Deadline: 13-Jan-22
The RightsCon Program is now open for leaders and advocates around the world.
RightsCon equips session organizers to build skills, networks, and strategies for action. You’ll receive resources and training to increase your facilitative leadership, and opportunities to connect with other organizers before the summit starts.
RightsCon’s global platform can raise the profile of your work and provide direct access to thousands of participants with the power and expertise to take your ideas to the next level.
Categories
The RightsCon 2022 Call for Proposals will support 18 program categories. The categories help their team review and compare proposals on similar or related topics, and inform the final program tracks that participants can use to navigate the schedule:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business, Labor, and Trade
- Civil Society Resistance and Resilience
- Content Governance
- Data Protection
- Digital Security for Communities
- Futures, Fictions, and Frontiers
- Global Cyber Norms
- Governance and Elections
- Human Rights-Centered Design
- Internet Access, Education, and Inclusion
- Internet Shutdowns and Disruptions
- Investigation, Documentation, and the Media
- Justice and Jurisdiction
- Online Hate and Violence
- Organizational Capacity and Resources
- Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Action
- Privacy and Surveillance
What’s new for RightsCon 2022?
The RightsCon 2022 program will introduce two new session formats to the Call for Proposals: social hours and private meetings.
- Social hours are hosted in an integrated networking platform, which seeks to replicate the coffee breaks and hallway conversations of an in-person summit. The format features an informal, self-directed space where our community can connect, form partnerships, meet with experts, and share ideas.
- Private meetings are closed-door and invite-only sessions, capped at 25 participants. The format is ideal for cross-sector coordination around current policies, projects, and initiatives, and provides a unique opportunity to secure commitments from key stakeholders
What Topics does the Program Cover?
- The program is broad in scope and supports many topics of continued importance for the community, including data protection, artificial intelligence, privacy and surveillance, content governance, digital security, connectivity, business and labor practices, and cyber norms.
- They also look for new issues to place on the agenda and prompt exploration. In recent years, they have introduced streams on human rights-centered design, futurism and fiction, peacebuilding, environmental justice, and more
Eligibility Criteria
- Access Now works with a Program Committee to review the Call for Proposals.
- Every year, they invite leaders and advocates from around the world to chair the Program Committee and help them select proposals based on the core evaluation criteria (relevant, actionable, original, diverse, and participatory).
- They also look holistically across categories and take other factors into account in order to create the strongest and most inclusive program possible.
For more information, visit https://www.rightscon.org/program/