This week global three thousand focuses on democracy. Democracy it seems is on the decline and just last year sixty seven countries saw setbacks to their citizens Civil Liberties and political rights. The biggest threats to a democratic system are autocrats and populists. Populists insist they speak for the people. Only they say no what is truly right and wrong. They meet tricky questions with simple answers. When democracy is under threat citizens take to the streets Civil Society becomes active using preferably nonviolence as a form of resistance and that requires clear messages and strong symbols. In serbia we need professionals in the field who say their most important weapon is human. Money with new and the other with new. I dont. Believe it but. In protest in life its all the same the person you want to be around is a person can make a law and in our experience the government just didnt know what to do with being mocked because these people in power did just think too highly and to seriously i was along themselves so if you log them they do something stupid. These two men are in a way professional revolutionaries they come from belgrade thats where their careers began. It was the mid nine hundred ninety s. Together with other students in the group or they had a goal to topple then president still but on milosevic and set the stage for free elections their tactic nonviolent resistance much of it based on humor in action. People need to have something to be need to belong to something so creating that impression using humor make you fix kind of things. And then people know actually who you are as well when you are doing something on the streets so it is important to have symbol and to create the brand because then its real of life. Who are symbol was a fish today its been adopted as a logo by their new organization canvas canvas trains and advises activists all over the world and offer seminars on mine. Probably worked with people from i dont know forty fifty Different Countries i lost count completely and this ranges from small student groups fighting for more justice or less rate in their campus to the Large Organizations that are shaking out across the governments across the world our idea is that the skills you bring in a conflict are more important than the conditions so you can have the worst conditions in the world but you have a Skilled Movement then you can get the success to increase the movements chance of success canvas provides protesters with books training materials and background videos human rights education general welfare corruption versus transparency rule of law who do you think is very important but its not only that its also people think. Why because your vision should never be only ules it needs to be a shared vision dont forget that you need people to join you movement and change the society the more people share your vision the move fools loot becomes ok we had the Youth Movement graffiti were the great solution and rock concerts because obviously this is the this is that how you see protest when you are in your teens but then we get a lot of retired people so of course they couldnt march with us in the harsh winter we couldnt invite them to the places where there will be care gas used. But they have a lot of time on their hands so when some of our guys was arrested you get a list of the people who are available that day and then immediately fifty to seventy retired people are calling the Police Station and asking questions and putting pressure so you see you find the place for them in the movement and they are doing something and feel like they are really helping the movement in fact theyre helping the movement they are helping the arrested person. Popovich is team is a small one and the canvas offices are hidden away in a residential area there are eleven true. Enters in all and theyre often on the move heading wherever their skills are needed because the job can be a dangerous one they dont want to be filmed so provides the organisations public face. These. Days hes also taught nonviolent resistance at american universities for over a decade its just very very dangerous thing that i see with the new media is a phenomenon we call click to this so how many polar bears you have saved on facebook this morning by clicking like on a page if you would be turning your computer off in fact it would be helping people advance more developers are won and lost in the real world. Interestingly Climate Change is a topic that doesnt mobilize the masses apparently the more global a problem the less likely people are to feel personally threatened. Its time for activists its time for helping activists across the world its time for international fully god give the people who define the muckle see but its also time for people in the west to wake up from their a comfortable dream that democracy is something that is for granted for them there is no we the more proceed without society that is alive and kicking. Two museums proved themselves similarly defiant in late two thousand and ten when they ousted their dictator ben ali. The event sparked the socalled arab spring a series of protests and uprisings against rigid political systems which spread throughout the arab world most were brutally cost or ended in civil war. Into musea it was mainly young people who demonstrated against the countrys social inequality and corruption the first free elections took place in october two thousand and eleven and the less the fledgling democracy is still finding its feet. Twenty eight year old see ads arrive from china as a child of the revolution. I was there for the protests in two thousand and nine when ben ali was still dictator. A lot of people students in particular were detained at the university and thrown in prison. Thats why they chose to campaign for my people. I decided to fight for a different tune easier with democratic values. In the wake of the arab spring zero zero zero and his fellow campaigners founded what they called the alternative Youth