After a short global briefing drawn from the 2011 State of the Future, results of other research from The Millennium Project will be shared and discussed with the audience. The United Nations is planning to create world water scenarios; the last set were produced 10 years ago. The Millennium Project has produced the international research for the new set of scenarios with UNESCO; results will be shared and discussed with the audience.
Collective Intelligence is becoming a buzzword around the world, as many are beginning to explore how to create or improve it. Two approaches will be shared: one for an early warning system for the Prime Minister’s Office of Kuwait and another for the Global Climate Change Situation Room in South Korea. New advances with the State of the Future Index (SOFI) and environmental security will also be discussed.
Who should attend: Those who would like to explore a framework to understand global change and prospects for building a better future; future-oriented consultants who want updates on futurist research projects and innovations; teachers of futures studies looking for course materials; and policy advisors in governments, international organizations, businesses, and NGOs, who need new insights on global challenges.
What you’ll learn: Participants will learn about global futures research projects in water, environment, applications of collective intelligence, and an executive overview of the global challenges and the state of the future index as frameworks for thinking about the future and understanding global change.
How this new knowledge can be applied: You can apply this knowledge by creating a collective intelligence and/or a state of the future index in your own organization, by consulting to other organizatons to create their own systems, and by adding this as a subject in university instruction. The global water scenario research, global challenges, and environmental security can be used as input to your strategic planning process, and as content for teachers of futures courses.
Jerome C. Glenn, executive director, The Millennium Project; co-editor, Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0; co-author, 2011 State of the Future, Washington, D.C.
Theodore J. Gordon, senior fellow, The Millennium Project and inventor of the Real-Time Delphi; co-editor, Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0; co-author, 2011 State of the Future, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Elizabeth Florescu, director of research, The Millennium Project, and co-author, 2011 State of the Future, Washington, D.C.
key words: United Nations, world water scenarios, collective intelligence, international economy, futures, methodologies, global challenges, environmental security, state of the future index
issue areas: Futures Methodologies, Governance and Security