An informal network of people, institutions and movements seeking the changes needed to act together on the future, creating social dynamics and inventing new forms of collective action.
Biography:
Since the late 80s, a wide range of social actors from different backgrounds in different parts of the world have been leading numerous initiatives to help organize a vast global process, likely to contribute to the search for values, proposals and rules to overcome the new challenges facing humanity.
In the early 90s, several partners of the FPH (Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind) organized continental, thematic and socio-professional meetings that opened up the work they had already initiated to other initiatives, actors, spaces and cultures. This process culminated in 1993 in the drafting of the Platform for a Responsible and United World.
1996: First meeting of worksite coordinators and adoption of a common timetable centering the work of the end of the century on the formulation of proposals involving decisive changes in our lifestyles and management systems from the local to the global level.
1997: Several regional and international meetings produce initial practical proposals.
2000 and 2001: Concrete proposals, collectively developed around converging citizen dynamics.
- Four simultaneous continental meetings (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe) and a regional meeting in the Middle East, in June 2001
- A World Citizens' Assembly, Lille (France), December 2001
- Multilingual edition of Cahiers de propositions pour le 21ème siècle (Proposals for the 21st century)
- Drawing up a Charter of Human Responsibilities.
2002-3: The Cahiers de propositions are widely distributed, and the Charter of Human Responsibilities is backed by an international team for worldwide distribution and translation into different cultures.
- 6-month Internet debate on how to build a culture of peace after the September 11 attacks in New York (Dec. 2001 - June 2002)
- Debate on the possibility of setting up a two-year World Parliament for the 21st century on the Internet (Oct 2002 - Oct 2004)
- Internal cross-sectional internet evaluation of the Cahiers de propositions using the Delibera participatory process (October 2002 - July 2003]
- Internal debate on allies' own assessment of the Alliance, their visions, proposals and plans for the future (April 2003).
2004-07: For the 2004 World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai (India), and the 2005 WSF in Porto Alegre (Brazil), allies and allied networks are coordinating their activities to achieve greater impact, and are also attempting to introduce into the WSF some methodological approaches to create a WSF memory and better valorize the richness of this annual global civil society event.
The Alliance's Constitutive Charter is adopted, amended on the basis of contributions from participants. (...)
In keeping with leading-edge thinking on governance, the Alliance is expanding under the effect of massive decentralization and becoming an Alliance of alliances.
In 2007, the new entity was named Infocom21.
