RightsCon 2020 session list

The RightsCon program is the guiding pillar of our summit series, formed by the proposals submitted by a global community of experts. Below is an overview of what programming occurred during the five days of RightsCon Online 2020. Click on each of the tracks to navigate the full session list.


Network connectivity and internet shutdowns

#3
In conversation with Jessica Rosenworcel, U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner

U.S. Federal Communications Commission💬FIRESIDE CHAT

#7899
Strategically litigating internet shutdown cases: challenges and successes

Hosted by Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) 🔍 COMMUNITY LAB

#8322
How Relaynet will pave the way to maintain communication during internet blackouts

Hosted by Relaynet💻 TECH DEMO

#8335
When where you live offline determines if you can be online: the cost of connectivity

Hosted by New America’s Open Technology Institute💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9713
No network: integrating technology in places where data is a luxury

Hosted by Irish Rule of Law International🗣️ PANEL

#8601
Beyond the internet: digital radio in the Amazon

Hosted by ARTICLE 9🗣️ PANEL

#8612
NewNode: all weather content delivery, a revolutionary protocol turning mobile devices into a resilient content delivery network

Hosted by Clostra💻 TECH DEMO

#8764
Can you hear us? Internet shutdown in Iran, what have we learned?

Hosted by NetFreedom Pioneers: Toosheh/Knapsack For Hope🗣️ PANEL

#8764
Let’s talk about best practices for measuring the internet ethically

Hosted by Open Observatory for Network Interference (OONI); Access Now🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9713
Alternative internet for Rohingyas: bypassing shutdowns, innovating solutions, infrastructuring hope (pre- and post-COVID-19 world)

Hosted by School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9091
Digital curfew in a conflict zone and its impact on gender rights, education, and economy

Hosted by Studio INTO; Digital Rights Kashmir; Software Freedom Law Center, India (SLFC.IN)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9102
How authoritarian leaders use ambiguous and rhetorical terms to dramatise internet shutdowns in Africa

Hosted by Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA)🗣️ PANEL

#9151
Website blocking and network neutrality in Peru

Hosted by Hiperderecho💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9151
Meaningful connectivity: from COVID-19 and beyond

Hosted by Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#9379
Human rights documentation during internet shutdowns

Hosted by WITNESS🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9181
Censoring without getting caught

Hosted by Internews 🗣️ PANEL

#9285
Building rainbow bridges: what LGBTI communities can teach us about overcoming the digital divide

Hosted by ILGA World – The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9319
Working on a regulatory agenda for community networks in Latin America

Hosted by ARTICLE 19 (Brazil and South America)🗣️ PANEL

#9151
Investigating internet shutdowns with open data

Hosted by Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI); Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION


Protest, participation, and political change

#7995
Seize the signatures – Digital activism is rewriting the rules of mobilization in times of climate crisis

Hosted by Change.org; Extinction Rebellion🗣️ PANEL

#8247
How the internet is shifting the paradigm of democracy in India

Hosted by Breakthrough Trust🗣️ PANEL

#9527
From #NiUnaMenos to #ElVioladorEresTu: how feminism went viral in Latin America

Hosted by Chicas Poderosas🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8391
The revolution will be tracked: how to protect activism in the age of mass surveillance

Hosted by The B Team 🗣️ PANEL

#8747
NOnline protests: lessons from the pandemic

Hosted by The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, IACHR💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9030
Social movements: amplying resilience and opportunities for support and solidarity from the international community

Hosted by CIVICUS; Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs🗣️ PANEL

#9381
After the revolution: innovations and lessons from Sudan

Hosted by Gisa Group🗣️ PANEL

#8338
In the public eye: reporting on protests under the surveillance state

Hosted by Committee to Protect Journalists; Derechos Digitales🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9546
UN Special Rapporteur for the freedoms of assembly and association: 10th anniversary, achievements, and vision for the next 10 years

Hosted by International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)💬 FIRESIDE CHAT


Civil society resistance and resilience

#5
In conversation with Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, ACLU

Hosted by American Civil Liberties Union💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7722
The future of civil society’s online home – .ORG

Hosted by Access Now; Electronic Frontier Foundation; NTEN🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7868
Sow and cultivate the digital territory

Hosted by Barracón Digital💡 LIGHTING TALK

#7871
Conecta culturas: an app that brings indigenous knowledge and perspectives to the internet

