#participation — Public Fediverse posts

To convert a traditional conference into a connection-rich conference, we need to replace lectures with connection-rich sessions

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/how-to-convert-a-traditional-conference-into-a-connection-rich-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #events #participation #connection #SessionIntegration #eventprofs

To convert a traditional conference into a connection-rich conference, we need to replace lectures with connection-rich sessions

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/how-to-convert-a-traditional-conference-into-a-connection-rich-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #events #participation #connection #SessionIntegration #eventprofs

To convert a traditional conference into a connection-rich conference, we need to replace lectures with connection-rich sessions

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/how-to-convert-a-traditional-conference-into-a-connection-rich-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #events #participation #connection #SessionIntegration #eventprofs

To convert a traditional conference into a connection-rich conference, we need to replace lectures with connection-rich sessions

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/how-to-convert-a-traditional-conference-into-a-connection-rich-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #events #participation #connection #SessionIntegration #eventprofs

To convert a traditional conference into a connection-rich conference, we need to replace lectures with connection-rich sessions

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/03/how-to-convert-a-traditional-conference-into-a-connection-rich-conference

#meetings #EventDesign #events #participation #connection #SessionIntegration #eventprofs

https://www.europesays.com/iran/278951/ Tehran Warns Seoul: Any Hormuz Deployment Means Joining the War on Iran #a #against #aggression #amount #and #any #Deployment #direct #Friday #has #Hormuz #in #involvement #Iran #iranian #Islam #Joining #korea #means #Military #of #official #on #participation #political #said #security #senior #Seoul #south #strait #Tehran #that #the #Times #to #War #warned #warns #would

Weitere Laptopspenden aus Deutschland haben Schüler und Schülerinnen an Schulen in Tschernihiv , Ukraine erreicht. Dort ermöglichen sie den Jugendlichen digitale Teilhabe in schwierigen Zeiten.
Danke Ira für die Koordination und Hilfe bei der Logistik. Alles Gute.
#labdoo #ukraine #tschernihiw #chernihiv #laptop #bildung #education #teilhabe #participation
— in Tschernihiw, Oblast Tschernihiw, Ukraine.

Weitere Laptopspenden aus Deutschland haben Schüler und Schülerinnen an Schulen in Tschernihiv , Ukraine erreicht. Dort ermöglichen sie den Jugendlichen digitale Teilhabe in schwierigen Zeiten.
Danke Ira für die Koordination und Hilfe bei der Logistik. Alles Gute.
#labdoo #ukraine #tschernihiw #chernihiv #laptop #bildung #education #teilhabe #participation
— in Tschernihiw, Oblast Tschernihiw, Ukraine.

The new uncomfortable normality
No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

"For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/surging-anxiety-australia-national-security-patriotism-ntwnfb

Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
https://nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-worries-australian-attitudes-national-security-risk-and-resilience

#PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

"In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

She delivered a powerful speech last November:

"Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

your celebrations are colourful, and

your music is present to the ears.’"

"But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe

Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/anne-aly-2025

#SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

Despite the 'dark times'
Reimagine what is possible

Our Time is Now.
" We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life." Zohran Mamdani, NY
>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQDURJbMehc

" To Future Generations
We surely live in dark times.
I came to the cities at a time of disorder
When hunger reigned there.
I came among the people at a time of upheaval
And I rose up in revolt with them..." B.B. >>
https://terencerenaud.com/2016/11/09/a-poem-for-dark-times/

" We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do. "

The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech after being elected NYC mayor >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
#DarkTimes #democracy #work #CostOfLiving #FoodInsecurity #housing #UltraRich #citizens #CivicEngagement #participation #NYC #politics

Designing participation

https://www.cindykohtala.fi/2025/09/28/designing-participation/

There’s still time to join the #Philadelphia #Trans #Wellness #Conference.

#Registration for #virtual #attendance is #required and will close on Aug. 30, but #remote #participation is #free. Brooks expects approximately 500 #online #participants.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pennsylvania #Healthcare #Representation #Culture

https://epgn.com/2024/08/21/theres-still-time-to-join-the-philadelphia-trans-wellness-conference/

♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for #modernizing, #improving, and #strengthening the regulatory system
🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸
said Rachel Weintraub,
executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."

“The bill would restore #Chevron #deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable.

The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment.

And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people
– not just big corporations
– can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”

More than 70 groups in the 🔸Coalition for Sensible Safeguards 🔸are calling on senators to endorse the bill introduced today by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth #Warren (D-Mass.),

👉The House version of the bill -- #HR1507, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. 

Specifically, the bill would…
• Codify #Chevron #deference, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;
• Require #disclosure of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;
• Bar the White House from #unreasonably #delaying essential safeguards;
• Make it a crime for corporations to submit #false #information to regulators;
• Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to #disclose potential #conflicts of interest;
• Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing #public #participation in rulemaking, which will give communities that benefit most from new regulatory protections a much stronger voice in the process, including those that speak languages other than English; and
• Authorize agencies to quickly #reinstate rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/

Une nouvelle œuvre d’art public dans le Quartier latin
⭐ Yann Pocreau a réalisé « Les Diamants irréguliers » en collaboration avec des personnes marginalisées qui fréquentent CACTUS Montréal.
https://actualites.uqam.ca/2024/une-nouvelle-oeuvre-art-public-dans-le-quartier/
#art #culture #CACTUS #société #UQAM #artpublic #Quartierlatin #Montréal #Québec #Canada #solidarité #Diamants #participation #créativité #sculpture

#Pressure #mounting on #NCAA over #transgender #studentathlete #participation #policy.

A group of #transgender #athletes and #allies is asking the #NationalCollegiateAthleticAssociation to #protect #trans and #nonbinary #athletes' place in #NCAA #sports.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Representation #Culture #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia

https://www.axios.com/local/indianapolis/2024/04/29/ncaa-transgender-student-athlete-participation-policy

Orientation towards the common good in cities: The role of individual urban mobility behavior

"Because of the design of cars, the interactions car passengers have with their direct environment are significantly reduced."

"There are few opportunities for interaction between the driver and the environment...Isolation can reinforce individualistic behaviors and cause drivers to reduced opportunities for social and spatial interaction."

"In contrast to motorized individual transport, non-motorized individual transport means active transportation (walking, cycling). Research has shown that this mode of transportation is beneficial for communities (reducing traffic, decreasing noise, and reducing pollution) as well as individuals (increased physical and mental well-being)"

"Through direct interaction with the geographic and topographic environment (different road surfaces, hills and valleys, parks or play streets, etc.), bicyclists develop a rich and extensive cognitive “picture of the city”."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494423001731
#TheCommonGood #participation #walkability #bikeability #transportation #harm #ActiveTransportation #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuel #SensoryStarvation #capsules