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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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Philipp Schwoerer

GIZ
Head of Project
Tunis

I am heading a project on municipal development in Tunisia, with a new focus on eGovernance.
Interested in municipal digitalisation strategies, eGovernance, eParticipation, access to information and open data on local level,

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

AI Explainability, Explained Adean (Palais) Let's See the Evidence! Algorithmic decisions in real life - where and how are they used? El Jem (Laico) Smart Cities: Their future or yours? Carthage 1 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Enabling Digital Civic Space: A Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clement Voule Caspian (Palais) Making Civic Tech Work for Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia, Nigeria, and Taiwan Biscay (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Lightning Talks: Exploring the complex world of artificial intelligence The BeeHive (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) Data Trust Models in the Digital Era: A public, private and people matter Celtic (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments Village Stage (Laico) Collective Solutions for Catalyzing Change to Address Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An interactive workshop Carthage 2 (Laico) Votek: e-Governance solution for participatory democracy Leptis (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Empowering the Next Generation of Digital Citizens: A continued push for progress Elyssa (Laico) Data, Technology, and the Global Gender Gap Carthage 3 (Laico)

9:00am BST

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Keeping public sector algorithms accountable Carthage 1 (Laico) Lightning Talks: What's in a name? Tracking terror and digital threats The BeeHive (Palais)

2:15pm BST

#DigitalPolitik and the Internet's Warring States Period Carthage 2 (Laico) Building Platforms That Open Governments and Their Watchdogs Elyssa (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Data-Dialogue-Decisions: Creating alternative civic spaces for youth Oya 1 (Laico) Harnessing Technology for the Public Good: Improving local government performance and accountability through new technologies El Jem (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

An Innovative Equation for Improved Local Governance: Behavioral sciences + digital tools = new meaningful civic spaces Leptis (Laico)

10:30am BST

Mapping the Response to ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women in Morocco and Tunisia: Grassroots-level action research Leptis (Laico) “Smart” Cities in the Global South: Should "smart" people trust them? Utique (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)

1:00pm BST

Co-creating Tools for Ethical Design Elyssa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Tackling Terrorist Use of the Internet: A roadmap to holistic and human rights compliant solutions L'Escale (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)