#civicintelligence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #civicintelligence, aggregated by home.social.
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Authoritarianism doesn’t begin only with bad leaders, dangerous ideologies, or manipulated information.
It also grows in emptiness: in closed youth centres, underfunded libraries, commercialised public squares, and feeds that replace conversation with performance.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/where-do-we-gather-the-geography?r=6l8ed8
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #PublicSpace #Belonging #DigitalDemocracy #AIAndSociety #SocialInfrastructure #DemocraticResilience
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This clip starts with a simple question — who decides how much work is too much?
But behind that question is a bigger one: what does Europe look like when rights move from legal text into ordinary life?
Rest, dignity, limits, protection: this is where policy becomes personal.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/eu-working-time-directive-explained?r=6l8ed8
#EUinPractice #CivicEducation #WorkersRights #WorkLifeBalance #SocialEurope #CivicIntelligence #REDefine
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A moment passes without consequence. Then another. Harm is renamed procedure. Cruelty becomes firmness. Restraint becomes hesitation.
This essay reflects on how language shapes the moral environment around power, dignity, and accountability.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/before-the-violence-there-were-speeches?r=6l8ed8
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #HumanRights #Accountability #PoliticalDiscourse
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Many children think in quieter, slower, messier, more careful, more observant, more imaginative ways.
Our latest REDefine essay explores why this matters for girls’ STEM confidence, and why belonging has to be built long before subject choices begin.
Read the full essay here:
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/before-she-decides-she-is-not-a-science-kid?r=6l8ed8#GirlsInSTEM #STEMEducation #Education #GenderEquality #WomenInSTEM #EarlyLearning #CivicIntelligence #ChildrensBooks #InclusiveEducation #REDefine
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Before a girl decides she is “not a science kid,” she may already have received years of quiet messages about what kind of intelligence counts.
Our new REDefine essay explores girls’ STEM confidence, early stereotypes, emotional safety, and why every child deserves to see her curiosity as a strength.
#GirlsInSTEM #STEMEducation #GenderEquality #Education #CivicIntelligence #WomenInSTEM #EarlyLearning #ChildrensBooks
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Santarém will host our upcoming CareLink training, bringing partners from four countries together to improve mental health support for disaster-affected youth and communities.
After the storms and floods that hit Santarém this winter, the location carries real meaning.
Grateful to the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém for hosting us and joining this work.
#CareLink
#YouthMentalHealth
#DisasterRecovery
#CommunityResilience
#MentalHealth
#CivicIntelligence
#YouthWork
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Too often, young people are invited to participate only after the system has already been built.
Real youth-led change begins when they can reshape the rules, not just comment on them.
Peace is not something we ask the next generation to inherit.
It is something they should be allowed to redesign.
#PeaceEducation #YouthLedChange #CivicEducation #SystemsThinking #DemocracyEducation #CivicIntelligence #YouthParticipation #EmpathyInAction #SocialInnovation #REDefine
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So often, women’s safety is framed as personal responsibility: be careful, stay alert, don’t go alone.
But CindyUp asks a better question: why do we keep asking women to adapt to unsafe environments instead of redesigning the environments themselves?
Innovation can be care. Sometimes, it glows under UV light.
#CivicInnovation #WomenSafety #DesignJustice #Youth #SocialInnovation #STEM #CivicIntelligence #Women #Womenempowerment
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Empathy is not a soft extra. It is a warning system.
It tells us where a process is failing before the dashboard does, where people are being lost between forms, platforms, policies, and polite automated replies.
#CivicIntelligence #Empathy #SystemsThinking #DigitalGovernance #HumanCenteredDesign #AlgorithmicGovernance #PublicInterestTech #Ethics #REDefine
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Some emergencies begin with weakened systems.
We are organising the DINARA-WELVET workshops: practical One Health sessions on biodiversity, zoonotic risks, public health, and preparedness.
