Are you interested in cultural diversity but don’t know how to define it?
We have you covered! Our precise definitions of culture, cultural identity and cultural diversity are arguably the sharpest and most functional definitions of the terms in the world, and we come straight from the world’s biggest cultural policy conference, MONDIACULT 2025 to share them with you.
Read on for more tips on best practices and opportunities that can help you and your community navigate the age of AI, and thrive now and into the future in all your uniqueness!
Table of Contents
- Where Technology Meets Diversity: Practical Insights for Everyone
- A Sharper Collective Understanding
- Australia’s Education Strategies and AI
- Coming up: Tech Show Paris 2025
- Is AI Ready for Human Complexity?
- Study: Who Is in Australia’s Tech Workforce?
- Centering Culture in Science
- Education & Experience New Programs and Projects
- Cultural Infusion Atlas for Schools: FREE Limited Spots
- Highlights for Schools and Communities
- ICAP: Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today
- Refer a Friend and Save!
- Attitude of Gratitude
- Voices of Cultural Infusion
- Calendar Spotlight 3 November, Culture Day
1. Where Technology Meets Diversity: Practical Insights for Everyone
1.1 A Sharper Collective Understanding
The lack of a precise, widely agreed upon definition for cultural diversity creates misunderstanding and confusion, and makes it impossible for anyone to develop strategies that reflect the full complexity of human identity.
Cultural Infusion’s Founder and CEO Peter Mousaferiadis was in Barcelona at the end of September to propose a precise, functional, universal definition of cultural diversity, culture and cultural identity. You can access these definitions in the technical paper we published in the UNESCO Digital Library.
We welcome your active engagement with the ideas in this paper.
1.2 Australia’s Education Strategies and AI
What will determine a nation's ability to thrive in the age of AI? Where do Australia’s education strategies need to focus?
Cultural Infusion’s CTO Rezza Moieni shared his vision for a diverse, AI-fluent future with The Daily Pulse.
1.3 Coming up: Tech Show Paris 2025
Read about our capacity to feel diversity from Peter Mousaferiadis and the role of AI in work culture, inclusion and belonging from Cultural Infusion’s Head of Culture and Innovation Kasia Hayward ahead of their participation at Tech Show Paris.
Registration for Tech Show Paris is free. Just one catch: you must be there in person.
1.4 Is AI Ready for Human Complexity?
Because nothing exists in a vacuum, if our most technologically advanced tools are not holistic they risk erasing human diversity, according to Peter Mousaferiadis in a keynote at the World Diversity in Leadership Conference WODIL 2025 last month in Canada, where he also received the Centre For Intellectual Excellence Inclusive Leadership Award.
This award recognises individuals who have broken barriers, challenged systemic inequities, and set new standards of excellence in leadership, diversity, and innovation.
1.5 Study: Who Is in Australia’s Tech Workforce?
Holistic data can help inform smart recruitment, alert the broader society to potential biases in the tech workforce, and more.
Hot off the press, Tech Reflects Study Volume 2 is using our Atlas data to build up a portrait of who is in Australia’s tech workforce.
From 594 participants, one of the insights the study revealed was disproportionately weak representation in people with Arabic and Vietnamese heritage.
1.6 Centering Culture in Science
Like the fantastic life forms surrounding William Blake's portrait of Isaac Newton, cultures are dynamic, borderless, and interconnected. We're intercultural.
Does science omit the riches of humanity in its pursuit of pure knowledge? In April this year, Peter Mousaferiadis addressed a room of more than 600 scientists on the need to put cultural diversity at the heart of all our scientific endeavours at The Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Summit in Macao.
- Watch full talk (34 mins)
Cultural Infusion is on the cutting edge of research and developing inclusive tools to support your strategies to integrate AI ethically in any setting.
2. Education and Experiences New Programs and Projects
2.1 Cultural Infusion Atlas for Schools: FREE Limited Spots
Bring your school’s cultural story to life!
