Global Futures Intelligence System
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The Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS) is a collective intelligence platform designed to improve decision-making by integrating data, expert insights, and feedback. It offers various tools to analyze current and desired situations, including real-time Delphi questionnaires and educational resources, facilitating collaboration among experts and organizations. The Millennium Project aims to enhance global understanding of future challenges, utilizing a network of 49 nodes and extensive methodologies for researching potential futures.
Global Futures Intelligence System
- 1. Global Futures Intelligence System Jerome C. Glenn, CEO The Millennium Project
- 2. 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.
- 3. CI Emerges from Synergies
- 5. Menu for each Challenge & Group 1. Situation Chart: Current Situation; Desired Situation; and Policies 2. 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 judgments 6. Public comments 7. Discussion groups 8. Computer models (mathematical and rules-based), and conceptual models 9. Resources: websites, books, papers, videos 10. Updates – all edits 11. Digests – Recent scans, edits, discussions
- 7. 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
- 8. … May become a TransInstitution The Millennium Project
- 9. 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
- 10. 49 Millennium Project Nodes... are groups of experts and institutions that connect global and local views in: Nodes identify participants, translate questionnaires and reports, and conduct interviews, special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training.
- 11. 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
- 12. For further information The Millennium Project 4421 Garrison Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 USA +1-202-686-5179 phone/fax Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org www.StateoftheFuture.org www.themp.org (Global Futures Intelligence System)