Initially planned for Portugal, we will now hold more workshops to include Africa and America too.
#OneHealth #DINARAWELVET #Biodiversity #PublicHealth #EcosystemHealth #ZoonoticDiseases #ClimateResilience #EUProjects #CapacityBuilding #CivicIntelligence
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Many of us still treat privacy as a personal habit: stronger passwords, cleaner settings, fewer things shared.
But privacy is also about power: who gets to know, classify, predict, influence, and decide what happens next.
The fight for privacy is a fight for rights.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8
#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #DataRights #DigitalFreedom #CivicRights #TechAndSociety #Surveillance #OnlinePrivacy #CivicIntelligence
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Yesterday, I experienced discrimination and exclusion due to a medical condition in an EU-funded project.
The “inclusivity” option offered was to be “replaced.”
This is why rights literacy matters. Exclusion often arrives dressed as practicality.
A longer reflection and practical guide are coming. Today, just this reminder:
#Humanrights #RightsLiteracy #EUCharter #FundamentalRights #Inclusion #Discrimination #CivicIntelligence
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We know enough to be worried. We understand enough to see the pattern. We care enough to be affected.
But we do not have enough power to feel agency.
Our new essay is about that gap: between awareness and agency, information and orientation, witnessing and repair.
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #DigitalCulture #NewsFatigue #SystemsThinking #Sensemaking #MentalHealth #PublicLife #MediaLiteracy #InformationOverload #EmotionalArchitecture #Resilience
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Some forms of peace are built for the cameras. Others are built to survive the morning after.
This piece reflects on the difference between political spectacle and the harder, slower work of building trust, legitimacy, and durable peace.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/peace-for-our-time?r=6l8ed8
#Multilateralism #Peacebuilding #Diplomacy #CivicIntelligence #InternationalRelations #Democracy #Geopolitics #Substack
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One of the biggest myths in civic life is that feelings are somehow separate from governance, education, technology, or peacebuilding.
They aren’t.
Anger tells us where justice has failed. Fear shows us where trust has broken. Burnout reveals where the design is asking too much of the human nervous system.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/peace-but-make-it-systemic-a-blueprint-161?r=6l8ed8
#PeaceEducation #CivicIntelligence #SystemsThinking #EmotionalIntelligence #DemocracyEducation #YouthParticipation #CivicDesign #MediaLiteracy #Education
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A promise can circulate beautifully before anyone asks what design would make it real.
That gap between moral language and material consequence is where public trust begins to thin.
This piece is about coherence as leadership: keeping words, responsibility, and reality in the same frame.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/coherence-is-a-form-of-leadership?r=6l8ed8
#Coherence #Leadership #CivicIntelligence #PublicLife #Democracy #Accountability #Participation #InstitutionalTrust #SystemsThinking #Redefine
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Do the places where we live and work have enough infrastructure for sustainable entrepreneurship — not just funding and desks, but trust, mentorship, belonging, and room to prototype?
Casa do Impacto made that question feel urgent.
Democracy needs places where better futures can be rehearsed.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/casa-do-impacto-where-change-has?r=6l8ed8
#CivicIntelligence #SocialInnovation #SustainableEntrepreneurship #Democracy #CivicInnovation #Youth4Peace #Lisbon #ImpactEntrepreneurship
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The EU Democracy Campus brings together educators, facilitators, and young people to experiment with how democratic thinking can actually be practiced.
Not taught in theory, but shaped in real spaces.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/practicing-democracy-virtual-parliament?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web#Democracy
#CivicIntelligence
#DemocracyEducation
#PublicReasoning
#CivicSpaces
#Deliberation
#SystemsThinking
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We call it strength.
But it doesn’t land the same on everyone.
Some people are allowed to break.
