Our complex futures in the 21st century require 21st century strategies. How do you design inclusive strategies that can drive transformations that are fit for the complexities of our upcoming century? How do you do it in ways that take into account the plurality of vision, planetary boundaries, social good, and inclusion and goes beyond just a singular narrative? How might utilising futures and strategic foresight help build flourishing communities and institutions? 

We are at a liminal space - that space between one form of existence and the next. Where our desires, our ideas, our hopes and indeed our dystopias, are imagined in advance, predicted, and laid bare to us, before we can even consciously articulate them, and at times, making our decisions for us before we have made it ourselves. We know by now that our digital futures are Our digital futures are not neutral, though we might be attracted to its possibilities. We relegate the solving and/or mitigation of the complexities of our current and future crisis to technology - “it is the instrument that will save the future of our humanity and our planet” as if it's a logical inevitability.  As if we are relegating the very human nature of making sense and decisions of what information means to us, to our communities and those around us, to the very tools that might be used against those within our social order that don’t wield as much influence or power.TaWe are at a liminal space - that space between one form of existence and the next. Where our desires, our ideas, our hopes and indeed our dystopias, are imagined in advance, predicted, and laid bare to us, before we can even consciously articulate them, and at times, making our decisions for us before we have made it ourselves. We know by now that our digital futures are  This talk will draw on experiences of humanitarian technology deployment and what ethical governance frames might need to be put in place to minimise harm