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Megatrend Meta-Analysis ABOUT THE PROJECT Biodiversity
W Demographics
Security
e inhabit an increasingly interconnected world, yet today’s policymakers and advisors view each issue in a vacuum, focusing primarily on the near-term impacts of their decisions. Efforts to improve this system and broaden the field of vision of our policymakers are critical today, and will be into the 21st century. The Bertelsmann Foundation, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, is currently conducting the Megatrends Meta-Analysis (MeMA), an innovative project exploring the intersections of large-scale trends in society from 2020 to 2100. The central goal of this project is to help policymakers, communities, and citizens understand how some of today’s most significant issues are likely to interact over the next century, and to encourage them to act on this information. MeMA will include a rich, detailed on-line platform for research and discussion, integrating content from the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Megatrends Meta-Analysis with trend-scouting “Searchlights” conducted by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Relaunch of FutureChallenges.org Website The Megatrend Meta-Analysis project is pleased to announce the relaunch of our www.futurechallenges.org website!
Governance
Globalization
Energy
The new FutureChallenges.org highlights the goals of the project: to raise awareness about global challenges, and to understand and discuss the linkages among the megatrends. We hope that this new website will foster dialogue between international users and provide information and opinions on the direction of future challenges. FutureChallenges.org features lead articles, which provide a broad overview on a topic, as well as local views, which are blog posts written by our international blogger team. These posts explore challenges from personal and local standpoints. Local views provide regional perspectives on international challenges.
Lead articles connect to add-ons such as videos, studies and links to further research. The new platform also contains links to our policy wiki and recent publications. It also highlights events produced in collaboration with other organizations, and recent publications. On the next page you will find a guide to the FutureChallenges.org homepage with links to our featured content. We are proud of the new FutureChallenges.org, and we hope that our visitors will learn from the posts and each other, become active in the Future Challenges community, and enjoy the platform. We invite you to visit our homepage and follow FutureChallenges on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We look forward to your contributions to FutureChallenges.
Update 3\ July - September 2011