RightsCon Tunis 2019

What can we do to keep elections free and fair in the age of digitization? And how can the tech rights community get involved with election observation in their own countries and around the world? This session will serve as a fast track introduction to election monitoring for a human rights and public interest audience. We’ll hear from the people who make observation missions happen and discover current solutions, emerging challenges, and innovations in each space with a focus on developing, transitional and conflict countries. We’ll then take a deep-dive into real-world case studies from each of the two communities: How has the #KeepItOn coalition been tracking internet shutdowns during elections, and how does that contrast with the work of media monitoring missions? Where has technology worked and has where it failed to serve the voting public during the last year? The audience is invited to join in and throw their own ideas and solutions into the mix.