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RightsCon Tunis 2019

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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Ilias Bartolini

Human Rights Connected / ThoughtWorks

https://blog.iliasbartolini.name/

Technical Lead and Advisor.
Currently focusing on Digital Social Innovation.
Expertise in open and free software, software architecture, delivery and design. International experience in delivering products and facilitating digital transformation across multiple sectors.

On a sabbatical break looking for non-profits, social businesses, international cooperation sector, people or organizations with social impact at the core of their mission.

Software, digital fabrication, engineering, innovation, leadership, mentoring and coaching, digital rights, social justice, direct action and part-time jack of all trades.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

Measuring Respect for Human Rights – Using benchmarks to create a race to the top in the ICT sector Celtic (Palais) Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) The big dataset in the sky: challenging geographies of discrimination Carthage 3 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Hey, That’s My Vote! The Emerging Science of Digital Election Observation L'Escale (Laico) Seeing through the rubble: using crowdsourcing, data and field work to investigate civilian deaths in Raqqa, Syria Village Stage (Laico) Solve My Problem: Indigenous Data Sovereignty El Jem (Laico) From Call to Action: Visions for a Contract for the Web Carthage 2 (Laico) Public Broadcasting in the Age of Censorship Cyrene (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico) Lightning Talks: Exploring the complex world of artificial intelligence The BeeHive (Palais) BLACKED OUT: A documentary about the longest internet shutdown ever recorded.." Leptis (Laico)

1:00pm BST

The Benevolent Accomplices of Authoritarian Regimes on the Internet Carthage 1 (Laico) AI for Justice: Opportunities and limitations to analyzing today's human rights data troves Cyrene (Laico) Social Media and Conflict: Research and product case studies Caspian (Palais) Lightning Talks: Questioning access and accountability The BeeHive (Palais) Tech Demos: AI for Maps and Chats Elydhafa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

20 Years Since the Human Rights Defenders Declaration was Adopted at the UN, Over 150 HRDs Got Together in Paris to Celebrate Achievements, Discuss Current Challenges and Devise an Action Plan Cyrene (Laico) Securing a Line of Connectivity in War-torn Yemen: Shutdowns, blocking, and action Oya 3 (Laico) Government Hacking: Corporate Resistance or Assistance? Utique (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments Village Stage (Laico) How Tech Firms Enable Human Rights Violations in Palestine Jelsa (Laico) Sustainable Practices Workshop - Sharing What Works Biscay (Palais) Hacking Hackathons with a feminist perspective Adean (Palais) Cyber Harm, Let's Avoid It: Building cybersecurity capacity that protects human rights El Jem (Laico) Getting a Handle on Facial Recognition Tech Elyssa (Laico) Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais) Bridge the Gap: Bringing Your Case to the U.N. Caspian (Palais) From Failure to Hockeystick Growth - Human Centered Design and Lean Start-Up to Scale Social Impact Celtic (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Lightning Talks: The cost of speaking up – defending freedom of expression The BeeHive (Palais) Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (Laico) Using Machine Learning for Human Rights Carthage 1 (Laico) Is Open-Source Your Unicorn? Dialogue on the sustainability, data security, and ethics of human rights apps Biscay (Palais) If you keep suggesting blockchain, I swear to God I will f—ing scream Oya 1 (Laico) Cyber warfare and defense in a tumultuous Middle East Dougga (Laico) Climate change under construction: an environmentally sustainable Internet Oya 2 (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

The Imprisonment of Ola Bini: Building solidarity and protecting the community Hannibal (Laico)

9:00am BST

Lightning Talks: Trends in transparent tracking Village Stage (Laico) Hacking Digital Gender Norms Oya 1 (Laico) Decolonization of the Web as a Means Towards an Effective Journalism Biscay (Palais)

10:30am BST

Countering hate, preserving free expression Caspian (Palais) “Smart” Cities in the Global South: Should "smart" people trust them? Utique (Laico) Surveillance Tech and Oppressive Governments: Exploring cases of abuse and avenues for global cooperation going forward Carthage 1 (Laico) Striking the Right(s) Balance: ‘Open by default’ vs ‘privacy by design’? Biscay (Palais)

12:00pm BST

If I Can't Find It, It's Not the Law: Toward minimum standards for access to human rights law and information Carthage 2 (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Co-creating Tools for Ethical Design Elyssa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Protecting digital communities in democracies from the global reach of authoritarian countries Oya 1 (Laico) Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais) Routes of Technology Production: Maps and narratives to build our collective future Hannibal (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)