This event has ended. Visit the official site or create your own event on Sched.

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.

Important note: Whether you’re a session organizer, speaker, or participant, you’ll need to login to Sched or create an account in order to get the most out of the program (including creating a profile and building your own customized RightsCon schedule).

Be sure to get your ticket to RightsCon first. You can visit rightscon.org for more information.

RightsCon is brought to you by Access Now.

Kaliya Young

Identity Woman
Identity Expert
Oakland

Kaliya, widely known as the Identity Woman, is a top expert in decentralized / self-sovereign identity. She has committed her life to the development of an open standards based identity layer of the internet that empowers people. Kaliya co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), which in the past 17 years has nurtured standards being used all over the internet, like OpenID Connect and OAuth. In January 2020 she was featured in Wired UK.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

The big dataset in the sky: challenging geographies of discrimination Carthage 3 (Laico) When Two Rights Make a Wrong: Finding a way forward when competing rights fail to protect the most vulnerable in our society Elydhafa (Laico) Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico)

10:30am BST

Global State of Data Protection Carthage 3 (Laico) Solve My Problem: Indigenous Data Sovereignty El Jem (Laico) From Call to Action: Visions for a Contract for the Web Carthage 2 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Tech Demos: Blowing the Whistle – Data leaks and digital dropboxes Village Stage (Laico) The Digital Language Divide: Why Prioritizing Underrepresented Languages Matters. Adean (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (Laico) Data Trust Models in the Digital Era: A public, private and people matter Celtic (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Hacking Hackathons with a feminist perspective Adean (Palais) Cyber Harm, Let's Avoid It: Building cybersecurity capacity that protects human rights El Jem (Laico) From Crypto-wars to Crypto-Peace: How do we improve encryption policy in the real world? Hannibal (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

My Rights, My Internet: Understanding global sentiment towards life online Jelsa (Laico) Biometric Technologies and Data as Tools for the ‘Responsible’ and ‘Proper’ Identification of Terrorists: A human rights inventory El Jem (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)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

9:00am BST

Decolonising Cyberpolicy: Developing a Cyberpolicy Framework Relevant to the Global South Limes (Laico) How Do You Trust the Internet? Insights into users' perceptions of security and privacy, what they mean for the Internet, and how we all can help improve trust online. Celtic (Palais)

10:30am BST

Data Trusts: Getting beyond the hype Biscay (Palais) Technological fictions and feminist futures Limes (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

Regional Lunch: North America Laico Buffet Restaurant Lightning Talks: Hey, what are you doing with my data? Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Landmark: The Business of Privacy – How to Profit from Protecting Personal Data The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Data Protection and Refugees: Informed consent in asylum process and access to aid Celtic (Palais)

5:15pm BST

The fight for digital privacy in the face of authoritarianism and surveillance capitalism Village Stage (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Landmark: Tracked - Pitfalls and Promises of Digital Identification Systems The BeeHive (Palais)

10:30am BST

It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico) The Ghost in the Machine: Remedy for algorithmic discrimination Limes (Laico) Digital Standard Workshop: What is missing from Consumer Reports's framework for evaluating digital products? Carthage 2 (Laico) Solve My Problem: Indigenous Data Sovereignty El Jem (Laico) Striking the Right(s) Balance: ‘Open by default’ vs ‘privacy by design’? Biscay (Palais)

12:00pm BST

AI and Privacy: Challenges and ways forward in the Global South Hannibal (Laico) Tunis +13¾: From the Tunis Agenda to RightsCon Tunis, it’s been a lifetime of internet governance Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

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)