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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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Isabel Rodde

GIZ
Adviser Human Rights/Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
Bonn, Germany

giz.de/good-governance

Isabel Rodde is a human rights adviser at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), focusing on digital rights, media development, freedom of expression and access to information. She is a media scientist, broadcast journalist and journalism trainer.

Before joining GIZ´s Human Rights Programme, she worked as a research associate at the media department of the University of Flensburg. From 2005 - 2008 and 2011 - 2013 she worked as a university lecturer, journalism trainer and media monitoring adviser with the Civil Peace Service in Cambodia and Kenya.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

Let's See the Evidence! Algorithmic decisions in real life - where and how are they used? El Jem (Laico) Lightning Talks: Tales of (un)lawful data protection Village Stage (Laico) Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) Cloudy with a chance of cybernorms? Dougga (Laico) Lightning Talks: Understanding and combating misinformation The BeeHive (Palais)

10:30am BST

Beyond the Hype: AI innovation and human rights in the telecoms sector Oya 1 (Laico) Global State of Data Protection Carthage 3 (Laico) Enabling Digital Civic Space: A Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clement Voule Caspian (Palais) 2018 Human Rights Heroes Awards The BeeHive (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Cyberstability and Human Rights: Friends or Foes? An Interactive Dialogue with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Elyssa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Internet Regulation - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: A model for regulatory effectiveness Oya 1 (Laico) Outcomes of the 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network and Presentation of the Internet & Jurisdiction Global Status Report Adean (Palais)

3:45pm BST

The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Carthage 1 (Laico) 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) "Data Driven" Foreign Aid and "Digital Development" Strategies: Are we disrupting disenfranchisement - or scaling It? L'Escale (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Open Forum Leptis (Laico) 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)

9:00am BST

Developing a Digital Rights Model Law for Africa Amilcar (Laico) Decolonising Cyberpolicy: Developing a Cyberpolicy Framework Relevant to the Global South Limes (Laico)

10:30am BST

Do Our Faces Deserve the Same Protection as Our Phones? Regulation and governance of facial recognition technology Oya 1 (Laico) Data Trusts: Getting beyond the hype Biscay (Palais) Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Putting Human-Rights based Cybersecurity Strategies into Practice: A focus on Africa Elydhafa (Laico)

9:00am BST

Kunyamazisha: Gagging online free speech in Sub-Saharan Africa Celtic (Palais) Landmark: Tracked - Pitfalls and Promises of Digital Identification Systems The BeeHive (Palais)

10:30am BST

Aligning cybercrime laws with international human rights standards Carthage 3 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

AI and Privacy: Challenges and ways forward in the Global South Hannibal (Laico)