Global Issues, Government, and Security Sessions at the WorldFuture 2011 Conference

This talk will be divided into two parts. FUTURIST magazine editor Patrick Tucker will first discuss the six months he spent in Japan prior to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

For more than 20 years, Booz Allen Hamilton has been working with industry and academia to discover those innovations at the earliest points in their lifecycle.

In order to establish a system of continuous forecasting of some medium-term indicators in economy, and social sphere. Such indicators as, for example, oil price, are important for the governments in terms of the annual budgeting process and for the community as a whole. Participants will be involved in forecasting simultaneously and independently.

The seeming nonstop occurrence of natural and man-made disasters has highlighted how poorly prepared most communities are to deal with catastrophes. The speaker will present a new, first-generation methodology that allows officials to model and assess the resiliency of a community.

Many cities across the globe are plagued by low efficiency, corruption, high unemployment, high crime, pollution, and low citizen participation in their community. For cities of the future, a dramatic change is needed to ensure optimal allocation of resources and to ultimately provide a higher quality of life for their citizens.

Thirty years ago, China was isolated and depressed. Thirty years from now, barring bad luck or bad leadership, China will be a major power, highly integrated globally, and nearly fully developed.

The case study of a congressional agency will be used to illustrate unique challenges facing the use and development of scenarios in a legislative branch agency.

India now boasts a new 3,600-mile highway known as the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) that links the major cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata. Indian planners hope that this new transportation artery will help launch the nation’s economy into the twenty-first century. There are currently two Indian realities.

This is the third of three papers that focus on the how a small country at the bottom of the planet can use futures studies to develop and design a sustainable future. The first two were presented at the WorldFuture conferences in Chicago (2009) and Boston (2010).