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The Millennium Project’s Global Futures Intelligence System

The GFIS is now available for those who want to keep track of global change, gain insights into future possibilities, and help shape tomorrow.

The Millennium Project is integrating all of its information, groups, and software into a "Global Futures Intelligence System." GFIS* is The Millennium Project’s new way for you to participate with and have access to all of our resources in one place. Those who buy a one-year subscription can interact with all the elements of the system, make suggestions, initiate discussions with experts around the world, and search through over 10,000 pages of futures research and 1,300 pages of methods. The text has built-in Google translation with 52 languages. MP Node chairs and content reviewers will have free access.

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Last Updated on Monday, 29 July 2013 17:39

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Zimbabwe: Elections Scenarios


The International Crisis Group issued on 6 May 2013 a very helpful report entitled Zimbabwe: Elections Scenarios.

Prepared by Piers Pigou, the ICG's Southern Africa projects director and his team, this report should be required reading for those outside of Zimbabwe wanting to understand where the different parties in Zimbabwe and regional stakeholder in Southern Africa now stand on the question of future elections.

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Last Updated on Monday, 29 July 2013 17:31

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The African Diabetes Congress 2014

The African Diabetes Congress 2014

Yaounde Cameroon, Feb 28 - March 1, 2014

Please mark your calendar for the 2nd Scientific Sessions, African Diabetes Congress.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 July 2013 13:11

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The 6th SA Innovation Summit

IDC, JHB 27, 28, 29 Aug 2013

SA’s premier innovation event of the year brings together thought leaders and practitioners in the field of innovation to showcase success stories, share lessons learnt, connect with peers, be inspired by those who keep on moving and practice by doing…..innovation!

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 July 2013 10:31

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2025 Scenarios from The Challenge Network

The Challlenge Network: scenarios, strategy and foresight

These scenarios look forward to 2025. Economic growth will, on average, probably be slower than any enjoyed between the 1970s and the 2008 crisis. There are four depressing factors: first, of course, the current debt overhang, combined with state deficits. Second, there is an unavoidable, immense fiscal crisis looming in the 2020s, in the shape of demographic change and unfunded pensions. Third, supply side inflation will occur around minerals, energy and food whenever growth does manage to pick up. Finally, the need to meet environmental constraints will, whatever the positive rhetoric, cost around a percent off potential growth to compliant nations. Additional to these, the Eurozone situation has the potential to drag on for a decade, perennially threatening catastrophe.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 01 June 2013 09:43

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Mining Lekgotla 2013

27th - 29th of August 2013, Sandton - Johannesburg

The Chamber of Mines South Africa (CoMSA), in partnership with the National Union of Mineworkers, and the Department of Mineral Resources, invites you to an annual Scenario-based platform for Strategic Conversation among the key stakeholders in the mining sector. This initiative will be launched at a Strategic Thinktank for industry leaders.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:48

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