The 100-day challenge is finished and it was amazing at creating deeper relationships with the people who started the AI Futures journey in May 2024 with us in Geneva. The power of imagination and storytelling is critical for us to be able to define what we would like our future to look like and to imagine ourselves or others we care about, thriving in that future. Often, it feels like there is only one future, one that others have imagined for us and that we are swallowed in it. Hence the importance of reclaiming and shaping inclusive and sustainable futures we want to happen. These images can be strong "north stars" towards which we can then navigate, innovate and learn. The Think-Do Tank at Source Transitions is a place where communities of people can experiment their way through imagining, shaping, testing and learning. We set up the platform and guide them through the complex subjects of sustainable futures, emerging technology, societal impacts and wellbeing. They leave having defined the closest next step for them to bring the visions to life. With the 100-day challenge, the education team developed a scenario of a day in the life of Athenia in 2061, a young woman from the future who carries responsibilities beyond her age and finds empowerment by shaping the education she needs, when, how and where she needs it. She gathers a community of young people around her and they rebuild a world by accessing knowledge, engineering concepts, traditional wisdom and other resources through a device created around 2030. Harmony Kwawu The food challenge team imagined an integrated future where emerging technologies support the community (and not the other way around). Humans get recommendations for what they eat based on their health and what's sustainably available. Tastes, allergies, opportunities for community gatherings are prioritised in tech solutions that are supportive but stay in the background. Mini-drones are able to "talk" invasive species into moving somewhere else. Small robots push plants in the ground rather than using pesticides. Governments mandate producers to share so that small producers are able to flourish without the pressure from monopolies. Matthias Hertel A new project was born out of the challenge that will focus on Data Invisibility. We will keep you posted on this too. Caroline Gans Combe There is much more than this brief summary of all the work that was done. But feel free to reach out to find out more and to get in touch if you would like to contribute. Storyboards have been created and we are looking at shaping them into short films. If anyone wants to help out, please contact us. That concludes the work we started earlier this year. Thanks to the original shapers: Amir Banifatemi at Our Future Life and Kitrhona Cerri at TASC Platform #AIFutures #SDGs #Imagination #Community #Sustainability #Futures https://lnkd.in/gB5uEbtE
Source Transitions
Strategic Management Services
Hawthorn, Victoria 66 followers
Thought leadership on sustainability, technology and the greater good
About us
Source Transitions is founded by Stéphanie Camaréna PhD. Throughout her career, she has focused on human-centered design to ensure technology was an enabler rather than a barrier to sustainable futures. This relies on making the societal, environmental and financial trade-offs visible for better decision-making. Stéphanie has developed the “Bottom-Up Engagement Framework” (BUE) which allows and empowers people in organisations to leverage existing iterative practices (i.e. Agile, Lean, others) as a way to engage with sustainability, ethics and AI for the benefit of the whole. Participatory design and participatory futures play an important role to how Source Transition engages with people at work. Source Transitions takes a human centered approach to developing strategies using design thinking and peer-reviewed research. By putting people first, we enable technological implementation to reflect the changing world and ethical standards. We assist our clients transform faster to a more sustainable way of doing things.
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- Strategic Management Services
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- 2-10 employees
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- Hawthorn, Victoria
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- 2023
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- Sustainable Design, Responsible AI, Food Systems, Business Strategy, Sustainable Transitions, AI Strategy, Systems thinking, AI for Sustainability, Sustainability Pathways, Think-Do Tank, Change Management, Facilitation, System Transition, Product design, Service design, Design thinking, GHG reduction, and Regenerative Systems
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The AI futures workshop we ran in Geneva in May developed scenarios of "a day in the life" of people in 2061, capturing the AI touchpoints that would support ways of living in a world we would thrive in. The AI Futures 100-day challenge started in June 2024 and just concluded. The amazing TASC Platform team is reporting on the challenge which has now concluded to report on what was achieved, how and what to look forward to. This is a candid account, full of lessons and inspiring moments. Have a look and don't hesitate to get in touch to support the teams who have started the journey from vision to action using our Think-Do tank methods and platforms. #sustainability #AIFutures #AI #Futures #datainvisibility #ethics #inclusion #imagination
🍂📰 Our Autumn Newsletter is LIVE! Packed with updates from our projects, this edition highlights TASC Platform Platform's growing role as a 'community of communities' and brings you key insights from our ongoing work. 📲 Read it here: https://bit.ly/4gNqsIN Highlights: 🔹 Janine Berg from the International Labour Organization presents a realist view on #AI and technological #unemployment. Read more to uncover the #risks for vulnerable workers and the resulting need for policies on reskilling, redeployment, and protections. 🔹Our very own Executive Directorr, Kitrhona Cerri shares insights from #GenevaTradeWeek on sustainable labour pathways for displaced population. Watch the video to explore the launch of the Business Communitty of Practice on Refugee Labour Pathways 🔹Annika Erickson-Pearson introduces the Business & Conflict Community of Practice now co-hosted by TASC Platform and the Geneva Trade Platform. Discover how it connects over 200 professionals promoting responsible business practices in conflict-affected areas. 🔹Claudine Haenni reflects on #leadership #training in Thailand following the launch of the Bridging-Changes Foundation Leadership Academy and the start of its very first cohort. Read the article to learn more about trust-building and personal growth for Myanmar's future. 🔹 Dr. Stéphanie Camaréna PhD showcases the 100-day AI Futures Challenge, following the AI for Good Summit workshop hosted last May. Find out more about how visionary concepts were transformed into actionable strategies for a more sustainable future. 🔹Melissa Pitotti celebrates women's leadership in humanitarian work. Learn more about this community and see how #collaboration and #empowerment drive transformation in the Women Leading Well initiative. 📡 Don't miss out on our On The Radar section to stay updated on upcoming events like the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (25-27 November) and Trust Valley Day (17 October), and many more. Enjoy your fall read!
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Following the AI for Good - AI Futures workshop organised in collaboration with the TASC Platform Amir Banifatemi and Our Future Life in May this year, Source Transitions launched the 100-day challenge. The initiative invited the AI Futures participating teams to further their approach to the future scenarios they started at the workshop. With 4 weeks to go, teams are in the final sprint to further their visions and identify ways of turning them into action. To learn more about where we are at and what has been accomplished to date, check out our latest update. https://lnkd.in/gArQ_xmB #AI #futures #participatory #datainvisibility #codesign #SDGs #sustainability #visioning Caroline Gans Combe Jose Ramos Dr. Sandy Chong Jérôme Duberry Francesca Rossi Dr. Lisa Dethridge Felipe Castro Quiles Gudela Grote Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH Diana Ayton-Shenker Stéphanie Camaréna PhD Kitrhona Cerri Cédric Dupont Mojdeh Eskandari Gerassimos Spyridakis Niall McShane
AI Futures - 100-day Challenge Update
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Some very interesting thoughts from our Founder Stéphanie Camaréna PhD. #Sustainability #AI #AIforGood https://lnkd.in/gKGtCc_e
Sustainability and AI, really? 🌿 #AI and #sustainability - For someone like me who has worked in sustainability for over 15 years, these two words seem like they should not be used in the same sentence. I often have second thoughts about even trying to align both. With the #AIhype, it feels like the air has been sucked out of all the other priorities that humanity is facing and creating problems faster than they can be resolved. ➖ #Frameworks and #impacts - In 2010, I developed and implemented a sustainable ICT framework across the Victorian local governments. 41 out of 79 councils participated with MAV Technology. I revisited some of the elements of the framework. Types of impacts that are relevant to ICT (as of 2010-2012): 1. Social issues (working conditions, gender-based abuse), 2. Labour rights (degrading treatment, wages below subsistence, suppression of forced labour, discrimination), 3. Health and safety (exposition to highly toxic materials, unsafe factories), human rights (child slavery, financing of military junta), 4. Environmental (resource depletion, damaging extraction methods, pollution, eWaste, GHG emissions, water consumption) 🧠 The difference with AI-powered tech - AI issues are similar to what we have known and have been mitigating for a long time. The new issue is one of scale and speed of growth, especially of big models (which are the most problematic). Of course, there are also new and significant issues like bias, diversity, invisibility and the simple lack of ability to opt-out 😫. I could go on, but it would not be helpful because these types of statements tend to make us feel even less empowered to tackle the problems. 🌏 For sustainability professionals, at a minimum, we need to be aware of the lifecycle, social and environmental impacts that come with AI. We must provide some no-nonsense advice, based on science, when making decisions about AI in organisations. Sustainability professionals have been navigating health and safety, environmental degradation and modern slavery to mention a few. But they will need to add governance of ethics, representation, diversity to their portfolio. That is not something they can do on their own, of course, but they can drive it because they already operate in the complex world of sustainability. ➕ There are many instances where AI-powered tools can help us make sense of the complexity that we need to navigate the field of sustainability. Our experience gives us the ability to imagine a world operating within the planetary boundaries and to work in collaboration with system designers and engineers to shape the "data of the future" too. Having a foot in both the AI world and the sustainability world means that we can provide guidance about how, if and where it makes sense for emerging technologies to help us leapfrog to a paradigm-changing sustainable future. #sustainability #ai #collectivefutures #anticipatorydesign #SDGs #agency
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Source Transitions was mentioned in the TASC Platform newsletter a few days ago. In this article, we unveil some of the design principles underlying our approach to visioning for AI-enabled positive futures and for sustainability impact. The workshop was run at the International Telecommunication Union AI for Good summit 2024 thanks to Amir Banifatemi's vision of collective futures Our Future Life. We work with your team to imagine preferred futures which are human-centred and focused on societal impact. We guide you through the ethical and sustainability minefield of emerging technologies including AI. And we help move from vision to action empowered through participatory approaches. 👉 Get in touch if you would like to find out more about what it could achieve for your organisation at https://lnkd.in/g-NaBTCf or DM. https://lnkd.in/gi3nS2BN #Sustainability #AI #futures #transitions #sustainabletransitions #inclusivity #impact #sdg #designinnovation
Shaping Inclusive AI Futures: Insights from the A.I. for Good Summit — TASC Platform
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At the #AIforGood summit over a week ago, we announced that we would take on the preferred futures #visions and #scenarios developed during the workshop and take them closer to implementation in a 100-days challenge. This is what this invitation is all about. If you have not received the email invitation, please get in touch and we will invite you to our platform. https://lnkd.in/g56jCRb9 About the Source Transitions Think-Do Tank The Source Transitions Think-Do Tank takes your sustainability transitions creative visions from ideas to concrete trials in a highly supportive environment. We are tech-agnostic and work with your preferred vendors, we also scan the market and find the most aligned potential partners for the problems you want solved. We strongly believe that we learn by doing so we put a lot of emphasis on taking climate and transitions action to move towards regenerative ways of doing products, services and systems. We help you to identify and run bitesize use cases and quickly validate where your efforts and budget can have the most sustainability impact.
100 days vision-to-action challenge
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It's a wrap! We have challenged the #community of concerned people who want to make sure we do not let AI enthusiasts forget that #humans are in control of their own #futures. We can imagine and create futures with #responsibleAI in a way that recognises and empowers the 88% of the population who are not usually included in the AI conversation #unusualsuspects #invisibles. Despite all that was going on in these two days at the #AIForGood summit, many people not only joined us for the first full day workshop on the 30th but came back again for the whole morning today to continue their inclusive visioning exercise and to start defining the steps that we can take towards them. Many new people joined us today and took it in their stride. I was amazed and overjoyed. This was a thoughtful, heartfelt and generous gift of time and ideas from all the participants, driven by a deep desire to change the course. I am very appreciative. We were also privileged to have with us great thinkers and doers who participated in the panels Gudela Grote Jérôme Duberry Dr. Sandy Chong Dr. Lisa Dethridge Jose Ramos Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH. Many speakers stayed with us and worked with the teams Caroline Gans Combe Francesca Rossi Felipe Castro Quiles. Others who were almost late to other critical engagements Gerassimos Spyridakis just to make sure they were there for the team, for gentle feedback and deep insights Diana Ayton-Shenker. what a treat. Thanks to Amir Banifatemi for the opportunity to run this event in the first place. I think you might already have access to teleportation because you were everywhere at once! And then the people who worked tirelessly to support me and the team and for whom I am deeply grateful: Niall McShane who gave all he had and more to make sure this event was successful, thank you, you were incredible. To the TASC Platform and Kitrhona Cerri and your amazing team, what a privilege to know you and to know you had our backs. The moderators who did an incredible job and that I hope to work with again: Mila Aliana Mojdeh Eskandari Cédric Dupont Finally, a special shout out to Monika Manolova, PhD for the indispensable and really soothing boat trip on the Lac Léman. Keep posted for the announcement of the 100 days Source Transitions challenge announcements, briefings from the event, and other opportunities to continue the work we started! Thank you and who knows, maybe "see you next year".
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After 2 full days of AI for Good Summit, I am thankful to learn about people's efforts to tackle opportunities and challenges. Glad to meet so many people who are making #impact in our world. Here's to doing the deep work as our lives and organizations change. I have a renewed passion (and so many notes) for how we can responsibly use AI, Robotics and satellite imagery in humanitarian work, including the fantastic work on health tech. Super hard to narrow down some highlights: 1. Pelonomi Moiloa's sharing about Lelapa AI "Organizing African talent to move humanity forward: Language technology for Africa". If we are going to leave no one behind, we must support this type of leadership and learn from the team. 2. China Mobile International Limited sharing their vision for how AI can support societal change. (thanks to Interprefy for helping it be translated into 75 languages) 3. The amazing speakers : AI to Bridge the Gender Gap session. 4. AI Futures explorations workshop with Source Transitions - our team focused on how AI will change Justice, governance, and institutions. Thanks to Aksinya Samoylova and Patrick McCullough for engaging conversations. Buy her book! (See the link in the comments) 5. The All Tech Is Human community for all the allyship. It was nice to catch up with friends and acquaintances and new allies #AIforgood #innovation #robotics #digitaldivide #digitalrisk #inclusion #gender #satelliteimagery #earthobservation
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Workshop Announcement: AI Futures at the AI for Good summit in Geneva Media Release For immediate release The future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not predetermined. While some portray a fixed path, the reality is that the way we navigate the present will shape the AI-powered world we inhabit. To address the ethical considerations and complexities surrounding AI, Dr Stéphanie Camaréna, Founder and CEO of Source Transitions, is leading the design and co-hosting a groundbreaking workshop titled "AI Futures" at the AI for Good Summit. This dynamic 1 1/2-day workshop will take place 30 & 31 May at the AI for Good Summit, Geneva, bringing together a diverse group of individuals motivated to ensure that AI futures are designed with inclusivity, fairness, and community agency in mind. Key Themes and Objectives: During the workshop, participants will: · Gain a deep understanding of the collective challenges and opportunities related to AI. · Explore the spectrum of AI futures and their impact on personal life, businesses, the environment, and society. · Engage in co-creating preferred AI future scenarios within the specific domains of food systems. · Collaboratively develop actionable strategies for shaping or mitigating these futures, with a focus on informed decision-making and holistic approaches. Expert Insights and Participatory Process: Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field of AI and engage in an iterative and participatory process. By embracing a diversity of perspectives and including "unusual suspects" in AI discussions, this workshop aims to foster innovative solutions that serve the greater good. What Participants Will Gain: · Participants can expect to leave the workshop with: · Insights, connections, and relationships. · Personal perspectives on the topic of AI futures. · A range of tools, methods, and approaches for shaping AI futures. · Opportunities to contribute to tangible actions that bring inspiring visions to life. Who Should Attend: This workshop is ideal for anyone passionate about shaping AI futures in collaboration with communities. Whether you are a policymaker, designer, change agent, technology enthusiast, entrepreneur, social advocate, or community representative, your perspective and input are invaluable. Join Dr Stéphanie Camaréna as she explores what agency means in the context of AI futures and unveils creative approaches to designing, scaling, and iterating AI solutions. Together, we can pave the way for a future powered by people, where AI serves the needs of all. For registration details - https://lnkd.in/eqPprkKy - END – For full media release - visit https://lnkd.in/gQyVT6_X
Workshop Announcement: AI Futures
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There is a tension in organisations between the pressure to both deliver on sustainability goals and to evaluate AI approaches that could help scale up solutions. Is it possible to do so ethically and responsibly? Our latest blog post proposes a few simple steps. https://lnkd.in/gdcw7_nT
Navigating the Green Labyrinth: AI and Sustainability Challenges
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