Network known by its french acronym r. A j. They campaign for Environmental Protection jobs and political change there are big problems in the Country Economic growth has slowed and terrorism is still attracting too many young people youth unemployment stands at more than thirty percent in tunisia and the political situation remains unstable. Convinced that n. G. O. S can bring about as much change as a political party. With politics you get tied up in the election process. Takes so much effort. Into new zealands have just had enough of politicians. Especially after the revolution when we had more than one hundred and twenty parties. Today the activists and other n. G. O. S are meeting with the minister of the environment. That discussing perforations for the un Climate Change conference in november jemele. Ziad says this never happened under the dictator politicians actually discussing things with young people. Is on one. They have only grown to play and galvanizing other people said ok finally take notice of Climate Change. It has to become part of Public Discourse and every single citizen needs to be aware of what. Do you do sequoia the vasaline on. The ad says peoples relationship with politics is still far from what he thinks it should be. The country is still in transition. Mikami. At least we can discuss things directly with ministers these days and thats definitely a start. See the. Nonetheless theres a feeling of disillusion among these Young Democrats because power stays in the same hands. We still have to endure a class of our politicians who are clinging to power. There you go turned over to the younger generation. Never heard you believe politicians that young just want to leave the country or still it school or university and arent capable of governing or making decisions. Over the last the young who have brought about change here you see miley acknowledge earnestly that felix was more. The answer i say as in the future as well that he will change and change unless the young people remain engaged and committed. Womens involvement is key to change too and that all starts with their representation in parliament Northern European countries have the greatest percentage of women in politics in the rest of the world the figures are increasing only slowly in Subsaharan Africa its around twenty three point six percent and thats partly down to quotas that figure is also roughly the global average. We head to senegal to meet women who have to fight hard for their right to make a change. In the young mind is the organizer of this project planting a special kind of grass and eucalyptus uplinks which help desalinate the soil she also brought together the women who are implementing the project and got the local foresters involved its not been possible to grow crops here for two decades the soil is just too salty what they. Let me go i wanted to but when i was a child we grew our own rice here in joe friday and never had to buy any the same with peanuts and millet but. The problem is the rising sea level salt water is invading and destroying more and more fertile land this dike was built five years ago and provide some relief money works for an environmental n. G. O. S he advises the women and help them get funds from the un backed Green Climate fund he also helps farmers here. Love the Vegetable Growers also want to benefit from the father told me what can it do for them they need to acquire new skills youve helped us so far but you must leave us alone now there is more to do the money for this project did not come from senegal but from an international fund. You know you know. The soil the women a working on is still salty but they want to find out whether they can already resume farming here. Theyve planted a small patch of rice as an experiment. Or theyll know in about two months if the soil is recovering and will yield a crop. A tanker truck suddenly appears the driver has evidently just dumped a load of human waste yaman vi is really angry. Its a problem so its destructive it disrupts the ecological balance its toxic. To. The truck doesnt have a number plates and a driver wants to hide his face in the forest a moment to sign you know is also a lieutenant in the army he takes the drivers idea drivers license and escorts the truck to the Police Station. Young man d. I. I. Goes to see the mayor. Yes you know man well not here but your. Mama do son youre also shows up. Pictures her ideas is that. We were able to build the dike with money from the fund dipper now we want the local authority has to help us make use of the dike now its that. You get young people involved that i would let many youngsters have already helped women plant trees. I applied to have water pipes laid to the plots of the young vegetable farmers. And as far as the dice so that we could have enough water there. That would help the sale and use the soil even more but they rejected my application it was. So ya monday i a wont get any more help here. In fact the mayor says he has no more money to spend and asks how he might get some from the Green Climate fund. Despite all the difficulties the women have already achieved a lot a year ago the local authority gave ya mind ya is womens cooperative the land theyve been working on it has been waste ground the forty women share the four hectare plot. Up an even match and volcanoes off to the rainy season in the diners are going to drill a well and teach the women how to grow vegetables. Then though really get to work. Women in senegal are at a great disadvantage because only men inherit land its an exceptional opportunity for this womens collective to earn their own money here. In the evening they ride to the coast where they planted mangroves two years ago this too is a project for which he got support from the climate fund. The women cotton plant shoots from their burgeoning mangroves. Its hard work but this reforestation project is bearing fruit. Migratory birds stop by again and shellfish have come back. Young man d. I. s thinking about farming