Western Cape Launch of the 2012 State of the Future Report
November 2012
The Western Cape 2012 State of the Future launch took place during the evening of 29 November at the Mostertsdrif Manor House of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (Stias). The event was attended by approximately 40 people including many M.Phil Futures Studies alumni, as well as a good mix of business, academia and public sector people.
Tanja Hichert of the SA Node gave a short presentation on the publication and the work of the Node, whilst the guest speaker, Dr Oonsie Biggs of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Stias fellow, gave a fascinating talk on Complexity, Resilience and Regime Shifts. There was some excellent, high quality audience participation and discussion thereafter.
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Launch of the Global Futures Information System (GFIS)
January 2013
The Millennium Project launches its GFIS on the 16th of January. The system will enable you to keep track of global dynamics, obtain insight and inform decision making and future possibilities.
Subscribers will have access to current information, data and intelligence from futurists, scientists, thought leaders and experts around the world through an evolving system that is developed to grow synergies. The system provides detail for each of the 15 Global Challenges of the Millennium Project through a situation chart (current and desired status, relevant policies to address the gap), overview and detail section, digest (news articles and other information on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis), updates, scanning results, news feeds, Real-Time Delphi (RTD) surveys, discussion (groups, blogs), models (interactive computer models applied in futures work), and other resources for each Global Challenge.
View the webcast on 16th January, 12h30 to 13h30 East Coast Time USA. View the press release here or take a look at a flyer of the system here. Visit the Millennium Project website and subscribe to have access to the GFIS and its more than 10 000 searchable pages on topics such as the environment, the future economy, global scenarios and annotated bibliography of over 850 scenario sets.
Western Cape launch invitation of the State of the Future Report 2012
An invitation to a cocktail gathering from the South African node of the Millennium Project (SA Node)
Thursday 29 November, 17:30 for 18:00
The MostertsdrifManor House at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (Stias)
19 Jonkershoek Road, Stellenbosch, 7600
RSVP by Friday, 23 November 2012 to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Launch invitation
