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

It is becoming more obvious that many local leaders are not familiar with social and economic trends and weak signals, and, as a result, are often not able to develop effective strategies to address emerging issues that impact the quality of life in their communities. As a result, a process we call “mobile connecting” is evolving.

A panel exploration of the (a) nature of, (b) need for and (c) pathways (strategies) towards the creation of a societal capacity for strategic foresight.

Health equity is likely to be the next civil-rights movement.

Despite the dramatic changes that have occurred over the past half century, government remains deeply rooted in Industrial Age organizational structures.

Highly institutionalized and politicized, these agencies are cursed by inertia. Whether government can change is very much uncertain.

Trendbureau Overijssel was established in 2007 by the Dutch province of Overijssel to make political decision-making in the region more responsive to the challenges of the future.

This panel will highlight current and future trends including (but not limited to) social, economic, technological, environmental, political, and legal arenas that are and should be impacting the vision of policing in the future.

Asia will redraw the map of economic progress over the next 25 years.

Growth is necessary to solve economic and social problems, but harder to achieve as the age of plenty gives way to the age of scarcities. The challenge gives birth to an Asian economic model based on shifting of productivity from the individual to groups, ecological productivity instead of economic productivity, and a reversal to traditional Asian values, which are less materialistic than Western values.

Since March 16, 1802 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has responded to changing defense requirements and played an integral part in the development of the country.