Rationale of Millennia 2015

 

 

 

   Digital solidarity issues at the horizon 2015

 

 

The Information Society Unit of the Destree Institute organises, with its partners, a foresight research process and an international conference in 2008, 2011 and 2015: Millennia 2015 intends to connect the crucial issues for women's future at the horizon 2015 with the scientific challenges of the new century.

 

Led by a high-level international Steering Committee, Millennia 2015 aims to build, through a foresight approach, some answers to the divides linked to gender, in a world overwhelmed by technique   which is often synonymous with higher complexity.

 

The issues are related to the following topics:

– political (respect of human rights, participation in the decision process, ...);

– economical and social (knowledge economy, social integration, equality in employment, health care and biotechnology, solutions against poverty, action against violence, ...);

– educational and cultural (access to knowledge and promotion of skills, training in information and communication technology (ICT), access to education and to culture, access to life-long learning, openness to cultural diversity,...).

In this prospect, Millennia 2015 will be in line with the achievements of the United Nations World Conference of Women held in New York in 2005 (Beijing +10) and will try to contribute to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and to the "Tunis Agenda for the Information Society" approved by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   The Destree Institute, heart of foresight networks in good governance

 

 

The Destree Institute (European research centre based in Wallonia, www.institut-destree.eu/) participates in the process of the WSIS and of the Internet Governance Forum. It works in networks including the European Commission, the European Regional Foresight College, the Internet Society (ISOC Belgium - Wallonia Chapter), the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University (Brussels-Area Node) and the French scientific program Vox Internet.

 

The sessions of Millennia 2015 follow the international conferences organised by the Destree Institute in 2005  about "Foresight of the Internet" and "The Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society".

 

The process will develop online until 2015: documents, workgroups, knowledge database and organisation (www.millennia2015.org/).

It will also result in the publication of the proceedings (web, book and dvd-book) in English and in French, to be presented to political, economical and social decision-makers at all levels (local, regional, European and worldwide). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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