Hosted by Deutsche Welle Akademie💻 TECH DEMO

#7980
Shared struggles: building public interest tech for economic and social rights in Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa

Hosted by Center for Economic and Social Rights🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7986
Digital rights solidarities in South Asia

Hosted by Digital Rights Foundation🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7998
Creating virtual reality for public good

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 🗣️ PANEL

#8012
Opportunities for mechanisms to support human rights activists and defenders working in internet and civic repressive environments

Hosted by Digital Human Rights Lab🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8121
Re-centering the voice and expertise of frontline activists in transnational advocacy networks

Hosted by Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; Internet Sans Frontières; ARTICLE 19; Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University,; New York University Tisch School of the Arts🗣️ PANEL

#8154
SLAPPed but not silenced: fighting state and corporate repression, empowering people

Hosted by Protect the Protest Task Force; Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) 🗣️ PANEL

#8223
Defending the defenders: environmental activism and digital rights

Hosted by Human Rights Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#8229
Shifting mindsets from sustainability to resiliency: shared experiences navigating closing spaces

Hosted by PartnersGlobal🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8277
Obstacles and opportunities for collaborating to create secure tools

Hosted by Loki Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#8295
Busting myths about AI

Hosted by Access Now; Mozilla Foundation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8333
Can community managers save the world? Online community principles and practices for the rights ecosystem

Hosted by Australian Community Managers (AMC) 🗣️ PANEL

#8530
How can online communities help improve human rights?

Hosted by The Carter Center🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8593
Rebalancing the scales: addressing and mitigating power asymmetries in funding of the tech/human rights ecosystem

Hosted by The Engine Room; Information Program, Open Society Foundations (OSF) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8673
Rapid response funds and the promotion of human rights in the digital environment: reacting to tech authoritarianism in Latin America

Hosted by Derechos Digitales🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8229
Shifting mindsets from sustainability to resiliency: shared experiences navigating closing spaces

Hosted by PartnersGlobal🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8863
Going far? how the internet supports communities in organizing across diaspora

Hosted by Wikitongues💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#8295
Busting myths about AI

Hosted by Access Now; Mozilla Foundation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8901
Future scenarios for Latin American civil society

Hosted by Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8626
Don’t call me your “local partner” unless I say so: best practice and red lines for CSO partnerships and consultation

Hosted by Next Billion Network🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9031
Secure communication with human rights defenders: a manual for diplomats

Hosted by Digital Defenders Partnership; Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs💻 TECH DEMO

#9246
Civil society in the digital age in Africa: identifying threats and mounting pushbacks

Hosted by Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

9272
Shrinking civic space in the digital age: are funders and researchers ready?

Hosted by Tandem Research🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9289
Working in restricted civic space in Central America

Hosted by CIVICUS; Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica🗣️ PANEL

#9366
Crowdsourcing human rights, leveling the playing field one match at a time

Hosted by Crowdsourcing Human Rights; DT Institute💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9478

<h5 style="text-align: center; color:black; letter-spacing: 0;"Binary is for computers, not for people: a human perspective of digital civic spaces

Hosted by Hivos (Latin America)🔍 COMMUNITY LAB

#9594
Taking action on digital ID: advocacy tactics for civil society

Hosted by The Engine Room🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8372
Threats to social movements: the rise of digital authoritarianism and oligopolies

Hosted by MediaJustice🗣️ PANEL


Privacy and surveillance

#7724
Digital identity: has freedom a future?

Hosted by Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) 🗣️ PANEL

#7812
Identity 4 Development: what does it really mean?

Hosted by Independent🗣️ PANEL

#7905
Ironically, iOS robocall-blocking apps are violating your privacy

Hosted by NCC Group💻 TECH DEMO

#7990
Nos ven la cara: a Latin American declaration on human rights and facial recognition

Hosted by Institute for Research on Internet and Society (IRIS); Access Now🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8073
Litigating against surveillance

Hosted by Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)🗣️ PANEL

#8129
Human rights in the AR/VR era: privacy, safety, and responsible innovation in the immersive future

Hosted by Facebook🗣️ PANEL

#9766
From production to deployment: addressing the global proliferation of spyware

Hosted by Access Now; Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)🗣️ PANEL

#8197
Digital identity versus legal identity: the contemporary challenges of Sub-Saharan Africa

Hosted by Paradigm Initiative🗣️ PANEL

#8211
The case for privacy by design: privacy law shortcomings and the role of privacy tools

Hosted by The Tor Project; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Reset; Freedom of the Press Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#8233
Should we just give up on anonymity?

