IAAI Workshop

Rio+20

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A Window of Opportunity for a Multi-Stakeholder Partnership on Global Commons Growth"

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UN DPI NGO Conference “Sustainable Societies – Responsive Citizens”

Bonn/Germany, 5. September 2011

Sponsored by

• International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges - IAAI
  

Cosponsored by

• Vienna NGO Committee on the Family
• International Alliance of Women, Equal Rights-Equal Responsibilities

General objective of the workshop:

This workshop will – with a view on Rio+20 objective of improvements in the field of institutional framework for sustainable development – present an integrative conceptual framework for coherent engagement of different sustainable development actors which looks at the different contributions as ‘collaborative wealth generation’. As this collaboratively generated wealth is of interest/benefit for all  humanity (wo&menkind), it can be regarded as ‘global commons’ (‘The Commons is a general term for shared resources in which each stakeholder has an equal interest’, source: http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons ).

At the workshop the idea of a ‘Multi-Stakeholder Partnership on Global Commons Growth’ and a ‘Charter on Shared Social Responsibility for Global Commons’ will be presented and contributions of different stakeholders to global commons growth discussed.

In the context of Rio+20 conference a ‘Multi-Stakeholder Partnership on Global Commons Growth’ and a ‘Charter on Shared Social Responsibility for Global Commons’ are regarded by the workshop organizers as being instrumental for the integration of global public good oriented efforts of public authorities (local, regional, national and international), business sector (e.g. CSR activities), research and education institutions, civil society organizations etc. and contributions of individual global citizens in one common documentation and metrics system. This shall help the promotion of different types of civic engagement (financial contributions, volunteering, activism, capacity building, creative commons/arts, social innovations, …) in line with the Bonn DPI Ngo conference title “Sustainable societies – responsive citizens”.

Moderator:  Miroslav Polzer, International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges Vienna - Ljubljana

Speakers:

• Rosa Anna Weiss – International Alliance of Women, Equal Rights-Equal Responsibilities
• Peter Crowley – International Council on Alcohol and Addictions
• Garagura Billy Batware – United for Education and Development
• Aniko Szalai – University of Szeged & Academic Council on the United Nations System
• N.N., UN Volunteers
• Jean Paul Brice Affana, Youth Focal Point of UNFCCC secretariat & Rio 2012 YSWC coordinator

Further Information (Agenda…)