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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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Hsiang-Sheng (Johnson) Liang

g0v.tw
Participant
Taipei, Taiwan

https://cofacts.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 2016
Cofacts is a fact-checking system leveraging chatbots and crowd-sourced reports to help connecting different perspectives. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/cofacts-quickstart

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5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

Lightning Talks: Understanding and combating misinformation The BeeHive (Palais)

10:30am BST

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Meme Campaigns and Propaganda Elydhafa (Laico) Making Civic Tech Work for Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia, Nigeria, and Taiwan Biscay (Palais) Protecting the Integrity of the Global Information Space Celtic (Palais) Public Broadcasting in the Age of Censorship Cyrene (Laico)

2:15pm BST

What role for regulators in the digital era? Caspian (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)

10:30am BST

Political Ads on Social Networks: Tearing the curtains of opacity Elyssa (Laico) Know Thy Enemy: Narrative framing, storytelling, and tech in the disinformation age Oya 2 (Laico) Who said What to Whom? Disinformation and anonymous speech Leptis (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Lightning Talks: Hey, what are you doing with my data? Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Who wants to be a terrorist? The radicalisation of free speech control through measures against terrorist content online Oya 2 (Laico) How to build civil society cross-expertise in response to disinformation Carthage 1 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Lightning Talks: Fighting censorship, surveillance, and disinformation around the Globe The BeeHive (Palais) A Private Matter: Chat apps and journalism Carthage 3 (Laico) Beyond Bots: Anticipating challenges from future tech and disinformation Oya 3 (Laico) How Small Countries Survive: A human rights dilemma with respect to asymmetrical disinformation war Jelsa (Laico)

9:00am BST

Lightning Talks: Trends in transparent tracking Village Stage (Laico)

10:30am BST

Countering hate, preserving free expression Caspian (Palais) Disinformation and Our Deepest Beliefs: Are more radical measures needed? L'Escale (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Landmark: Voter Beware! - Microtargeting in Political Elections and Campaigns The BeeHive (Palais) Tech Demos: Fact or fiction – tools for verification Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Voter Beware! Lessons from the ground Oya 3 (Laico) Fact-checking Content Made by Users in the Age of Social Media and the Amount of Fake News in It Limes (Laico) Social Media, Mis/Disinformation, and Human Rights: Messages from Nations' Elections Biscay (Palais)