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RightsCon Toronto 2018

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Ephraim Percy Kenyanito

ARTICLE 19
SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
Global

Ephraim Percy Kenyanito is a Legal Researcher/ Policy Analyst working on the connection between African ICT & Media Law, Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rights and International Development.

09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

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 Content regulation in the digital age: Defining terms and examining content moderation at scale 205C 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

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

The Toronto Declaration on Discrimination in Machine Learning 206A (Not) Some Kinda Magic: Human Rights Impacts Assessments (HRIAs) for Infrastructure Providers and Business Actors 205B

14:30 EDT

Tech Demo Block #1: Data management and visualization 200A Online Criticism, Falsified Court Orders & the Role of Intermediaries: Coping With Takedown Requests of Questionable Legitimacy. 202B How to start using data analytics to grow your organization's impact...today! 206D Human rights due diligence in telecommunications – is the current practice the good practice? 205C

16:00 EDT

Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 202B 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 Zeroing in on journalism and press freedom in zero-rating initiatives 201B Documenting ICT companies' impact on civic freedoms & human rights defenders 204A

17:15 EDT

Freedom Online Coalition Open Forum 204C Challenging our own digital security training communication and didactics 201B Open Innovation in Africa: Access, Intellectual Property, and Trade 203A Fingerprint on the pulse: Challenging the lack of privacy protections for biometric data. 202B Forget about the President- let's talk to Facebook 206A Reclaiming Her Voice: Practical Solutions to Online Violence Against Women in Politics and Journalism 201A

08:00 EDT

A Human Rights Approach to Regulating User-Generated Content Online: Preview of the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report to the Human Rights Council 206C

09:00 EDT

The Global Digital Platform and the Nation State: Roles responsibilities and interactions to optimize human rights in the digital space 206D Whose story is it anyway? Decoding the Collection & Sharing of Information 201A Digital Security for Civil Societies in Africa 204B Help, We Are Under Attack! - a Peek into the Community of Rapid Responders 206A Leveraging Technology to Address Misinformation 205B Trading Up: What Net Neutrality Means for Small Businesses and Trade 200C Civil Society Under Assault Online: Threats, Opportunities, and Stories From Across the Regions 203B

10:30 EDT

Levelling the Playing Field: Partisan Political Expression in a Digital World 203B Social Media Takedowns: Protecting Who? 202B Digital Access: Bridging the divide or bringing exclusion? 206D Breaking the Silence: Digital Media and the Struggle for LGBTQ Rights in Iran 200C The global state of data protection 205C Global Perspectives on Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls 203A Shooting the messenger: the rise of intermediary liability around the world 204B Fireside Chat with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and GC Melissa Tidwell 204C

12:00 EDT

Mobilising the Might of Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach to AI 202B This Panel May Contain Sensitive Content: Automated Filtering and the Future of Free Expression Online 201B Who Did it? Why we need an International Cyber Attribution Organization to address nation-state attacks in cyberspace 200C My Network. My Choice - An overview of feminist and antipatriarchal autonomous infrastructures, from servers to hackerspaces 204A Offline Doesn’t Exist Anymore 205B

13:20 EDT

UNESCO Internet Universality indicators: to shape a free and open Internet that enables rights, empowers individuals and facilitates sustainable development 201A

14:30 EDT

Building Cross-sectoral Partnerships To Improve LGBTQIA Digital Security. 201A What about the 'invisible' unconnected? Targeting gender digital divides with policies and measures informed by evidence from the Global South 200C Lightning Talks: Front Lines of Digital Freedom 205A

15:30 EDT

Revving up Civil Society Engagement at the ITU: The Road to the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference Village Main Stage

16:00 EDT

On the Shoulders of Giants: Empowering the Next Generation of Digital Citizens 200C Defending minority voices on a censored internet 205B A communication operator's view on investigatory powers and privacy - what's our role? 203A Africa’s Digital Rights Secretariat: Net Rights Africa Coalition and its prospects 201A

17:15 EDT

Electoral Choices and Artificial Intelligence: The Need for Transnational Collaboration in Africa 204C Who trusts the Internet? The 2018 CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Trust 206B

08:00 EDT

Trustworthy AI whitepaper release 206B

09:00 EDT

Leaks from anonymous online whistleblowing platforms: ¿are they all legitimate and how to verify them? 200B Trainers Unite: Experience Exchange and Skill Building of Digital Security Trainers 204A Litigating Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Identifying Blurred Lines and Roadmaps 205C OTR: Donor Q&A 201B The elephant in the room: the funding dimension of capacity development 201C

10:30 EDT

A technologist, a policy wonk, and an Internet freedom advocate walk into a bar: Assessing how Internet Communities build bridges for human rights. 200A Building Inclusive Community Based Digital Security Programs 200B Policing the Internet, or Promoting Digital Rights: World Intermediary Liability Developments 2018 205B Youth: The Vanguardians of Information 206B The Online Hate Index: Using AI to Create Community-based Definitions of Hate Speech 202B Biometrics in governance: next big thing or ticking time-bomb? 205C

11:00 EDT

Building a Global SAFETAG Community Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

What have we learned from studying 5 years of Internet Disruptions in Africa? 201A

14:30 EDT

How do we train digital security auditors 201B Workers Data Rights - Making sure the human remains in human resources 202B

16:00 EDT

Have We Entered a Brave New World of Global Content Takedown Orders? 206C Documenting Digital Evidence of Sexual Violence & Disrupting Data Flow: MediCapt in Kenya 204A Business case for corporate activism in a fractured world: can it help save civic freedoms? 204B What could diplomats do better to reinforce civic space? 201B

17:15 EDT

Exploring the future of civic tech as part of government and global civil society 203B Building the anti-spyware toolbox: from reporting to lawsuits 205C Algorithms and Online Abuse : Perspectives from Amnesty International, Google Jigsaw and Wikimedia 200C

18:20 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Closing Ceremonies 206C