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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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Jonah Sheridan

Information Ecology
Oakland, California, USA

https://iecology.org

Information Ecology, LLC, brings together social justice values and technical chops; our work is tempered by whole-systems sensibilities, rooted in years of alliance with grassroots and direct action organizations, forged in classrooms and datacenters, and enriched by time spent studying permaculture design. We offer a range of services to support organizations in making sound technology choices; building the internal capacity to implement and manage their chosen systems; and using technology to better meet their missions. If your organization is looking to better build power, win campaigns, or make change using information systems.

1:00pm BST

The Benevolent Accomplices of Authoritarian Regimes on the Internet Carthage 1 (Laico) Help We Are Under Attack! A peek into the community of rapid responders Carthage 2 (Laico) Tech Demos: AI for Maps and Chats Elydhafa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (Laico) Fundraising in the Post-Election Era: How to respond to unpredictable events and prepare for them in the future. Carthage 1 (Laico) Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Sustainable Practices Workshop - Sharing What Works Biscay (Palais) Prepare Don't Panic: Strategize a human rights-based response to deepfake technologies, synthetic media, and increasing volumes of visual misinformation Elydhafa (Laico) Network Disruptions in Times of Conflict: Strategies for circumvention and resistance Oya 3 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (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)

9:00am BST

Hope for Resilience: Shifting the narrative, advancing wellbeing Carthage 3 (Laico) The Feminist Digisec Network and the Importance of a Feminist Digital Security Carthage 2 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Rights and Ethics: When technology knows how you feel Hannibal (Laico) One Cross-Border Treaty to Rule Them All: The Budapest Convention Protocol Elydhafa (Laico) Defending Encryption: Lessons from the Australian frontline Village Stage (Laico) Queering the Resistance: Movement building across digital terrain Caspian (Palais) Meet the Funders: An OTR Q&A with donors Carthage 1 (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) Does Social Media Deserve a Sin Tax? The impact of Internet service levies on human rights and sustainable development in Africa Utique (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Lightning Talks: What technology can('t) solve The BeeHive (Palais) Digital Identity for Refugees: Special considerations for protection and privacy Adean (Palais) Surveilling Dissent: Online spy mechanisms used by police against protestors L'Escale (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Lightning Talks: Hey, what are you doing with my data? Village Stage (Laico) A Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Oya 1 (Laico) Bringing fairness to digital disputes in the United States Jelsa (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) It’s the business model, stupid! Targeted advertising and human rights Utique (Laico) Landmark: The Business of Privacy – How to Profit from Protecting Personal Data The BeeHive (Palais) Crossing the Border in the Cloud: A Latin American perspective on lawful access laws Amilcar (Laico) Callisto: Combating sexual assault through cryptography Jelsa (Laico) It Always Feels like Somebody's Watching You: The impact of U.S. foreign intelligence surveillance on journalists Village Stage (Laico) The humanitarian cybersecurity and privacy problem Oya 1 (Laico) 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

Fear, Friction, and Flooding: New models of censorship in the MENA region (the case of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) Carthage 3 (Laico) The Imprisonment of Ola Bini: Building solidarity and protecting the community Hannibal (Laico) Enhancing Human Rights Due Diligence with Futures Methodology Carthage 2 (Laico) Mapping safety and security challenges between human rights defenders and funders Carthage 1 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Chill Out: Defining sustainable long term strategies for digital security success Elyssa (Laico)

9:00am BST

Connected investigations: Building an adaptive ecosystem for human rights documentation Utique (Laico) Values-based Organizations: How can stories help us to create organizational values collectively and make them workable? Caspian (Palais)

10:30am BST

It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico) Digital Standard Workshop: What is missing from Consumer Reports's framework for evaluating digital products? Carthage 2 (Laico) Is Russian intelligence that intelligent? How to resist state-sponsored hacking Village Stage (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Tech Demos: New tools and tactics for better digital security Limes (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Making Tech Digestible: Adventures of digital security trainers in Sub-Saharan Africa Leptis (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais)

My Moderators Sessions

12:00pm BST

Tech Demos: Blowing the Whistle – Data leaks and digital dropboxes Village Stage (Laico)