30 Oct 2011

R. Popper - Foresight and Horizon Scanning

iKnow Community: Rafael Popper's blog: Understanding Foresight and Horizon Scanning (FHS)

To better understand the core elements of Foresight and Horizon Scanning (FHS) activities, Dr Rafael Popper developed a practical framework called the S.M.A.R.T. Futures Jigsaw. It contains 36 elements related to 5 phases of FHS processes:
Scoping, Mobilising, Anticipating, Recommending and Transforming. Each of these phases and elements explained in greater detail.

8 Sept 2011

Structural Foresight

In: Luke Georghiou and Jennifer Cassingena Harper. FTA for Research and Innovation Policy and Strategy , pp.8-9.

The 3rd International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA): Impacts and implications for policy and decision making - see more

20 Aug 2011

KM 2011

Open Library - The Knowledge Garden
Journal of Knowledge Management Practice : Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2011 see

Includes: "How To Build A Great Knowledge Management Portal" by Arun Hariharan (India).
"Also remember, your customers do not have time for KM or the portal for its own sake. They will use it only if they find it helpful in their own jobs. What may seem to be technical sophistication to you may not impress them if they need to wade through a maze of screens and clicks to share a piece of knowledge or to find what they are looking for. You need to keep your portal easy to use (always remember your users have very little time for this and do not have to use it unless they want to). The user interface must be clean, friendly and uncluttered. Knowledge sharing must be as simple as writing an email with an attachment. Finding knowledge or searching must be easy and fast. Do not try to impress your users with sophisticated (cluttered) screens. But build the required technical sophistication at the back-end so that a search by a user is fast and gives relevant results that meet their requirement."

see also CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, by Arun Hariharan. From Knowledge Management Review, May/June 2005.
From The Resource Library. Business.

14 Jul 2011

Forward looking Russia: Conceptuals

Особое мнение, Echo Moskvi, Среда, 13.07.2011

http://echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/792661-echo/


What happens in Russia?

Александр ПРОХАНОВ : "Я даже не знаю, что сказать, потому что люди понимают, что все объяснения рациональные недостаточны. Они все есть, эти объяснения. Действительно, алчность вот этих вот владельцев, неисправность техники, изношенность железа, случайности, соединение тысячи самых разных ужасных мелочей, которые приводят к катастрофе. Но этого всего недостаточно.

У меня есть какая-то нечеткая и такая, туманная на все это реакция, которую мог бы, может быть, уточнить и придать ей какую-то другую лексику человек более духовный и возвышенный чем я.

Ну, во-первых, конечно, в России, действительно, изношены все механизмы, все имеющиеся механизмы и все имеющиеся машины кроме одной, которая блестяще работает, - машины по истреблению народа и страны. Вот эта машина, запущенная в 1991 году, набирает обороты, она прекрасно смазывается. Если какая-то деталь из нее выпадает или изнашивается, ее тут же заменяют новой. И в машине...
(...)
Вот, сейчас такая ситуация, что нет человека, который ответственен за эту машину. Потому что все, включая и президентов, и премьер-министра, - часть этой машины. Машина хозяйничает над ними. Испорчено все, повторяю, все механизмы испорчены – изношены самолеты, пароходы, станки, метрополитен, дороги, изношены элиты, изношено человеческое сознание. Испорчен и изношен президент, абсолютно изношен и испорчен, и не поддается, может быть, исправлению премьер."

Forward looking exercises, EU and STI policies

European forward-looking activities: Building the future of 'Innovation Union' and ERA EC, 2011 (pdf)

Databases from socio-economic research projects for policymaking EC, 2011 (pdf)

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25 May 2011

Foresight in EU Research FP7 (1)

European Research Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
List of projects 2007-2010 (pdf)
Project Synopses, EC

Activity 7 Foresight activities

- Research area 7.1. Wide socio-economic foresight on key challenges
Topic 7.1.1. The world and Europe
7.1.2. Foresight on the long-term challenges for the Mediterranean region
pp.258-261

- Research area 7.4. Blue sky research on emerging issues affecting European S&T
pp.262-273

- Research area 7.5. Mutual learning and cooperation
Topic 7.5.1. Consolidating the information system for foresight
pp.274-275

10 Mar 2011

Forward Looks and European Science Foundation

To provide high level and high quality foresight and advice on science, research infrastructure and science policy issues, Science Strategy pillar include Forward Looks, Science Policy Briefings, Member Organisation Fora and Exploratory Workshops.

See more: ACTIVITIES of European Science Foundation

27 Feb 2011

WI-WE

IKNOW - Interconnecting knowledge for the early identification of issues, events and developments (e.g. wild cards and associated weak signals) shaping and shaking the future of science, technology and innovation in the European Research Area.

Research area: Blue sky research on emerging issues affecting European S&T

EC, Research & Innovation - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities projects

30 Jan 2011

Foresight and futures - new collection

  • Conference proceedings - Yeditepe International Research Conference "Methodological Issues in Foresight Studies" (September 4 - 6, 2009, Istanbul) published, available (pdf, 286 P.) from YIRCoF 2009 website.

Plenary speaker Prof. Ziauddin Sardar – Editor, Futures
The Namesake: Futures; futures studies; futurology; futuristic;
foresight—What’s in a name?

29 Dec 2010

Debating innovation

we consider ways how to find needed ideas.

For instance, it is possible to relate the proposed idea to 4 vectors (12 dimensions) of business innovation. more

29 Nov 2010

Foresight in the world - 2010

Eurasian Virtual Center on Technology Foresight for Central Eastern Europe and Newly Independent States , supported by UNIDO. The member countries:
Albania
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Croatia
Czech Republic
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Poland
Romania
Russian Federation
Slovakia
Turkey
Ukraine

25 Oct 2010

October 11, 2010, Riga


Authors and publishers of the book debating the global processes, Europe, Latvia and Russia after the First World War

par grāmatu
izdošana

4 Oct 2010

90 years of the Latvian-Russian Peace Treaty

Arturs Puga. Eiropa: Latvijas un Krievijas 1920.gada miera līgums. Dokumenti, liecības un atziņas. Zvaigzne ABC, 2010. ISBN 978-9934-0-1550-2. 208 lpp. (Europe: The Peace Treaty between Latvia and Russia of 1920. Documents, evidence, and conclusions. Riga, 2010, in Latvian).