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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Almost a decade ago, NationBuilder was founded on the principle that people must own their own data. This long-standing ethical stance for data ownership serves as a starting point for a robust conversation between Marietje Schaake and Lea Endres on the influence of technology on democratic processes, the necessity of transparent business models, and the intersection between technology and ethics. Can tech companies be successful without taking a values-based position in this era? In this session, Marietje and Lea will discuss the idea that for tech companies of the future, such a stance is not only possible, but required.
