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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A few governments have begun testing tools to increase transparency and accountability of algorithms used by the public sector. This session will share examples of a few pioneering teams in governments, such as the French government’s taskforce for open data and data policy, Etalab, who are testing this in the fields of education, taxation, employment and social policy as well as the Canadian government’s efforts towards this. The session will also explore key principles that underlie these tools, and how these can be adapted across other contexts. It will be an opportunity to discuss the good practice and challenges around developing norms related to public sector algorithmic accountability and where, if at all, this differs (in principle or in practice) with private sector algorithms.
Finally, it will share how governments, including the Government of France, are using multistakeholder platforms like Open Government Partnership to undertake these efforts in partnership with civil society and experts, and how a growing numbers of countries in OGP are undertaking policy reforms on this, paving the way to global norms.