Iswe Foundation

📣 Call for Papers, Presentations & Posters: Participatory AI Research Symposium - Paris, Feb 2025 📣 Iswe and Connected by Data presented some research on global deliberation and Artificial Intelligence at the UN Summit of the Future in New-York in September. https://lnkd.in/eukXH9Qp We are now looking ahead and planning an independent symposium taking place online and in person to coincide with the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) as a space to present research and practice cases on the participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field. 🖥️ Online: 30 January, 2025 🏛️ In-Person, in Paris: 8 February, 2025 📅 Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2024 🔗 Website and form for abstracts: https://lnkd.in/efszAJ73 💡 Organising partners: Connected by Data, Sciences Po, Iswe Foundation, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub , Data & Society Research Institute, ESRC Digital Good Network, Public Voices in AI and Aapti Institute This gathering will bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and civil society to explore how participatory approaches can shape the future of AI governance and development. We’re inviting submissions in various formats (short papers, posters, presentations, reports) focused on these themes: - Participatory AI Development - Participatory AI Governance - Participation, Power, and Resistance 🔍 Why participate? We’ve been working with a great group of co-organisers to create space that can showcase work, exchange ideas, explore critical questions, and make connections both within, and beyond the field of participatory AI practice. Presentations and discussions will be interactive and focused on actionable insights. Key Dates 📬 Submissions close: 8 December, 2024 📝 In-person notifications: 13 December, 2024 🖥️ Online presentation notifications: 30 December, 2024 Please note that, while we are committed to including diverse voices, we do not have funding for travel or visas. Within the constraints of the timeline towards the AI Action Summit, we will provide notice to confirmed presenters as soon as we can.

It’s been another important moment for the Global Citizens’ Assembly for People and Planet this time at COP29. As we build towards having the new institution in place for COP30. The project is being spearheaded by COP30 hosts Government of Brazil huge thanks to Ana Toni, Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas Carla Bezerra Gustavo Westmann Renato Simoes and so many others… In order to make COP30, the People’s COP, we’re laying down infrastructure so that anyone anywhere can participate. We are hoping that at least 100,000 grassroots citizens’ participate. To achieve this we need your help. 🎪 Encouraging people to run Community Assemblies (Starting March 2025) 🎪 Community assemblies will be run in schools, community groups, companies, sports clubs, religious groups, by anyone anywhere. We’ve developed a digital tool to support this. Right now we’re seeking partner organizations who can reach large numbers of people. If this might be you or you have a suggestion please contact Johnny Stormonth-Darling 🎏 Raising the profile of the Assembly 🎏 Through your networks, talks, blogs, newsletters to drive participation and influence of the assembly we need to raise the profile, through media, networks. Just getting the message out however we can. Again if you think you maybe able to help please let Paulina know. 🤝 Join the coalition 🤝 Whether you’re a member state, company, CSO, movement or media we want you in the coalition. See the further information here and sign-up here: https://lnkd.in/e282tdDr 🛠 Resources 🛠 We are very very grateful to our existing funders Climate Emergency Collaboration Group Global Challenges Foundation Wellcome Trust European Climate Foundation Porticus but the more we have the more people we can reach. COP30 is a unique opportunity to permanently rebalance the scales of COPs towards the people; and to do this we need more funding. If you might be able to help with this please contact Sara Cowan 🍓 Food Systems 🍓 The focus of the COP30 Assembly will be food systems so if anyone wants to support that with learning materials, networks or policy tracks to engage please contact David Levaï Thanks for all the fabulous events and meetings in Baku! I’m thinking especially of: Amber Nuttall, Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas, Fleur Newman Kirsten Dunlop, Christopher Wayne, Anne-Sophie Clulow-Garrigou Jo Tyndall  Nicolas Eliades Vesga, Leonildes Nazar, Ana Yang, BONNY IBHAWOH, John Vlasto, Sophie Rigg, Hunter Lovins, Felix Dodds, khaled Eltaweel, PhD Dr. Martin Frick, Walter Link, Jim Skea, so many more I’ve missed…

The Global Citizens’ Assembly for People and Planet is starting to take shape. Spearheaded by Iswe Foundation and COP30 hosts Government of Brazil, we are now laying down infrastructure so that in 2025 anyone, anywhere on 🌍, can participate. It’s an exciting time but we need your help - watch Iswe’s CEO Rich Wilson from Baku to learn more 🙌🏼.

Thank you to everyone who who joined our event at the Regional Climate Foundations Pavillion at COP29. The event explored how to accelerate climate action through a Global Citizens' Assembly for COP30 and beyond and highlights included: 🌟 A timely reminder by Diego Casaes ( Climate Emergency Collaboration Group ) that "inclusion shouldn't be a [tick] box exercise" and that the "the focus of inclusion should be to elevate the political risk of not acting". 🌟 A powerful observation by Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas (Government of Brazil) that "at the end of the day, regardless of how we [make] decisions, change happens from the ground up. [This is what] we need to bring to the COP process" so "it's key to take a territorial approach". 🌟 An insightful statement by Leonildes Nazar (Institute for Climate and Society): "what drives people to take action is not policies, it's how they connect and how they feel" followed by a vital question: "How do we build hope and belonging?" Thank you to all of our panellists for their contributions, to Noora Firaq 🇬🇧 🇲🇻 (Climate Outreach) for moderating the event, and to The African Climate Foundation, Energy Foundation China, European Climate Foundation, Iniciativa Climática de México, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, Tara Climate Foundation and ViriyaENB for hosting us! If you'd like to know more about the Global Citizens' Assembly for People and Planet — an Assembly for COP30 and beyond — then check out the following, including a presentation by our Chief Enabling Officer Rich Wilson 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eUHNfvTu If you'd like to stay up to date with plans for the Assembly, sign up to the mailing list of the Coalition for a Global Citizen's Assembly 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eUXhBKWr

A ampla e diversa participação social será uma característica marcante da #COP30 . As assembleias de cidadãos são um dos instrumentos de fortalecimento da democracia mais antigos do mundo. Porque não experimentá-lo neste processo multilateral em que a sociedade tem tanta vontade de contribuir com suas visões, demandas e soluções? Em alguns instantes começaremos esse debate aqui na #COP29. Juntem-se a nós e traga sua contribuição para esse processo de construção da COP30!

Going to be at COP29? Then join us on Tuesday 12 November, 11.15am - 12.15pm AZT at the Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion (G-24, Blue Zone) as we explore how to accelerate climate action through a Global Citizens' Assembly for COP30 and Beyond with: Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas Diego Casaes Rich Wilson Leonildes Nazar and Noora Firaq 🇬🇧 🇲🇻 Not going to be at COP29 but interested in learning more? Then: 🔗 Read this introduction to the Global Citizens' Assembly for People and Planet, which was launched at New York Climate Week with the backing of the Government of Brazil: https://lnkd.in/eUHNfvTu 🔗Sign up to the mailing list of the Coalition for a Global Citizen's Assembly: https://lnkd.in/eUXhBKWr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to The African Climate Foundation, European Climate Foundation, Institute for Climate and Society, Tara Climate Foundation, Energy Foundation China, Iniciativa Climática de México, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and ViriyaENB for hosting our event.

We're ending the week with some brilliant news ✨don't we all need it?✨ Reema Patel is joining Iswe to contribute to the co-creation of the Global Citizens' Assembly as a permanent institution. We feel very lucky to have Reema onboard. Her wisdom and expertise, grounded in years of research and practice in democratic innovation, will be invaluable to this endeavour.

Thank you so much Paul van Zyl for hosting our conversation with Ben Tolhurst and Ben Scott. And thank you Jon Alexander for making it possible. We missed you and Clare Farrell, who couldn't be there either. We explored the challenges of democratic innovation in the digital age. I shared some of our work at Iswe Foundation to build new institutions centered around citizens such as a permanent Global Citizens' Assembly for People and Planet www.gcacoalition.org You can now watch the recording of our event and hear more about what I mean by system reinforcing vs. system disrupting deliberative processes. https://lnkd.in/eq4_XfvD I unpacked some of the findings from my latest research at The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST): "How can citizens' assemblies help navigate the systemic transformations required by the polycrisis?" https://lnkd.in/e3Jptkrv Thanks again Paul and the team at The Conduit, particularly Peres K. for making these conversations possible.

"By integrating #BigData & #LittleData, along with a normative commitment to #democratising how & by whom that data is curated, we can create a more holistic approach to understanding & amplifying the voices from global citizen #deliberation." 🖇️ https://lnkd.in/gCx8DhUr 🤓 Read the LATEST from Iñaki Goñi Jerez of Iswe Foundation and The University of Edinburgh on the challenge of #dataanalysis in #globaldeliberation This piece is also available in SPANISH: https://lnkd.in/gzyCmhm4 University of Westminster Press Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Lucy J Parry Hans Asenbaum Sonia Bussu (PhD) Hannah Werner Dr. Franziska Maier Olivia Mendoza

Brilliant op-ed by Ana Toni, Brazilian National Secretary for Climate Change and Laurence Tubiana, President of the European Climate Foundation and key architect of the Paris Agreement, which makes the case for a permanent Global Citizens' Assembly. "Drawing on the model of the World Social Forum, what we need now is a Global Social-Climate Forum, or a Global Citizens’ Assembly for People and Planet, to bring citizens together from every country, not just to chart a collective path forward, but to reimagine our politics and encourage a global ethical stock-take. This would be an opportunity for humanity to come together, to understand each other’s aspirations and anxieties, and to co-create a green transition that benefits everyone. Rather than leaving anyone behind, we can forge a new social contract rooted in solidarity, equity, and fairness." Read the op-ed 🔗 https://lnkd.in/epHV6a4F And sign up to the Coalition mailing list for updates about Iswe Foundation and partners' plans for a 'Global Citizens' Assembly for People and Planet' — a global citizens' assembly for COP30 and beyond 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eUXhBKWr