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RightsCon Toronto 2018

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Mitra Ardron

Internet Archive
Lead on Decentralized Web Project
Byron Bay, Australia

https://dweb.archive.org

Mitra Ardron is the technical lead for the decentralization work at the Internet Archive. Apart from building a decentralized version of the archive he is interested in how we can build tools that can work across different decentralized architectures, and has built small libraries for naming and authentication. Prior to the Archive, He co-founded the Association for Progressive Communications (apc.org), co-authored several internet standards, and was CTO on the first peer to peer video sharing system (which pioneered sharding and content addressing). His passions include renewable energy (ran solar payment networks across Africa); and mentoring innovators working to make the world a better place.

10:30 EDT

Beyond Cryptocurrencies: How YOU can Leverage the Blockchain as a Force for the Common Good Village Main Stage Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals 200C Enforcing Net Neutrality with Evidenced Based Policy Making 204B

12:00 EDT

Digital inclusion in urban renewal: DIY toolkits for citizen inclusion & empowerment 200B Combatting Shutdowns with COST: A Data Driven Policy Tool for Internet Freedom 202B

14:30 EDT

Tech Demo Block #1: Data management and visualization 200A

16:00 EDT

Refugee.Info: Empowerment for Refugees through Connectivity and Information 200A #feministinternet: Where is our movement now and where are we going? 206D State Hacking and Crypto Wars 2.0 206C

17:15 EDT

Lightning Talks: Fostering Trust and Empathy in the Age of AI 205A Is there an app for that? Meeting the technology needs of displaced persons 205B

09:00 EDT

Digital literacy for all: how can libraries help? 204C Tightening the Net: The case of Internet Controls in Iran 202B

10:30 EDT

Internet Freedom in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Access Denied or Revived? 200B Digital Access: Bridging the divide or bringing exclusion? 206D Elections and information disorders in Latin America. 205B Lightning Talks: Responses to Fake News: Blockchain, Critical Thought or Criminalization 205A Global Perspectives on Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls 203A

11:00 EDT

Beyond the Hype Cycle: What does Blockchain Mean for Human Rights Online? Village Main Stage

12:00 EDT

Who Did it? Why we need an International Cyber Attribution Organization to address nation-state attacks in cyberspace 200C Lightning Talks: Quantum Computation, Differential Privacy, and Cybersecurity Threats 205A Human Rights Requirements of Cross-Border Data Demands 201A

13:20 EDT

Cybercrime reform in Latin America: findings on the implementation of the Convention of Budapest 205B

14:30 EDT

Machine learning, human understanding: AI and access to knowledge 206B Archiving At Risk (and Risky) Information: You Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone (Or Misused) 200B Tech Demo Block #4: Digital, legal and cultural challenges for digital rights 200A What about the 'invisible' unconnected? Targeting gender digital divides with policies and measures informed by evidence from the Global South 200C Digital Human Rights in the Middle East 203B

15:30 EDT

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

16:00 EDT

Building resilience: Creative responses to internet censorship + shutdowns 200A Defending minority voices on a censored internet 205B Understanding Freedom of Expression in Southeast Asia: Internet Freedom and Online Censorship 203B Mapping Digital Rights in Central America (and how to fund the work) Village Main Stage

17:15 EDT

Masculinity in Online Spaces 204B Can Rights Be Enforced by Crypto Protocols? 201B Countering hate or suppressing speech? The case of Israel/Palestine 200C

09:00 EDT

Reporting on the 2018 Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference 205B Lightning Talks: UX, Civic Tech & Financial Inclusion 205A Don't say you don't know. Learn concrete tools to provide meaningful help to victims of non-consensual pornography on the internet from the Global South 204B

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

12:00 EDT

Archer: 25 UC Berkeley engineers present six tech solutions for human rights and corruption investigators 200A Recasting a Wider Net: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Circumvention During Predicted Censorship Events 202B Can global digital rights survive Europe's Copyright Directive? 206D

13:20 EDT

Proceeding with Caution: Doing good work in difficult places 205C

14:30 EDT

Tech Demo Block #5: The fight against internet censorship and surveillance 200A Engineering Secure Products, Soup to Nuts 204B Community Infrastructure for Activists: Security and Shut-down Circumvention 200C