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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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Vinicius Fortuna

Jigsaw
Software Engineer Lead, Outline
Greater New York City Area

https://jigsaw.google.com

Vinicius Fortuna is the engineering lead of the team at Jigsaw that protects people’s ability to participate in the global internet. He has led the team through initiatives to prevent censorship via stronger internet standards and platforms; mitigate censorship via circumvention tools such as the Outline VPN and Intra; and expose censorship via measurements and data analysis.

My Friends

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

When Two Rights Make a Wrong: Finding a way forward when competing rights fail to protect the most vulnerable in our society Elydhafa (Laico) The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

10:30am BST

Developing New Models for Censorship: The cases of the Russian RuNet, the Great Firewall of China, and Iran’s Filternet Limes (Laico) Hey, That’s My Vote! The Emerging Science of Digital Election Observation L'Escale (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico) Access No_! Voices from conflict zones Celtic (Palais) BLACKED OUT: A documentary about the longest internet shutdown ever recorded.." Leptis (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (Laico) Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) Securing a Line of Connectivity in War-torn Yemen: Shutdowns, blocking, and action Oya 3 (Laico) Internet Regulation - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: A model for regulatory effectiveness Oya 1 (Laico) Strategically Litigating Internet Shutdowns and Cybercrime Laws in Africa: Reflecting on steps taken and the road ahead Oya 2 (Laico) Strategic Litigation against Network Shutdowns-Successes and Challenges Leptis (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Network Disruptions in Times of Conflict: Strategies for circumvention and resistance Oya 3 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Open Forum Leptis (Laico) Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2019 Launch Amilcar (Laico)

9:00am BST

Delegated Repression: How do the Russian state forces private actors to censor and to surveil? Oya 1 (Laico) Changing practices of internet manipulation Oya 3 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Who said What to Whom? Disinformation and anonymous speech Leptis (Laico) Does Social Media Deserve a Sin Tax? The impact of Internet service levies on human rights and sustainable development in Africa Utique (Laico) Measuring internet shutdowns El Jem (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Methods measuring freedom of internet Cyrene (Laico)

1:00pm BST

A Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Oya 1 (Laico) #KeepItOn Press Briefing: 2018 trends and ongoing challenges in the fight against internet shutdowns Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Solving the problem of vicarious trauma in open source investigations Hannibal (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 BST

Fear, Friction, and Flooding: New models of censorship in the MENA region (the case of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) Carthage 3 (Laico) Defining Meaningful Access: An expanded approach to connectivity Elyssa (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Detecting, Understanding, and Countering Censorship of Wikipedia Adean (Palais) Lightning Talks: Fighting censorship, surveillance, and disinformation around the Globe The BeeHive (Palais) Election Watch: Addressing information freedom on the internet and the dangerous trend of internet shutdowns Carthage 2 (Laico) Business and Human Rights in Africa and South-Asia: Network shutdown and data disclosure requests under conflicting legal frameworks El Jem (Laico) The fight for digital privacy in the face of authoritarianism and surveillance capitalism Village Stage (Laico) Studying the impact of shutdowns from the lens of gender, conflict, and ethnicity Hannibal (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm BST

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

9:00am BST

How to Impact the Global Human Rights Agenda: Recommendations from the UN High-level Panel Carthage 1 (Laico) Landmark: Tracked - Pitfalls and Promises of Digital Identification Systems The BeeHive (Palais) Let's talk about local capacity, how to build, not kill Elydhafa (Laico) Broadcasting Peace During War: Yemeni community radios Oya 2 (Laico) Community Networks: Cooperation, regulation, and action Carthage 3 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Countering hate, preserving free expression Caspian (Palais) Striking the Right(s) Balance: ‘Open by default’ vs ‘privacy by design’? Biscay (Palais) Supporting the #KeepItOn campaign with network measurement data Hannibal (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Protecting Freedom of Expression in a Complex World: The role of courts and tribunals L'Escale (Laico) The anatomy of tech-related Violence Against Women Cyrene (Laico) Antitrust, consumer protection, and the digital economy Elyssa (Laico) Do Exiled Media Have a future? A quest for building resilience and sustainability! Oya 3 (Laico) #KeepItOn Campaign Community Meetup Jelsa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Refraction Networking: Deploying next-generation censorship circumvention Jelsa (Laico) Tackling Terrorist Use of the Internet: A roadmap to holistic and human rights compliant solutions L'Escale (Laico) Protecting digital communities in democracies from the global reach of authoritarian countries Oya 1 (Laico) Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais) Designing a More Inclusive Digital Economy Oya 2 (Laico) Doing Data Journalism Without Data: Against all odds, the "Yemeni Data Journalism Network" Leptis (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)