📅 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…)

📅 02 February 2023 | 🕟 16:00-17:00 | 💻 Online | 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions     Background: When the printing press was invented more than 500 years ago, it was certainly done so with good intentions. However, one of the unintended side effects of that innovation, we know from retrospect, was its (more…)

📅 24 January 2023 | 🕟13:00-15:00 CET | 💻 Online  | To see the time in your location, please visit the event time announcer.   The International Civil Society Centre’s project Accelerating Inclusive Power Shift seeks to support International Civil Society Organisations (ICSOs) and the wider sector with tools, best practice, and discussion space to (more…)

📅 18 January 2023  |  🕟15:00-16:30 CET | 💻 Online | Scanning the Horizon provides regular informal peer sharing ‘surgery’ sessions for ICSO global strategists to share ‘work in progress’ on strategy content, process or evaluation/learning, and/or other strategic initiatives to strengthen organisational scanning and futures capacities. This is a chance to present progress, seek (more…)

📅 10 November 2022 🕟16:00-17:00 CET (Central European Time). You may check this time zone converter for your corresponding local time. 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions   The International Civil Society Centre, in partnership with the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN), is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a discussion titled ‘How to move (more…)

📅 12 July 2022  🕟 13:30-15:00 CEST You may check this time zone converter for your corresponding local time. 📍 online 👋 International Sign [CC] Closed Captions   Making Voices Heard and Count Inclusive data as a strategic tool for building back better after the pandemic   Join Webinar     Concept and Agenda   (more…)