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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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Manal Hassan

Motoon
Co-founder and Director
Egypt

FOSS advocate interested in adapting and delivering technology to non-techies, and training them to use it on their own. Manal has extensive experience in facilitation, community building and working on web technologies and new media with NGOs, human rights activists, and children. She co-founded the Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group (EGLUG) in 2004, the Arab Techies Collective in 2008 and Open Egypt in 2013. Throughout her efforts in building Egyptian and Arab tech communities, she was always concerned with women’s participation in the technology field and has actively worked on how to make sure these spaces are safe and welcoming to women.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico) Future-Proofing Human Rights Documentation: Tools for Protecting Endangered Evidence Oya 1 (Laico) Cyberstability and Human Rights: Friends or Foes? An Interactive Dialogue with the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Elyssa (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Help We Are Under Attack! A peek into the community of rapid responders Carthage 2 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Building on the first public statements by business and civil society on business protection of civic freedoms Jelsa (Laico) Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Collective Solutions for Catalyzing Change to Address Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An interactive workshop Carthage 2 (Laico) Sustainable Practices Workshop - Sharing What Works Biscay (Palais) Hacking Hackathons with a feminist perspective Adean (Palais)

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)

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) 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) One size does NOT fit all: Diverse threat models across North Africa call for more refined digital security training and tools Elyssa (Laico)

10:30am BST

"Challenge Hate” - Countering “hate speech” against LGBTQ people in MENA Amilcar (Laico) Technological fictions and feminist futures Limes (Laico) Meet the Funders: An OTR Q&A with donors Carthage 1 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: MENA Laico Side Restaurant Safety of Female Journalists Online: #SOFJO panel Celtic (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Violence and Harassment: Navigating the hazardous online world for women in North Africa Leptis (Laico) Solving the problem of vicarious trauma in open source investigations Hannibal (Laico) Beyond Dating Apps: LGBTQ people in other online platforms Oya 3 (Laico) Callisto: Combating sexual assault through cryptography Jelsa (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) Combating harassment of women journalists in extremism-ridden online spaces Utique (Laico) Co-designing and Threat-modeling Accountability Tools for Restricted Civic Spaces: the Egypt Social Progress Indicators platform Biscay (Palais) Mapping safety and security challenges between human rights defenders and funders Carthage 1 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Tech Demos: Changing the Name of the Game – New Ways to Raise Awareness Caspian (Palais)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Values-based Organizations: How can stories help us to create organizational values collectively and make them workable? Caspian (Palais)

10:30am BST

Mapping the Response to ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women in Morocco and Tunisia: Grassroots-level action research Leptis (Laico)

12:00pm BST

The anatomy of tech-related Violence Against Women Cyrene (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)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)