PROSPECTIVE-FORESIGHT NETWORK
Prospective-Foresight Network is the French Node of the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University and assumes leadership responsibility for relations with France. The Network organizes a planning committee of individuals who reflect the range of futurists working with NGOs’, governments, universities, corporations and international organizations. The PFN is responsible for the work of the French Node and communicates with the Millennium Project’s coordinating office.
Prospective-Foresight Network is an association, law of 1901 formed specifically to develop the philosophy and use of foresight as a decisionmaking tool to prepare the future.
Dedicated to the professionals in the field of foresight and to all those active or interested in this intellectual indiscipline, Prospective-Foresight Network (PFN) invites you to visit its interactive site designed to promote communication and the exchange of information.
The Prospective-Foresight Network mission is simple: by sharing our knowledge, methods and experiments, we all become enriched. Let us work out possible futures together and prepare tomorrow by starting today. After all, just like the future, this community belongs to you!
Our objectives
Promote the Foresight -The vocation of Association Prospective-Foresight Network is to promote the philosophy and use of Foresight as a decisionmaking aid within institutions, companies, schools, universities, associations and any other collective audience in French and abroad, sensitised to preparing the future.
Diffuse information - To improve communication, Prospective-Foresight Network diffuses Foresight philosophy, methods and applications. It also covers the actors, in the field by including the results of their studies and their actions. The PFN also treats current events of the sector and promotes a sense of community among professionals of Prospective in France and abroad.
Exchange the experiments - The first interactive foresight Internet site dedicated to the Prospective-Foresight Network facilitates exchange around the globe.
Share competences - Prospective-Foresight Network is also a community of skills. A directory of the members of Prospective-Foresight Network makes it possible to know every one better and communicate more easily.
Conduct research with the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University - Prospective-Foresight Network is the French Node of the Millennium Project of the American Council for The United Nations University and assume lead responsibility for relations with France. Prospective-Foresight Network organize a planning committee of individuals that reflects a range of futurists with NGOs, government, universities, corporations and international organization. Prospective-Foresight Network is responsible for the work of the Node and communications with the Project’s coordinating office. The association selects participants to respond to questionnaires, translates as necessary and distributes the questionnaire to them and selects also who should be interviewed, conducts the interviews and translates the responses to English for inclusion in the annual State of the Future reports.
Founders of Prospective-Foresight Network
Saphia Richou - President - Author - Studies and Research Engineer
and prospective strategic teacher at the Laboratory of Prospective and Strategic
Investigation (LIPSOR-Cnam)
Michel Godet – Honorary Vice-president - Professor with
the National Conservatory of Arts and Industries - Holder of the Chair of Strategic
prospective and author of many books and papers which have been translated into
English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. In 2001, “Creating Futures”
is prefaced by Joseph F. Coates.
Olivier Mével - Vice-president - Co-founder of Violet.net
The Prospective-Foresight Network’s desk
Saphia Richou - President - Author - Studies and Research Engineer
and prospective strategic teacher at the Laboratory of Prospective and Strategic
Investigation (LIPSOR-Cnam)
Remi Barré - Vice-president - Professor associated with
the National Conservatory of Arts and Industries - Director of project with
Futuribles International
Philippe Destatte - Vice-president - Director of the Jules
Destrée Institute- Millennium Project Brussels Area Node
Hugues de Jouvenel - Vice-president - Delegated general of
International Futuribles - Director of the Futuribles magazine
Guy Loinger - Vice-president - Secretary-general of the International
Observatory for Regional future Studies (OIPR)
Olivier Mével - Vice-president - Co-founder of Violet.net
Bérine Pharaon - Treasurer - Associated researcher at
the LIPSOR
Evelyne Bertin -Treasurer associated - Psychoanalist and consultant
Ane Miren Bustinduy - Secretary-general - Director of Prospectiker
(Espagne)
Philippe Durance - associated Secretary-general - Director
of Prosophia Consulting
Veronique Singer - assistant Secretary - Consulting - Bernard
Brunhes Consultants
Yann Forgerit - assistant Secretary - Project director - In
Cube Consultants
Our partners
The partners of Prospective-Foresight Network are the institutions, the companies
or all the people who wish to contribute to the diffusion and the valorisation
of the philosophy of the Foresight, of its methods and its applications in France
and abroad.
Permanent contact:
Saphia Richou
Tel : +33 (1) 58 80 84 55
Cellular: +33 (6) 80 95 20 76
e.mail: saphia.richou@cnam.fr
or e.mail: saphia.richou@wanadoo.fr
2004
Activities
Propective-Foresight Network Statistics Report and the specific Millennium Project
Propective-Foresight Network Statistics Report: Prospective.PDF
Meeting of France Node with Jerome Glenn, Director of the Millennium Project,
May 6, 2004: Part
1, Part 2
European Millennium Project Initiative (EuMPI)
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