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Expand your (inter)thinking.

What if we unite to reimagine the internet(s) as sustainable networks of knowledge, solidarity and care?

ABOUT BSI

The Billion Seconds Institute

The Billion Seconds Institute is a lifelong learning initiative to organise a network of specialists, advisors and communities of practice to reimagine the ways we understand and shape the mental, social and environmental impacts of the digital economy.

Our aim is to help you expand and activate holistic ways of thinking for today, tomorrow and the next billion seconds.
OUR PURPOSE

Encourage a paradigm shift from users to intercitizens of 🌍

Our aim is to contribute to a transition from the individualism of a user-centric digital economy to the interdependence of digital ecosystems driven by responsible citizens of Planet Earth.

In other words, collectively learn how to become intercitizens.

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OUR COLLABORATORS
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Meet the Intercitizen Council

We are organising a transnational group of specialists and mentors – early believers in our vision – who are helping us shape the open research agenda for the Institute and co-create a collective proposal for a Declaration for Intercitizenships to be published in 2022.

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Anne
Quito [+]

Journalist and design critic. Design reporter at Quartz

Damian
Bradfield [+]

Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of WeTransfer & WePresent. Author of The Trust Manifesto

Dorothy R.
Santos [+]

Writer, artist, educator, and community organizer. Executive Director of Processing Foundation

Eliza
Anyangwe [+]

Storyteller and editor. Founder of The Nzinga Effect

Gauthier
Roussilhe [+]

Designer and researcher working on the effects of the Anthropocene

James
Beacham [+]

Particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Kai
Brach [+]

Publisher & editor of Offscreen Magazine and Dense Discovery

Marleen
Stikker [+]

Founder of Waag Society, a non-profit media lab researching and developing new technology, art and culture.

Michelle
Thorne [+]

Senior Program Officer at the Mozilla Foundation and Managing editor of Branch Magazine

Pia
Mancini [+]

Democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder & CEO at Open Collective and Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation

Sarah
Drinkwater [+]

Former Director of Beneficial Tech at Omidyar Network.

Xiaowei
Wang [+]

Technologist, artist, and writer. Creative director at Logic Magazine. Author of Blockchain Chicken Farm
PUBLIC PROGRAMME

Cultivating holistic ways of thinking.

Internet(s) of Everything

A series of live conversations and podcasts about the socio-ecological dimensions of the digital technologies and infrastructures shaping the most relevant cultural trends of the 2020s.
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Courses & Collaboratories

We are looking for partners to co-develop in-person and remote collective learning experiences in 2022.

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LEARNING NETWORK
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Join our member-supported learning network

The Billion Seconds Institute is a non-profit initiative driven by a long-term purpose with a strong focus on collective thinking and collective action.

This is why our programmes are made possible thanks to the support of hundreds of members and patrons.
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