Global Futures Collective Intelligence System
How should futures research be integrated to improve global, national, corporate, and local decision making, while taking into account the many contradictory views and methods? Collective intelligence is an emergent property from the synergies among human brains, information, and software that continually learns from feedback to make better decisions than these three elements acting alone.
The Millennium Project is integrating its State of the Future reports, futures research methodology series, State of the Future Indexes, futures matrix, discussion groups, real-time Delphi, and other software into a global futures collective intelligence system. Drawing on its experince in creating collective intelligence systems in South Korea, Kuwait, and Malaysia, The Millennium Project has created a new platform. Futurists, think tanks, and others will be invited to participate.
After a short global briefing drawn from the 2012 State of the Future, results of other research — such as the future of the food industry — will be shared as an example of how that can be added to the emerging global collective intelligence on the future.
Participants will leave this session with an understanding of:
- Global futures research projects on food, water, environment, and applications of collective intelligence.
- The Global Challenges and the State of the Future Index as frameworks for thinking about the future and understanding global change.
- How the global futures collective intelligence system can be used as input to your strategic-planning process and a new avenue to share your research and assessments of future possibilities.
Jerome C. Glenn, executive director, The Millennium Project; co-editor, Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0; co-author, 2012 State of the Future, Washington, D.C., USA
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, 2012 State of the Future, Washington, D.C., USA