Hosted by Blueprint for Free Speech🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8262
AI watched over by machines of loving grace: facial recognition, 1 CCTV camera for every 8 people, and protecting rights

Hosted by Microsoft🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8262
Living in the shadows: how international organizations can best support activists facing state surveillance and threats

Hosted by The Fund for Global Human Rights🗣️ PANEL

#8376
What is the price of inclusion for gender minorities? privacy and surveillance challenges faced by transgender persons with digital identities

Hosted by Independent 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8414
National digital ID systems in Asia: mapping considerations of potential benefits and harms

Hosted by Open Culture Foundation; Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8564
Strategic collaboration roundtable for Five Eyes country activists

Hosted by Digital Rights Watch🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8721
1 million protected, 6 million to go: how we’re banning government face surveillance in Massachusetts

Hosted by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8738
The dark side of digital ID: exclusion and the human rights of the poor

Hosted by Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project; Open Society Justice Initiative, Open Society Foundations (OSF) 🗣️ PANEL

#8876
Facial challenges: networking global responses to the spread of facial recognition technology

Hosted by Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information (WIII)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8909
Insecure all the things! The civil dangers of IoT technologies at home and in the streets, and how we’ll survive

Hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation; Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9013
Digital fights for digital rights? Investigating privacy in the Global South

Hosted by PaperLab🗣️ PANEL

#9279
Developing a useful and ethical digital identity ecosystem

Hosted by International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC); Norwegian Refugee Council; Australian Red Cross; Kenyan Red Cross🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9519
The private panopticon: how big tech gets consumers to build a surveillance empire for corporate and government use

Hosted by Fight for the Future💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9547
Who has your face? The fight against U.S. government agencies’ use of face recognition

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)(OSF) 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9560
Surveillance, safeguards, and strategy: campaigns for surveillance reform in North America, Latin America, and Africa

Hosted by New America’s Open Technology Institute🗣️ PANEL

#9676
The state of legal identity programs in the digital age: integrating diverse perspectives

Hosted by Access Now; Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)🔎 COMMUNITY LAB


Public health in the digital age

#7960
Frontiers in health data privacy: navigating blurred expectations across the patient-consumer spectrum

Hosted by Future of Privacy Forum🗣️ PANEL

#8005
Digital inclusivity and reproductive rights

Hosted by Women First Digital💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8320
Digital solutions to respond to gender-based violence: experiences from pandemic times in Brazil

Hosted by Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio🗣️ PANEL

#8773
Shining a light in the darkest of corners: revolutionising immigration detention monitoring

Hosted by Boniĝi Pty Ltd💻 TECH DEMO

#9610
AI in mental healthcare: revolutionary reboot or the rise of the “digital asylum”?

Hosted by Mozilla Foundation; Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9141
COVID-19 and internet freedom

Hosted by Freedom Online Coalition; Government of the United States; Government of Canada; Government of Finland🗣️ PANEL

#9337
Data colonization: lessons from the pandemic in Latin America

Hosted by Tecnológico de Monterrey; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9466
Vicarious trauma and technology’s first responders: protecting those who remotely monitor human rights violations

Hosted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9517
When misinformation hurts our fundamental health rights

Hosted by Meedan💻 TECH DEMO

#9610
From devices to bodies: a tale on DNA data collection

Hosted by Coding Rights🗣️ PANEL

#9748
Face recognition technology and state surveillance in East Asia in the wake of COVID-19

Hosted by Open Net Korea; Korean Progressive Network Center (Jinbonet)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11469
From “shout” drones to tracked cell phones: tech-assisted quarantine enforcement in the age of coronvirus

Hosted by Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11470
It’s an infodemic! Identifying and monitoring COVID-19 rumours and misinformation on Twitter

Hosted by RNW Media🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11471
Surveillance tools deployed across the globe in response to COVID-19

Hosted by International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO)💻 TECH DEMO

#11482
COVID-19: a new front in the information war against elections

Hosted by International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)🗣️ PANEL

#11483
Meaningful connectivity: from COVID-19 and beyond

Hosted by Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#11486
Promoting human rights and access to safe medicines during pandemics: the critical role of internet pharmacies

Hosted by Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research at York University🗣️ PANEL

#11466
Digital health certificates: are they immune from violating the rights of users at risk?

