Founder of the Dunia platform, essayist.

The seeds of an Illuminism 2.0

  Pluto and his cornucopia had dreamed of it. Information spread across the world like a prodigal and unlimited stream of immaterial resources accessible to everyone. Combined with the human hand and mind, the network and the microprocessor opened wide the door to the third industrial age and the information age. It was the inevitable…

The hybrid siege of the West

  It is an almost taken-for-granted idea that what we call the West is in relative decline. From an invincible West and a Europe controlling most of Asia or Africa in 1914, what remains today is a “de-Europeanized” configuration on a profoundly changed global chessboard. China and other powers have contributed to the design of…

Dunia takes stock and changes its compass…

  Dunia draws lessons from ten years of action-observation in contact with different socio-political and geo-cultural environments. The harsh and multipolar world calls for a new frame of reference for thought and action. Conceiving such a frame of reference implies an arduous and demanding effort of adaptation, in order to keep up with the shifting…

Strategic Perspectives of the Global Forum for Social and Solidarity Economy (Dakar – GSEF 2023)

Dunia’s contribution to a transversal reading of systematized contents of the Forum.   1. Methodology   The present analysis is based on scientific methods of qualitative investigation. Stage 1: the reports of each session generated a primary verbatim (2,300 statements for the whole forum), structured according to four analysis categories, namely 1. main points raised;…

Perspectives to Relink the “Digital” with Social Justice

François Soulard – Dunia Platform Michel Volle – economist, Iconomy Institute Introduction For thirty years, the digital revolution has been breaking down the walls that have somehow kept contemporary economy in balance with rights and social justice. From inequalities, predation and new forms of dependency on network intelligence to the contradictions between automation, employment and…