World Future Day

Sunday March 1, 2020

12 noon in YOUR time zone

ZOOM Link: https://zoom.us/j/9795262723

#worldfutureday

Join the 24-hour Round-the-World conversation to celebrate World Future Day beginning March 1st in New Zealand at 12 noon NZ time and moving West each hour ending up at 12 noon in Hawaii.

This is an open conversation on how to build a better future.

You can join in at 12 noon your time and join futurists and others to explore possibilities for our common future.

https://mailchi.mp/millennium-project/world-future-day-march-1st

http://www.millennium-project.org/world-future-day-24-hour-round-the-world-conversation-march-1st/

https://eprnews.com/join-24-hour-round-the-world-conversation-to-celebrate-world-future-day-hosted-by-the-millennium-project-445325/

Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards - Recognising the next generations' endeavours in shaping the future.

When we look at the world, we see new foresight practitioners enabling their communities to collectively imagine and create their own futures. They are diverse voices that are effectively democratising the futures field.

The NGFP awards recognise those helping to shape the future and improve lives through innovative strategic foresight. They aim to showcase stories of accelerating and scaling change in their communities towards a positive future. Through the awards we are seeking to identify change that is coming from a new generation — millennials, with new aspirations and values — from new geographies, with a growing foresight practice in Africa and Asia, and from second and third career practitioners entering the field from other domains, with fresh ideas and approaches.

https://nextgenforesight.org/

The World After Corona – Globalisation, Risk and the Future

"Globalisation, Risk and the Future" - free webinar 23 Apr featuring economist Ian Goldin (founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, and formerly Vice President of the World Bank) who predicted in 2014 that a global pandemic would cause the next financial crisis

https://www.howtoacademy.com/events/the-world-after-corona-globalisation-risk-and-the-future/

Innovation Bridge / Science Forum South Africa

Igniting conversations about science for innovation with impact

4-6 December 2019, CSIR ICC Department: Science and Technology

On the 06 December 2019 the Southern Africa Node of the Millennium Project (SA Node) will be taking part in a session under the theme “Ethics, innovation for job creation and the conundrum of 4IR, discussing FUTURE WORK/TECH SCENARIOS 2050: Sense-making, Preparedness and Alternative Futures in Southern Africa.

The session will offer up, for generative dialogue with participants, a presentation and panel discussion based on the global “Future Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions” report. The input will offer perspectives from futurists and experts from different stakeholder groups (business, labour, communities, academic), and invite a conversation about how Southern Africa should be thinking and acting in relation to the cues and possible futures related to the future of work and technological change.

The leading questions framing the conversation will be:
1) Do we share an understanding of our current conjuncture (ecological, technological and social)
2) What is the state of readiness (competency-wise) with respect to new industrial technologies and impending changes?
3) Is it possible to co-create alternatives for an inclusive and sustainable way forward?

Report Background: In December 2018, the Southern Africa Node of the Millennium Project (SA Node) hosted a national workshop entitled “Global Work/Tech Scenarios 2050” where 80 people convened at The Innovation Hub to shared their insights and foresights about the role of technology and its impacts on the future of work in South and Southern Africa by 2050. In August 2019, the Global Millennium Project has now released the “Future Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions” – a report on the overall three-year international study that produced three detailed scenarios, conducted 30 national workshops in 29 countries, identified hundreds of actions distilled to 93 that were assessed by hundreds of futurists and related experts in over 50 countries around the world.

Download the session brief
Download the Future Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions executive summery
Download the South Africa Future of Work workshop report and South Africa workshop feedback

We invite you to join us on the day. Register to attend at: https://www.innovationbridge.info/ibportal/?q=innovation-bridge-event/register

About the event: https://www.innovationbridge.info/ibportal/?q=innovation-bridge-event/about
Event programme: https://www.innovationbridge.info/ibportal/?q=innovation-bridge-event/programme