#UNDP4Future: What we’re doing today. In June, I was part of the team behind Foresight for Development –Shaping the New Future, a research and development event held in Istanbul.
Our key aim here was exposing our colleagues to a new trend we like to call “the gentle art of foresight.” Accordingly, in the spirit of “learning by doing” and together with colleagues in New York, teams from over 20 countries got the opportunity to experiment with different foresight methods for addressing social problems. So, what are all these teams getting into? How to Harness the Wisdom of Crowds in Public Services. Eddie Copeland argues that government should flip the idea of Open Data on its head to improve public service delivery and open policymaking.
The Fuel of Government Data is the single most vital ingredient for good policymaking and the effective delivery of public services. Youth unemployment: The foresighting experience in Kosovo* In Kosovo, we’re looking ahead – and to do that we are using Futurescaper.
We’re using this innovative platform for three key reasons: To dive deeper in the analysisTo engage the public furtherTo accelerate our understanding of the issues of youth unemployment in Kosovo. Moldova post-2015: How are we getting ready? Decrypting complexity: Futurescaper lets us map the web of trends, impacts and consequences Some time ago, in the first round of the national post-2015 consultations, citizens in Moldova told us about their aspirations.
They spoke of finding decent work, wanting better social protection, and having more accountable governance. The future is now (and here’s how we’re planning to catch up) Futurescaper: The unemployment question in Kosovo* Youth unemployment is on the rise.
This “generation at risk” now consists of 73 million unemployed young men and women worldwide. With the global unemployment rate at an estimated 12.6 percent – 18 percent for young adults – the outlook for much of Europe and Central Asia is even grimmer. The reality is worse in Kosovo where the overall unemployment rate is a staggering 35.1 percent and where eight out of ten people under 25 cannot find a job. Despite multiple efforts, many young people still do not go to school or have access to training and internship opportunities and, by extension, jobs. While decision-makers and the ‘experts’ have plenty of advice, one glaring gap is the lack of perspectives on the problem and possible solutions from the young people themselves: Futurescaper Crowd. Surveys provide hard data, but only to the questions you know how to ask.
This makes for either bland insights (“26% strongly agree”), or rich unstructured responses that are impractical to analyse. While surveys need an existing understanding of the issues to know what to ask, Futurescaper creates this understanding — and questions — from respondents’ views. This lets you engage stakeholders to interact with each other’s views, collect richer responses, and structure them in easy-to-analyse visualisations. Futurescaper.