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The following briefly summarizes the 16 future challenges identified through a recent horizon scan, including the key changes contributing to each challenge as well as its potential impacts. The challenges explored here have several shared characteristics. They are emerging problems with the potential to shape society in profound ways.
Each challenge is multidisciplinary and requires broad cooperation to solve. Many emerge from technological innovations. Paris Peace Forum Project Leaders. The Paris Peace Forum is an annual platform for global governance projects.
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The Paris Peace Forum’s Selection Committee received close to 900 applications from 116 countries. Among them, 119 projects were selected to be showcased at the first Paris Peace Forum, taking place from 11 to 13 November 2018 at La Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris. Wikistrat. Wikistrat conducted an 11-day multistage crowdsourced simulation to explore the various pathways by which North Korea could collapse, assess which of the pathways are the most plausible/likely, and “game out” the ways in which other actors are likely to respond.
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They're all examples of how advances in science, technology, or simply a different kind of thinking can address the litany of challenges facing our societies today. 10 predictions for 2016. Futurescaper. Research & Development in Computing, Education, Biosciences, Chemistry, Earth & Space, Security & Defense, Sensing & Devices. Policy Horizons Canada Login. Foresight projects. World Economic Forum - Strategic Foresight. To find out more about our activities, click on the images: About Us Through its Strategic Foresight practice, the World Economic Forum provides a unique, impartial platform and a powerful process for multi-stakeholder engagement.
The Strategic Foresight team at the Forum engages policy-makers and leaders from business and civil society in strategic dialogues to better understand and address complex and long-term challenges. 2012 Edison Award Winners. 2012 Edison Award Winners Being recognized with an Edison Award™ is one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business success.
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The Future of Government - Gov2020. Eurasia Group. It's 2013.
We've made it. For those of us watching from the United States, the last few days of 2012 (to say nothing of the first couple of this year) were touch and go. But here we are. Political risk has entered our vocabulary. Whether staring over the fiscal cliff, battling the eurozone crisis, trying to profit from a rising China, or taking cover from the Middle East; around the world, politics has come to dominate market outcomes. The Future of Government - Gov2020. Home - Government 2020. All Infographics. Shaping Tomorrow : Alerts. Geostrategic analysis of international affairs. European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) t552site. Signals for Strategists » Periodicals. Tomorrow is built today. Future News. iProject iOracle iLibrary iCommunity iScan iBank iDelphi iNews Login Register | Lost password Futures News Issues (WIWE) Policy Alerts Interviews ERA Toolkit Welcome to iKnow Futures News An innovation, foresight & horizon scanning system aimed at interconnecting knowledge about "issues" that could shape (or shake!)
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Innovative Ideas That Impact Your World. The Futures Agency. Columns. A global thinker from the world of philosophy, science or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea – no matter how improbable - that they believe will change the world. The week’s must-reads from around the web.