Welcome to the What Next? website!
This is the very beginning of an exciting journey, building on the most amazing network of old and new friends... taking the ideas, perspectives and spirit of the What Next work further in the struggle for social change, equity, environmental sustainability and Another Development.
What Next is about ideas. Alternative ideas that question mainstream views on development. Ideas that lead to action for change. Ideas that has the power to tranform. New Ideas.
What Next is about people and connecting individuals, institutions and movements. The convening of people across issues, movements, continents and backgrounds is key to distill new ideas, understanding and to mobilise for change.
What Next is about change. From an equity, gender, environment, climate and development perspective, this is all clear: The world needs to undergo drastic transformations over the coming decades. How can this happen? How can civil society and other actors become much more effective in driving the necessary change?
What Next is about thinking differently. What are new ideas? What's around the corner? What do we need to anticipate already now that we haven't though about before? What are scenarios for the future? What Next?
What Next carries on work in the tradition of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation's seminal project and undertaking 'What Now: Another development' from 1975. 'What Now' shaped the work of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation for many decades, and broke new ground for alternative development thinking. The core principles of 'Another Development' are still valid and provided the departure point for the 'What Next' project as it was initiated thirty years after 'What Now'.
The What Next initiative spins off to take What Next forward. It will build further on ideas and perspectives, as well as the working spirit and close collaboration with colleagues and friends that shaped the work by Niclas Hällström, Olle Nordberg and colleagues at the Foundation over many years and decades. Several projects are in the making… many are yet to emerge – through the convening of people and ideas.
