The Millennium Project Is Global... Geographically Institutionally Disciplinarily Research Focus

UN Organizations NGOs Universities Governments Corporations Millennium Project … May Become a Transinstitution

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.

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 The Purpose of the Millennium Project

Current Research and Training Activities Global Climate change Situation Room UN World Water Scenarios Latin America 2030 Scenario Research Prime Minister of Kuwait's Early Warning System Monthly International Environmental Security Reports Online Futures Research concepts and methods course Updating and Improving 15 Global Challenges Experiments in Second Life Future of Ontologists and their Education Global Millennium Prize State of the Future Index (both global and national SOFIs) Experiments with Collaborative & Collective Intelligence Software

Both Futures Research Methods and Content 39 chapters

15 Global Challenges–the Agenda Today Challenge 1: How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change? Challenge 2: How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? Challenge 3: How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? Challenge 4: How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? Challenge 5: How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives? Challenge 6: How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? Challenge 7: How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? Challenge 8: How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced? Challenge 9: How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change? Challenge 10: How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction? Challenge 11: How can the changing status of women improve the human condition? Challenge 13: How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently? Challenge 14: How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition? Challenge 15: How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions? Challenge 12: How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?

Mou’s Between Nodes and The Millennium Project Private Companies in Tokyo (aerospace) Berlin (futures planning) Buenos Aires (futures planning) Silicon Valley (USA) (venture capital) New Delhi (futures, strategy planning) NGOs in Venezuela (WFS chapter) Mexico (new NGO as Node) Kuwait (non-profit research institute) France (futurist network) So. Korea (Korea 2050 futurist org) U.K. (RSA – professional org) Azerbaijan (futurist association) Turkey – (futurists association) Slovenia – (Bled Forum on Europe) Government Institutions Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Chinese Academy of Natural Sciences Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Slovakian Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan Ministry of Communications Dubai Knowledge & Human Dev. Authority Kuwait Office of the Dep. Prime Minister Universities in PragueRome/Pescara São PauloCairo Helsinki Santa Cruz/La Paz Tel AvivTehran Maduri (India)

Previous and Current Sponsors Corporations Applied Materials Deloitte & Touche LLP Ford Motor Company General Motors Hershey Hughes Space and Communications Monsanto Company Motorola Corporation Pioneer Hi-Bred International Shell International Government Organizations Azerbaijan – Min. of Comm. South Korea – Ministry of Education South Korea – Ministry of Budget Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait Petroleum Corporation U.S. Env. Protection Agency U.S. Army Environmental Policy Inst. U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Woodrow Wilson Center Foundations/NGOs Alan F. Kay & Hazel Henderson Foundation for Social Innovation Amana-Kay (Brazil) Foundation for the Future (USA) Rockefeller Foundation United Nations & Affiliated United Nations University UNESCO UNDP World Bank

Potential Services You Can Use Real-Time Delphi to support executive decision-making State of the Future Index for your industry or corporation Upgrade corporate scanning systems to collective intelligence Executive seminars on the global situation and opportunities Training in futures research methods Key note addresses Collaboration with Nodes around the world

Improved corporate intelligence by acquiring a unique eye on global change Access to leading futurists, scholars, and research Information as it is being generated Input to strategic planning Current and recent research includes: World Water Scenarios (UNESCO) Some Elements of the Next Economy Government Future Strategy Unites Collective Intelligence (one design for Energy – GENIS) Real -Time Delphi's (Peru Electricity, Hershey, UNESCO, World Bank, Korean Government) Early warning reports on environmental security issues (US Army) Education and Learning 2030 (Korea) Global Energy Scenarios 2020 (Kuwait Petroleum Corporation) State of the Future Index (world, Latin American countries, Turkey, Korea, South Africa) Global Millennium Prize (Secondary school students worldwide) Some Benefits For Sponsors

Ability to shape the Project's annual program as a member of the Project's Planning Committee. Participation in the annual meeting of the Project Ability to test and/or introduce new ideas for global feedback Access to additional channels in international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, universities, and other globally-oriented institutions. Participation in a global improvement community to draw ideas into your organization. Benefits (Continued)

The Millennium Project Planning Committee Meeting

State Of The Future is Published Around the World Chinese Editions: Beijing Science and Technology Press and Chinese Finance and Economic Publishing House, Peoples Republic of China Spanish Editions: Externado University, Bogotá, Colombia Korean Editions: MaeKyung Publishing Inc., Seoul, Korea Arabic Edition: Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt French Edition: l’Institut Destrée, Namur–Wallonie, Belguim Farsi/Persian Editions: MATN Co., and the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, Tehran, Iran Russian and Azuri Edition: Azerbaijan Futures Society, Baku, Azerbaijan Czech and Slovak Editions: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; and Academy of Science Bratislava, Slovak Republic Partial translations in Japanese, German, and Portuguese

Quotes Invaluable insights into the future for the United Nations, its Member States, and civil society. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, UN A must read for any decisionmaker with a long-term vision Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico An important “finger on the pulse” essential for decision-making at all levels; global cities cannot afford to ignore this work Sithole Mbanga, CEO, South African Cities Network A fascinating read for anyone who wonders what the world will look like in 2030, and beyond. Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald syndicated columnist, co-winner Pulitzer Prize The 15 Global Challenges in the State of the Future should be read by all leaders Eduardo Frei, Former President of Chile The best introduction to the major global issues and long-term remedies Global Foresight Books

Jerome C. Glenn The Millennium Project 4421 Garrison Street, NW, Washington, D.C USA For Further Information…