📅 20 September 2023 | 🕟14:30-16:00  CEST | 💻 Online | In September’s Scanning community session we are delighted to be joined by Ayden Férdeline, a Technologist, who has been working with us at the Centre on some AI research. He will share some insights on emerging AI usage in civil society organisations. We will (more…)

📅 13 September 2023 | 🕟15:00-16:30 CEST | 💻 Online  | In its Accelerating Inclusive Power Shift the Centre seeks to support international civil society organisations (ICSOs) and the wider sector with tools, best practice, and discussion space to become more inclusive and power-balanced.   The Curated Conversations provide a safe space for online discussion spaces aimed (more…)

📅 07 September 2023 | 🕟16:00-17:00 CEST | 💻 Online | Accessibility 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions   A decade ago, at a time when the digitalization of our societies had already advanced, innovative ideas were put forward how technology could be used to foster participation and democracy. The experiments at the time with (more…)

📅 06 July 2023 | 🕟16:00-17:00 CEST | 💻 Online | Civic tech is not technology as a product but should be viewed as a methodology, process and means of engaging different problems. Therefore, there is value in collaborative civic tech processes and outcomes. Working through social and economic problems in a systematic way, and (more…)

📅 13 – 15 June 2023 | 🕟10:00-18:00 CEST | 📌 Berlin, Germany  🇩🇪 | The Centre’s Scanning the Horizon platform address the need for collaborative trend analysis in the sector. Futurists, strategists, trend analysts and organisational learning and research specialists form a cross-sector community of experts and practitioners to share insights, explore key trends (more…)

📅 13 – 15 June 2023 | 🕟10:00-18:00 CEST | 📌 Berlin, Germany  🇩🇪 |   The International Civil Society Centre will again convene Global Heads of Divisions of international civil society organisations (ICSOs) for high-level strategic discussions on joint challenges, global trends and best practices. We will be welcoming the following groups again in (more…)

📅 01 June 2023 | 🕟16:00-17:00 CEST | 💻 Online | Accessibility 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions   The internet that was designed for adults. However, children and juveniles are using it on a daily basis and in great numbers. Hence, the protection and welfare of children in the digital space is since long (more…)

📅 04 May 2023 | 🕟16:00-17:00 CEST | 📌 Online 💻 | Accessibility 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions   Context Although remote working is not a new phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the traditional, placed-based employment model in cities across the world, virtually overnight. Mobile connectivity and digital infrastructure has allowed people to work (more…)

📅 25-27 April 2023 | 🕟09:00-18:00 CEST | 📌Caux, Switzerland 🇨🇭   CEOs of the world’s leading civil society organisations have a unique opportunity to step out of their pressurised positions and define goals together, at this annual meeting launched in 2008. Over two days they discuss key strategic issues for their organisations and civil (more…)

📅 20 April 2023  |  🕟10:00-18:00 CEST  | 💻Online | For our next Scanning session, we will be taking a look at two different areas. Firstly we will take a moment to discuss the ambition and future of the community, and together think through some options we would collectively want to look into more. Secondly, (more…)

📅 🕟 Ongoing | 💻 Online  | In 2022 the International Civil Society Centre launched a three-year initiative “Anticipating futures for civil society operating space” to strengthen anticipatory capacities and future readiness of civil society professionals who are working to defend civic and civil society operating space. Concept Note In the current phase of this (more…)

📅 06 April 2023 | 🕟16:00-17:00 CEST | 💻 Online | Accessibility 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions The global division of labour in the industrial age is well known: The Global South provides raw materials and cheap labour in its sweatshops for multinational companies from the Global North to supply global markets. The digital (more…)

📅 28 – 30 March 2023 | 🕟10:00 – 16:00 CET | 📌 Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪   Since 2018, the Centre’s Power Shift Labs have brought together senior representatives of ICSOs and their governing bodies to explore and learn from each other how governance changes can address the problem of power imbalances – between Northern (more…)

📅 22 March 2023 | 🕟15:00-16:30 CET |💻 Online |   Recognising the growing challenge of digital threats and cyberattacks that ICSOs and CSOs face, the ICSCentre has partnered with the CyberPeace Institute and expanded the Solidarity Playbook – a collection of case studies and best practices curated by the Solidarity Action Network (SANE) – (more…)

📅 02 March 2023 | 🕟16:00-17:00 CET |💻 Online | 👋 International Sign  [CC] Closed Captions   AI chatbots like chatGPT are all the buzz in the digital zeitgeist. The implications for many businesses and educational processes are many. Many more implications are yet to be known. But what we do know is that these (more…)