Within a pop-up Lab roundtable in Zurich we launched the virtual Republic of Responsible Optimists (RORO).
As traditional governance structures globally are challenged by cross-border phenomena such as the climate crisis or data driven organisations that – per their very nature – exceed national, legal control. Simultaneously like-minded human beings form global communities around solution-driven lines of thinking, agnostic of their default citizenships.
With this Systems Change Lab on social citizenship we explored possible overlays and cooperative models at the intersection of the new, emerging global social citizenships and traditional national governance structures. Global identities ask for global values. We started a discussion around these values independent and free of economical or political interest. With our initiative we hope to strengthen the convergence rather than the separation of humane interests in living up to the challenges of our times.