oysters among the mangroves. That would combine Environmental Protection with female empowerment and what could prove to be a profitable business. To see patients and voting are key characteristics of a modern democracy democracy gives people a voice including minorities it involves political opposition freedom of opinion and the press all citizens of bound by a constitution which protects basic rights as a division of powers and everyone is equal before the law. In sweden its precisely this democracy which is celebrated for a week every year. It isnt easy to find somewhere to stay during the darwin week the lucky ones find a spot in a classroom its a bit like a Music Festival but this is a political event this classroom is being shared by the green party and the liberals. Twenty three year old law student oscar mark is a member of the youth wing of the center right liberal party. This. Week off. Center for the sign at the event takes place about one hundred kilometers off the east coast of sweden on the island of gotland in the medieval harbor city of his b. Its like a Company Team Building exercise where you go on a retreat to bond with your colleagues. The change of pace and scenery fosters a feeling of common purpose. Seminars and discussions start early in the morning and continue all day. Yes and as we get this closeness between each other its very easy to reach me as a politician as mayor of them and its very easy to to really see every bit of this footage so its a very good way to actually get politicians near the people because i think that is what democracy and so weve done it. Grows from. It all started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when future Prime Minister all off tomah got up on the back of a jeep and spoke to a couple of hundred people in on the dollar and park. When his social democrats started organizing political seminars here in the one nine hundred eighty s. Other parties followed organizing events here as well madonna and weeks started growing into the phenomenon it is today the men who are here at the coffee and i think its. About forty thousand people are here to talk about political issues socialize and share ideas even though rain hasnt dampened the mood. Today the social democrats are presenting their Draft Program in the park all eight of the parties represented in parliament to get their turn. Before the next round of discussion about the Global Climate catastrophe osca takes a quick break he says one goal of on the government is to change our understanding of political debate going to do a metaphor on debating. Metaphor its more like your words are ammunition never when you have a looser and i think thats in some of the great uncomfy for political hate or any discussion because when you meet and youre not a person and having a discussion you have one of her two to walk away from that learn to having learned something that. You didnt know before the speaker political scientist steep gun loon friend agrees that this is the im a doll in way this is a part of the swedish model we were confident that hasnt had a proper rhythm and since seven things out for yourself. You know if theres a conflict we here ought to discuss it over a cup of coffee or a good set lets discuss that later on that side the couple. Said so you could see the swedish model is more of. The rectitude you know trying to find solutions pragmatic. But there are some who criticize on the doubt that some complained that its become a leader in much too commercial they say its now the Media Outlets that dictate the agenda not the politicians. But International Interest in this swedish invention is on the rise. And democracy is the big. Everyone says this will easily but it is more like this is more a way youll flipping and we dont need to talk much we need to practice democracy in a way realize. Its the end of a second on the dollar an experience. This is a concept. So people could try and come together from different parts or Government Society and business and thats something that is worth spreading across the globe. Festivals modeled on the dollar never already started in norway a stone and denmark. This is the deutsch is museum in munich germanys museum devoted to masterpieces of science and technology we are here to meet somebody ms written about the dangers posed by ai and big data yvonne hosts data is a lawyer and c. E. O. Of an i. T. Company she says new technologies and social media are a threat to democracy. Dengs the i fought on the im field a small smartphones were introduced just ten years ago steve jobs presented apples first i phone in two thousand and seven i since then society has changed radically and its not just changed in a way that we decided on in a democratic fashion visor u. T. V. A democrat up custom ted. Ramsey emails first sentence when he was sending emails on your smartphone data are being gathered on who you talk to who your contacts are the state of your finances us alice all the data are just gathered and stored somewhere the information is integrated to create a profile of. Amount of profile is sold and traded on this is proof you can make money out of you one hundred mit you have a living to go for it and jesus puffy the spirit name must kind of profile doesnt capture your entire life that i was a person. So what does it daisy a profile that is rather like forensic profiling in the search for a perpetrator list expenses and im going to profile is generated by ted up. In all the things you click on your life even if you dont actually post or write anything yourself on the internet youll still be profiled for example or facebook or twitter. Or profiles in facebook of twitter. This with a half. Last autumn were going to inferences are made about whether youre a good citizen or about one a good tax credit worthy or not and so on and so forth. And if the information ends up in the hands of your employer or Health Insurer or the state it could mean massive problems for you down the road until massive knock to ten dense