the millennium project is global... geographically institutionally disciplinarily research focus
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The Millennium Project Is Global...
Geographically
Institutionally
Disciplinarily
Research Focus
Millennium Project
… May Become a Transinstitution
Millennium Project Nodes... are groups of experts and institutions that connect global and local views in:
Nodes identify participants, translate questionnaires and reports, and conduct interviews, special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training.
• Create a global and on-going capacity to improve thinking about the future
• Make that thinking available through a variety of media for consideration in
• policymaking
• advanced training
• educational curricula
• public education
• Continually respond to feedback, to accumulate wisdom about potential futures
The Purpose of the Millennium Project
Current Research and Training Activities
• Global Climate change Situation Room
• UN World Water Scenarios
• Latin America 2030 Scenario Research
• Prime Minister of Kuwait's Early Warning System
• Monthly International Environmental Security Reports
• Online Futures Research concepts and methods course
• Updating and Improving 15 Global Challenges
• Experiments in Second Life
• Future of Ontologists and their Education
• Global Millennium Prize
• State of the Future Index (both global and national SOFIs)
• Experiments with Collaborative & Collective Intelligence Software
Both Futures Research Methods and Content
39 chapters
15 Global Challenges–the Agenda Today
Challenge 1: How can sustainable development be achieved for all while
addressing global climate change?
Challenge 2: How can everyone have sufficient clean water without
conflict?
Challenge 3: How can population growth and resources
be brought into balance?
Challenge 4: How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
Challenge 5: How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term
perspectives?
Challenge 6: How can the global convergence of information and
communications technologies work for everyone?
Challenge 7: How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between
rich and poor?
Challenge 8: How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be
reduced?
Challenge 9: How can the capacity to decide be improved
as the nature of work and institutions change?
Challenge 10: How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic
conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
Challenge 11: How can the changing status of women improve
the human condition?
Challenge 13: How can growing energy demands be met safely and
efficiently?
Challenge 14: How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated
to improve the human condition?
Challenge 15: How can ethical considerations become more routinely
incorporated into global decisions?
Challenge 12: How can transnational organized crime
networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated
global enterprises?
Mou’s Between Nodes and The Millennium Project
Private Companies in•Tokyo (aerospace)•Berlin (futures planning) •Buenos Aires (futures planning)•Silicon Valley (USA) (venture capital)•New Delhi (futures, strategy planning)
NGOs in•Venezuela (WFS chapter)•Mexico (new NGO as Node)•Kuwait (non-profit research institute)France (futurist network)•So. Korea (Korea 2050 futurist org)•U.K. (RSA – professional org)•Azerbaijan (futurist association)•Turkey – (futurists association)•Slovenia – (Bled Forum on Europe)
Government Institutions•Russian Academy of Natural Sciences•Chinese Academy of Natural Sciences•Chinese Academy of Social Sciences•Slovakian Academy of Sciences•Azerbaijan Ministry of Communications•Dubai Knowledge & Human Dev. Authority•Kuwait Office of the Dep. Prime Minister
Universities in•Prague Rome/Pescara•São Paulo Cairo•Helsinki Santa Cruz/La Paz•Tel Aviv Tehran•Maduri (India)
Previous and Current Sponsors
Corporations•Applied Materials •Deloitte & Touche LLP•Ford Motor Company•General Motors•Hershey•Hughes Space and Communications•Monsanto Company•Motorola Corporation•Pioneer Hi-Bred International•Shell International
Government Organizations• Azerbaijan – Min. of Comm. • South Korea – Ministry of Education• South Korea – Ministry of Budget • Kuwait Oil Company• Kuwait Petroleum Corporation• U.S. Env. Protection Agency• U.S. Army Environmental Policy Inst.• U.S. Department of Energy• U.S. Woodrow Wilson Center
Foundations/NGOs•Alan F. Kay & Hazel Henderson •Foundation for Social Innovation•Amana-Kay (Brazil)•Foundation for the Future (USA)•Rockefeller Foundation
United Nations & Affiliated• United Nations University • UNESCO • UNDP• World Bank
Potential Services You Can Use
• Real-Time Delphi to support executive decision-making
• State of the Future Index for your industry or corporation
• Upgrade corporate scanning systems to collective intelligence
• Executive seminars on the global situation and opportunities
• Training in futures research methods
• Key note addresses
• Collaboration with Nodes around the world
• Improved corporate intelligence by acquiring a unique eye on global change
• Access to leading futurists, scholars, and research
• Information as it is being generated
• Input to strategic planning
• Current and recent research includes:
• World Water Scenarios (UNESCO)
• Some Elements of the Next Economy
• Government Future Strategy Unites
• Collective Intelligence (one design for Energy – GENIS)
• Real -Time Delphi's (Peru Electricity, Hershey, UNESCO, World Bank, Korean
Government)
• Early warning reports on environmental security issues (US Army)
• Education and Learning 2030 (Korea)
• Global Energy Scenarios 2020 (Kuwait Petroleum Corporation)
• State of the Future Index (world, Latin American countries, Turkey, Korea,
South Africa)
• Global Millennium Prize (Secondary school students worldwide)
Some Benefits For Sponsors
• Ability to shape the Project's annual program as a member of the
Project's Planning Committee.
• Participation in the annual meeting of the Project
• Ability to test and/or introduce new ideas for global feedback
• Access to additional channels in international organizations,
governments, corporations, NGOs, universities, and other globally-
oriented institutions.
• Participation in a global improvement community to draw ideas into
your organization.
Benefits (Continued)
The Millennium Project Planning Committee Meeting
State Of The Future is Published Around the World
• Chinese Editions: Beijing Science and Technology Press and Chinese Finance and Economic Publishing House, Peoples Republic of China
• Spanish Editions: Externado University, Bogotá, Colombia
• Korean Editions: MaeKyung Publishing Inc., Seoul, Korea
• Arabic Edition: Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
• French Edition: l’Institut Destrée, Namur–Wallonie, Belguim
• Farsi/Persian Editions: MATN Co., and the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, Tehran, Iran
• Russian and Azuri Edition: Azerbaijan Futures Society, Baku, Azerbaijan
• Czech and Slovak Editions: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; and Academy of Science Bratislava, Slovak Republic
• Partial translations in Japanese, German, and Portuguese
Quotes
Invaluable insights into the future for the United Nations, its Member States, and civil society.
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, UN A must read for any decisionmaker
with a long-term vision Enrique Peña Nieto, President of
Mexico
An important “finger on the pulse” essential for decision-making at all levels; global cities cannot afford to ignore this work
Sithole Mbanga, CEO, South African Cities Network
A fascinating read for anyone who wonders what the world will look like in 2030, and beyond.
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald syndicated columnist, co-winner Pulitzer
Prize
The 15 Global Challenges in the State of the Future should be read by all leaders Eduardo Frei, Former President of Chile
The best introduction to the major global issues and long-term remedies Global Foresight Books
Jerome C. Glenn
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www.StateoftheFuture.org
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