The Community Voices series highlights the work of our community — civil society organizations, governments, companies, human rights defenders, and startups — in the lead up to, during, and after RightsCon.
Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands. From the outset of her career, Schaake distinguished herself in the European Parliament as one of the few parliamentarians to embrace the now ubiquitous platforms and technologies that are the defining characteristics of the contemporary media environment – her 2009 election manifesto was expressed in 10 tweets, and she shares all of her interventions in parliament on both YouTube and her own website.
Beyond her own early understanding of the impact of technology, she has been a champion for human rights, serving on the committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. She founded the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe, pushing forward her belief that “governments remain key stakeholders when it comes to rights online.”
According to Schaake, inviting representatives from all sectors – government, businesses, civil society, and academia – to connect in one space can bridge existing gaps between technology and policy circles and, in the end, lead to better results. This is a perspective Schaake has contributed to RightsCon as a speaker and participant first in San Francisco, in 2012, and again in Brussels, in 2017.
As governments around the world grapple with both the opportunities and challenges posed by rapid technological development – data protection and regulation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and other emerging issues – she points to three barriers they must overcome: “one is speed, two is geography, three is knowledge.”
In confronting these challenges, Schaake ha
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Early bird tickets are now on sale for RightsCon Tunis (June 11-14, 2019), the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.
In roundtables, workshops, private meetings, and more, RightsCon is the forum where technologists, business leaders, startups, government representatives, policymakers, human rights defenders, and journalists come together to strategize, problem-solve, and drive forward change in the digital age. Learn more about who comes to RightsCon, what you can expect, and what our community achieves together here.
RightsCon Tunis will be a bustling hub, hosted at the Laico Hotel and the Palais des Congrès, right next to the city’s Human Rights Square, and just a few minutes walk from the heart of downtown Tunis. Check out our interactive map of the venue and recommendations for places to visit here.
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Les billets en prévente sont maintenant disponibles pour RightsCon Tunis (11-14 juin 2019), le sommet mondial sur les droits humains à l’ère numérique.
À travers des tables rondes, des ateliers, des réunions privées, et plus encore, RightsCon est le forum où technologistes, chefs d’entreprise, startups, représentants/es de gouvernement, décideurs/euses, défenseurs/euses des droits humains et journalistes se réunissent afin d’élaborer des stratégies, de résoudre des problèmes et de générer un réel changement à l'ère numérique. Apprenez-en davantage sur les participants/es à RightsCon, ce qui vous attend et les réalisations de notre communauté ici.
RightsCon Tunis, plaque tournante pour les droits digitaux, sera hébergé à l’hôtel Laico et au Palais des Congrès, juste à côté de la Place des Droits de l’Homme et à quelques minutes à pied du cœur du centre-ville de Tunis. Consultez notre carte interactive du lieu, ainsi que des recommandations d’endroits à visiter ici.
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تباع التذاكر الأولى الآن لـ RightsCon Tunis (من 11 إلى 14 جوان، 2019) ، المنتدى العالمي لحقوق الإنسان في العصر الرقمي.
إنطلاقاً من الإجتماعات أو الموائد المستديرة أو ورشات العمل أوغير ذلك، يلتقي التقنيون وقادة الأعمال والشركات الناشئة وممثلي الحكومات و صنّاع القرار وواضعي السياسات والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان والصحفيين من أجل وضع الاستراتيجيات و إحداث تغيير إيجابيّ. تعرف على المزيد حول رائدي RightsCon، وما يمكن أن تتوقعه و تحققه في هذا المنتدى.
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The Community Voices series highlights the work of our community — civil society organizations, governments, companies, human rights defenders, and startups — in the lead up to, during, and after RightsCon.
Three Lefts is a startup working on research and development of emerging technologies, focusing on leveraging blockchain technology for the common good. Zac Skeith, Vice President of Strategy, strives to integrate purpose-driven, human rights-centered tenets into the new governance models and technical tools the startup is developing for its clients.
Based in Toronto, Canada, Three Lefts offers a blockchain-agnostic platform called StonePaper to allow enterprises to work faster and more securely with one another. Blockchain is the distributed ledger technology initially created to manage cryptocurrencies, facilitating decentralized and authenticated peer-to-peer transactions. Despite the relative novelty of the technology, cryptocurrencies and the distributed ledger blockchain have become a focal point in human rights and sustainable development conversations as holding a range of potential applications: tracking human rights abuses, increasing transparency and accountability in governance processes, and managing humanitarian crisis response.
The firm is working to bake environment, social, and governance indicators into its decision-making processes. “We are by no means a social enterprise — yet — but we are core believers that the impact of our products and technologies lie far beyond the conventional business case,” says Skeith. This was the motivation behind the startup
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We’ve officially launched the RightsCon Tunis (June 11-14, 2019) Call for Proposals!
Each year, the RightsCon Program is built from the sessions submitted by a diverse community of civil society organizations, technologists, academics, tech companies, startups, public servants, and lawyers. It’s the guiding pillar of the annual RightsCon summit and helps shape the agenda for human rights in the digital age.
Our annual call for proposals is the best opportunity to showcase your work, connect with other leading experts from around the world, gather stakeholders to develop best practices, hone strategies, solve problems, learn new skills, and move forward real-world change. Sessions hosted at RightsCon have led to some pretty amazing outcomes.
The program for RightsCon Tunis will build off the historic success of Toronto — our community’s most ambitious program to date with over 450 unique sessions — by continuing to provide an engaging and interactive space for tackling current pressing issues and those emerging on the horizon.
Ready to get started on your proposal? Great!
First things first, read through our
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