Others are expected to carry on.This piece follows that difference, and what it reveals about care, power, and who gets to be human in public.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-world-runs-on-other-peoples-strength?r=6l8ed8
#CivicIntelligence
#CarePolitics
#SocialJustice
#Inequality
#EmotionalLabor
#Resilience
#SystemsThinking
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Reform fails not because people resist change, but because institutions inherit decades of emotional and procedural memory.
This video explains the ghost layer: the invisible structure that absorbs, dilutes, or reinterprets reform before it ever reaches citizens.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/illegible-systems-why-institutions?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#SystemsThinking
#Governance
#InstitutionalReform
#CivicIntelligence
#Democracy
#PublicPolicy
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An essay about fragmentation, power, and the quiet design failures reshaping democracy.
This piece isn’t about why people are ‘turning authoritarian.’ It’s about what happens when the spaces that teach democratic life disappear and what we must build instead.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/where-do-we-gather-the-geography?r=6l8ed8#CivicIntelligence #Democracy
#PublicSpace #Belonging
#Authoritarianism
#DemocraticResilience #SystemsThinking
#Digital #AIGovernance
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Much of the debate on strategic autonomy focuses on capabilities and positioning. This piece starts from a different question: what kinds of societies are able to hold power without fragmenting?
The essay explores strategic autonomy as a developmental threshold and asks what Europe, and perhaps other regions too, still need to build.
#StrategicAutonomy #EuropeanUnion #Democracy #CivicIntelligence #SystemsThinking #globalgovernance #democraticresilience #politics
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Calm is not always a sign that things are working.
Often, it’s a sign that the costs have been moved: into the future, into the margins, into lives we don’t see.This essay explores borrowed calm: how modern systems maintain stability by postponing consequences, and why misreading that calm is becoming one of our most expensive mistakes.
#SystemsThinking #CivicIntelligence #Leadership #ClimateJustice #GlobalInequality
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Some classrooms teach facts. Others teach citizenship.
In Portugal, Ginásio do Empreendedor is reimagining education as civic rehearsal — where failure is data, teamwork is progress, and creativity is a democratic act.
🟣 Read → https://redefine.pt/2025/10/08/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ginasio-do-empreendedor/
#education #Youth4Peace #CivicIntelligence #SocialInnovation #democracy #Europe
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Democracy isn’t inherited — it’s rehearsed.
At Casa do Impacto in Lisbon, Youth4Peace showed what civic imagination looks like in practice: education, innovation, and empathy in motion.
🔗https://redefine.pt/2025/10/06/rehearsing-democracy-youth4peace-lisbon/
#Youth4Peace #RehearsingDemocracy #CivicIntelligence #SocialInnovation #democracy #Lisbon #erasmusplus #YouthLeadership #CivicTech #EdTech #EuropeanUnion #CivicEngagement
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The first international symposium on educating for collective intelligence. This Thursday!! https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/collective-intelligence-edu-2024/
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Are we bypassing the Anthropocene and going straight into the Cybercene?? My new article has been published: Tools of Our Tools? Exploring the Cybercene Conjecture
Are we seeing the dawning of a new epoch?
The Cybercene Epoch draws nearer as the computing complex creates more and more people in its own image, “tools of their tools,” as Thoreau had forewarned in 1854.https://doi.org/10.1145/3654437 @FrankPasquale @pluralistic @sigchi @sigcas #socialresponsibility #anthropocene #CivicIntelligence
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You may have seen this — a fascinating and enlightening study on ancestral links between slave-owners and elected officials. Even Obama!! What do we do with it... Memory and Responsibility. #civicIntelligence #History https://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/memory-and-responsibility https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
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Inspiring (and useful) story of #CivicIntelligence in #Seattle Girl Scout Troop in homeless shelter #resilience https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/washingtons-first-homeless-shelter-based-girl-scout-troop-is-back-in-business
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Looks like Exxon-Mobil was very knowledgeable about climate change. Years and years ago. High prescience score, Lowest of the Low ethics score. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063 #Agnotology #civicintelligence #civicignorance