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2005 BT Technology Timeline
Filed under: Technology | BT, Technology, Timeline
English | August 2005
Ian Neild & Ian Pearson
BT
2005 BT Technology Timeline In the future we could be holidaying in space while robots tend our gardens back home - according to BT's latest technology timeline.BT's futurology department has gazed into the future to predict the technological advances that will impact our lives. 
2010 State of the World: Transforming Cultures
English | 2010
Erik Assadourian
Worldwatch Institute
The past five years have witnessed an unprecedented mobilization of efforts to combat theworld’s accelerating ecological crisis. Since 2005, thousands of new government policies have been enacted, hundreds of billions ofdollars have been invested in green businesses and infrastructure, scientists and engineershave greatly accelerated development of a new generation of “green” tec...
2020 and beyond: Future scenarios for education in the age of new technologies
Filed under: Education, Technology | Education, Technology, Learning, Scenarios
English | 2007

Futurelab

Futurelab
This report explores predictions about developments in digital technologies over the next 13 years, examines the implications for education, sets out some future scenarios and suggests how we might harness the changes....
2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
Filed under: Education | Education, Learning
English | 2008

KnowledgeWorks Foundation, The Institute for the Future

KnowledgeWorks Foundation, The Institute for the Future
This 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning reveals how many of our fundamental relationships— with ourselves; within our organizations; and with systems, societies, and economies—are being reimagined and re-created in ways that will disrupt the status quo and challenge our usual assumptions. The following pages will help you explore how these different dimensions of our world are c...
2030 Conversations
Filed under: Country, Development, Innovation | General
English | June 2010
Mike Lee
South African Chapter of the World Future Society
40 for the Next 40: A Sampling of the Drivers of Change...
Filed under: Economic, Environment, Political, Technology, Social Development | Futures | Economic, Environment, Political, Social, Technology
English | 2010

Toffler Associates

Toffler Associates
We are in the midst of an accelerating, revolutionary transformation. Change is happening everywhere – in technology, business, government, economics, organizational structures, values and norms – and consequently affects how we live, work and play. As industry and government leaders, we must acknowledge that this change demands new ways of governing and of running our organizations. The ways ...
A Demographic Model to Predict Future Growth of the Addo Elephant
Filed under: Environmental | Futures | Elephant, demographic model, age structure, future population growth
English | 1999
A.M. Woodd
University of Port Elizabeth
A demographic model to predict future growth of the Addo elephant population An age-structured demographic model of the growth of the Addo elephant population was developed using parameters calculated from long-term data on the population. Read more by downloading this article.
A new look at long-term labor force projections to 2050
Filed under: Gender, EmploymentWomen, Labour force, Work, Employment
English | November 2006

Mitra Toossi

Monthly Labor Review
Among the factors affecting the composition and growth of the labour force over the next 50 years are the ageing of the baby-boom generation, the stabilization of women’s labour force participation rates, and increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the workforce.  
A Parliament with Teeth for Tanzania
Filed under: Political
English | 2008
By Samuel Sitta, Willibrod Slaa & John Cheyo
Africa Research Institute
In this candid and balanced report, three eminent parliamentarians describe their roles in these far-reaching reforms: from the first parliamentary committee of enquiry, to regular Prime Minister’s Questions and fresh scrutiny of the foreign donors who contribute more than 40% of thegovernment budget. In the struggle to create vigilant and accountable public institutions in Africa, Tanzania ...
A Scenario-Based Holistic Approach To Environmental Flow Assessments
Filed under: Environment | Water | environmental flows, holistic methodology, biophysical module, socio-economic module, subsistence use, scenario building
English | 2003
Jackie King, Cate Brown and Hossein Sabet
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Sustainable use of river ecosystems requires that they be managed holistically. This paper describes an holistic methodology, DRIFT (Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation), for advising on environmental flows for rivers targetted for water-management activities.
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