Hosted by Access Now🗣️ PANEL


The future of democracy

#8049
New influencers: putting digital rights on the policy agenda

Hosted by Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8242
Giving citizens a voice: how can we build digital citizen engagement indicators and standards?

Hosted by Code for All; SlashRoots Foundation; Codeando México A.C.🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8309
Is climate change an emergency? How using emergency powers to fight climate change could backfire

Hosted by Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8270
From passive participation to productive resistance: building community capacity to challenge smart city tech

Hosted by Open North🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8309
Hello from the other side: what can activists do to stamp out corruption post-democratic transition?

Hosted by International Republican Institute🗣️ PANEL

#8520
Digital authoritarianism inside out: how internet governance has been hacked

Hosted by Open Internet for Democracy Initiative🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8577
Technology enables the future, but it should not determine it

Hosted by Oxfam International💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8677
Democracy’s new battleground: risks, responsibilities, and recommendations for tech platforms during elections

Hosted by Freedom House🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8726
A documentary on how Taiwan voted to save its own democracy (…and then some re:COVID-19)

Hosted by National Democratic Institute🗣️ PANEL

#8777
Shrinking democratic space: how reform of the electoral and political party system contributes to inclusive democracy

Hosted by Netherlands Intstitute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)🗣️ PANEL

#8787
Strategic engagement with lawmakers: moving toward collaborative digital rights legislation

Hosted by Paradigm Initiative🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8936
Dissecting the (not so) democratic drama: reflecting on the digital manipulations and political persecutions in the Tunisian 2019 elections

Hosted by Bloggeurs sans Chaines🗣️ PANEL

#9278
Developing regulatory codes and frameworks for human rights in a digital world

Hosted by The IO Foundation; Evolution of Mind Life Society Research Institute🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9303
Assessing the human rights implications of micro-targeted political ads

Hosted by World Wide Web Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#9459
Securing elections in COVID-19: online threats, vulnerabilities, and the resources available to protect the foundations of democracy

Hosted by Cloudflare🗣️ PANEL

#9278
Unrecognized and digitally disenfranchised: digital rights for peoples without a state

Hosted by The SecDev Group🗣️ PANEL

#9586
How to follow the money from home with the C4ADS data lake

Hosted by C4ADS💻 TECH DEMO

#9628
Democracy 2030: what should it look like?

Hosted by International Republican Institute💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9810
How should we adapt whistleblowing laws for a Latin American context?

PODER; Técnicas Rudas🔎 COMMUNITY LAB


Alternative models for business and labor

#1
In conversation with Brad Smith, President of Microsoft

Hosted by Microsoft💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7977
Filterwatch: how state policies and private companies undermine digital rights in Iran

Hosted by Small Media Foundation🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8093
Investing in our shared humanity: how investors and human rights defenders can better work together to protect human rights

Hosted by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC); Investor Alliance for Human Rights; International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8103
Media mapping in Sri Lanka: through a lens of language and ethics

Hosted by Verité Research (Pvt) Ltd 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8186
Opening up data on the top 100 corporate emitters

Hosted by Wikirate💻 TECH DEMO

#8237
Working through it: dispute resolution in the gig economy

Hosted by Aapti Institute🗣️ PANEL

#8522
Is the tech greener on the other side? Benchmarking tech companies’ environmental sustainability

Hosted by Ranking Digital Rights🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8606
Real corporate accountability for surveillance capitalism: setting the civil society agenda for the 2020s

Hosted by Ranking Digital Rights💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#8704
Going coop: a platform model for workers in the South

Hosted by International Labor Organization (ILO); IT for Change🗣️ PANEL

#8799
WeClock: a self-tracking app to fight wage theft and foster worker wellbeing

Hosted by The Why Not Lab💻 TECH DEMO

#8935
Workers are also the product: let’s include them in data governance

Hosted by Open Society Foundations (OSF)🗣️ PANEL

#8954
Building power over Amazon’s empire

Hosted by Athena; The Partnership for Working Families; Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR); MediaJustice; United for Respect🗣️ PANEL

#8606
Technology against sweatshops: the potential for technology to protect labor rights in global supply chains

Hosted by Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative 🗣️ PANEL

#9063
Time for facts: how are electronics manufacturers performing on human rights? Insights from KnowtheChain and Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

Hosted by World Benchmarking Alliance; Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) 🗣️ PANEL

