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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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Venessa Paech

Australian Online Community Managers (ACM), Swarm Conference. PhD candidate: AI and online communities.
Founder/Director
nessa.paech@gmail.com

https://venessapaech.com

5:00pm

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am

AI Explainability, Explained Adean (Palais)

10:30am

Machine Learning 101 for Human Rights Activists: Everything you wanted to know about machine learning but were afraid to ask Hannibal (Laico) Change the Terms: Approaches for addressing a new era of hate online Carthage 1 (Laico)

12:00pm

RightsCon Info Session: Where to start? Oya 2 (Laico) Lightning Talks: Exploring the complex world of artificial intelligence The BeeHive (Palais)

2:15pm

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (Laico) Data Trust Models in the Digital Era: A public, private and people matter Celtic (Palais) Busting Out of the Echo Chamber: an inclusive approach to build diverse online communities and generate constructive conversations between polarized youth Carthage 2 (Laico)

3:45pm

The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Carthage 1 (Laico)

5:15pm

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change? Celtic (Palais)

6:45pm

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00am

Do Moderators Dream of Electric Sheep? The potential for AI in regulating online content L'Escale (Laico) Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais)

10:30am

Moderate Bias? Exploring anti-bias training in the context of online content moderation Carthage 2 (Laico) Political Ads on Social Networks: Tearing the curtains of opacity Elyssa (Laico) Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico) Who said What to Whom? Disinformation and anonymous speech Leptis (Laico)

12:00pm

Regional Lunch: Global Citizen Laico Buffet Restaurant Defending Democracy from Foreign Interference in a Digital Age Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm

Artificial Benevolence: Updating informed consent in the age of AI Celtic (Palais) Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Of the people, by the people, for the people Caspian (Palais)

3:45pm

Ethical AI Career Pathways: Preparing tomorrow’s leaders to innovate ethically Oya 2 (Laico)

5:15pm

Detecting, Understanding, and Countering Censorship of Wikipedia Adean (Palais) AI 2050: Imagining AI trajectories in the Global South Elydhafa (Laico) Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico)

7:00pm

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

9:00am

Where will your values take AI? Co-designing a Moral Labyrinth (and taking one home!) Elyssa (Laico)

10:30am

It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico) Platforms, free speech, and pluralism: Is there a role to play for media authorities? Adean (Palais)

12:00pm

AI and Privacy: Challenges and ways forward in the Global South Hannibal (Laico) The anatomy of tech-related Violence Against Women Cyrene (Laico)

1:00pm

Nanjala Nyabola Book Signing Biscay (Palais) Emojis and human rights Carthage 3 (Laico)

2:15pm

SWOTing the Christchuch Call Carthage 1 (Laico) Tech Policy, AI and Investment in the GCC: A path to digital development or digital dystopia? Carthage 3 (Laico) Fact-checking Content Made by Users in the Age of Social Media and the Amount of Fake News in It Limes (Laico)

4:00pm

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)