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'''The Millennium Project''' is an independent international [[think tank]] with affiliates (or "nodes")<ref>[http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/nodes.html The Millennium Project-Nodes]</ref> around the world that gathers and |
'''The Millennium Project''' is an independent international [[think tank]] with affiliates (or "nodes")<ref>[http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/nodes.html The Millennium Project-Nodes]</ref> around the world that gathers and analyzes information on [[futures studies]] in their [http://www.themp.org Global Futures Intelligence System], launched in 2013<ref>Wilson Center launch: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10305282.htm</ref>. It also produces the annual ''[[State of the Future]]'' report since 1997 and the Futures Research Methodology series Versions 1-3. |
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It was ranked 6th in the world under the "Best New Idea or Paradigm Developed by a Think Tank" category in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go To Think Tank Index Report <ref>Global Go To Think Tank Index Report: http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf</ref>. |
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The Project was formed by the [[Futures Group International]], the [[Smithsonian Institution]], the [[United Nations University]], and the [[American Council for the UNU]] via a three year [[feasibility study]] in 1992 funded by the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]], [[United Nations Development Programme]], and [[UNESCO]]. Since the beginning of operations in 1996, nearly 5,000 futurists, scholars, decision-makers, and business planners from over 50 countries have contributed with their views to the Millennium Project research. |
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==About Jerome C Glenn<ref>http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-state-of-the-future-with-millennium-project-ceo-jerome-glenn</ref>== |
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Co-founder and CEO of the project, Jerome Glenn has co-authored the annual State of the Future Index (available in French, Chinese, Spanish, Farsi and Korean as well as English) along with Theodore Gordon since 1996. Mr. Glenn has worked in Futures Research for over 35 years, and has collaborated with governments, organizations as well as private industries. He has also presented at various conferences on future-oriented topics. He is also the founder of the [[Futures wheel]], a method of visualizing the consequences of a particular event or trend. |
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From 1988-2007, he also served as the Washington, DC representative for the [[United Nations University]]. Previously, "he was the deputy director for PfP International involved in micro-credit, national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, founded CARINET computer network which focused on Latin America in 1983 (now owned by CGNET), and personally introduced data packet switching in 12 developing countries. He has consulted for corporations, USAID and its contractors, World Bank, UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, US/EPA, DOE, and several governments."<ref>http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.jerome.c.glenn</ref> |
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==Purpose, Mission & Vision<ref>Overview: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/overview.html</ref>== |
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Purpose: Improve humanity's prospects for building a better future. |
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Mission: Improve thinking about the future and make that thinking available |
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through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today. |
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Vision: A global foresight network of Nodes, information, and software, building a global collective intelligence system recognized for its ability to improve prospects for humanity. A think tank on behalf of humanity, not on behalf of a government, or an issue, or an ideology, but on behalf of building a better future for all of us. |
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==History<ref>Overview: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/overview.html</ref>== |
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The Millennium Project was founded in 1996 after a three-year [[feasibility study]] with the [[Futures Group International]], the [[Smithsonian Institution]], the [[United Nations University]], and the [[American Council for the UNU]]. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 40 Nodes around the world. |
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Phase 1 of the feasibility study began in 1992 with funding from U.S. EPA to identify and link futurists and scholars around the world to create the initial design of the Project and conduct a first test on population and environmental issues. In 1993/94 during Phase II, a series of reports were created on futures research methodology and long-range issues important to Africa, funded by UNDP. Phase III, conducted in 1994/95 under the auspices of the UNU/WIDER and funded by UNESCO concluded with the final feasibility study report. Today, the Project accomplishes its mandate by connecting individuals and institutions around the world to collaborate on research to address important global challenges. Since 1996, about 2,500 futurists, scholars, decisionmakers, and business planners from over 50 countries contributed with their views to the Millennium Project research. |
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==Challenges== |
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==Work== |
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The Millennium Project's work is distilled in its annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies. The most recent 2013-14 State of the Future has been deemed by the World Futures Society as "an authoritative compendium of what we know about the future of humanity and our planet"<ref>World Futures Society: http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/july-august-2014-vol-48-no-4/annual-report-card-our-future</ref>. |
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The Project is also responsible for creating FUTURES, the world's first Foresight Encyclopedic Dictionary, which was launched in the summer of 2014<ref>FUTURES press release: http://www.counton2.com/story/26087941/worlds-first-foresight-encyclopedic-dictionary-available-to-the-public</ref>. |
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==Nodes== |
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The Project now has Nodes in about 50 countries, including two others that are global/functional nodes: Cyber Node and the Arts/Media Node. Nodes are independent organizations (composed of both organizations and individuals from different institutional categories - government, corporations, NGOs, universities, individuals, and UN or international organizations - which acts like a transinstitution) which co-operate with each other and the Project to provide an international perspective on futures research. |
The Project now has Nodes in about 50 countries, including two others that are global/functional nodes: Cyber Node and the Arts/Media Node. Nodes are independent organizations (composed of both organizations and individuals from different institutional categories - government, corporations, NGOs, universities, individuals, and UN or international organizations - which acts like a transinstitution) which co-operate with each other and the Project to provide an international perspective on futures research. |
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==Awards and rankings== |
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1) Ranked 6th in the world under the "Best New Idea or Paradigm Developed by a Think Tank" category in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go To Think Tank Index Report <ref>Global Go To Think Tank Report: http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf</ref>. |
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It was selected among the '''100 Best Practices by UN Habitat, among best 7 foresight organizations by US Office of Energy, eleven of the thirteen annual State of the Future reports were selected by Future Survey as among the year's best books on the future, and the international journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change dedicates several entire issues to the annual State of the Future.''' |
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==Miscellaneous== |
==Miscellaneous== |
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| Abbreviation | MP |
|---|---|
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | Association |
| Purpose | Global Futures Research |
| Headquarters | Virtual Space |
Region served | Worldwide |
Executive directors | Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu |
| Website | www |
The Millennium Project is an independent international think tank with affiliates (or "nodes")[1] around the world that gathers and analyzes information on futures studies in their Global Futures Intelligence System, launched in 2013[2]. It also produces the annual State of the Future report since 1997 and the Futures Research Methodology series Versions 1-3.
