16 Mar 2005

Foresight experience in the EU, 2004

a link
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/foresight/docs/mta_finalreport.pdf to Final Report "Mid-Term Assessment of Foresight Activities", by Independent experts panel, to DG Research of the European Commission

from a new section - the Future of the EU Foresight (CORDIS. Science and Technology Foresight)
http://www.cordis.lu/foresight/future.htm

9 Mar 2005

Business and futures research

http://www.z-punkt.de/english/05zpunkt.htm

Z-punkt GmbH The Foresight Company is a think tank specialised in scientific futures studies - offers framework knowledge to institutions and businesses.

Founded by Klaus Burmeister in 1997.

The Foresight Company is working in an interdisciplinary team of about 15 people, and can draw upon network of experts.

a link, Excerpt of the book by Klaus Burmeister, Andreas Neef, and Bert Beyers
Corporate Foresight pdf

a link, Corporate Foresight: Practical Experience and Results from a German Survey http://www.download.z-punkt.de/cf-prague.pdf
Cornelia Daheim
is Project Manager (for International Research) at Z_punkt GmbH The Foresight Company in Essen, Germany. Z_punkt supports institutions and organizations in long-term strategic planning with futures studies services, and is also active as the German Node of the Millennium Project at the American Council for the United Nations University (http://www.stateofthefuture.org).



How Do We Make Sense of the Future?
Analysis of Futures Research Methodology

By: Mika Aaltonen (Finland Futures Research Centre)
Theodor Barth (SINTEF, Norway)
http://acunu.org/millennium/mppc-0704/FRM-analysis.doc

(From: AC/UNU Millennium Project Finland Node
http://www.acunu.org/millennium/finland.html)

MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE, PAST AND PRESENT (Foresight Hindsight Insight)
"Perhaps the biggest challenge any human being or organisation faces, is how to make sense of their lives, and how to find meaning and direction for their activities. Sensemaking happens when sensible, meaningful explanations are built, evidence is extracted and linked to already existing structures, i.e. mental models, historical events, artefacts – or like in the case of this article – with a purposeful use of methods, especially constructed to do so. (March & Olsen 1976, Weick 1995, Porac & Thomas & Baden-Fuller 1989, Hopkinson 2001).

If we are unable to place a piece of information in context, the meaning of that information is lost. The ways we imagine the future, understand the past and come to grips with the present are extremely valuable in providing continuity and direction to our lives. Sensemaking is rooted in time and space, and occurs at the intersection of three horizons: past, present, and future."

8 Mar 2005

FISTERA

Foresight on Information Society Technologies in the European Research Area

Thematic Network FISTERA

a link to e-publication (report)
http://fistera.jrc.es/docs/D1_Final0303_CP_PDMR.pdf
Review and Analysis of Selected National Foresight Exercises. 2003. (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom)

3 Mar 2005

Outputs of a workshop in Tallinn

02/03/2005

about Knowledge management and the Lisbon strategy
Principles

LEARNING
ASK HELP
SHARING KNOWLEDGE

learning by doing
ask help
sharing knowledge - intangible and material values

a link to e-publication
Developing and implementing Knowledge Management in the Parliament of Finland.
2002.

27 Feb 2005

FINLAND 2015

From the report: "The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development, Sitra, is a creative and flexible spearhead organization which strives to ensure that ordinary Finnish people will have even better lives in the future. Sitra has set itself the aim of placing Finland among the three most successful nations in the world by the year 2010. To this end, the following actions and areas of focus are emphasized in Sitra's strategy:"
http://194.100.30.11/suomi2015/suomi2015_1/english/Report.pdf

7 publications, in English, at http://194.100.30.11/suomi2015/

26 Feb 2005

Our keys of success

I think, if we have understanding of what does it mean, and are gaining practice experience of

Learning
Knowledge
Conversation/language
Issues
Systems thinking
Futures,


also for the Lisbon strategy's identified objectives at all levels,
in the process of implementation,
Knowledge Management can be a powerful area.

Partnership for European Renewal

Presentation of the Commission's proposals for a 5 year strategy and 2005 legislative and work programme From Europaworld 11/2/2005

José Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission,
Helping Europe to Change

European Economic and Social Committee -
Presentation of the Commission’s proposals for a 5 year strategy and 2005 legislative and work programme. Brussels, 10 February 2005

the Lisbon strategy objectives
turning into action and results
forging a dynamic Partnership for European Renewal

Partnership must "reach beyond our Ministries and capitals to capture the imagination of Europe’s homes, schools and factories."

The Strategic Objectives distil Europe’s hopes into three key goals: prosperity, solidarity and security.

put knowledge and innovation at the centre of growth and job creation

22 Feb 2005

For Futures: the Social Sciences


Re-inventing the Social Sciences, OECD proceedings (OECD, 2004) PDF


The published report presents the views of high-level experts on the future of the social sciences based on 4 workshops (1999-2001), organized under auspices of OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy.

Eleven presentations. Include

Conclusions, FROM OPENING TO RETHINKING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, by Luk Van Langenhove
THE THREE MEANINGS OF "DISCIPLINE" Immanuel Wallerstein

Knowledge base for entrepreneurial foresight basics.

2 Feb 2005

The next generation of learning, knowledge and language ( L - 1.3.)

The WFS

I have an insight into
Futurist
A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future
January-February 2005 Vol. 39, No. 1
http://www.wfs.org/futcontjf05.htm

From the contents of current issue:
Beyond the Book: Electronic Textbooks Will Bring Worldwide Learning
By Parker Rossman


Also, THE FUTURE OF HIGHER (LIFELONG) EDUCATION:
For All Worldwide, A Holistic View

a link

an important link

I find useful LOCAL WEBSITE ARCHIVE for offline reading and knowledge accumulation. http://www.aignes.com/wsarc/ Martin Aignesberger.

Thanks.

18 Jan 2005

17 Jan 2005

Virtual conspectus (Learning - 1.1.)

Our notes, based on the Web-enabled approach, can help to ‘virtualize’ and convert knowledge, to understand the World Future Society's activities and develop new capabilities.

What is the WFS ? How to join the Society?
The Future: An Owner's Manual

WFS Publications
An enormous amount of links - useful for value networks, evolving toward new horizons, motivating and shaping both ideas and activities.

e.g. from http://www.wfs.org/backclicks.htm

PhysOrg
The latest physics and technology news
News by category
Nano and Quantum Physics
Technology
Physics
Space and Earth science
Electronic Devices
Striking research and developments
Books directory

The future of the Internet (survey) news 12.01.2005.

Seeing While Hearing Speeds Brain's Processing of Speech
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WFS Futures Research Quarterly
"Futures research encompasses both an evolving philosophy and a range of techniques (Mental and material - A.P). Its primary objective is to assist decision-makers to understand better the potential consequences of present and future decisions by developing images of alternative futures."

evolving philosophy and a range of techniques
developing images of alternative futures
decisions

14 Jan 2005

Learning a new WFS conference (Learning - 1)

From Latvia, we would like to take part in a Meeting of Year.
How to do it, to participate at WorldFuture 2005: Foresight, Innovation, and Strategy (July 29--31, 2005, Chicago, Illinois) ?

First, learning in virtual process.

I think, it’s possible to be at shared Ba.
To get insight into current issues and priorities, understand ideas, thinking, knowledge sharing and implementation; to be closer to mental universe of the world futurists.

Let’s be all together, and online in the community.

8 Jan 2005

JAUNVEIDE - LATVIJA un EIROPA

Entrepreneurship - Latvia and Europe.

Blogspace in Latvian, about Entrepreneurial Foresight Basics/Network.
After a conversation in Latvian Academy of Sciences: "bit by bit"
JAUNVEIDE - LATVIJA un EIROPA

2 Jan 2005

Blog and Personal Knowledge Management

1. A blog like a book (knowledge + knower) is a unique set of issues and expression of personal knowledge management (PKM).

It was vividly portrayed, Johnnie Moore's (30.12.2004) „I would say for myself that there's blogs and then there's what happens in the spaces between the blogs. The stuff that happens in the spaces - not the comments or the pings, but the thinking and sense of connection of ideas - doesn't show on the blog, but it's there.”

An individual creates and converts information and knowledge for his own as human being.

2. Blogs are great to think out loud and thus to trigger new conversations and relationships (Ton Zijlstra). We ask ourselves: what is in-between spaces, how to learn to understand man and ourselves in systems and on what kind of values a subject is founded ? Blogs could also be great to manage to think not loud, not loud enough to be heard by many.

3. The Entrepreneurial Foresight Network evolves around mental places enabling thinking and activities aiming the shared Meta context - Entrepreneurial Foresight Basics (EFB). See    also.

What about the role of ideas, questions, concepts, beliefs, also behavior and attitude what could be converted into new knowledge using a content of blogs, klogs, quotations (with reference to context and framework) from known authors ? Entrepreneurial Foresight Network assimilates messages of knowledge and presents them when we find new trends in KM issues to build strategic capabilities - EFB. Therefore, we can think quietly, also conversate quietly – to understand weblogs more and more as a comprehensive form of communication.

4. Useful quotes for KM workers, on KnowledgeBoard.

In 2005, perhaps KnowledgeBoard can be thought of as a ‘superblog’ at European and global level?