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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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Jennifer Easterday

JustPeace Labs
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Barcelona, Spain

justpeacelabs.org

I am an attorney with expertise in human rights law, international criminal law and peacebuilding. My work with NGOs and international tribunals focuses on strengthening responses to armed conflict and mass human rights abuses in Africa, Latin America and Europe. I promote ethical and responsible tech in complex settings to help organizations understand and avoid these unintended consequences.

10:30 EDT

Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals 200C

12:00 EDT

(Not) Some Kinda Magic: Human Rights Impacts Assessments (HRIAs) for Infrastructure Providers and Business Actors 205B

12:30 EDT

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

13:20 EDT

Curbside Coaching: Silicon Valley & Toronto startups meet civil society 206A

14:30 EDT

The right to record, perpetrator video, and human rights 206A Human rights due diligence in telecommunications – is the current practice the good practice? 205C NGO Partnerships for Justice: Using technology to advance victim-centered investigations and litigation of serious crimes 205B

16:00 EDT

Innovation on the frontlines: how grassroots activists are utilizing technology to enhance their work 202B Documenting ICT companies' impact on civic freedoms & human rights defenders 204A

17:15 EDT

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

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

10:30 EDT

Data Rights Policy: Do AI Ethics, Privacy and Open Data Activists need each other to succeed? 206C Social Media Takedowns: Protecting Who? 202B

12:30 EDT

Digital Evidence Forum - Experimental Design Session Village Main Stage

14:30 EDT

The evidence locker of the 21st century: cooperation between social media platforms and law enforcement authorities for preserving digital material for justice 204B

15:30 EDT

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

16:00 EDT

Lightning Talks: Who Decides? Dominant and Marginalized Voices for the Global Internet 205A Transparency Reporting: The New Frontier 206B

09:00 EDT

Tech Demo Block #6: Collecting, documenting and verifying human rights data 200A Understanding the role of hate speech and fake news as factors in spirals of violence in situations of conflict and armed violence 203B

10:30 EDT

My First Transparency Report 206A

12:00 EDT

AI'll Be Back: Legal and Ethical Implications With Everyday Uses of Artificial Intelligence Village Main Stage Archer: 25 UC Berkeley engineers present six tech solutions for human rights and corruption investigators 200A Putting Users First: The Responsibility of Tech SMEs to Respect Human Rights 200C Tactics for advancing digital rights in developing economies and challenging political contexts: an RDR perspective 201C Daily Stormer and The Internet Provider's Role in Mitigating Hate Speech 206C

16:00 EDT

Business case for corporate activism in a fractured world: can it help save civic freedoms? 204B