It was ranked 6th in the world under the "Best New Idea or Paradigm Developed by a Think Tank" category in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go To Think Tank Index Report [3].
About Jerome C Glenn[4]
Co-founder and CEO of the project, Jerome Glenn has co-authored the annual State of the Future Index (available in French, Chinese, Spanish, Farsi and Korean as well as English) along with Theodore Gordon since 1996. Mr. Glenn has worked in Futures Research for over 35 years, and has collaborated with governments, organizations as well as private industries. He has also presented at various conferences on future-oriented topics. He is also the founder of the Futures wheel, a method of visualizing the consequences of a particular event or trend.
From 1988-2007, he also served as the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations University. Previously, "he was the deputy director for PfP International involved in micro-credit, national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development in Africa, Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, founded CARINET computer network which focused on Latin America in 1983 (now owned by CGNET), and personally introduced data packet switching in 12 developing countries. He has consulted for corporations, USAID and its contractors, World Bank, UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, US/EPA, DOE, and several governments."[5]
Purpose, Mission & Vision[6]
Purpose: Improve humanity's prospects for building a better future.
Mission: Improve thinking about the future and make that thinking available through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today.
Vision: A global foresight network of Nodes, information, and software, building a global collective intelligence system recognized for its ability to improve prospects for humanity. A think tank on behalf of humanity, not on behalf of a government, or an issue, or an ideology, but on behalf of building a better future for all of us.
History[7]
The Millennium Project was founded in 1996 after a three-year feasibility study with the Futures Group International, the Smithsonian Institution, the United Nations University, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 40 Nodes around the world.
Phase 1 of the feasibility study began in 1992 with funding from U.S. EPA to identify and link futurists and scholars around the world to create the initial design of the Project and conduct a first test on population and environmental issues. In 1993/94 during Phase II, a series of reports were created on futures research methodology and long-range issues important to Africa, funded by UNDP. Phase III, conducted in 1994/95 under the auspices of the UNU/WIDER and funded by UNESCO concluded with the final feasibility study report. Today, the Project accomplishes its mandate by connecting individuals and institutions around the world to collaborate on research to address important global challenges. Since 1996, about 2,500 futurists, scholars, decisionmakers, and business planners from over 50 countries contributed with their views to the Millennium Project research.
Challenges
Work
The Millennium Project's work is distilled in its annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies. The most recent 2013-14 State of the Future has been deemed by the World Futures Society as "an authoritative compendium of what we know about the future of humanity and our planet"[8].
The Project is also responsible for creating FUTURES, the world's first Foresight Encyclopedic Dictionary, which was launched in the summer of 2014[9].
Nodes
The Project now has Nodes in about 50 countries, including two others that are global/functional nodes: Cyber Node and the Arts/Media Node. Nodes are independent organizations (composed of both organizations and individuals from different institutional categories - government, corporations, NGOs, universities, individuals, and UN or international organizations - which acts like a transinstitution) which co-operate with each other and the Project to provide an international perspective on futures research.
Awards and rankings
1) Ranked 6th in the world under the "Best New Idea or Paradigm Developed by a Think Tank" category in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go To Think Tank Index Report [10].
2)
It was selected among the 100 Best Practices by UN Habitat, among best 7 foresight organizations by US Office of Energy, eleven of the thirteen annual State of the Future reports were selected by Future Survey as among the year's best books on the future, and the international journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change dedicates several entire issues to the annual State of the Future.
Miscellaneous
Several presentations by the project include their extrapolation and discussions of the future and how various impacts unfold in a segment called "Global Scenarios".[11]
References
- ^ The Millennium Project-Nodes
- ^ Wilson Center launch: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10305282.htm
- ^ Global Go To Think Tank Index Report: http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf
- ^ http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-state-of-the-future-with-millennium-project-ceo-jerome-glenn
- ^ http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.jerome.c.glenn
- ^ Overview: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/overview.html
- ^ Overview: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/overview.html
- ^ World Futures Society: http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/july-august-2014-vol-48-no-4/annual-report-card-our-future
- ^ FUTURES press release: http://www.counton2.com/story/26087941/worlds-first-foresight-encyclopedic-dictionary-available-to-the-public
- ^ Global Go To Think Tank Report: http://gotothinktank.com/dev1/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/GoToReport2013.pdf
- ^ "Global Scenarios". The Millennium Project. Retrieved 2012-08-13.