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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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Isik Mater

NetBlocks
Director of Research
Istanbul/London

https://netblocks.org/

Isik Mater is Director of Research at NetBlocks and at Turkey Blocks, and vice president of the Alternative Informatics Association. She is a digital rights activist and commentator on internet censorship, cyber-security and information warfare. Isik contributes to Turkish press agency Bianet and has presented digital security workshops for at-risk groups of journalists in coordination with organisations including Freedom House, IPI and Columbia Global Centers, the LGBT community and women’s support networks in Turkey

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

10:30am BST

Developing New Models for Censorship: The cases of the Russian RuNet, the Great Firewall of China, and Iran’s Filternet Limes (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais) Strategic Litigation against Network Shutdowns-Successes and Challenges Leptis (Laico)

3:45pm BST

This is Not Legal Advice: How lawyers navigate troubled waters and keep the NGO afloat Utique (Laico) Network Disruptions in Times of Conflict: Strategies for circumvention and resistance Oya 3 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Open Forum Leptis (Laico) If you keep suggesting blockchain, I swear to God I will f—ing scream Oya 1 (Laico) Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)

9:00am BST

Delegated Repression: How do the Russian state forces private actors to censor and to surveil? Oya 1 (Laico) Changing practices of internet manipulation Oya 3 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Lightning Talks: User experience and access in closed societies The BeeHive (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Methods measuring freedom of internet Cyrene (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Landmark: The Business of Privacy – How to Profit from Protecting Personal Data The BeeHive (Palais) Warning! Access to the Internet Is Suspended for Security Reasons – A policy discussion on the effectiveness of Internet shutdowns L'Escale (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Elections and Public Discourse in Africa: Do social media platforms level the playing field? Oya 3 (Laico) Defining Meaningful Access: An expanded approach to connectivity Elyssa (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Election Watch: Addressing information freedom on the internet and the dangerous trend of internet shutdowns Carthage 2 (Laico) Studying the impact of shutdowns from the lens of gender, conflict, and ethnicity Hannibal (Laico)

10:30am BST

It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

#KeepItOn Campaign Community Meetup Jelsa (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)