#9845
Innovating for inclusion: how to combat bias through policies, product design, and community engagement

Hosted by Airbnb, Inc. 🗣️ PANEL

#9164
The climate crisis and business as usual: how start-ups are navigating policy, markets, and evolving risks

Hosted by Climate Solution Consulting🗣️ PANEL

#9336
Addressing business model-related human rights risks

Hosted by B-Tech Project, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9567
There’s an app for that: protecting labor rights in the age of the platform economy

Hosted by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) 💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9654
Refashioning technology: building tools and frameworks towards a sustainable and ethical apparel industry

Hosted by Shaping Fashion, Global Shapers Community 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9071
Pling! Audience engagement and business models for independent digital media that actually work: experiences from Eastern Europe and Central America

Hosted by Free Press Unlimited 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB


Peacebuilding and development

#7906
Digital CVE: ignorant algorithms, inane counter messaging, and insipid counter engagement strategies

Hosted by Defending Rights & Dissent; Muslim Justice League 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7963
Embedding conflict sensitivity into technology development

Hosted by JustPeace Labs; BSR 🗣️ PANEL

#8032
Before and beyond hatespeech: using data and dialogue to combat polarization and racism online

Hosted by Build Up💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8095
What can go right? Positive use cases for science and technology in human rights investigations

Hosted by Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG); Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG); HURIDOCS🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8137
Making tech accessible for community-based environmental monitoring

Hosted by Center for Human Rights – American Bar Association (ABA); Source International 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8149
In defense of our (tech)rritory: digitally defending the environment and right to land during COVID-19

Hosted by Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8210
Advancing human rights in digital age by assessing R.O.A.M indicators at country level

Hosted by UNESCO🗣️ PANEL

#8278
Can excel sheets have ethics? The realities of AI use in the Global South and implications for AI governance

Hosted by Tandem Research🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8289
It’s not just about big tech: online harms and international law

Hosted by Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC); Oxford Institute for International Peace & Security (IPS); Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8321
The anatomy of a visual investigation: innovation in human rights and investigative reporting

Hosted by The New York Times; ProPublica; SITU Research 🗣️ PANEL

#8227
Data for development: shaping future scenarios

Hosted by Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA); International Development Research Centre (IDRC)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8537
It’s time for an international fund for public interest media

Hosted by Luminate; BBC Media Action💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8613
Online gender violence: towards the configuration of international standards

Hosted by TEDIC; Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) 🗣️ PANEL

#8663
Empowering the documentarians: a conversation about standard-setting, data ownership, and returning international advocacy to the grassroots

Hosted by Center for Justice and Accountability; WITNESS; Benetech🗣️ PANEL

#8696
Immigration, iris scanning, and iBorderCTRL: migration control technologies, human rights, and the lived experiences of people on the move

Hosted by European Digital Rights (EDRi); Mozilla Foundation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8727
Taking algorithms to court: case studies on litigating AI and automated systems

Hosted by Digital Freedom Fund; Mozilla Foundation 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8845
The impending age of killer robots? how our data fuels autonomous weapons, and why it’s not too late to stop them

Hosted by Campaign to Stop Killer Robots🗣️ PANEL

#8874
Unlocking the truth: documenting political prisoners globally

Hosted by United for Iran🗣️ PANEL

#9011
Open source design contributions for humanitarian OSS: what we learned running workshops

Hosted by Open Design 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9014
Virtual field visits and contextualization for human rights advocacy

Hosted by Al-Haq💻 TECH DEMO

#9036
Leveraging technology to stop impunity for sexual and gender-based violence crimes

Hosted by WITNESS; Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9174
Artificial environment? Or environmental intelligence?

Hosted by IPANDETEC Centroamérica🗣️ PANEL

#9177
On internet universality and governance, sharing perspectives from underrepresented communities

Hosted by Digital Grassroots🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9223
Frequent flyer numbers, meal preferences, and the efficient countering of terrorist travel

Hosted by UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights; Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota🗣️ PANEL

#11473
Risky OSINT? Evaluating tool security during your human rights investigation

Hosted by Citizen Clinic, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9232
Future perfect, part II

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Change.org Foundation🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9235
AI in the Global South: is it different?

Hosted by Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore University🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9349
Localizing algorithms in trans-global tech: development impacts of AI in local economic contexts

Hosted by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); IT for Change 🗣️ PANEL

#9352
Human rights made it to internet governance: now it is time for the environment to do so!

Hosted by Association for Progressive Communications (APC); BlueLink 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9508
A cautionary tale: harnessing technology for sustainable development

Hosted by IEEE Standards Association💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9533
Technology in support of child migration: risks and opportunities

Hosted by Article One; UNICEF 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9689
Behrouz Boochani: writing “No Friend But the Mountains” from Manus prison on WhatsApp

Hosted by ARTICLE 19; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University 💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#11472
Data for peacebuilding and prevention: ecosystem mapping and the way towards creating community of practice

Hosted by Center on International Cooperation at New York University 🗣️ PANEL


Content governance, disinformation, and online hate

#7835
From Australia to the Amazon: stopping the spread of disinformation during climate crises

Hosted by Purpose🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7879
Social media platforms: are they art’s new gatekeepers?

Hosted by PEN America 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7921
Extremists, extremists everywhere: how States misuse anti-extremism and counter-terrorism laws to stifle online speech and what to do about it

Hosted by ARTICLE 19🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7938
In Chad, 16 months of censorship … of torture

Hosted by Wikimedia Tchad💡 LIGHTING TALK

#7965
Freedom of expression online versus state-sponsored homophobia: the case of Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Hosted by ARTICLE 19; Russian LGBT Network🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8026
From Fortnite to Hong Kong: video game policy and human rights

Hosted by CElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Access Now; Center for Technology and Society, San Andres University; Geekylegal🗣️ PANEL

#8060
Nobody’s watching the watchers: designing oversight for online censorship

Hosted by Dangerous Speech Project 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8260
How do we know we can trust you? Weighing the strength of platforms’ commitments to provide content moderation appeals

Hosted by Ranking Digital Rights🗣️ PANEL

#8065
Deepfakes solutions for who? Decentering us politicians, recentering the rest of the world

Hosted by WITNESS🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9696
Just the facts: a guide to disinformation on Wikipedia

Hosted by Wikimedia Foundation 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8187
Working group on the fight against infodemic and response to information chaos

Hosted by The Forum on Information & Democracy 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8300
Tackling terrorist and violent extremist content online: an open discussion with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

Hosted by Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8314
How to use open source data to analyze social media content removals, from Turkey to Kashmir

Hosted by Committee to Protect Journalists💻 TECH DEMO

#8374
Christchurch Call: working collectively to protect freedom of speech while preventing the abuse of the internet

Hosted by French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs; New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade🗣️ PANEL

#8492
Will the disinformation timeline help us to find out the truth? A multi-search tool for fact-checking

Hosted by DoubleThink Lab💻 TECH DEMO

#8611
Keeping the light: factchecking in closed and closing spaces

Hosted by IREX 🗣️ PANEL

#8645
Not “revenge porn”: new trends in non-consensual intimate imagery in Uganda and the role of digital security

Hosted by Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8700
The Christchurch Call Advisory Network: civil society engaging around terrorist and violent extremist content

Hosted by Christchurch Call Advisory Network🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9826
Between regulation and rights: empowering the citizen through media and information literacy in the context of misinformation and offline violence

Hosted by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) 🗣️ PANEL

#8735
Content removal in Latin America: censorship practices on the internet and regulatory approaches for the region

Hosted by Observacom; ARTICLE 19 (Mexico and Central America)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8862
Beyond the platform: content moderation and internet infrastructure

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)🗣️ PANEL

#8871
Moderate globally, impact locally

Hosted by Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information (WIII)🗣️ PANEL

#8893
Countering censorship through strategic litigation: experiences from Pakistan

Hosted by Media Matters for Democracy, Pakistan 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8908
Interpret censorship as damage

Hosted by Samizdat Project💻 TECH DEMO

#8963
The economy of hate: how advertising funds hate speech and disinformation

Hosted by Check My Ads; Sleeping Giants💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8970
They don’t really care about us: social media platforms and disinformation in the Arab World

Hosted by Oxford Internet Institute🗣️ PANEL

#9065
Human rights-based model of intermediary liablity: how do we get there?

Hosted by Access Now🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9886
Empowering the public to act against disinformation: combatting disinformation, incitement, hate speech and attacks on journalist online to build democracy

Hosted by Media Monitoring Africa💻 TECH DEMO

#8359
Managing online harassment

Hosted by Google (Jigsaw) 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9305
Countering digital hate

Hosted by Bolo Bhi🗣️ PANEL

#9318
How indigenous communities are combating misinformation by creating fact-checked resources in their native languages

Hosted by Rising Voices Project, Global Voices; Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN)🗣️ PANEL

#9323
How to use data journalism to investigate mis- and disinformation online

Hosted by First Draft🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9343
Recordkeepers of the resistance: do you trust the dark force to save your activist history?

Hosted by Meedan🗣️ PANEL

#9404
Media and digital freedom in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua: challenges and opportunities

Hosted by World Voices Media; La Red Hispana 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9419
Disinformation and LGBTQIA+ rights in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Hosted by Gender and Development Advocates (GANDA) Filipinas; R3D 🗣️ PANEL

#9609
The social media gag tax: censorship policies clashes with unapologetic transgressors

Hosted by Independent💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9623
Content moderation and competition: the missing link?

Hosted by ARTICLE 19; Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) at São Paulo Law School 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11488
Legislative trends related to freedom of expression online: overview from UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye

Hosted by UN Special Rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression; Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 💬 FIRESIDE CHAT


Data protection and design

#7751
Ethics of language and cultural documentation in the digital age

Hosted by Wikitongues; Indigenous Friends Association 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7897
Litigating privacy, data protection, and digital rights in Africa

Hosted by Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7909
American PII and the United State(s) of privacy law

Hosted by Silicon Flatirons Center for Technology, Law, and Entrepreneurship at Colorado Law 🗣️ PANEL

#8069
Data protection, consent, and its impact on the defense of human rights in Central America

Hosted by Consorcio INNONICA; Red Previos💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8240
Democratizing data: using human rights to challenge narratives on which data (and whose voices) count in decision-making

Hosted by International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8307
Digital ID and personal data empowerment: key tools for human rights and SDG achievement in the digital domain

Hosted by MyData Global; Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs 🗣️ PANEL

#8313
Data collection and open source investigations: advancing accountability and justice in the Middle East

Hosted by Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; Eshhad 🗣️ PANEL

#8334
Data trusts: a workshop

Hosted by Global Center for the Digital Commons 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8429
Trading away our digital rights: the digital trade agenda at the WTO

Hosted by Digital Trade Alliance🗣️ PANEL

#8664
Ensuring users have a voice: collecting and integrating user feedback

Hosted by Internews🗣️ PANEL

#8681
From toys to schools to digital IDs: pushing for better governance and accountability for children’s data

Hosted by UNICEF🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8690
Designing an open data standard to capture how criminal justice systems fails sexual assault survivors

Hosted by Chayn🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8694
It’s my data! Tools to reclaim control of our personal data

Hosted by Hiperderecho; Simon Fraser University; ObservaTIC🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8695
Responsible data: reducing potential for harm during the design phase

Hosted by Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL); The Engine Room; Palladium 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9627
CARE principles for indigenous data governance

Hosted by Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA); University of Arizona; University of Waikato; Colegio de Postgraduados 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8706
Claiming the data building block for the digital commons

Hosted by IT for Change; New Economics Foundation 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8757
Data privacy: enabling individuals to control their data destiny

Hosted by Cisco Systems, Inc.💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8759
Using data ethically in humanitarian, human rights, and open source investigations work

Hosted by The Engine Room🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8805
Protecting personal data during health, political, and social crisis

Hosted by Access Now 🗣️ PANEL

#8889
COVID-19: can Global South institutions survive the GovTech onslaught?

Hosted by The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), India 🗣️ PANEL

#8912
Re-imagining data privacy and security: a speculative fiction workshop

Hosted by Speculative Futures Ottawa; Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8999
Lessons learned from mobile data collection applications that strengthen indigenous data governance towards greater indigenous data sovereignty

Hosted by East West Management Institute’s Open Development Initiative 🗣️ PANEL

#8263
The public, the private, and our rights: how to lift information out of lockdown

Hosted by Open Data Charter; Access Info🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9052
Instantiating data stewardship: use cases, accountability, and implementation

Hosted by Aapti Institute; AlgorithmWatch 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9153
Dada: creative strategies for algorithmic resistance!

Hosted by Icarus Salon Data 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9166
Ownership or rights: what’s the path to achieving true agency over data?

