Attendees
Agenda
Overheads presentation
Report from the Nodes

1. Peter Bishop, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
2. Frank Catanzaro,  Arcturus, Maui, HI (Chair Experimental Node)
3. Elizabeth Florescu, Administrative Assistant, Millennium Project, AC/UNU
4. Nadezhda Gaponenko, Center for Science & Industrial Policy (Moscow Node)
5. Jerome C. Glenn  Director, Millennium Project, AC/UNU
6. Theodore J. Gordon, Senior Fellow, Millennium Project, AC/UNU
7. Miguel Gutierrez, Center for Globalization and Prospective, Argentina (S. Amer. Node)
8. Hazel Henderson (teleconf.), Alan F. Kay & Hazel Henderson Foundation for Social. Innovation, FL
9. Robert Jarrette,   Army Environmental Policy Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
10. Zhouying Jin,   Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing Node)
11. Ivan Klinec,   Futurological Society of Slovakia, Slovak Republic (C. Europe Node)
12. Bruce Lloyd,  South Bank University, London, UK (UK Node)
13. Anandhavalli Mahadevan, Madurai University, India (India Node)
14. Kamal Z. Mahmoud,  Futures Research and Studies Ctr., Cairo University, Egypt (Cairo Node)
15. Mika Mannermaa,  Futures Studies Mannermaa Ltd., Piispanristi, Finland
16. Tom Murphy,   Fall Intern with Millennium Project, Des Moines, Iowa
17. Pavel Novacek,  Palacky University, Czech Republic (C. European Node)
18. Charles Perrottet,  Deloitte & Touch/Futures Group, Glastonbury, CT
19. Stan Rosen,   Hughes Space and Communications, El Segundo, CA
20. Leyla Roshanian,  Intern, AC/UNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC
21. Peter Rzeszotarski,  Army Environmental Policy Institute, Atlanta, GA
22. Michael Stoneking,  Partner, Deloitte & Touch, Cleveland, OH
23. Rusong Wang,  Chinese Academy of Natural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China (Beijing Node)

Saturday 22 July 2000
Bellaire Room, Westin Hotel, Houston, Texas

9:00   Coffee, friendly conversation, review materials

9:30   Introductions and review agenda

10:00   Recent accomplishments

 State of the State Future at the Millennium (Print-CD)

What is new and different

Chinese edition of the 1999 SOF
Farsi edition of the 1998 SOF
Spanish edition of Futures Research Methodology

10:30   Show “State of the Future: The Video”
 and discuss uses & translations

11:00   Findings from past four years

11:30 Break

11:45 Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Study and discuss next steps

12:15  Brief Overview of current work (to be discussed in more detail Sunday):

 Future Issues of Science and Technology
 Environmental Security Scanning
 Update Futures Research Methods CD?ROM V 2.0
 Fill indicators with historic and projected data for possible "State of the Future Index"
 Node Millennium Symposiums (Latin America and Italy)
 Explore via Hazel Henderson video series
 State of the World Forum in conjunction with UN Millennium Summit in September
 Summary of book and CD-ROM sales
 Report on Project finances and outlook

  1:00   Lunch

  1:30 Node Reports
            Previous year's work of the Node
             Highlights from the Interviews
             Next year's objectives for the Node
             Suggestions for the Project as?a?whole

  3:30   Break

  3:45   Node Reports continue

  4:45  Review the day and agenda for next day

 5:00    Adjourn

 6:00    Refreshments and dinner at San Felipe Room Westin Hotel
 

Sunday 23 July 2000
Chevy Chase Room, Westin Hotel

9:00   Coffee, friendly conversation, review materials

9:30   Millennium Project Information System Improvements

11:00   Break

11:15   Project issues

  Node coordination and InfoSystem
  Methodological Issues
   (batching vs short questions, on-line questionnaires, translation)
  Use and promotion of State of the Future (new format)
             Dissemination, promotion, book reviews, etc.)
  State of the Future translations (Chinese, Spanish, etc.)
  How could each method from MP methods CD-ROM apply to the Project ?
  How can we apply the 26 items for futures and decisionmaking to the Project?
  Report on Project finances and outlook
  Node fund rasing
  Public Relations

1:30 Discussion of Objectives for 2000?2001 Program

  In addition to the”current work” listed Saturday at 12:30:
  Global Lookout panels per Challenge to peer review text, date, concepts
  Scenarios: exploratory and normative
  Lessons of History
  Nodes’ plans for next year
  State of the Future Version 2.0 with chapters on:
   · updates on challenges as done by specialist panels
   · indicators of progress on challenges ? with history and forecasts?
   · feasibility of a state of the future index
   · science and technology project status
   · environmental scanning results
   · whatever comes out of the September meetings and node seminars
   · futures matrix

  3:00 Break

  3:15 Funding

  4:15 Discussion of WFS (Panels and Potential Sponsors Meeting)

  4:30  Review, action items, and conclusions

  4:45 Adjourn

Central Europe
China
Egypt
India
Italy
Russian Federation
South America
United Kingdom