Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
We see a gathering tsunami of emerging (and converging) corporate technologies being super-charged by increasingly rapid developments in digital/AI, bioengineering and geoengineering technologies. The new corporate constellation of a few men with vast personal wealth operating within the existing hegemonic capitalist financial system is also being used to influence key governmental policy-making spaces, sidelining democratic processes and excluding civil society.
ETC Group’s role as a tech/corporate watchdog is needed more than ever, as is our contribution to civil society’s defence of just and ecological agri-food systems and the web of life. We are focused on challenging the false solutions and slick corporate narratives being used to extract profit. Together with our social movement allies we are reimagining other ways of thinking and being, based on peoples’ real solutions.
Following our strategic and operational planning meeting in Madrid, we are renewed and reinvigorated. We are creating a strategy and team that will optimise our thematic and geographic capacities for the years to come, underpinned by a stronger organisational structure and culture which can ensure the integrity and needs of our organisation and all involved.