Hosted by Ada Lovelace Institute🗣️ PANEL

#9296
Having a private cloud made easy with OpenAppStack

Hosted by OpenAppStack; Greenhost💻 TECH DEMO

#9332
Data localization contagion: how the global spread threatens privacy, free expression, and the rule of law

Hosted by Facebook🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8912
Consent by design: how design in tech impacts choice, power, and control in data-sharing processes

Hosted by Derechos Digitales🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9528
Caught in the (social safety) net: social exposure and intensive data exploitation in Latin American social protection

Hosted by InternetLab 🗣️ PANEL

#9612
Surveillance and algorithmic regulation in transportation and public spaces

Hosted by Uber 🗣️ PANEL


Cross-topics

#4
In conversation with Niklas Zennström, Founding Partner and CEO of Atomico, Co-founder of Skype

Hosted by Atomico💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7879
Digital accessibility: information for all people

Hosted by El Rinconcito Inclusivo🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7853
Centroamérica Cibersegura

Hosted by IPANDETEC Centroamérica🗣️ PANEL

#7936
Militarization of the cyber space: grappling with applicability of international law to the cyber space

Hosted by Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA); Association for Progressive Communications (APC)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8057
Help we are under attack! A peek into a community of rapid responders

Hosted by Access Now; Digital Defenders Partnership; Front Line Defenders; Greenhost; Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) 🗣️ PANEL

#8151
Just another brick in the paywall: why open access is a human right

Hosted by Creative Commons💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8195
Data Detox Kit: control your smartphone data to increase your online privacy

Hosted by Tactical Tech🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8260
Discriminating AI? How to prevent it with a human rights-based approach

Hosted by ECIJA Legal💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8288
#GBVinMedia: how can the media report gender-based violence more sensitively?

Hosted by Feminism in India💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8367
Protecting the public core of the internet: from formulation to implementation

Hosted by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) 🗣️ PANEL

#8427
Why we must automate SAFETAG now! Lessons from Nigeria

Hosted by Co-Creation Hub💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8458
Education and technology in indigenous settings

Hosted by Indigenous Friends Association 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8527
Citizen scoring in the EU revisited: facial recognition, lie detectors, and more

Hosted by AlgorithmWatch🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8550
The Digital First Aid Kit: a resource for civil society to troubleshoot digital security emergencies

Hosted by Digital Defenders Partnership 💻 TECH DEMO

#8617
CDR link: expanding use cases for secure help desk platforms

Hosted by Center for Digital Resilience💻 TECH DEMO

#8643
Feminist internet research for a feminist internet

Hosted by Association for Progressive Communications (APC)🗣️ PANEL

#8711
Digital New Deal: for a cleaner and decentralized internet

Hosted by French National Assembly, Office of MP Paula Forteza 🗣️ PANEL

#8986
Digital rights and disability: a framework for measuring ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities in Africa

Hosted by Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8995
(Un)free speech: when algorithms decide

Hosted by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9010
Why you should care about media freedom in the Pacific: the way forward for the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum

Hosted by Melanesia Media Freedom Forum 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9055
Tackling online censorship: campaign and Digital Toolkit for Artists launch

Hosted by Freemuse🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9098
Music, digital distribution platforms, and human rights

Hosted by Cooperativa Sulá Batsú; Endemia; La Milixia; Los Garbanzos 🗣️ PANEL

#9128
UNdoing progress and rights with a new global cybercrime treaty?

Hosted by Third Way🗣️ PANEL

#9163
Have you ever wondered what a truly disabled-access and smart city or community would look like?

Hosted by PICISOC (Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society); Mobile Me; Fiji Disability People’s Federation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9406
Reporters as spies: the global threat of U.S. media leak prosecutions

Hosted by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 🗣️ PANEL

#9698
Mujerxs unidas, jamás serán vencidas: intersectional feminism in the age of AI

Hosted by Coding Rights🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8995
(Un)free speech: when algorithms decide

Hosted by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9712
Encryption under fire: a discussion on the threats to private messaging around the world

Hosted by WhatsApp💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9777
Tackling online abuse: bridging the gap between human rights and computer science

Hosted by Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) 🗣️ PANEL

#9803
The future of human rights and climate: anticipating the unpredictable

Hosted by BSR🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9907
Building an inclusive future in the age of AI

Hosted by World Economic Forum 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11476
Engaging civil society ahead of the Freedom Online Coalition’s joint statement on AI and human rights

Hosted by Global Affairs Canada🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION