Explore the 500+ sessions shaping the 10th anniversary summit program
The RightsCon 2021 Session List details the title, host, format, program category, and intersecting theme of all sessions happening at RightsCon (June 7-11, 2021). You can see all 20 program categories in alphabetical order below, or filter by category and theme to begin informing your RightsCon experience. With over 500 sessions in total – the most we’ve ever had at RightsCon – our 10th anniversary edition is shaping up to be the biggest RightsCon yet. Registered participants can now login to the official RightsCon platform to view the program schedule and build their own personalized schedule.
Access, Inclusion, and Education
Amplifying civil society engagement, contribution, and voice in the implementation of the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation Community Lab
Host: World Wide Web Foundation
Recharging and decolonizing your mind/digital wellbeing: how technology impacts our mental health Panel
Host: Health and Information Literacy Access (HILA) Alliance | Allegori | InspireCorp
The future of the open internet Panel
Host: Twitter
Digital gender divide and COVID-19: what prospects for women’s political participation in Africa? Panel
Host: Big Steps Outreach Network (BONET)
#SheTransformsTech: mapping solutions for gender justice in tech Community Lab
Host: World Pulse
Gender and knowledge participation: mapping efforts at equity Community Lab
Host: Wikimedia Foundation
Building resilient digital ecosystems: best practices for community networks initiatives Community Lab
Host: NetFreedom Pioneers
Mapping language rights in a digital world Community Lab
Host: Global Coalition for Language Rights
The rights of the unconnected: opting out and autonomous connectivity Community Lab
Host: Data.Democracia | Rhizomatica
What matters when it comes to connecting the unconnected? Community Lab
Host: Connect Humanity
How to define and measure digital inclusion? A call for comments on a possible digital inclusion framework Community Lab
Host: United Nations Office of the Envoy on Technology
Open book, turn off WiFi: accessing online education during the COVID-19 pandemic Community Lab
Host: Youth SIG (Youth Observatory), ISOC
Co-designing our tech future: best practices from the contract for the web community on gender equality, misinformation and more Community Lab
Host: World Wide Web Foundation
Queering the digital divide: addressing digital insecurities, inequalities, and inaccessibility in Ontario 2S-LGBTQ+ service provisions during the global pandemic Lightning Talk
Host: Independent | Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN)
Is provision of comprehensive sexuality education through online platforms the solution? Tackling the myth of sex as a taboo Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Safer internet for the elderly Lightning Talk
Host: Digital Grassroots
Access to digital information from the perspective of a blind person Lightning Talk
Host: El Rinconcito Inclusivo
Feminist infrastructure, community networks and plenty of gambiarras: learnings from the challenges of translating feminist principles into practice Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
You’ve been disconnected: supporting the right to access healthcare for marginalized people in a virtual context Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
The potential of knowledge capsules to the test: a Venezuelan challenge to restore our own social fabric Lightning Talk
Host: Fundación ACADEtools
The unexplored dichotomy of internet access and online hate Lightning Talk
Host: Open Internet for Democracy Initiative
Connecting when disaster strikes Panel
Host: Cisco
Will technology be a force for greater educational equity or be a barrier to it? Panel
Host: Teach For All
Dismantling the neoliberalism of the digital divide: feminist perspectives on access Panel
Host: Media Matters for Democracy
Splinternet by stealth: China’s digital silk road and the risks of a two-gauge internet Panel
Host: Oxford Information Labs
Access to data during the pandemic: the opportunities and challenges of zero-rating Panel
Host: Research ICT Africa
Strategies to guarantee the right to access to the internet Panel
Host: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
Upholding the rights of students with disabilities and using learnings from the current pandemic to rethink inclusive education globally Panel
Host: Benetech
Advancing human rights and digital collaboration: UNESCO call for participation in the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality Indicators (IUIs) Panel
Host: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Unpacking the digital inclusion paradox: the Freedom Online Coalition’s task force on digital equality Panel
Host: Research ICT Africa | Freedom Online Coalition
5G human rights assessment: how to address risks related to emerging technologies Strategy Session
Host: Ericsson | Shift
Reimagining inclusion for a post-COVID classroom Strategy Session
Host: IT for Change | Foundation for Information Technology (IT) Education and Development
Building an open toolkit to document Indigenous languages Tech Demo
Host: O Foundation (OFDN)
Creating digital spaces for civic engagement in analog communities: challenges and opportunities in mobile messaging Tech Demo
Host: Accountability Counsel
Living dictionaries: a digital resource to protect endangered languages and maintain global linguistic diversity Tech Demo
Host: Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
A how-to: creating and leveraging subtitles to increase digital accessibility and inclusion Tech Demo
Host: Wikitongues
Terrastories: an open-source tool for Indigenous communities to map and safeguard oral histories about their ancestral territory Tech Demo
Host: Digital Democracy (DD)
So you want to learn about digital cultural expression? Here are the tools you need Community Lab
Host: Wikitongues | Indigenous Friends Association
Access to digital education in the time of coronavirus: copyright and public health emergencies Panel
Host: Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property | Wikimedia Germany
Artificial Intelligence
How to be heard? The fight for community and civil society voices in AI and digital health governance Community Lab
Host: Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) | STOPAIDS | Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global) | Kenyan Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN)
Making the right impact: human rights compliant AI Community Lab
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)
A new AI lexicon: responses and challenges to the critical AI discourse Community Lab
Host: Access Now | AI Now
The robot will see him now: building gender-equitable AI in the Global South Community Lab
Host: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
How better measurements can help us fight for justice in AI? Community Lab
Host: Global Black Youth | Portulans Institute
Bias in algorithmic decision-making: perspectives and approaches Community Lab
Host: Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Feminist search: reimagining our “search” for knowledge Community Lab
Host: Feminist.AI | Poieto
Google AI’s damaging impact on abortion access – how the core updates are penalizing pro-choice websites Lightning Talk
Host: Women on Web
The AI observatory: interrogating automated decision making in India Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Bias in, bias out: leveraging dataset nutrition labels for healthier AI Lightning Talk
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Discrimination through optimization: how Facebook’s ad delivery can lead to biased outcomes Lightning Talk
Host: University of Southern California
Algorithmic diversity and nonbinarity: how to reimagine ability, tech, and ethics Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Algorithmic discrimination and the impacts on social mobility of marginalized social groups in the Global South Community Lab
Host: InternetLab
AlGOVrithms: automated decision making in Central and Eastern Europe – should we synchronize our efforts globally? Panel
Host: ePaństwo Foundation | Open Data Kosovo
South, East, Asian landscape of artificial intelligence Panel
Host: EngageMedia
Social and financial discrimination of sex workers Panel
Host: Hacking//Hustling
Misgendering machines: the digital rights risks of automated gender attribution technology Panel
Host: Access Now
More of the same: unpacking the impact of AI algorithms on social fragmentation Panel
Host: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs | RNW Media
Algorithmic technologies in the state: a critical approach from Latin America Panel
Host: Derechos Digitales
Should all data be credit data? Inclusive finance in the age of algorithmic credit underwriting Panel
Host: Center for Financial Inclusion
The good earth: the ethical implications of the implementation of artificial intelligence in agriculture in Africa Panel
Host: Strathmore University, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) | Universiteit Utrecht
Regulatory solutions to AI’s infringement on civil rights (US focused) Panel
Host: Consumer Reports
AI diplomacy: mainstreaming inclusion Panel
Host: Women at The Table | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
Inside the black box: making public-sector algorithms accountable to citizens and communities Panel
Host: Open Government Partnership
Preventing digital dehumanization Panel
Host: Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
Invisible or absent: is AI in Africa inclusive of nonbinary gender identities? Panel
