INSITE Workshop Jan 2012

Mobilizing Civil Society to Construct a Socially Sustainable Society: An INSITE workshop

Venice, 26-27 January 2012

INSITE is convening this workshop because we believe that the way in which our society organizes its innovation processes is unsustainable, socially as well as environmentally. Moreover, we believe that neither the market nor the state can in present circumstances provide leadership to generate an alternative path of social development. Instead, civil society must be mobilized to construct a collective vision of a socially sustainable society and organize the processes (which surely will include the participation of both state and market) that can realize this vision.

The aim of the workshop is to formulate a program of research and practice that can contribute to the processes of mobilization and construction that our society needs.

Read the project article that provides a framework for the meeting - available here.

Participants will share relevant ideas and experiences in order to achieve this aim. (Access the participant list here)

A printable version of the programme is available here.

You can view the documents resulting from the kitchen table discussions on the final day here (Governance) and here (ICT)

Andrew Feenburg, Simon Fraser University

Yvonne Roberts of the Observer

Carlos Azevedo, UDIPSS

Reka Matolay

Sander van der Leeuw, Arizona State University

Maro de Punte, Action Aid Italy

Marcello Palazzi, Progressio Foundation NL

Juan Jose Ibarrexte, former President of the Basque Country