- Celebrates diversity & promotes global citizenship
- Curriculum-ready lesson plans & activities
- Exclusive ‘Mapped & Measured’ recognition badge
2.2 Highlights for Schools and Communities
2.3 ICAP: Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today
Our Intercultural Citizenship Ambassador Program (ICAP)* is a flexible 4- or 8- week program to equip students with skills required to navigate and lead in an increasingly globalised world.
*Available in VIC only. Free for year 7 or 8 at government schools in VIC.
As final school term approaches, receive 15% off your total booking fees when you book two or more workshops, or refer us to a friend and book together! Simply use the code REFER15 to receive 15% off your next booking.
All bookings also include 3 months’ free access to lesson plans and digital tools via our Learning Lands platform.
2.5 Attitude of Gratitude
Did you participate in the 6th Annual World’s Biggest Gratitude Lesson live online, hosted by Growing With Gratitude?
Cultural Infusion’s Atlas team mapped the cultural diversity of the participants across 18 countries. Atlas collects quantitative and qualitative data. We learned that Australian schools trail the rest of the world in practising gratitude. Keep an eye out for this event next year!
3. Voices of Cultural Infusion
3.1 When Political Violence Is Justified, We All Lose
‘Our future depends on building a culture where difference is celebrated as a gift to share, not a weapon of resistance.’
Whose voices get to shape our society and our values? What sort of society do you want to live in?
Peter Mousaferiadis’s article for the Mandarin, ‘When Political Violence Is Justified, We All Lose’, highlights an unhelpful tendency of the Australian literati to ignore or even tacitly condone calls for violence, while criticising events like Harmony Day.
3.2 Our Differences Can Nurture Us
Cultural Infusion’s new Strategist, Inclusive Experiences Iqra Nasim shares her story of living in Canada.
They say travel broadens your perspective, but sometimes, it breaks it open first! When I moved from Pakistan to Canada in 2023, I thought I understood cultural difference. I had travelled widely before.
Over two years, I learned that belonging sometimes isn’t offered freely, it’s negotiated quietly. I felt the weight of difference in rooms where I spoke the same language but
wasn’t fully heard. I saw how diversity could be applauded publicly yet questioned privately, how communities coexisted but rarely intertwined, and how opportunity often carried unspoken conditions.
Amid those challenges, I forged strong friendships with Indian, Filipino, and Pakistani people who turned everyday discrimination into lessons in resilience, humour, and shared humanity. They reminded me that even when cultures clash, kindness still connects.
Cultural Infusion’s Atlas feels like recognition because it captures the layers of identity that are often hidden and turns them into insights that define how nurturing our differences can be. We all matter and no matter the backlash against diversity, we all count!
3.3 A Girl in Her 20s
Our enterprise hosts interns from all over the world. Each one leaves an impression and fond memories with us, even those who worked with us remotely and we didn’t meet in person.
New Yorker Arielle Colon worked alongside us in our Collingwood HQ earlier this year. Arielle has an amazing gift for expressing through poetry, imagery and writing the depth and range of feelings we all experience around relationships and publishes them in her ‘Girl in Her 20s’ newsletter for all to enjoy.
4. Calendar Spotlight
3 November, Culture Day
Each year on this date, people in Japan come together to celebrate Culture Day, a day dedicated to Japanese culture. It is a significant national event which promotes love of freedom and peace; key pillars of the Japanese constitution.
Why not celebrate and share this day with your students or organisation? We have a range of popular interactive cultural workshops to choose from.
- Japanese Infusion (VIC, NSW, WA, Virtual)
- The Art of Origami (VIC, NSW, WA, QLD)
- Japanese Martial Arts (VIC, NSW, WA)
- Japanese Calligraphy (VIC, WA, QLD) and Japanese Ink Painting (VIC, WA).
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Cultural Infusion has its offices based on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge and pay respect to the past, present and future traditional custodians and elders and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia.