The document summarizes the work of The Millennium Project, a global futures research organization. It describes The Millennium Project as a collaborative system with Nodes around the world that identify experts, translate materials, and conduct workshops. The purposes of The Millennium Project are to improve thinking about the future and make that thinking available for policymaking, education, and public education. Key aspects of their work include studies using a global network, an annual State of the Future report on 15 Global Challenges, and developing methodologies for futures research. The Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS) is presented as a collective intelligence system that brings all their work and resources together in an online platform.

1. The Millennium Project
Global Futures Intelligence System
(GFIS)
www.themp.org
Presented by
Prof. Univ. Dr. Adrian Pop
Romania Node Chair

2. UN
Organizations
NGOs
Universities
GovernmentsCorporations
The
Millennium
Project
… a TransInstitution collaborative system
The Millennium Project

3. Nodes identify participants, translate questionnaires and reports, and conduct
interviews, special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training.
are groups of experts and institutions that connect global and local views
Millennium Project Nodes

4. 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

5. Work of The Millennium Project
• Perform substantive studies using global
network(s)
• Assist Nodes in design and performance of
Node-initiated studies
• Identify and track global issues
• Publish annual State of the Future reports
• Develop methodologies
• Publish Futures Research Methods

6. Content, Methodologies, Collaboration

7. 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 with 15 Global Challenges
• Educational contributions
• more than 200 Interns from some 30 countries trained since 1996
• about 1,000 universities use MP materials
• 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, peer reviewed
• Collective Intelligence System bringing it all together in one online platform
… GFIS

8. 15 Global Challenges

9. … and Other Research

10. One of Today’s Greatest Challenges…
Information overload…

11. From Noise to Relevance
Wisdon
Knowledge
Information
Data
Intelligence

12. Text and data mining techniques are good at
addressing:
• WHO?
• WHAT?
• WHEN?
• WHERE?
Additional questions usually require more
human insight:
• HOW?
• WHY?
Types of Questions

13. Collective Intelligence
• It is an emergent property
• from synergies among
• data/info/knowledge
• software/hardware
• experts and others with insight
• that continually learns from feedback
• to produce (nearly) just in time knowledge for
better decisions
• than these elements acting alone

14. Why Collective Intelligence?
• The volume, velocity, and variety of information
and change are increasing exponentially
• The data, information, knowledge, intelligence
explosion is accelerating
• Local issues depend on global developments
• The MP work shows that humanity has the
knowledge to address the challenges ahead
• Will we use that knowledge to make the decisions
necessary?
• We believe collective intelligence can help

15. Synergies

16. Software/Hardware
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17. Experts and those with Insight
• Experts identified through literature searches, nomination
by peers, recommendations of professional organizations,
and self-selected.
• Important qualifications are their discipline, experience,
work, interests, and creativity.
• Provide inputs in their area of expertise and/or make
recommendations for other challenges.
• Policymakers as users and generators of information.
• Information cross-referenced and peer-reviewd.
• Information fed into GFIS.

18. Cooperation

19. Global Challenges Resources…
1) Current Situation;
2) Desired Situation;
3) Policies to address
the gap
Latest edits
Overview
-short
-detailed
-regional consid.
-actions
-comments
Annotated and
rated articles
Automatic news feeds
Quantitative and qualitative
analysis tools
Summary of recent scans,
edits, models, papers,
resources, discussions
web, books,
papers, videos

20. …and Feedback with Updating
Initiated by users
or editors on
specific topics
Response to
questions or add
new questions
From users -- provide new insights
nd views from the public on
ov. programs, research, policies, etc.
SOFI Continuous
updating

21. Compendium of Resources

22. Just-in-time Knowledge

23. Learns from Feedback

24. Usefulness
• Access the full text of 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 on the future
• Prepare for talks, meetings, seminars, etc.
• Engage others in the organization to participate
• As basic “text” in teaching
• Reference tool
• Publishing relevant work
• Review methods
• Sub-element or tool in proposals

25. Looking forward to your collaboration
GFIS
https://themp.org
to subscribe:
http://millennium-project.org/millennium/GFIS.html