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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Many studies and reports have demonstrated that a gender gap is pervasive and persistent in areas related to data and technology. The gap is pervasive in that it exists nearly anywhere one looks, and the gap is persistent in that it continues to exist over time, despite efforts to reduce it. After a brief introduction to the problem, this session will seek to actively engage participants and speakers, in an effort to explore recent research and to suggest new research for effectively addressing the issues.
