RightsCon Tunis 2019: Voter Beware! Lessons from the ground

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Voter Beware! Lessons from the ground

This roundtable discussion will build on the themes and ideas explored in the Landmark Session “Voter Beware: Micro-targeting in Political Elections and Campaigns.” Lessons learned from Myanmar, Poland, Taiwan, South Africa and elsewhere will be shared as we take a dive into the real-world implications of micro-targeting in different political and human rights contexts.

Moderators

Sarah Johnson

Associate Director, The Carter Center

Tom Trewinnard

Programs & Partnerships, Meedan

Tom Trewinnard (UK) is Director of Programs at Meedan, a social technology non-profit working on the Check project to develop collaborative verification tools and open training curricula. He is a co-founder of Pop-Up Newsroom, which has led major collaborative reporting initiatives... Read More →

Speakers

Billion Lee

Cofacts

Fact-checking, fight against disinformation.

Varoon Bashyakarla

Data Scientist, Tactical Tech

Varoon Bashyakarla is a data scientist at the Tactical Technology Collective, a Berlin-based NGO that works globally at the intersection of civil society and technology. For the past two years, he has been studying how personal data is becoming a political asset, influencing elections... Read More →

Michael Baldassaro

Digital Threats Project Lead, Carter Center

Victoire Rio

Katarzyna Szymielewicz

Cofounder and president, Panoptykon Foundation

Lawyer, activist, performer. Still believing that reclaiming control and power over data is possible. Fighting this battle for last 10 years.

Hsiang-Sheng (Johnson) Liang

Participant, g0v.tw

I am...- A web developer that works at an Internet company as a day job.- An open-sourced civic tech supporter, participated & founded several projects that facilitates civic participation of democracy.- Going to present Cofacts, the voluntary project I have founded in mid 2016Cofacts... Read More →

Beatriz Busaniche

President of the Vía Libre Foundation, Argentina.Master in Intellectual Property. Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and FLACSO Argentina.She is a professor of Human Rights and Intellectual Property in FLACSO and of Right to Culture in the Faculty of Economic Sciences of... Read More →

Friday June 14, 2019 2:15pm - 3:30pm BST
Oya 3 (Laico)

Democracy and Conflict and Shrinking Civic Spaces, Strategic Roundtable

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