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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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Udita Chaturvedi

Digital Empowerment Foundation
Deputy Manager - Media & Communications
India

I am a former journalist who works with Digital Empowerment Foundation as Deputy Manager – Communications & Media. In this capacity, I have been involved in design thinking, bringing out communication material and taking on various research and visual documentation projects to highlight the socio-behavioural impact of digital inclusion and the effects of digital exclusion in rural India. I have also contributed to the design and development of DEF's digital literacy and MIL toolkit, and deliver these trainings to first-generation computer users. Let's talk about how the Internet is revolutionising the villages of India, and what does it take to make rural India digitally and media literate?

9:00am

Building the First Global Perceptions of Gender and Online Violence Leptis (Laico) Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico) Big Tech and the Future of Journalism: Reinventing news and information in the age of Google and Facebook Oya 2 (Laico) Lightning Talks: Understanding and combating misinformation The BeeHive (Palais) The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

10:30am

Hey, That’s My Vote! The Emerging Science of Digital Election Observation L'Escale (Laico) Defense Against the Dark Arts: Meme Campaigns and Propaganda Elydhafa (Laico)

12:00pm

The Digital Language Divide: Why Prioritizing Underrepresented Languages Matters. Adean (Palais) Let's Get Playin': A demo of SMEX's board game on online mobile safety Limes (Laico) BLACKED OUT: A documentary about the longest internet shutdown ever recorded.." Leptis (Laico)

1:00pm

Digital Rights Monopoly Hannibal (Laico)

2:15pm

Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

5:15pm

Empowering the Next Generation of Digital Citizens: A continued push for progress Elyssa (Laico) Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change? Celtic (Palais) Indian elections, disinformation, and the state of Indian Social Media Cyrene (Laico) What(went)'sApp at the Brazilian elections? Oya 3 (Laico) Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)

6:45pm

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

1:00pm

Lightning Talks: Hey, what are you doing with my data? Village Stage (Laico)

2:15pm

How to build civil society cross-expertise in response to disinformation Carthage 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

Defining Meaningful Access: An expanded approach to connectivity Elyssa (Laico)

5:15pm

Business and Human Rights in Africa and South-Asia: Network shutdown and data disclosure requests under conflicting legal frameworks El Jem (Laico) Beyond Bots: Anticipating challenges from future tech and disinformation Oya 3 (Laico) Studying the impact of shutdowns from the lens of gender, conflict, and ethnicity Hannibal (Laico)

9:00am

Testing New Methods for Social Media Monitoring by Civic Groups in Elections Amilcar (Laico) Community Networks: Cooperation, regulation, and action Carthage 3 (Laico)

2:15pm

SWOTing the Christchuch Call Carthage 1 (Laico) Fact-checking Content Made by Users in the Age of Social Media and the Amount of Fake News in It Limes (Laico)