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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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Tonei Glavinic

Dangerous Speech Project
Director of Operations
Barcelona
Websitedangerousspeech.org
Tonei Glavinic (they/them) is an educator, activist, and nonprofit management expert based in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to working with the Dangerous Speech Project since 2011, Tonei also supports and facilitates educational programs for Northwestern University's Civic Education Project and Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth, writes for various travel-related outlets, and serves on the Board of Directors for Trans Lifeline, which provides crisis helpline services and microgrants to transgender people in the US and Canada.
Tuesday, June 11
 

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)
 
Wednesday, June 12
 

9:00am BST

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

10:30am BST

Machine Learning 101 for Human Rights Activists: Everything you wanted to know about machine learning but were afraid to ask Hannibal (Laico) 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)

1:00pm BST

The Benevolent Accomplices of Authoritarian Regimes on the Internet Carthage 1 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Outcomes of the 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network and Presentation of the Internet & Jurisdiction Global Status Report Adean (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Tracking Takedown Transparency Today and Tomorrow: Lessons learned and next steps for the emerging practice of transparency reporting on content moderation Dougga (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (Laico) If you keep suggesting blockchain, I swear to God I will f—ing scream Oya 1 (Laico) Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)
 
Thursday, June 13
 

9:00am BST

Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais)

10:30am BST

Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Global Citizen Laico Buffet Restaurant

2:15pm BST

#GazaLightMessage: Opening the blockade Limes (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 Ranking Digital Rights 2019 Corporate Accountability Index: Which companies have improved their respect for your rights? Adean (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Detecting, Understanding, and Countering Censorship of Wikipedia Adean (Palais)
 

My Moderators Sessions

Thursday, June 13
 

9:00am BST

Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais)