#DemocracyDrinks are informal networking events for people who are interested in democracy. 

The aim of January's Democracy Drinks is to start a discussion about the desired society and the future of democracy in a changing world.  Things in many countries are not developing in a way that sustains democratic ideals and institutions. This year's economics Nobel laureates are also worried about this. We are influenced and we do not fully control this, but how we respond to it is in our own hands. We need a new story that we can all support. What do we want, where do we want to be? What is the appealing vision of a modern democratic society? 

This initiative seeks to explore decolonial futures thinking and practices through the lens of Global South communities, focusing on how indigenous knowledge systems, cultural worldviews, and historical legacies can reshape futures studies. By centering Global South voices, this project aims to map Global South perspectives in foresight and discuss participatory approaches and narrative-based futures that honor the unique temporalities, insights and contexts of the Global South. Through the Hunome platform, this initiative will offer a mechanism to discuss futures studies that are rooted in Global South values, solidarity and societal transformation.

Join us for a Humanathon on the Future of Work

Humanathon with Adam Sharpe on Population decline

Session 5: UBI Global by UBI Labs In our previous Humanothon sessions with Hunome on ‘Universal Basic Income’ session we had people with different backgrounds and knowledge making sense of the many perspectives of UBI. The results were fascinating, as evidenced by the SparkMap. This session 5 coming on Feb 1, 2024 aims to bring more stakeholders with different skill sets into the Humanothon process and the SparkMap. We are encouraging the field experts and enthusiasts to join this fifth Humanothon session.

In our Humanothon with Hunome on ‘Universal Basic Income’ session October 24, 2023 we had people with different backgrounds and knowledge making sense of the many perspectives of UBI. The results were fascinating, as evidenced by the SparkMap. This session 4 coming on December 7 aims to bring more stakeholders with different skill sets into the Humanothon process and the SparkMap. We are encouraging the field experts and enthusiasts to join this fourth Humanothon session

In our first Humanothon with Hunome on ‘AI regulation, keep it safe and understandable’, we brought together people with different backgrounds and knowledge to make sense of how AI on its rapid course of evolution should be regulated. This session 2 aims to bring more stakeholders with different skill sets into the Humanothon process and the SparkMap. We are encouraging the field experts and AI enthusiasts to join this second Humanothon session.

This build is led by Linards Kalvāns, data practitioner and AI enthusiast.

UBI Global Humanothon. We are inviting you to deliberate and build forward the exciting SparkMap titled “UBI, Universal Basic Income” we started building at UBI Lab Finland. It brings together – connecting the dots – the various perspectives surrounding UBI, the changes and impact, what is changing now, what are examples from around the world, what innovations, what possibilities for improvements, how are humans around the world experiencing the experiments and ideas put forward. This build is led by UBI Lab Finland, a citizen-led group exploring and advocating for Universal Basic Income.

Embracing complexity of cancer. If we apply a different lens to cancer, it can be viewed as a complex adaptive system. Bring your knowledge and perspectives from complexity science, chaos theory, cybernetics, energetics, physics, future studies, etc. to develop a deeper understanding of the disease and discover novel methods of therapeutic intervention. Hunome and Houda Boulahbel invite you to broaden our understanding of complexity, so we can look at cancer through a new lens, in a series of four events. In each event, we will learn and build on our different perspectives.

This build explores EU’s energy and economic policy and their effects and links to the goals of sustainable development. This is a second workshop on the theme, building on the SparkMap created in the first session in May 2023 by experts and young social influencers. Our goal now is to engage more experts, politicians and activists.This build is led by Timo Kuusiola, the founder of Creatura Think Do Tank, a thinker, and organization activist.

I needs to be regulated, it may be misused and become dangerous as any other technology, it may cause confusion and misunderstanding if not properly explained and presented. However it is on such a rapid course of evolution as no other technology before. Despite already being used on wide range of occassions from registering cars at parking lots to being appointed as some companies CEO, the regulations for AI vague at best. Join us to explore this complex theme.

This build is led by Linards Kalvans, data practitioner and AI enthusiast.

The global phenomena of population decline and the future it will create. 

Future of Work – What’s New

We are building an exciting SparkMap titled “Future of work – what’s next” which deliberates on the world of work and brings together – connecting the dots – the various perspectives surrounding the world of work, the changes and impact, what is changing now, what are examples from around the world, what innovations, what possibilities for improvements, how are humans around the world experiencing the ideas of gig economy, zero hour contracts.

This build is led by Nicky Dries, who runs the Future of Work Lab within the Faculty of Economics, that studies social imaginaries for the future.

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