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RightsCon Toronto 2018

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon Toronto 2018. This year’s program, built by our global community, is our most ambitious one yet. Within the program, you will find 18 thematic tracks to help you navigate our 450+ sessions.

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09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

10:30 EDT

Beyond Cryptocurrencies: How YOU can Leverage the Blockchain as a Force for the Common Good Village Main Stage Global Indigenous Ambassador Program at ICANN: Including new voices to internet policy dialogues 201A Harnessing Data to Visualize Trends in Global Civil Society 200A Making the Tech USABLE -- how to gather and share user feedback from our digital security trainings 200B VR for the People: How Anyone can Build a Virtual Reality Universe 201B "Free Speech, Due Process, and Why I Kicked a Nazi Site Off Our Network" a Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 204C Content regulation in the digital age: Defining terms and examining content moderation at scale 205C Is the Internet Freedom Strategy Dead? 203B Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals 200C Bot Battles: Disinformation, Computational Propaganda and Speech Regulation – Digital Rights and Press Freedom 201C Lightning Talks: State Sponsored Trolls & (Dis) information 205A Enforcing Net Neutrality with Evidenced Based Policy Making 204B Paralysis through disruption: Understanding the full human impacts of network disruptions 204A The surveillance tool we love to carry: Cell phones searches and privacy in the evolving legal landscape 203A A Decade of Progress: Where Do We Go Next? 205B Effective 21st Century Organizing: Learning From the Past, Building the Future 202B

11:00 EDT

Tech Policy Hackathons: how to encourage policy advocates and technologists to collaborate on digital rights Village Main Stage

11:30 EDT

Killing me softly with his vote: populism and the use digital mass communication to undermine the legitimacy of the judiciary Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

Walking the Walk: Responsible Data Resources in the Shadow the GDPR Village Main Stage Can GDPR protect you from AI? What GDPR can and cannot do 204C Machines That Learn: Can They Also Be Taught Human Values? 200C The Toronto Declaration on Discrimination in Machine Learning 206A Is Multistakeholder Internet Governance Advancing, Dying, or Evolving? 203B UX to the rescue! Help a crypto protocol's usability 200A Lightning Talks: Human Rights for the Digital Age: Hearing from Leaders 205A Digital inclusion in urban renewal: DIY toolkits for citizen inclusion & empowerment 200B Digital Rights for the Persecuted Refugees: Can there be a Global Support Framework? 201B Women & Silicon Valley: How the Age of #MeToo Can Act as a Tipping Point 206C Your Car the Pirate: How cars infringe copyright and deploy data 201C Wearing many hats: What is the future of online independent media - ideating and brainstorming 204A Whose news? Building a media industry that truly serves Canadians 203A Combatting Shutdowns with COST: A Data Driven Policy Tool for Internet Freedom 202B It's My Data 201A Young, Safe and Free: Respecting Children's Online Privacy and Freedom of Expression 206B (Not) Some Kinda Magic: Human Rights Impacts Assessments (HRIAs) for Infrastructure Providers and Business Actors 205B Confronting Racism in Media: Online Hate Edition 204B

12:30 EDT

Accountability in times of digital governance: towards a global citizen charter Village Main Stage

13:20 EDT

Nick and Nikki AMA: How to make your RightsCon experience great 205C Remixable Graphics: Imagining educators as designers 200B Curbside Coaching: Silicon Valley & Toronto startups meet civil society 206A

13:30 EDT

Access Now Digital Security Clinic Access Now Lounge

14:30 EDT

Cost of Freedom in Syria Village Main Stage Artificial Intelligence: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and Peace Time Threats 206B Some Like it Bot: Can AI Strengthen Global Democracy? 204B "The last DNS bastion: .amazon" 200C Tech Demo Block #1: Data management and visualization 200A Techquity: Ensuring the Future is Shaped by Diverse Innovators 200B Online Criticism, Falsified Court Orders & the Role of Intermediaries: Coping With Takedown Requests of Questionable Legitimacy. 202B Is illicit sharing the imperative future for educational access? 204A The right to record, perpetrator video, and human rights 206A When the government goes phishing. State-sponsored phishing and disinformation campaigns. 206C Community networks: discussing comparative solutions to remove regulatory obstacles 206D Shedding light on Internet Blackouts 201B How to start using data analytics to grow your organization's impact...today! 206D Lightning Talks: The State of Mass Surveillance 2018 205A Unravelling the cloak of secrecy: Oversight and accountability of intelligence 203B Human rights due diligence in telecommunications – is the current practice the good practice? 205C Eye of the Beholder: Government Attempts to Define and Detect "Extremism" 203A The Perfect Storm? Misinformation and Extremist Propaganda 204C The threat to India’s Internet Freedom: Stories of resistance and resilience from India’s Journalists, Activists, and Academics 201C NGO Partnerships for Justice: Using technology to advance victim-centered investigations and litigation of serious crimes 205B Squeezed Between Russia and China. Digital Rights in Central Asia 201A

15:00 EDT

Laws against freedom of expression (case study: Singapore) Village Main Stage

16:00 EDT

How can platforms preserve pluralism and freedom of information? 205B Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 202B Lightning Talks: Civic Tech vs. Civic Accountability: Where ICT and Governments Intersect 205A What does it mean to be a citizen in a digital era? 204C Refugee.Info: Empowerment for Refugees through Connectivity and Information 200A Using crowd-sourced fact-checking chatbot to fight misinformation across closed messenger chatrooms 200B Human Rights versus the Botnets 203A #feministinternet: Where is our movement now and where are we going? 206D Ally Skills Workshop 206B Breaking through echo chambers: Is the way we talk about inclusion stopping us from achieving it? 204B Do we need free speech legislation like we need privacy laws? 203B State Hacking and Crypto Wars 2.0 206C Technologies in Support of Next Generation Climate and Weather Services: Facilitating Integration, Standardization and Incentive Systems 201A "Competition Is For Losers": How Can We Scale Collaborations that Challenge the Kleptocrats? 206A Zeroing in on journalism and press freedom in zero-rating initiatives 201B Access My Info: Exposing disconnects between data protection in theory and in practice 200C Documenting ICT companies' impact on civic freedoms & human rights defenders 204A

16:30 EDT

Burn, baby, burn (out?) Village Main Stage

17:00 EDT

Fixing Canada's Broken Access to Information (ATI) System Village Main Stage

17:15 EDT

Lightning Talks: Fostering Trust and Empathy in the Age of AI 205A Overcoming the black box problem: Scrutinizing automated decisions in the real world 201C Freedom Online Coalition Open Forum 204C When One Size Does Not Fit All: Using Low-Tech to Advance Access to Justice and Movement Building in Human Rights 204A Mobilizing during Internet Shutdowns: Re-purposing Interactive Voice Response for Activism 200B Tech Demo Block #2: Digital engagement and collaboration tools 200A Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics 201B A manifesto for the inclusive engineer 206B Language Access and Humanitarian Response: A Matter of Human Rights 205C Platform Politick: Redefining Digital Rights for the Platform Generation 200C Crypto Wars Revisited? 206C Is there an app for that? Meeting the technology needs of displaced persons 205B Open Innovation in Africa: Access, Intellectual Property, and Trade 203A Fingerprint on the pulse: Challenging the lack of privacy protections for biometric data. 202B Preserving Human Rights: Creating a Secure Ethical and Distributed Ecosystem to Archive At-Risk Mobile Media 204B Forget about the President- let's talk to Facebook 206A Scrutinizing the Little Brothers: Corporate Surveillance and the Roles of the Citizen, Consumer, and Company 203B Gendering Surveillance: From the Point of View of Marginalised Groups 206D Reclaiming Her Voice: Practical Solutions to Online Violence Against Women in Politics and Journalism 201A