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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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Ael

g0v
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Taipei City, Taiwan

Ael is an active g0v contributor that wants to co-create open and collaborative civic participation with the open source community. Advocating on decolonizing technology and Feminist Internet. She was a co-organiser of g0v.london Civic Hacknight and the product manager in “Disfactory”, a report platform on illegal factories on the farmlands in Taiwan.

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5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

Let's See the Evidence! Algorithmic decisions in real life - where and how are they used? El Jem (Laico) Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) Tech Demos: Open (source) for business Caspian (Palais) Cloudy with a chance of cybernorms? Dougga (Laico) Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico) Tech Demos: Mischief managed – measuring and mapping for human rights Limes (Laico) Smart Cities: Their future or yours? Carthage 1 (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) Millimeter Waves, Small Cells, Beamforming, Oh My! Anticipating and addressing human rights impacts in a 5G environment Carthage 2 (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) 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) Unlocking the Potential for Digital Technology to Enable Human Rights Adean (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Lightning Talks: Exploring the complex world of artificial intelligence The BeeHive (Palais) Tech Demos: Blowing the Whistle – Data leaks and digital dropboxes Village Stage (Laico)

1:00pm BST

North Koreans Need Real Information Village Stage (Laico) AI for Justice: Opportunities and limitations to analyzing today's human rights data troves Cyrene (Laico) Tech Demos: AI for Maps and Chats Elydhafa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (Laico) Fighting for Human Rights and Democracy in the Digital World: New tools, new actors – How to be more efficient? Village Stage (Laico) 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 BST

Engaging Citizens at Scale in Restrictive Environments Village Stage (Laico) The Future of Human Rights in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Carthage 1 (Laico) Getting a Handle on Facial Recognition Tech Elyssa (Laico) Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais) Votek: e-Governance solution for participatory democracy Leptis (Laico) Prepare Don't Panic: Strategize a human rights-based response to deepfake technologies, synthetic media, and increasing volumes of visual misinformation Elydhafa (Laico) From Failure to Hockeystick Growth - Human Centered Design and Lean Start-Up to Scale Social Impact Celtic (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Open Forum Leptis (Laico) Lightning Talks: The cost of speaking up – defending freedom of expression The BeeHive (Palais) My Rights, My Internet: Understanding global sentiment towards life online Jelsa (Laico) Using Machine Learning for Human Rights Carthage 1 (Laico) Is Open-Source Your Unicorn? Dialogue on the sustainability, data security, and ethics of human rights apps Biscay (Palais) If you keep suggesting blockchain, I swear to God I will f—ing scream Oya 1 (Laico) Responsible Investing 101: Investor action on human rights in the digital era Village Stage (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

9:00am BST

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Keeping public sector algorithms accountable Carthage 1 (Laico) One Size Fits All? Taking global human rights apps to scale for use in wildly different local contexts Elydhafa (Laico) How Do You Trust the Internet? Insights into users' perceptions of security and privacy, what they mean for the Internet, and how we all can help improve trust online. Celtic (Palais)

10:30am BST

Dynamics of Doing Research in Closed Societies: What we can learn from audience research from online exiled media L'Escale (Laico) Do Our Faces Deserve the Same Protection as Our Phones? Regulation and governance of facial recognition technology Oya 1 (Laico) Rights and Ethics: When technology knows how you feel Hannibal (Laico) Data Trusts: Getting beyond the hype Biscay (Palais) The Network of Internet & Society Centers Information Quality Meetup Celtic (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Methods measuring freedom of internet Cyrene (Laico) Balancing Data Protection and Access to Information: Internet RTBF case Utique (Laico) Tech Demos: Collecting, bridging, and connecting for inclusion Village Stage (Laico) Digital Identity for Refugees: Special considerations for protection and privacy Adean (Palais)

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Asia Palais Cafe / Dining Tent Tech Demos: Privacy across ages and spaces Carthage 3 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Who wants to be a terrorist? The radicalisation of free speech control through measures against terrorist content online Oya 2 (Laico) Artificial Benevolence: Updating informed consent in the age of AI Celtic (Palais) Before the ship sails on AI governance, let's talk about trade Cyrene (Laico) Landmark: The Business of Privacy – How to Profit from Protecting Personal Data The BeeHive (Palais) The humanitarian cybersecurity and privacy problem Oya 1 (Laico) Building Platforms That Open Governments and Their Watchdogs Elyssa (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) Ethical AI Career Pathways: Preparing tomorrow’s leaders to innovate ethically Oya 2 (Laico) Putting Human-Rights based Cybersecurity Strategies into Practice: A focus on Africa Elydhafa (Laico) Threat Modeling for Activists in Latin America Caspian (Palais) 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) Media Beyond Borders: Resilient content strategies for reaching audiences in closed societies Celtic (Palais) AI 2050: Imagining AI trajectories in the Global South Elydhafa (Laico) Between the Silicon Valley-China Spectrum: Towards a democratic regulation to promote a free and open Internet Amilcar (Laico) The fight for digital privacy in the face of authoritarianism and surveillance capitalism Village Stage (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm BST

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

9:00am BST

Where will your values take AI? Co-designing a Moral Labyrinth (and taking one home!) Elyssa (Laico) Lightning Talks: Trends in transparent tracking Village Stage (Laico) Landmark: Tracked - Pitfalls and Promises of Digital Identification Systems The BeeHive (Palais) You're Not Just a Pretty Face: Biometric surveillance has moved beyond face recognition - how do we stop it? Hannibal (Laico)

10:30am BST

It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico) More Than Words Can Say: Localization as a human rights issue Jelsa (Laico) Is Russian intelligence that intelligent? How to resist state-sponsored hacking Village Stage (Laico) Surveillance Tech and Oppressive Governments: Exploring cases of abuse and avenues for global cooperation going forward Carthage 1 (Laico) Striking the Right(s) Balance: ‘Open by default’ vs ‘privacy by design’? Biscay (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Protecting Freedom of Expression in a Complex World: The role of courts and tribunals L'Escale (Laico) AI and Privacy: Challenges and ways forward in the Global South Hannibal (Laico) Tech Demos: New tools and tactics for better digital security Limes (Laico) Report, Rinse, Repeat! Learn to report on tech and human rights violations with Global Voices and Ranking Digital Rights Biscay (Palais) Tech Demos: Protecting rights and achieving the SDGs Elydhafa (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Landmark: Voter Beware! - Microtargeting in Political Elections and Campaigns The BeeHive (Palais) Making Tech Digestible: Adventures of digital security trainers in Sub-Saharan Africa Leptis (Laico) The Network of Centers (NoC) Human Libraries: NoC Skills Session Carthage 1 (Laico) Co-creating Tools for Ethical Design Elyssa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Refraction Networking: Deploying next-generation censorship circumvention Jelsa (Laico) Protecting digital communities in democracies from the global reach of authoritarian countries Oya 1 (Laico) Tech Policy, AI and Investment in the GCC: A path to digital development or digital dystopia? Carthage 3 (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)