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Changing Games in the Global Casino |
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Written by Hazel Henderson
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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 The recent FAO Summit in Rome called for $10
billion more to pay for higher food prices. Yet, without financial
reforms, this money will merely fatten the players in the global casino.
The games of traders, speculators, hedge funds, private equity and even
pension funds and charitable foundation and university portfolio
managers, driving up prices of oil and food, invoke increasing outrage
and demands for reform.
Ever since the 1980s when Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and US President
Ronald Reagan spurred de-regulation of global finance and
privatization, market fundamentalism became the main game.
But at last the world is seeing the difference between money and real
wealth, between “demand” in markets and the real needs of people
without money. We cringe at the tragic pictures of poor people eyeing
abundant, tempting supplies of food in the local markets around the
world but who are forced to go away hungry or make their children
patties made of mud, spices and whatever scraps of vegetation they can
find.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 29 June 2008 )
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The role of women as actors for the future |
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Written by Marie-Anne Delahaut
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
A new network of women futurists addressing global issues,
Millennia 2015, is planning its first international conference in Liège
on March 7 and 8, 2008. Speakers will include Ivana Milojevic and Jan
Lee Martin from Australia.
Aim of the network is to unite women from all over the world in a
global discussion embracing women’s issues, gender disparities and
other challenges, problems and potential solutions. It will use
foresight and futures processes and could lead, says the Destree
Institute, to building a positive vision of women’s futures by the
horizon date of 2015.
Entitled "Women, actors of development for the global challenges", the
initial conference will be introduced by the European Commissioner
Viviane Reding and the World Federation of United Nations Associations
Secretary-General Pera Wells. It will take place one century after
the first massive actions women organized for their human rights, on
the 8th of March 1908, and also commemorates the United Nations Day for
Women's Rights and International Peace.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 October 2007 )
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Mandela and ‘The Elders’ Aim to Save the World |
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Written by Kate Snow
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Saturday, 04 August 2007 |
JOHANNESBURG — The Elders, a new alliance made up of an elite group of
senior statesmen dedicated to solving thorny global problems, unveiled
itself today in Johannesburg. The rollout coincided with founding
member Nelson Mandela’s 89th birthday.
After a grand entrance, Mandela, the former South African president, announced the rest of the Elders.
The members include Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop emeritus of
Capetown; former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; former U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan; Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and
Mohammed Yunus, the Nobel laureate and founder of the Green Bank in
Bangladesh.
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The Strength of Weak Signals |
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Written by Tim Longhurst
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
 What are the possibilities of using weak signals in anticipating futures? Elina Hiltunen, a PhD student at Finland Futures Research Centre aims to discover the way futurists identify the weak signals they believe may be 'clues to the future'.
If you are a futurist and would like to participate, the survey is online until 6th March, 2007. The results of the survey will be published in June 2007, with respondents being sent a study on request.
For the record, here is Elina's definition of a 'weak signal':
"Weak signals in this study mean today's earliest form of information, which can foretell the changes in the future. This information might sound funny or strange and it can cause confusion, because it offers a totally new way of thinking/ idea/ innovation. As time passes, it might come out that weak signals were the first signs or symptoms of a big change, even megatrends. However, weak signals are not always clues about big changes. They might simply be information about strange things that are happening.
A practical example of weak signals is an article about some new technical innovation in a magazine. In addition to concrete texts or images, weak signals can also be rumours about something that might happen in the future."
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Australia 2026 - The Conscious Country |
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Written by Barbara Bok
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Sunday, 19 November 2006 |
 Australia joins the awakening of the world.....
A young Australian’s vision of a safe and conscious Australia
merges with the World Wisdom Council’s vision of global peace and a new
dimension of consciousness.
Three transformative waves
Three waves were needed to bring about the transformation to a safe and
conscious Australia. Each wave left a change, just like brushing your
hand over a shiny carpet leaves a change. And as one brush is not
enough to change the whole carpet, so it was that three waves were
needed to completely change the Australian National carpet.
The three waves become visible during the following three phases:
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2006–2012 Increased transparency
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2010–2020 Different work purposes
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2015–2026 New humanity program
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 19 November 2006 )
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