global futures intelligence system
DESCRIPTION
The is an overview or collective intelligence and an application for the global future, with an eleven item menu for 15 Global Challenges, and futures research on ICT, water, energy, sustainable development, food, war and peace issues, science & technology - a way to keep track of global change and participate with others around the world.TRANSCRIPT
Global Futures Intelligence System
Jerome C. Glenn, CEOThe Millennium Project
Collective Intelligence
• It emerges from the integration and synergies among• data/info/knowledge• software/hardware• experts and others with insight
• that continually learns from feedback
• to produce just in time knowledge for better decisions
• than these elements acting alone.
CI Emerges from Synergies
Collective Intelligence System
Menu for each Challenge & Group
1. Situation Chart: Current Situation; Desired Situation; and Policies2. Report (detailed text) 3. News items (automatic news feeds – searchable)4. Scanning (annotated, rated information)5. On-going Real-Time Delphi questionnaires to collect expert
judgments6. Public comments7. Discussion groups8. Computer models (mathematical and rules-based), and conceptual
models9. Resources: websites, books, papers, videos10.Updates – all edits11.Digests – Recent scans, edits, discussions
Some Examples of its Usefulness
One participant said: “This is a fabulous tool to simplify the complexity; you don’t have to go all over the Internet to understand something; GFIS gets it all together.”
Access the full text of all research in the State of the Future and the Futures Research Methodologies
Stay updated on the global situation
Gain new insights
Receive expert responses to specific questions
Improve research about future possibilities
Prepare for talks, meetings, seminars, etc.
Engage others in your organization to participate
Use as basic “text” in teaching global issues
Reference tool
Can be included as a sub-element or tool in proposals
… May become a TransInstitution
The Millennium Project
Purposes of the Millennium Project
• 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
49 Millennium Project Nodes...
Nodes identify participants, translate questionnaires and reports, and conduct interviews, special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training.
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The Millennium Project General Accomplishments
• System for people to think together about the future• 49 Nodes connecting global and local perspectives• Real-Time Delphi for rapid assessment and feedback
• Framework to understand and track global change• State of the Future reports that annually updates 15 Global Challenges
• Educational contributions• Over 200 Interns trained from over 30 countries• Est. 1,000 universities use MP materials• Millennium Awards involving thousands of students around the world
• Inclusive and Participatory System to Measure Change• State of the Future Index – Global and National Indexes
• Largest collection of methods to explore the future• 37 Methods, 39 Chapters, 1,300 pages, internationally peer reviewed
• Collective Intelligence System• Bringing it all together in one online platform … GFIS
For further information
The Millennium Project
4421 Garrison Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 USA+1-202-686-5179 phone/fax
www.StateoftheFuture.orgwww.themp.org (Global Futures Intelligence
System)