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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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Amira Elghawaby

Canadian Labour Congress
Digital Communications, National Representative
Ottawa

canadianlabour.ca

Amira Elghawaby is an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate. Along with frequent appearances on Canadian and international news networks, Amira has written and produced stories and commentary for CBC Radio, the Ottawa Citizen, the Toronto Star, the Literary Review of Canada, and the Globe and Mail. Before joining the Canadian Labour Congress, Amira spent five years promoting the civil liberties of Canadian Muslims as human rights officer and later, as director of communications, at the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) between 2012 to the fall of 2017. Amira obtained an honours degree in Journalism and Law from Carleton University in 2001.

10:30 EDT

Harnessing Data to Visualize Trends in Global Civil Society 200A "Free Speech, Due Process, and Why I Kicked a Nazi Site Off Our Network" a Fireside Chat with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 204C

12:00 EDT

The Toronto Declaration on Discrimination in Machine Learning 206A Digital inclusion in urban renewal: DIY toolkits for citizen inclusion & empowerment 200B Whose news? Building a media industry that truly serves Canadians 203A Confronting Racism in Media: Online Hate Edition 204B

13:30 EDT

Access Now Digital Security Clinic Access Now Lounge

14:30 EDT

How to start using data analytics to grow your organization's impact...today! 206D Eye of the Beholder: Government Attempts to Define and Detect "Extremism" 203A

16:00 EDT

How can platforms preserve pluralism and freedom of information? 205B What does it mean to be a citizen in a digital era? 204C 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

16:30 EDT

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

17:15 EDT

Tech Demo Block #2: Digital engagement and collaboration tools 200A Forget about the President- let's talk to Facebook 206A

09:00 EDT

Whose story is it anyway? Decoding the Collection & Sharing of Information 201A

11:30 EDT

Mapping the Artificial Intelligence, Networked Hate, and Human Rights Landscape Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

Tech Demo Block #3: Privacy and digital security for all 200A Harmful Content: Fighting Online Terrorist Incitement and Politically Motivated Disinformation 204B Mind the Shark: Informational Flow in Natural Disasters, from Fake News to Rumors 200B McCarthyism for Muslims 206C Inventing Digital Civil Society Village Main Stage

14:30 EDT

Hacking Civic Innovation: Inclusion Edition 201B

16:00 EDT

Reframed! Media Analysis for Digital Inclusion 200B On the Shoulders of Giants: Empowering the Next Generation of Digital Citizens 200C

16:30 EDT

Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative): Working with Companies and Investors to Shape the Digital Future Village Main Stage

17:15 EDT

Masculinity in Online Spaces 204B Lightning Talks: Media Manipulation and the Changing Landscape of Journalism 205A Take Back the Net: Innovations in Tackling Online Hate and Harassment 203A

09:00 EDT

Countering Media Manipulation: Linking Research and Action 206D Understanding the role of hate speech and fake news as factors in spirals of violence in situations of conflict and armed violence 203B

12:00 EDT

Live Recording: Listen up! Podcasting your rights 206A Daily Stormer and The Internet Provider's Role in Mitigating Hate Speech 206C Lightning Talks: Ending Hate Speech & Online Violence 205A

13:20 EDT

Opening the digital tool-box to create a powerful and connected free expression ecosphere 204A Global Best Practice For Non Profits for the Future 201A

14:30 EDT

We can do it! Empathic, citizen-led consensus-building at scale: A workshop for aspiring g0v nobodies 204A Shifting the Script: Workshopping the Workshop 200B Seen, Tweeted and Heard: It’s time to finally listen to Black women 206A Creating community capacity to respond to smart city initiatives to support data justice and human rights in a connected space 205C

16:00 EDT

From clickbait to misinformation: How can we change the way we measure, value and monetize content online? 204C How to effectively combat online manipulation and disinformation? 203A

17:15 EDT

Has Social Media Destroyed our Information Diets and Politics? 203A

18:20 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Closing Ceremonies 206C