At the beginning of the conference, prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir gave a speech about the importance of developing democracies. Erik Overland, President of the WFSF welcomed the participants and spoke a few words about the importance of this topic that the conference covered. Below in the video is the prime minister’s speech and Erik’s feature on the development of democracies.
Papers delivered at the conference on the future
of democracy in Reykjavík from February 21 to 23, 2024
Dialogue and Democracies
– Building cultures for the future of democracies.
Tone S. Ringstad. Founder and CEO of Culture Intelligence. She is recognized as a thought leader within values and culture systems from developing business culture over the last 20 years. Her work in leadership culture transformation has been published internationally in the leadership book Positive Organising.
Climate shaping the future of democracy.
Martin Kruse. From Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. Martin Kruse heads the research on environment and resources, as well as foresight and futures studies at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures studies. He is a strategy consultant and foresight analyst experienced in advising top management in various industries on issues of strategic concern.
Paradigms, governance, and institutions shaping tomorrow’s democracies.
Jan Berger. From Themis Foresight. Jan Berger founded Themis Foresight to anticipate economic, technological, social, and political drivers of future change. He and his team are driven by the conviction that outstanding futures research is key for the strategic direction of Europe’s business and entrepreneurial elite. Accordingly, he has injected unique quality standards into the DNA of Themis Foresight’s research ethics for the European region.
AI shaping the futures of democracies.
Róbert Bjarnasson. From Citizen Foundation. Róbert is a successful serial entrepreneur that started the first commercial web companies in Iceland in 1993 and 1995 in Denmark. In 2008 he co-founded the Citizens Foundation, a nonprofit, improving public decision-making with nonprofit civic tech. Before co-founding the Citizens Foundation, he worked in the online gaming industry where his team received many industry awards including two BAFTA awards for video games. Róbert has extensive experience with AI algorithms and 3D software spanning over 30 years.
Participation and the Democratic Potentials of AI and Emerging Technologies: Towards a New Paradigm.
Sævar Ari Finnbogason. From University Bifröst. Sævar is a teacher at the University of Bifröst. Sævar has studied the development of democracy and issues that have influenced its progress.
Al as one of many drivers of change onto a whole new age for humanity & the planet. Implications for Democracy vs Autocracy and for Seven Evolving Aspects of Peace
Linda Groff. Linda is currently Director, Global Options and Evolutionary Futures Consulting, and Emeritus Professor, Political Science & Futures Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she taught for over 40 years. She does talks/workshops, consulting, writing, and teaching,
Etorkizuna Eraikiz (Building the Future) – Innovative program for a more open and collaborative governance.
Ibon Zugasti. Ibon is Partner/Director at PROSPEKTIKER, International Project Manager at LKS MONDRAGON, Board member of the Millennium Project and Deputy Director of Millennium Project and Node Chair in Spain, Deputy Director of the Iberoamerican Foresight Network (RIBER) and Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).
Democracy must continually be reinvented. Social innovation and democracy in transition
Jari Kaivo-oja. From the Finland Futures Research Centre. Adjunct Professor, (Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland), Research Director Jari Kaivo-oja is expert working in the fields of foresight, planning sciences and innovation research. His special fields are foresight and innovation management methods and methodologies in sustainability analyses, in international energy economics and general societal development.
Information Warfare threats to the future of democracy (Video)
Jerome Glenn. From Millennium Project. Jerome is the co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) and lead-author report of The Millennium Project and 18 other State of the Future reports for the past twenty-five years. He was the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations University as executive director of the American Council for the UNU 1988-2007. He has over 50 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Environmental Security, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, Futures Research Methodology, International Telecommunications, and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, Future Options Room, and the Millennium Project.
Free from the Gender Matrix: Unlocking the New Rules to Leadership.
Rúna Magnúsdóttir, Shaping Tomorrow ‘s Leaders Today. Runa is truly a visionary when it comes to brand management and to find your X-factor. Runa is an industry leader in this field and has been mentor, entrepreneur and consultant in field of Innovation.
Some findings from the labs and support papers:
Lab 2. Róbert Bjarnason. Paradigms, governance, and institutions shaping tomorrow’s democracies.
Lab 3. Siv Helen Hesjedal and Hank Kune. Building democracy labs in the future.
Siv Helen Hesjedal at These Ways is a professional futurist, sociologist, and development planner with close to 20 years’ international experience in foresight, public policy and regional development. She has worked as a C-suite executive, researcher, social planner, and facilitator in South Africa. Siv now resides in Norway and works for the German based Themis Foresight.
Hank Kune from Educore has over 40 years’ experience as facilitator, workshop & conference moderator, and developer of methodologies for innovation and change. Systemic and open innovation, orchestrating innovation ecosystems, and developing dedicated innovation-enhancing environments for cross-border collaboration are common themes of this work. He has also published extensively on these issues.
Handout. Connecting Voices & Visions. Conversations between young people and elders in society.
Handout. Democracy and XR Technologies.
Handout. Futures of Democracies. The conference mission statement. Pre conference working paper.
Side event. The Future of Sex and Intimacy 2052. See also a short video below where Ingrid Furtado discusses the topic.
Short videos that deal with the perspectives of the participants and individual results of the conference.