I hope that as a result of the dialogue leading up to basecamp and at basecamp itself, participants will express a strong interest and make a commitment to engage in joint efforts to:
- Identify and even action, new ways to measure diversity. Ways that move beyond age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and move towards including measurements of thought diversity and ancestral tradition.
- Identify and audit existing government and organisational policies and practices to understand gaps in current practice, and opportunities to change and add to them so we can bring about the type of diversity needed to effect fundamental social, economic and environmental change to the forefront of policy-making and business leadership.
- Identify opportunities which improve D&I initiatives within the current system. i.e. include those still left behind, in particular those with different intelligence (dyslexic, autistic), older people, women, ethnic minorities of African and Caribbean descent. That we become more constructively critical of the principles, practices and measurements of D&I
- Imagine a new system; using D&I not as a means to support business as usual (what I'm calling "organisational colonialism") but as a means to achieve UK and global equality and sustainability rather than profitability alone
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INPUT REQUEST #5: Action Options
- What do you think of the potential action options presented?
- What additional action options or critical questions are missing, and that you would like to have addressed in this dialogue?