Beyond Strategic Planning: A Foresight Toolkit for Decision Makers
by California100 and SOIF

This toolkit introduces a simple, pragmatic approach to using foresight, including access to tools, resources and approaches that you can use to get better at navigating change under conditions of deep uncertainty.

UNDP & Signals and their Implications

UNDP Signals Spotlight 2023: Insights from UNDP’s Futures Network
Themes: Horizon Scanning, Sensing Making, Implications, Provocations

This Signals Spotlight – the first of its kind for UNDP – is part of our effort to become more agile and anticipatory.  It draws on our prototype Future Trends and Signals System, a growing network of UNDP staff who are continuously scanning their horizons for signals of change.  The Spotlight highlights some of their most interesting observations, sketches connections and patterns, and asks what these might mean for the future of development.

International IDEA & Imagining Democratic Futures

Imagining Democratic Futures: Asia and the Pacific Foresight Report 2024
Themes: Horizon Scanning, Sensing Making, Implications, Provocations

According to data from International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Initiative, democracy in Asia and the Pacific is under significant pressure. Only a tiny minority of people in the region live in a high-performing democracy. In the face of weak parliaments and polarized electorates, judiciaries and government agencies like election management bodies have been the core institutions working against democratic decline. Democratic institutions across the region appear, in simple terms, stuck. With key elections forthcoming in 2024 in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere, the question of what to do about democracy in the region is as acute as ever.

To complement the GSoD data, International IDEA gathered experts and practitioners from academia, journalism, civil society and law for a two-day foresight workshop to discuss the possible coming trends and challenges, and the outcomes of that workshop form the basis for this Discussion Paper.

Demos Helsinki & Urban Planning

Nordic Cities Beyond Digital Disruption: A Novel Way to Develop Cities
Themes: Backcasting, Scenario Workshops

Over two years, the Centre for Sustainable Communications at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Demos Helsinki and 12 Nordic cities, companies and universities worked together to explore how urban life can be imporved using new services and technologies. The report summerizes the learnings, models, and potential scenarios developed through the collaboration.See Link

Basque Culinary Center & The Future of Food

Towards Personalized Gastronomy: Basque 2050
Themes: Futures Game, Systems Mapping, Storytelling

The Basque Culinary Center’s Project Gastronomía brought together scientists, business leaders, and experts from various fields to discuss the future of food in the Basque Country in the year 2050.

Experts used Project Gastronomía’s futures game to help discuss the food system and explore potential futures in a systems-based way. (Co-Written by Daniel Riveong)