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| Written by Marie-Anne Delahaut | |
| Sunday, 07 October 2007 | |
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A new network of women futurists addressing global issues,
Millennia 2015, is planning its first international conference in Liège
on March 7 and 8, 2008. Speakers will include Ivana Milojevic and Jan
Lee Martin from Australia. Aim of the network is to unite women from all over the world in a global discussion embracing women’s issues, gender disparities and other challenges, problems and potential solutions. It will use foresight and futures processes and could lead, says the Destree Institute, to building a positive vision of women’s futures by the horizon date of 2015. Entitled "Women, actors of development for the global challenges", the initial conference will be introduced by the European Commissioner Viviane Reding and the World Federation of United Nations Associations Secretary-General Pera Wells. It will take place one century after the first massive actions women organized for their human rights, on the 8th of March 1908, and also commemorates the United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace. Millennia 2015 is in line with the international mission of The Destree Institute, a European research centre based in Wallonia. The Information Society Unit of its think tank participates in the process of the World Summit on the Information Society and takes part to the Internet Governance Forum initiated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Destree Institute works closely with the DG Research and the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission, the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, the French scientific program Vox Internet, the African Civil Society for the Information Society, the Council of French-speaking Women of Belgium, the Support Laboratory for Telematic Learning and the Internet Society, among others. The Scientific Committee of Millennia, composed of high level experts coming from Africa, North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Middle East, is presented on the website http://www.millennia2015.org. More than a new conference, or a new association or a new network, fuelled by new publications and a new website, Millennia 2015 will take the best of all those elements in order to place new milestones to empower women's entrepreneurship at large and on a global level. It is probably the first international process to rely on foresight as a key tool in exploring and setting priorities for women’s future. The conference is planned to cover two days, Friday 7th March (workshops with conclusions) and Saturday 8th March (plenary sessions and memorandum). And it will be followed by others, says the Destree Institute: “The importance of the challenge leads us to already plan a second session in 2011 in Paris (Unesco) and a third one in 2015 in New York (United Nations).” An exhibition and several poster sessions will be organized within the Liège Convention Centre during the conference, as an opportunity for the international participants to valorize their achievements and their networks. A book and a DVD-book will be published, in English and in French, to finalize Millennia's work, as was the case for the results of the international conference "Foresight of the Internet" (http://www.wallonie-en-ligne.net/2005_Prospective-Internet/index.htm). The website of Millennia (http://www.millennia2015.org) will be developed as a long-term collaborative tool that will generate a knowledge database about gender issues. |
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