Laico)