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Access Now est fière de vous annoncer les dates officielles de RightsCon, le premier événement mondial sur les droit humains dans l’ère numérique. RightsCon Tunis aura lieu du Mardi, 11 Juin au Vendredi 14 Juin 2019.
Nous sommes également fiers de vous informer qu’avec le concours de notre équipe à Tunis, nous avons trouver le lieu parfait pour le rassemblement de notre communauté qui ne cesse de grandir. RightsCon sera un espace animé, qui aura lieu entre l’hôtel Laico et le Palais des Congrès, à côté de la place des Droits de l’Homme et à quelques minutes à pieds du centre-ville de Tunis. Vous pouvez consulter notre carte du lieu ici.
Depuis 2011, RightsCon a eu lieu dans différentes grandes villes dans les 4 coins du Monde: Manille, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Bruxelles, et l’année dernière, à Toronto. RightsCon était un rassemblement historique. Avec plus de 2500 participants et 450 sessions uniques, c’était l’événement le plus important et le plus ambitieux de la série RightsCon, à ce jour. (Vous pouvez voir les réalisations de notre communauté à travers cette vidéo récapitulative et notre rapport officiel (en Anglais)).
RightsCon Toronto a été un témoignage inspirant de
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يسعد فريق أكساس ناو الإعلان عن الموعد الرسمي للمنتدى العالمي لحقوق الإنسان في العهد الرقمي تونسإبتداءً من يوم الثلاثاء 10 جوان، إلى الجمعة 14 جوان 2019.
نحن فخورون أيضاً لمشاركتكم – إلى جانب فريقنا في تونس – اننا وجدنا المكان المثالي لاستضافة مجتمع الرايتسكون المتزايد والذي سينعقد بين فندق لايكو وقصر المؤتمرات بشارع محمد الخامس، بجوار ساحة حقوق الإنسان، وعلى بعد بضع دقائق سيراً على الأقدام من قلب مدينة تونس (ستجد الخريطة على جوجل في هذاالرابط).
منذ 2011، نجحنا في تنظيم المنتدى العالمي لحقوق الإنسان في العهد الرقمي RightsCon في عديد من الدول حول العالم – من مانيلا إلى سان فرانسيسكو وريو دي جانيرو وبروكسل، وتورنتو في العام الماضي. حقق RightsCon تورونتو نجاحاً تاريخياً جمع أكثر من 2500 مشارك واحتوى على 450 جلسة نقاش مختلفة. (يمكنك أن ترى ما حققه مجتمعنا في
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Access Now is thrilled to announce the official dates for next year’s RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. RightsCon Tunis will officially take place from Tuesday, June 11, to Friday, June 14, 2019.
We’re proud to share that alongside our team in Tunis we have found the perfect venue for hosting the growing RightsCon community. RightsCon Tunis will be a bustling hub, located 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 here.
Since 2011, RightsCon has rotated to power centers around the world — from San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro, Manila, Brussels, and last year, Toronto. RightsCon Toronto was a historic gathering. With over 2,500 participants and 450 unique sessions, it was the largest — and most ambitious — event in the RightsCon summit series to date (you can see what our community achieved in our recap video and our official outcomes report).
The summit was an inspiring testament to the growing relevance of our community’s work and the importance o
The Bachchao Project is a techno-feminist collective working at the intersection of technology and gender rights.Chinmayi S K, a computer science engineer by training, is the founder of the project, which she started in recognition of her own experiences developing and using technologies that do not reflect the needs of women and queer individuals online.
“There has always been a gap between those who produce technology and those who use it,” says Chinmayi. When that gap exists, and technological innovations do not represent or consult users, particularly those from historically marginalized groups, they risk coding existing discriminatory biases into tools that do not serve everyone.
The India-based organization works with what they call “both ends of the spectrum”: technologists and users. Both groups, Chinmayi acknowledges, struggle. Technologists face difficulties understanding the on-the-ground reality of user groups, while users new to technology lack the support needed to navigate these innovations. The Bachchao Project seeks to bridge the two, under the overarching mission of equal rights for women, gender minorities, and LGBTQIA persons.
Since the team is made up of both technologists and human rights defenders, they’re able to deconstruct technological concepts while simultaneously understanding the needs of different communities. They also rely on concerned individuals to build circles of trust within their communities and pave the way for impactful interventions.
Despite this, they face ongoing challenges in the work they do. The tendency for organizations to work in silos makes it difficult for them to get buy-in for an approach that seeks to promote collaboration. In some cases, it can be difficult to get organizations not only to consider seriously principles of diversity and inclusion, but also to integrate them in their work and tools.
For the Bachchao Project, RightsCon is an opportunity to confront those challenges
Just two months ago, we came together in Toronto for our largest summit yet. While planning for RightsCon Tunis 2019 is well underway, we want to celebrate with you the many achievements of RightsCon Toronto:
- Most ambitious community-built program in RightsCon history, with 450 unique sessions
- Growing representation with 2,520 registered participants from 118 countries
- Majority of participants identifying as women, trans* or gender non-binary
- The Toronto Declaration for non-discrimination in machine learning getting global media coverage
- And much, much more
During RightsCon Toronto, we took the time to chat with participants about their work, the state of human rights globally, and the role RightsCon plays in connecting the t
As we reflect on RightsCon Toronto earlier this month (May 16-18, 2018), we want to express how thankful we are that you joined us. This was a historic RightsCon, with 2,500 participants from 118 countries coming together to engage, workshop, and build a global agenda for the challenges and opportunities that we face for human rights in the digital age.
Our time together was incredible. Your participation at RightsCon — whether in person or online, in pre-events, conference sessions, or through private meetings and spontaneous interactions — has been an inspiring testament to our collective efforts in protecting and defending human rights across the globe.
Here are just a few highlights of the remarkable things our community came together to achieve:
Toronto, Canada (May 16, 2018) — Today, at 12:00 Eastern Time, global human rights organisations Amnesty International and Access Now launched a declaration on human rights and artificial intelligence at the opening of RightsCon 2018.
The Declaration, called The Toronto Declaration on protecting the rights to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems, addresses the risk of human rights harms associated with this technology, particularly regarding the right to equality and non-discrimination. The Declaration is a statement from the human rights community on the urgent need to address discrimination resulting from the use of machine learning systems.
The drafting of the Declaration was led by Amnesty International and Access Now, with input from a drafting committee comprising human rights activists and academics, culminating in a full-day event on 15 May live-drafting the Declaration at a meeting of over 30 experts from civil society, the public sector, and academia. Upon launch, the Declaration is endorsed by Human Rights Watch and the Wikimedia Foundation. The Declaration drafters hope that in course it will be widely adopted by civil society, the private sector, and states.
“We urge the public and private sectors to promote and respect human rights in the digital age, including the right to non-discrimination, in reaction to growing evidence of the discriminatory harms by machine learning systems,” said Estelle Massé, Senior Policy Analyst at Access Now.
“The Toronto Declaration is unique in setting set out tangible and actionable standards for states and the private sectors to uphold the principles of equality and non-discrimination, under binding human
This is it! We’re kicking off RightsCon Toronto today with more than 2,000 of the world’s leading experts on human rights and tech.
And while we’re excited to have so much of our community together in one place, we also recognize that there are countless more who are not able join us in person. Your voice is an important part of this effort to shape a better future for human rights, even if you can’t be in the room. Here are a few ways you can connect with the RightsCon community from anywhere in the world:
1. Watch the Psiphon live stream of Opening Ceremonies and several other key sessions. Psiphon is a free, open-source tool allowing internet users in even the most highly censored markets to access the full internet without restriction.
2. Join the conversation on social media. #RightsCon community members at the event and around the world will be participating in rich debate online. To keep up with #BestOfRightsCon highlights, we recommend you follow the official
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Bringing together more than 2,000 people from over 115 countries, RightsCon is not only a platform to discuss programmatic issues at the intersection of human rights and digital technology, it is also an opportunity to engage in conversations about harassment, abuse, and violence in a process of continued learning and improvement.
In an attempt to facilitate these important conversations at RightsCon Toronto, we are holding three sessions where experts will discuss creating and enforcing a survivor-centric and trauma-informed code of conduct; preventing and identifying harassment and abuse; supporting survivors and creating a safer environment for everyone. Below, we share details on each of these three sessions.
As a community, if we participate in these conversations and learning processes, we can begin to make meaningful contributions to the fight against abuse, harassment, and violence in our workplaces and convenings.
We look forward to sharing these experiences with you, our community.
Sessions at RightsCon
Code of Conduct toolkits and enforcement, with Kendra Albert
When: Wednesday 16th; 12pm - 1.15pm
Where: Room 112
The session will begin with a brief introduction to the fundamental components of a code of conduct and resources that are publicly available. This will be followed by a facilitated group discussion of practical skills related to code of conduct enforcement, including scripts for handling reporting and crisis moments; understanding why pe