Host: Research ICT Africa
Transparency for what? Public sector algorithm registers in practice Strategy Session
Host: AlgorithmWatch | Etalab
#SAIFE artificial intelligence: the imperative of human rights impact assessments Strategy Session
Host: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Developing an inclusive, rights-based global index for responsible AI Strategy Session
Host: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
“A time when thought is free”: freedom of thought as a legal framework for tech accountability Panel
Host: Avaaz
Algorithmic decision-support systems in the asylum context: how do states seek to legitimize their use? A case study from Germany Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Business, Labor, and Trade
“Give a smile, get a smile!”: The human rights impacts of emotion recognition in the workplace Community Lab
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)
Structures that silence: countering digital exclusion of the most marginalized in online spaces in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Uganda, Lebanon, and Sudan Community Lab
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) | CREA | UHAI — The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative | WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform
Networks of power, influence, and open data at the Universal Periodic Review Tech Demo
Host: Open Knowledge Foundation
Emerging labor rights issues in the ICT sector: ensuring workers’ participation and protection in the platform economy Community Lab
Host: Sycomore AM
Mapping work with workers: activist responses to platform labor in Brazil Community Lab
Host: Aarhus University | Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) | Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos University) | University of São Paulo (USP)
Digital technologies, human rights due diligence, and the state-business nexus Community Lab
Host: Global Network Initiative (GNI) | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), B-Tech Project
Human rights in digital streaming: challenges and opportunities in the new era of internet-enabled TV and film Community Lab
Host: Article One Advisors
Assessing and addressing human rights impacts at the internet infrastructure level Panel
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
How can company-led grievance mechanisms address human rights concerns of rightsholders? Lessons from the B-Tech papers on access to remedy Community Lab
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | African Internet Rights Alliance | Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
T-ENT: digital entrepreneurship for Uganda’s LBTQ community Lightning Talk
Host: Mend Initiative
Validating transparency reports Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Facial recognition: what can be done to improve corporate practices? Lightning Talk
Host: Candriam
Digital disconnection: is it an employment human right? Lightning Talk
Host: ECIJA
How “surveillance capitalism” entrenches structural racism and threatens human rights Lightning Talk
Host: Amnesty International
Cultural expression or commercial exploitation? The experience of digital kidfluencers is all of our business Panel
Host: Alana Institute
Integrating environmental and social justice into transparency reporting in the tech sector Panel
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
The next frontier: the UNGPs+10 Panel
Host: Cisco | Verizon
Global tech inequity and the impact of Silicon Valley’s laissez faire approach abroad Panel
Host: Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab
Innovating while managing risk: how to govern digital ethics at your company Panel
Host: BSR
Fund no evil? The human rights due diligence responsibilities of venture capital Panel
Host: Amnesty International
Innovative rightsholder engagement: closing reciprocity gaps Panel
Host: Access Now | Facebook | Article One Advisors | Color Of Change
Building the business case for digital rights: leveraging local private sector involvement in advancing internet freedom Strategy Session
Host: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) | The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
Maximizing company transparency in the majority world Strategy Session
Host: Ranking Digital Rights
Just another framework or something worthwhile? Leveraging the UNGPs on business and human rights Strategy Session
Host: The IO Foundation | InternetLab | Paradigm Initiative | Global Partners Digital (GPD) | Bloggers Association of Kenya
Designing ethical framework for content moderation work Strategy Session
Host: Aapti Institute
Reimagining supply chain transparency: an open, integrated labor rights data system Tech Demo
Host: WikiRate
My plans // 2021: memes to survive the IP apocalypse Lightning Talk
Host: Derechos Digitales
Why Bitcoin matters for human rights Lightning Talk
Host: Human Rights Foundation (HRF)
Trade restrictions on global availability: impacts and mitigation Panel
Host: GitHub
Better safe than sorry: regulate AI before trade negotiators do it for you Panel
Host: Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV)
The Big Tech trade-off: regulating platforms versus empowering them Panel
Host: Digital Trade Alliance | Public Citizen
The more I know, the more I know I don’t know: a cross-community discussion of transparency best practices Community Lab
Host: Wikimedia Foundation | Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information | Next Billion Network
Workers of the world unite: collective bargaining on data rights Community Lab
Host: Aapti Institute | Center for Digital Commons | IT for Change | The Why Not Lab | Transnational Institute
Investor action on human rights and technology: integrated approach with civil society Community Lab
Host: Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR) | U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
The privatized panopticon: workers’ surveillance in the digital age Community Lab
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi) | Access Now
The zombie apocalypse of unsupported IoT devices, and what we should do about it Panel
Host: Consumer Reports | Sonos
What governance framework to minimise the environmental footprint of the digital transition Strategy Session
Host: Greens/EFA at the European Parliament
Surveillance capitalism meets extractivism: how ads online are killing the planet and the people Panel
Host: Greens/EFA at the European Parliament
Civil Society Resilience
Shared struggle: civic resilience in the crisis of the Hong Kong National Security Law Community Lab
Host: Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) | Civil Society Cyber Shield (CSCS) | Economic Democracy Union | Open Culture Foundation
A crucial gap: overcoming limits to official SDG data on attacks against defenders Community Lab
Host: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) | Defending Land and Environmental Defenders Coalition (DD Coalition) | International Land Coalition | World Resources Institute
Digital rights in Central Eastern Europe: building resilient civil society Community Lab
Host: Access Now | Civil Liberties Union for Europe
Organizing in exile Community Lab
Host: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Reshaping resistance and resilience in the Amazon: Indigenous and local peoples strategies to build power in COVID-19 times Community Lab
Host: Hivos | Digital Democracy (DD) | All Eyes on the Amazon Program | Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) | Union of People Affected by Texaco's Petroleum Operations (UDAPT)
Fostering civil society resilience through the Wikimedia projects: strategies of activism and internet decolonization Community Lab
Host: Wikimedia Argentina
Creating engaging campaigns: a holistic methodology to create impactful campaigns Community Lab
Host: Greenpeace International
Global South representation: organizing a movement across time zones Community Lab
Host: Next Billion Network
What’s next for the human rights movement? Panel
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
Digital civic space after the pandemic: challenges and opportunities for civil society Panel
Host: Office of Denmark's Tech Ambassador, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
From villages to cities: women in Sudan demand gender equality Lightning Talk
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network
Features of digital rights threats in the eastern part of Russia Lightning Talk
Host: International Human Rights Support
Digital intersectional care Lightning Talk
Host: Barracón Digital
Telegram: channels of mobilization and misinformation – lessons from Iran, Russia, Belarus, and Hong Kong Panel
Host: Access Now
Diversity and inclusion beyond youth tokenism Panel
Host: African Queer Youth Initiative | LGBT+ Rights Ghana | Success Capital Organisation
Land as a human right: technology for rights documentation and impact Panel
Host: Cadasta Foundation
Race and technology: a shared vision for a better future Panel
Host: Stanford University | Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Tibetan resistance: how a refugee community is leveraging tech to build resistance to a super power Panel
Host: Independent
Data points have feelings too: how we find the stories behind the statistics Panel
Host: Data4Change
Belarus 2020: the incredible story of public-private activism for democratic change Panel
Host: Freedom House
The threat of Big Tech and disinformation to social movements: from racial equality to climate to immigrant and gender rights Panel
Host: Friends of the Earth | MediaJustice
Fighting Tunisia’s social media police Panel
Host: Bloggeurs sans Chaines
Effective tools and tactics to build people power during COVID and beyond: training up our people Panel
Host: Social Movement Technologies | WoMin
Are we in this together? COVID-19 and digital rights in the MENA region Panel
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
Protecting your gatherings online: digitally-mediated assemblies and international law Panel
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) | International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
Storytelling for algorithmic change: how to use strategic communications to meet your policy goals Panel
Host: AI for the People
Enabling the enjoyment of digital rights in Africa Panel
Host: Paradigm Initiative
Risks, rights, and digital health: HIV, TB, and the law Panel
Host: The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Digital Health and Rights Project
Moving forward with providing affordable software to civil society in repressive countries Community Lab
Host: Access Now
So mainstream: new communities and creative approaches for popularizing digital rights advocacy Strategy Session
Host: Internews
Exploring intersectional partnerships between social justice and digital rights communities during the pandemic Strategy Session
Host: The Engine Room
Overcoming barriers to collaboration: how do we create, strengthen and diversify collective action to hold Big Tech accountable? Strategy Session
Host: Digital Action
Integrating technology into advocacy work: a fight for a just world for marginalized groups Strategy Session
Host: Harm Reduction International
Disrupting disinformation: trend facts without working on another social media toolkit again! Tech Demo
Host: Organiz
Silicon democracy or impossible futures? Care protocols for a better internet for all Community Lab
Host: Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU
Protest: your rights according to new international standards Lightning Talk
Host: CIVICUS
The anatomy of funding human rights technology Community Lab
Host: Open Tech Fund (OTF)
Gender based violence in our NGOs and advocacy spaces: let’s act! Community Lab
Host: Independent
Technologies for gender diversity: the impact of gender diverse leadership on the design of human rights technologies Panel
Host: Korea Future Initiative
International civil society organizations’ future: is there one? Community Lab
Host: Independent
Harvesting the potential of digital fundraising Panel
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) | International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
Building strategies to diversify funds: stories from organizations in the internet freedom community on developing different fundraising strategies Panel
Host: The Tor Project
Creating space to process trauma in human rights organizations and collectives Panel
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC) | Physicians for Human Rights | New York University, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Center (CHRGJ) | Videre est Credere
Why do organizations and sources still not use secure channels? 11 countries, 9 NGOs in Europe-wide project has some answers Panel
Host: Blueprint for Free Speech | Media Development Centre (Bulgaria) | Oziveni
Diversity of capital: building and nurturing digital rights ecosystems from the funders’ perspective Panel
Host: Luminate
An invitation to brave space: how we live our values in the work we do Strategy Session
Host: Independent
Starting small: designing tailor made interventions for activists’ well-being, sustaining motivation for changemaking Strategy Session
Host: Humans not Robots
Changing civil society structure to further equity Strategy Session
Host: Independent
Building a better normal: youth rising and civil society resilience Community Lab
Host: Accountability Lab | Global Fund for Children | Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Office for UN Affairs | World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
Spears and shields: how states weaponize the law to assault online freedom and where to go from here Panel
Host: ARTICLE 19 | International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) | Open Net Korea | ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) | International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) | Digital Rights Foundation
Online collaboration tools: which one is right for you? Panel
Host: Access Now | Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) | Front Line Defenders | IFEX
Content Governance
Disinformation, deplatforming, and human rights defenders and organizations: developing corrective guidelines for financial services companies Community Lab
Host: 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
Deframing disinformation: why we should include local communities to fight the information crisis Community Lab
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie
Gender and disinformation: towards a gender-based approach Community Lab
Host: Digital Rights Foundation | EU DisinfoLab
Must-carry? The pros and cons of requiring online services to carry all user speech: discussing litigation strategies and outcomes Community Lab
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) | Open Net Korea | Panoptykon Foundation
Alternative frameworks for sexual content moderation Community Lab
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India
Piloting responses to disinformation and anti-democratic narratives through a microenvironment Community Lab
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Content policy during COVID-19: an open discussion with Facebook Community Lab
Host: Facebook
One ring to rule them all: centralization and coordination of content moderation Community Lab
Host: Christchurch Call Advisory Network
Introducing the Digital Enquirer Kit! (e-learning resource) Community Lab
Host: Tactical Tech | Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Manipulated media, manipulated realities: confronting shallowfakes and deepfakes in a global context Community Lab
Host: WITNESS
Is disinformation the biggest risk to human rights and democracy? Community Lab
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
Would you take the case? Community Lab
Host: Facebook Oversight Board
High-profile figures, disintermediation, and responsibilities of online platforms Panel
Host: Forum on Information & Democracy
The rise of online censorship and surveillance in Myanmar Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Online hate, fake news, and the influence industry Lightning Talk
Host: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Censorship in the United States: the changing perspectives of anti-censorship institutions Lightning Talk
Host: The Society Library
Moderation and censorship in a decentralized world – personal, community, corporation, state: what scale? Lightning Talk
Host: La Quadrature du Net
Infocalypse or infotopia? Breaking down the binaries of deepfake technologies Lightning Talk
Host: University of Glasgow
Decoding the “community” in social media community standards Panel
Host: Breakthrough India | Breakthrough Trust
Taking stock of the Oversight Board’s first year Panel
Host: Independent
“I know it when I see it”: the limits of a “coordinated inauthentic behavior” policy in the Global South Panel
Host: Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio)
Content moderation counterfactuals and the right to health Panel
Host: Meedan
Free speech gatekeepers in the Middle East: automation, content moderation, and the power to delete Panel
Host: New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI) | Middle East Institute
Misinformation, disinformation, and the pandemic in MENA Panel
Host: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Out of site, out of mind? How platform regulation can better protect the human rights of non-users Panel
Host: University of California, Irvine, Human Rights and Social Media Initiative, Irvine School of Law
Authenticity infrastructure against mis/disinformation: what’s that, who’s it for, what are the risks and benefits? Panel
Host: WITNESS
Online freedom under attack: weaponizing misinformation, disinformation, and “fake news” for censorship in Southeast Asia Panel
Host: ALTSEAN-Burma | Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) | Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) | Manushya Foundation | PEN Myanmar | Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet)
PortalCheck: Creating new alliances to counter mis/disinformation Panel
Host: UNESCO | CHEQUEADO - LatamChequea
Content moderation under pressure: social media between authoritarian internet governance and human rights responsibilities Panel
Host: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Content moderation, accountability, and transparency: experiences across the internet stack Panel
Host: Internet Society (ISOC) | TikTok
Code of conduct for social media platforms established by enforcement agencies: a debate on the legislative solution proposed for Brazil Panel
Host: ARTICLE 19 Brazil and South America
Translating human rights into content moderation rules: the role of private companies, international organizations, and civil society Panel
Host: Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE)
Misinformation as a state strategy: Venezuela and Latin America Panel
Host: EsPaja | ProBox
Aligning content moderation with human rights principles Panel
Host: Facebook Oversight Board
Moving forward: guiding principles on diversity of content online Strategy Session
Host: Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage
Section 230 reform Strategy Session
Host: Access Now | Free Press Unlimited
How we are tracking (and explaining) every change Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube make to their community standards Tech Demo
Host: Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE) | Linterna Verde
Citizen browser: observing the digital public square in real time Tech Demo
Host: The Markup
“Europe fit for the digital age”: regional regulation, global impact? Panel
Host: ICANN
Collaborative responses to health information inequities online: bridging the right to health and the right to information Community Lab
Host: Meedan | Maternal Figures
Artists as terrorists? The global threat of anti-terror legislation to artistic freedom Panel
Host: Freemuse
Challenging terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet: lessons learned in GIFCT and Christchurch Call Panel
Host: Mnemonic | Christchurch Call Advisory Network
Silencing the silenced? The impact of takedown legislations on civil liberties and victims of human rights abuses Panel
Host: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Future of Free Speech Project | Justitia
Let’s talk and think strategies to counteract abusive IP content moderation online! Community Lab
Host: Fundación Vía Libre
Legalize file sharing! The case of European citizen initiative “Freedom to Share” Lightning Talk
Host: Freedom to Share
Upload filters for copyright enforcement take over the world! Connecting struggles in the EU, US, and Latin America Panel
Host: Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte | Communia Association for the Public Domain
Copyright: the “double-edged sword” for human rights Panel
Host: ARTICLE 19 | GitHub | Human Rights Watch
Censors hate this one weird trick: whipping up censorship-resistant apps in a jiffy with appmaker Tech Demo
Host: GreatFire
Contemplating content moderation: perspectives from Africa Community Lab
Host: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) | Open Internet for Democracy Initiative | Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) | Monash University | Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
Content moderation on the internet: let’s play “Social Media Against Humanity” Open Spaces
Host: Embajadores de Internet
Data Protection
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK): our saviour from environmental catastrophe Strategy Session
Host: Open Development Initiative (ODI) | Colegio de Postgraduados
Surveying the harms: algorithmic fairness and demographic data Community Lab
Host: Partnership on AI (PAI)
Data protection legislations for law enforcement: multiregional perspectives for regulating data protection in criminal procedures Community Lab
Host: Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN)
Policy+: repairing our open data infrastructures to support equitable health futures Community Lab
Host: Open Data Charter | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Creating change with 64,000 data points: how can the global data barometer be a platform for better data governance? Community Lab
Host: Data for Development | Global Data Barometer
Human-centric personal data management and sharing in the Global South: the roadmap Community Lab
Host: Afroleadership | MyData Hub Cameroon
Data citizenship: developing citizens data literacies in the age of dis- and misinformation Lightning Talk
Host: Liverpool University | Nuffield Foundation
Digital afterlife in the Global South: emergence of a new colonial era? Lightning Talk
Host: Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Data and social justice, data, and social protection: the Bolsa Família case Lightning Talk
Host: InternetLab
Colombian COVID apps: what not to do! A non-intrusive analysis and advocacy work from civil society Lightning Talk
Host: Fundación Karisma
Participatory data governance: citizen rights, access, and control over data Lightning Talk
Host: Ada Lovelace Institute
“Who is your biggest competitor?” Between data portability and the social media monopoly Lightning Talk
Host: Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio)
The uncounted: politics of data, visibility and health access Lightning Talk
Host: The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Digital Health and Rights Project
After the pandemic: the age of privacy Lightning Talk
Host: Cisco
The GDPR: a paper tiger? Who will make data protection a reality in the EU? Panel
Host: Access Now
Exposing and challenging the “new normal”: the democratic fightback for our data and digital rights post-COVID Panel
Host: Foxglove | openDemocracy
When states of emergency collide: COVID-19, counter-terrorism, and transnational data flows Panel
Host: AWO Agency | Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
“Direct access”: definitions, demands, and data Panel
Host: Global Network Initiative (GNI)
Data protection in the MENA region: lessons learned from GDPR and how it might be adapted Panel
Host: 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
Whose data is it anyway? Challenges and opportunities for gender inclusive digital rights in Africa Panel
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) | Computational Propaganda Project
We are the map Panel
Host: The Firelight Group | Mapbox
Track my period..not my data! Making femtech accountable Strategy Session
Host: IT for Change | Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Children and adolescent privacy and data protection rights: we do it together! Strategy Session
Host: JAAKLAC initiative
Open data and human rights for women and persons with disabilities Strategy Session
Host: Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) | Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI)
Open data is dead! Tech Demo
Host: Dataful
Where do we say no? Proposing peremptory norms for technology Lightning Talk
Host: Tilburg University, Global Data Justice Project
Green and open recovery: how open data can help make COVID-19 recovery more sustainable? Strategy Session
Host: Open Data Charter
Building Afrofeminist data futures Community Lab
Host: Pollicy
Blood, fire, or oil: how should we think about data? Strategy Session
Host: Future Narratives Lab
Digital colonialism? Re-thinking metaphors and practices in a context of cyber power Community Lab
Host: University of Duisburg-Essen, Centre for Global Cooperation Research | Universidad de San Andrés, Centro de Tecnologia y Sociedad (CETyS)
Giving people control and consent over their wearable data shouldn’t be like climbing Mt. Everest Community Lab
Host: IEEE Standards Association
The rising of techno authoritarianism: when the use and employment of technology is used to violate rights Panel
Host: Data Privacy Brasil Research Association
Robocop is here: new horizons in ICE, policing, and tech surveillance Strategy Session
Host: Grassroots Leadership | Just Futures Law | Mijente
Data against feminicide Community Lab
Host: Latin American Open Data Initative (ILDA) | Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) | UNIDAS Women's Network
Data protection from the inside: value-based data practices for civil society Community Lab
Host: Tactical Tech | The Engine Room
Digital Security for Communities
Thinking about safeguards for the information security community: criminalization of infosec in Latin America – case studies Strategy Session
Host: Fundación Vía Libre
Queer protests: digital and physical protests with a digital focus Lightning Talk
Host: IPANDETEC | Fundación Iguales
We keep us safe: an Indigenized guide to reproductive justice and cyber safety Community Lab
Host: Indigenous Women Rising
Localization Lab glossary jam: localizing technical terminology for end users Community Lab
Host: Localization Lab
Ending the war: moving from an adversarial to a solidarity based digital security approach Community Lab
Host: Fundación Karisma | Information Ecology
Online digital safety audit, response, and training in the time of COVID Community Lab
Host: SecDev Foundation
Digital Wellness Check: a human-centered design approach to digital security Community Lab
Host: Center for Digital Resilience
Post-training mess: when digital security trainings do more harm than good Lightning Talk
Host: Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Counting on the cloud? Designing secure storage solutions that human rights defenders will use and trust Lightning Talk
Host: Least Authority
Cyber security awareness training 2.0: a continuous micro-learning approach Lightning Talk
Host: Volunteer Activists
How to make digital security more fun? With the EmPower Ranger! Lightning Talk
Host: RedesAyuda
Digital security: perspective from margins Panel
Host: Body & Data
How to stay safe online in a weak cybersecurity and privacy environment: examples from Lebanon Panel
Host: Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
How to respond to advanced digital threats against civil society? A panel hosted by the computer incident response network CiviCERT Panel
Host: Access Now | Internews | Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) | Front Line Defenders | Fundación Karisma | Mnemonic | Greenhost | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) | TibCERT
Recording digital security incidents as a practice to mitigate risks faced by human rights defenders in Latin America Panel
Host: Sursiendo
Co-designing digital security resources in Indigenous languages Panel
Host: Internews | Rising Voices Global Voices
Human rights abuses on the internet in restricted civic spaces Panel
Host: CIVICUS | Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica
Building a security practitioner’s toolkit for social revolts Strategy Session
Host: The Engine Room
How to learn about digital security remotely during pandemic with courses that fit your context? The case of Central America Tech Demo
Host: Free Press Unlimited | Greenhost | The Totem Project
The use of games and gamification in digital security education for African women Tech Demo
Host: Pollicy
Identifying and reporting phishing with phishDetect Tech Demo
Host: Amnesty International
CybResilio: putting individuals in the driving seat towards their cyber resilience Tech Demo
Host: United Nations University (UNU), Institute in Macau
Building a digital safety portal for the MENA region Tech Demo
Host: Jordan Open Source Association
Introducing the new SAFETAG interface! Tech Demo
Host: Internews
How to model threats using user personas, organizational archetypes, and adversary archetypes Community Lab
Host: Internews
Support, help, care, and resistance: what we pandemic has taught us Panel
Host: Vita-Activa.org
Digital security and data privacy to tackle OGBV and safeguard women’s and children’s rights online in Uganda Strategy Session
Host: Digital Human Rights Lab | Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Reflecting on experiences of psychosocial care and comprehensive security in Central America Panel
Host: Fundación Acceso
Freedom of the Media
Rebalancing the internet economy: a closer look at Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code Panel
Host: Digital Rights Watch
Pandemic, policy, and the press: balancing public health interventions and freedom of expression Strategy Session
Host: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) | Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), TrustLaw
The intersection of data, tech, and journalism: augmenting artificial intelligence and machine learning with cross-border investigations Lightning Talk
Host: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
What we’ve learned in four years of documenting attacks on the US press Lightning Talk
Host: Freedom of the Press Foundation | U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Safety of female journalists online: 40 proposed actions for 10 key actors Lightning Talk
Host: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What is the importance of Adivasi Awaaz? Lightning Talk
Host: Adivasi Lives Matter
The new real estate moguls: using open source data to track organized crime’s infiltration into the legal economy Lightning Talk
Host: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
The power of fact-checkers Lightning Talk
Host: Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)
Media viability and press freedom: towards actionable policy recommendations to support news media viability in East Africa Panel
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie | Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications
The challenges of authoritarianism: keeping investigative journalism alive Panel
Host: Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)
Freedom of media in the times of corporatisation Panel
Host: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
Investigations in the Arab world: new challenges and emerging trends Panel
Host: Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)
Cover digital rights beyond Silicon Valley Panel
Host: Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)
Women journalists and the double bind: the link between online harassment and self-censorship Panel
Host: Media Matters for Democracy
Walking the woke talk: the business of diversity in media Panel
Host: Chambal Media
Autocratic copycats? Russia and Turkey stifle social media Panel
Host: Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF)
COLAB MEDIOS Project’s transatlantic independent media exchange: lessons learned from a pioneer network between Central America and Eastern Europe Panel
Host: Free Press Unlimited
Improving the relationship between whistleblowers and the media Panel
Host: Alley | The Signals Network
Banned from in-country reporting? Bring the audience into the newsroom Strategy Session
Host: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Journalists in the meme arena Strategy Session
Host: Meedan | El Surti | Sembramedia
How can we help the good guys? Disinformation on some and the plight of delivering good journalism Strategy Session
Host: International Media Support (IMS)
Everyone is a journalist Strategy Session
Host: mySociety
Tracking forced migration in global media: evaluating narrative frames with media cloud Tech Demo
Host: Columbia University, Digital Scholarship
Got a leak? Analyze millions of documents efficiently and securely with ICIJ’s free, open-source datashare software Tech Demo
Host: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Press freedom in hindsight: understanding the long term impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on press freedom Panel
Host: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Media censorship in times of #MeToo Lightning Talk
Host: Volcánicas Magazine
Offering whistleblowers a secure channel: fighting for freedom of speech with technology Tech Demo
Host: Tutanota
Understanding Hong Kong’s political atmosphere post-National Security Law Lightning Talk
Host: Human Rights Foundation (HRF)
Futures, Fictions, and Frontiers
Tech that tracks your emotions: exploring the capabilities, boundaries, and risks in the growing world of affective tech Panel
Host: BSR
Demystifying AI: comics as a vehicle for public education Community Lab
Host: New York University, Center for Responsible AI (R/AI)
Reset rewind: building agency toward the future by looking at the present as if it were the past Community Lab
Host: Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN) | Youth SIG (Youth Observatory), ISOC
Beyond censorship: digital artivism in the LGBTI community Community Lab
Host: Freemuse
1Up! Video game policy: tools to level up your activism Community Lab
Host: Internews | Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Activism at the intersection of art, society and the spirit: a unique way of connecting change-makers with decision-makers Panel
Host: International Human Rights Art Festival
Pop up tech: CyborgFeminista – art and digital rights in Latin America Lightning Talk
Host: TEDIC
Power to the people – using radio storytelling to advance privacy: results from an experiment in South Asia Lightning Talk
Host: Omidyar Network
Speculative design in government: practical applications of futurism in service design Lightning Talk
Host: Code for Canada | Government of Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Art and documentation for empowering minority voices Strategy Session
Host: Informal Platform of Women of Caucasus (WSolidarity), Russia | Network of OHCHR Former Minority Fellows | Spotlight Team International Art (STIA) | Zariya: Women's Alliance for Dignity and Equality
Securing inclusive next frontier technologies that connect the remaining billions Panel
Host: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
Playful primer for a brave new world: how XR and play can promote children’s digital rights Community Lab
Host: Dodo Laboratory
XR for everyone: questions, challenges, and solutions in support of accessible XR Panel
Host: Future of Privacy Forum
Immersive inclusion: using the power of AR/VR for good in DEI Panel
Host: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
As AR/VR becomes a reality, it needs a human rights framework Strategy Session
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mixnets for anonymous communication on quantum networks: near-future promise and peril in Colombia Strategy Session
Host: Center for Quantum Networks
Artficial intelligence: ethics and aesthetics of computer creativity and intellectual property Panel
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | AI Impact Alliance
Choose your own (ad)venture! A strategy session on how digital violence affects queer people, and our strategies of resistance Open Spaces
Host: Point of View
Can you explain how the internet really works? Open Spaces
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Look into the Glass Room misinformation edition! An art exhibition by Tactical Tech Open Spaces
Host: Tactical Tech
Collapse is here, the internet is dead: what would you save? Open Spaces
Host: Independent
Gaza in color: a workshop with Gaza artists! Open Spaces
Host: Rebuilding Alliance | Shababik Windows for Contemporary Art
Tell me a story about the future: a fiction workshop to imagine the tech in our lives Open Spaces
Host: Derechos Digitales
Governance and Elections
Forging a global norm for governments to do human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) when they regulate or use digital technologies Community Lab
Host: Microsoft
Identifying barriers and solutions to sustaining and scaling local innovations Community Lab
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI)
The faith of EOM’s reports? How can we improve future elections through the use of past electoral observation recommendations? Community Lab
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI)
The role of government institutions protecting and defending digital rights Community Lab
Host: ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America | SocialTIC | Mexico City's Human Rights and Journalist Protection Mechanism
We the Peoples: on the road towards a United Nations World Citizens’ Initiative Lightning Talk
Host: Democracy International | Democracy Without Borders
Digital voter suppression and its future impact on elections Lightning Talk
Host: Stop Online Violence Against Women
Elections and dark PR in Sub-Saharan Africa Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Solving the gatekeeper problem: how to democratize access to run for office in the US Lightning Talk
Host: NationBuilder | RunForOffice.org
The charter of human rights and principles for the internet at 10: fostering synergies to better promote human rights online Lightning Talk
Host: Internet Rights and Principles Coalition
Blending high and low tech approaches for citizen participation from rural and Indigenous communities Panel
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI)
Is America back? Scoring Biden’s tech and human rights agenda in year one Panel
Host: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator
Digital meets election: Myanmar’s tested model of digital risk mitigation Panel
Host: Myanmar Tech Accountability Network (MTAN)
Digital rights and Iran’s 2021 presidential election: what’s next? Panel
Host: Filterwatch
Putting human rights at the heart of development cooperation: digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa Panel
Host: Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
Vote of online confidence Panel
Host: Independent
Elections in the digital age: internet freedom, impacts of social media, and where we go from here Panel
Host: Freedom House
Connected to combat misinformation and fake news during the elections: Ecuador case Panel
Host: Usuarios Digitales
Fighting together: comprehensive strategies and democractic tools to combat disinfo Panel
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI) | International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
The use of personal voters’ data in elections in Eastern Europe Panel
Host: Independent
Spotlight on digital authoritarianism Panel
Host: Concordia University, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Ballots, bots, and BS: how to restore trust in American elections Panel
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
The digital with purpose movement: using technology to drive positive, measurable impact for rights and sustainability Panel
Host: Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
Human rights due diligence at the UN and beyond: the way forward Strategy Session
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Bridging the data protection gap in elections: global tools to data-driven campaigns Strategy Session
Host: InternetLab | Privacy International
Out-of-date: modernizing UN аdvocacy by empowering underrepresented voices Strategy Session
Host: Small Media Foundation
Back to the 90s: how misinformation may lead Brazil back to paper ballots in 2022 Strategy Session
Host: Instituto Liberdade Digital
Transparent representation: an open-source ecosystem for political accountability Tech Demo
Host: Independent
Project lockdown: keeping your rights unlocked Tech Demo
Host: The IO Foundation
Political campaigns amid the pandemic: increasing transparency in social media Tech Demo
Host: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
Digital constitutionalism database: mapping attempts to setting rights for the digital age Tech Demo
Host: Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) | Working Group on Digital Constitutionalism
Building a rights-respecting model of digital sovereignty Panel
Host: PEN America | Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Center for Technology and Society (CTS) | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), São Paulo Law School (DIREITO SP)
The role of digital citizenship in building a safe and inclusive Internet Strategy Session
Host: Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA) | Facebook
Come play Democracy Dixit! Help us dream up a better world and the path to getting there Open Spaces
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI) | National Democratic Institute (NDI) | Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Human Rights-Centered Design
Designing for language accessibility: making usable technologies for non-left to right languages Community Lab
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Localization Lab | Jordan Open Source Association | Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
Launching the Co/Act toolkit: a DIY approach to develop your next digital product, service, or campaign Community Lab
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Making voices heard: rights-based design of voice interfaces Community Lab
Host: Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India
Smash the borders, build bridges: synthesizing strategies to center human rights in digital rights tech development Community Lab
Host: EngageMedia
Strategic foresight: seeing programmers as frontline human and digital rights workers and civil society engagement with technical standards development Community Lab
Host: The IO Foundation | Human First Tech
Earth Defenders toolkit: an open-source collection of tools and training materials for frontline communities to defend their rights Community Lab
Host: Digital Democracy (DD)
There’s no word for that: design, translation, and natural language processing Lightning Talk
Host: Access Now
The Turing Way: building a collaborative guide to ethical data science Lightning Talk
Host: Alan Turing Institute
Defining the defaults Lightning Talk
Host: GitLab
Nothing about us without us: introduction to accessible design Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Safety by design: protecting and empowering citizens by integrating safety and inclusivity into business models and investments Lightning Talk
Host: Australia eSafety Commissioner
When social media hurts: an approach to seizure-generating content Lightning Talk
Host: DALAT | Espacio Epilepsia
In defense of non-experts and lived experiences Lightning Talk
Host: Women in AI Ethics
How to combat dark patterns and advancing human rights through design Panel
Host: Access Now | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Convocation Design + Research
Design from the margins Panel
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Building a responsible innovation practice: building from the ground up Panel
Host: Facebook | Article One Advisors
People-centered care: exploring human rights integration in digital health product and service design Strategy Session
Host: Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) | STOPAIDS
User insights without user surveillance: the clean insights approach to privacy-respecting analytics Strategy Session
Host: Internews | Okthanks
Design best practices: creating standards that center security and marginalized voices Strategy Session
Host: Independent
Illustrating issues: visual strategies for communicating problems and tool-making Strategy Session
Host: Independent
Build better: rethinking gender-responsive tech design Strategy Session
Host: The Engine Room | IT for Change | A+Alliance
Digital inclusion for developing countries Strategy Session
Host: Studio Analogous | Digital Ecosystems for Development (India)
Interrelated, indivisible, and interdependent: designing for children’s rights online Community Lab
Host: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
The potential of new technologists, not just new technologies: democratizing design in humanitarian contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic Strategy Session
Host: International Development Innovation Network (IDIN)
ICT accessibility: thinking digital environments in terms of accessibility Community Lab
Host: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) | El Rinconcito Inclusivo
From accessibility to inclusion: interdisciplinary design Panel
Host: Independent | Internews | Accessibility Lab
Internet Shutdowns and Disruptions
The High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom: launch of the report on internet shutdowns and access bans Panel
Host: International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
Prepare, prevent, resist: a guide for internet shutdown advocacy strategy and resilience Community Lab
Host: Internews
Digital apartheid and human rights violations Community Lab
Host: Digital Rights Kashmir
Navigating internet disruptions: a guide to VPN Lightning Talk
Host: Open Tech Fund (OTF) | TunnelBear
When the facts go offline: information blackouts during internet shutdowns Panel
Host: Access Now | Meedan
Amplifying the human impact of internet shutdowns: why it matters Panel
Host: Access Now | Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Ending internet shutdowns during peaceful protests: the path forward Panel
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Confronting threats from all sides: building the anti-censorship ecosystem Panel
Host: Internews | Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Guardian Project
How we learn from internet shutdowns: monitoring and response Panel
Host: Human Constanta
The impact of strategic litigation on internet shutdowns Strategy Session
Host: Access Now | Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)
Who are the perpetrators of internet shutdowns: what we documented in 2020 and beyond Strategy Session
Host: Access Now
Measuring internet disruptions during elections (and other political events) Strategy Session
Host: Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | University of California, San Diego, Centre for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
Voicing the shutdowns Strategy Session
Host: Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in)
Internet society measurements platform: a curated resource on internet shutdowns and enabling technologies Tech Demo
Host: Internet Society (ISOC)
Understanding internet censorship data through OONI Explorer Tech Demo
Host: Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
Weaponizing censorship infrastructure Lightning Talk
Host: University of Maryland
Myanmar’s post-coup internet: citizens responding to crisis Panel
Host: The SecDev Foundation
Online Hate and Violence
A public health approach to the CSAM problem: looking beyond internet platform regulation Community Lab
Host: Prostasia Foundation
Using human-centered design thinking to tackle online gender-based violence Panel
Host: World Wide Web Foundation
Reimagining reporting harm on social media platforms Community Lab
Host: Meedan | PEN America
Feminist solutions to online violence: legal and policy reform, community responses, care and resistance, and other models Community Lab
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Feminist Internet Research Network
Survivor-centric design for tackling technology-facilitated gender violence: test our new model! Community Lab
Host: Chayn | End Cyber Abuse
“But we’re on the same side!”: How tools to fight extremism can harm counterspeech Community Lab
Host: Independent
Report post: online gender-based violence during the pandemic in Central America Community Lab
Host: IPANDETEC | Centro Latam Digital
Girls and women at the crossroads of freedom of expression: participation, development and the digital divide Community Lab
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
Moderate locally, impact globally: the security risks of anti-Roma hate speech and incitement to hatred online Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Who owns this body? A South and youth perspective on non-consensual dissemination of intimate images Lightning Talk
Host: Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Study Group on Copyright and Industrial Rights (GEDAI)
Beyond blocking and reporting: how can empathy and bystander intervention create a safer online space Lightning Talk
Host: Breakthrough India
Deadly omissions: why your threat modelling needs to include survivors of gender-based violence Panel
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) | Chayn | Sexual Violence Law Center | University of Washington
Human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and the internet: interventions from Vietnam and Thailand Panel
Host: SecDev Foundation
Are girls free to be online? When social media giants listen to girls themselves Panel
Host: Plan International
Harassment of Indigenous rights activists: the digital front Panel
Host: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact | International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
The GLAAD LGBTQ social media safety index: a call for platform responsibility Panel
Host: GLAAD
The impact of online hate speech on the queer community in the MENA region Panel
Host: Mawjoudin Initiative for Equality
When thousands respond to online hatred – in organized groups Panel
Host: Dangerous Speech Project
Leveraging social work and health practices to combat violent extremism online Panel
Host: Government of Canada, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence | Government of Canada, Public Safety Canada
[email protected]: an East African network fights online violence against women Panel
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie
Gender-based violence in Latin America: from the streets to the internet Panel
Host: Fundación Avina
Shaping digital spaces: technology solutions to keep children and young people safe online Panel
Host: Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
Supporting a safer internet: global survey of gender-based violence online Panel
Host: Centre for International Governance Innovation
The way you see your wor(l)ds: fighting against gender-based violence online Strategy Session
Host: Youth SIG (Youth Observatory), ISOC | Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG) | Queer in AI
Feminist communications strategy design rooted on five cases of gender-based violence online Strategy Session
Host: Hiperderecho
Reflections on digital gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19 Strategy Session
Host: Point of View
Are there universal trends in hate speech? Examining online hate speech as a global phenomenon Tech Demo
Host: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
A citizen linguist lab to detect hate speech: evaluating online harms and digital rights violations Strategy Session
Host: The Sentinel Project
Peace, Conflict, and Justice
An independent mechanism for investigators and researchers to access social media content related to serious crimes Community Lab
Host: Human Rights Watch | Mnemonic
“Hey you, stop filming!”: defending smartphone witnessing and the right to record globally – what do we need to do? Community Lab
Host: WITNESS
Litigating COVID-19: contact tracing apps, immunity passports, disinformation, and more Panel
Host: Access Now
Seek Initiative: empowering citizen investigators Community Lab
Host: Tactical Tech | Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) | Correctiv | Dig Lab Foundation
Online investigation planning: assessing the digital landscape Panel
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC)
Why women’s prisons in Sudan are overpopulated? Lightning Talk
Host: Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sudan (OHCHR Sudan) | People's Legal Aid Centre (PLACE)
Police, law enforcement, and data protection: regulating investigations for the procedural justice and as a fundamental human rights of citizens Lightning Talk
Host: Data Privacy Brasil Research Association
Not always rosy: promise and perils of digital rights litigation in the Global South Panel
Host: Omidyar Network | Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI)
Creating change remotely: the power of diaspora activists Panel
Host: Syrians for Truth and Justice | The Advocates for Human Rights
Investigating the crisis in Xinjiang Panel
Host: Independent
Police misconduct: from data to accountability Panel
Host: Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)
Syria: the most documented conflict in history and how tech is pursuing justice Panel
Host: Human Rights Foundation (HRF) | The Syria Campaign (TSC)
Tackling the information gap: how frontline agencies use technology to build the evidence base on human trafficking and modern slavery Panel
Host: International Organization for Migration (IOM) | The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
Citizen-led investigations, community-based governance, and effective dialogue with international mechanisms: challenges of evidence collection when state-based investigations are inadequate Panel
Host: Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)
The anatomy of a visual investigation: innovation in human rights and investigative reporting Panel
Host: Independent
Decolonizing journocoding and open source investigation: how to build an open yet safe, nourished but fresh investigation community in Latin America Strategy Session
Host: Codeando México | Data Crítica
JusticeAI: an AI-enabled digital platform to sort and analyze evidence of human rights abuses and war crimes Tech Demo
Host: Benetech
Bayanat: an open-source data management solution for human rights documentation Tech Demo
Host: Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)
Uwazi: where we’re at and where we’re headed Tech Demo
Host: HURIDOCS
Ending impunity through an app? Using innovative and award-winning technology to bring perpetrators of grave crimes to justice Tech Demo
Host: eyeWitness to Atrocities
Save by OpenArchive, a participatory demo for journalists and newsrooms: share, archive, verify, encrypt – secure preservation for evidentiary media Tech Demo
Host: OpenArchive
Hard truths and tangled threads: the agony and ecstasy of the global apparel business Lightning Talk
Host: Transparentem
The role of MENA fact-checking platforms in curbing online hate speech and violence in conflict zones Panel
Host: Kashef | Verify Syria
Technological testing grounds: migration management experiments, visual representation, and reflections from the ground up Community Lab
Host: Migration and Technology Monitor
Stakeholders partnership for peaceful communities Community Lab
Host: Denis Miki Foundation | Coalition Peace | Young Peace Builders
Centering the migrant rights movement: fostering collaboration between experts and frontline activists Panel
Host: Open Society Foundations (OSF)
Social media as a digital conflict driver: what to learn and ways to intervene Panel
Host: Build Up
The internet powered Sudan’s revolution, but can it bring about transitional justice? Lessons from Sudan Panel
Host: Gisa Group | Sudanese Archive | Syrian Archive
Internet freedoms in times of conflict: balancing human rights and national security in Ukraine and Armenia Panel
Host: Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Mediating the digital age – integrating social media into peace agreements Strategy Session
Host: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Female, male, divers? Battling in courts across Europe for the recognition of third gender options Panel
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) | Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte | The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World)
The role of social media in peace processes Panel
Host: Mediation Support Unit, UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Privacy and Surveillance
What comes after digital identity? Digital public goods and data infrastructures Community Lab
Host: Rethink Aadhaar
Normalizing surveillance to promote public health: the rise of contact tracing apps Panel
Host: Surveillance Technology Oversight Project ("S.T.O.P.")
Exporting digital threats to democracy: regulating tech platforms abroad and its impact in Africa Panel
Host: Lawyers Hub Kenya
Giving people security and anonymity: Ricochet Refresh and the Tor ecosystem – how can we help? Tech Demo
Host: Ricochet Refresh Project
The oceans and maritime space as the new frontier to defend human rights in the expansion of counter-terrorism domains Panel
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism | Privacy International
Made abroad, deployed at home: holding companies accountable for the sale of mass surveillance technologies in Latin America Community Lab
Host: Access Now | Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN) | Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) | La Libre
(De)facing surveillance: mapping the chilling effect Community Lab
Host: Amnesty International
How to work with a broken tool: opportunities and challenges for civil society under the new EU surveillance export regulation Community Lab
Host: CAUSE (Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports)
Every breath you take…they’ll be watching: unpacking a rights-based discourse of privacy in Asia Community Lab
Host: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
Surveilling protest: how do we protect the right to peaceful assembly and association in the age of mass surveillance? Community Lab
Host: Access Now
Litigating the unlawful use of surveillance technologies and unfair discrimination in Africa Lightning Talk
Host: ALT Advisory | Global Human Rights Clinic
Invading refugees’ phones: digital forms of migration control and human rights litigation in Germany Lightning Talk
Host: Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte
e-Proctoring: encouraging education or normalizing surveillance? A Latin American perspective Lightning Talk
Host: Independent
Socio-technical, digital transitions in smart cities: the role of surveillance in creating safe cities for women Lightning Talk
Host: Tandem Research
“Who watches the watchers?”: findings from the UK Citizens’ Biometrics Council Lightning Talk
Host: Ada Lovelace Institute
Technopolice: tools to fight surveillance cities for everyone Lightning Talk
Host: La Quadrature du Net
An almost normal life in COVID-19: real-name policy and electronic surveillance Lightning Talk
Host: Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)
Sunlight in state-tech: just how much do we know about government procurement of digital ID and AI in Africa? Panel
Host: Omidyar Network | Africa Freedom of Information Centre
Digital ID: what is it good for? Lessons from our research on Uganda’s identification system and access to social rights Panel
Host: Unwanted Witness | New York University, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Center (CHRGJ), Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project
Flight BAN-1984 is ready for take-off: join the global movement to ban facial recognition surveillance! Panel
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Student privacy through a lens of community engagement Panel
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Balancing privacy and public health in digital contact tracing in the APAC region Panel
Host: Open Net Korea
Biometric wall: the use and abuse of surveillance technology in the Central and Northern American migration context Panel
Host: Derechos Digitales | R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Surveillance tech and COVID-19: one year on, how effective have these tools been? Panel
Host: International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO)
COVID-19 apps: the good, the bad, and the ugly Panel
Host: Freedom House | Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) | RosKomSvoboda
Preserving human rights and saving lives: the opportunities and challenges of digital technologies in the South Korean response to COVID-19 Panel
Host: Human Asia | Korea University, International Human Rights Center
COVID-19 observatory: the good, the ugly, and the challenges around using technologies to control the pandemic in Latin America Panel
Host: Al Sur
COVID-19 pandemic and data protection in East Africa: striking the right balance between public health and protecting fundamental rights Panel
Host: Independent
Protecting human rights defenders and activists: coalition to ban dual use cybersecurity technology in repressive governments Strategy Session
Host: Access Now | Gulf Centre for Human Rights
Facial recognition and the private sector: strategies to protect civil and consumer rights Strategy Session
Host: Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (IDEC)
Surveillance pandemic: deployment of COVID monitoring solutions in Latin America Strategy Session
Host: Coalizão Direitos na Rede
The battle against facial recognition in Latin America: how’s it going? Strategy Session
Host: Derechos Digitales | R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Biometric panacea? Resisting immunity surveillance in digital identification Strategy Session
Host: University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Beyond watching the watchers: government misuse of surveillance technology and how to stop it through multistakeholder collaboration Strategy Session
Host: U.S. Department of State
The high cost of free: what websites know about you, and what you can do about it Tech Demo
Host: The Markup
Indigenous surveillance: how digital technologies are used to surveil Indigenous communities and land defenders in the Americas Tech Demo
Host: Independent
Solitude: a privacy analysis tool Tech Demo
Host: NCC Group
Urban futures: collective action towards humane digital cities Community Lab
Host: Hivos | Experimentalista | Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | The Edgelands Institute
States in Cyberspace
Cybernorms: do they hold up IRL (in real-life)? Community Lab
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Research ICT Africa | Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India | Global Partners Digital (GPD)
The common trends in undermining strong encryption across the world: how can civil society organizations fight back? Community Lab
Host: Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in)
Channel your inner cyberpunk to help us end cyberattacks on infrastructure Community Lab
Host: Digital Peace Now
How to protect civil society under heavy state-sponsored cyber attacks during the war: experience of Armenia Lightning Talk
Host: CyberHUB-AM
Routing security as a cyber norm Lightning Talk
Host: Internet Society (ISOC)
Fighting the new online cyber crimes against humanity Panel
Host: Independent
Playing by the rules: how to rein in nation-state cyber activity Panel
Host: Cybersecurity Tech Accord
United front: multistakeholder deterrence in cyberspace Panel
Host: Microsoft
Countering the crackdown on digital space in the MENA region through strategic litigation Strategy Session
Host: Access Now | MENA Rights Group
What is past is prologue: safeguarding rights in international efforts to fight cybercrime Strategy Session
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Human Rights Watch