As explained in Section 1, The Millennium Project is designed to provide an ongoing global capacity for analysis of long range issues and strategies. This book shares the results of the first year of operations. Next year The Millennium Project plans to:

6.1
Keep track of feedback on this book (1997 State of the Future) and use it to improve next year's State of the Future report to begin accumulating the project's information and learning.

6.2

Explore applications of this report and the project in general for education and advanced training. Discuss potential collaboration with those in primary, secondary and higher education, corporate training, and software companies about educational applications of the projects' products such as the future of Africa and futures research methodology series, as well as this report. Select and implement at least one collaboration. Design and conduct an advanced training program for policy and decision makers.

6.3

Conduct a four-round 1997 Global Look-Out Study designed similar to 1996, but this time focus on positive developments. If possible, include in later rounds the gap between issues and actions in this report and the positive developments and opportunities identified in the early 1997 rounds of the Look-Out study as a basis for interviews with policy makers about strategy.

6.4

Conduct a research panel of macro-historians to identify and rate the "Lessons of History and Questions Applied to Futures Research." Macro-historians will be identified to participate in a several round study that identifies, rates, and analyzes lessons from history as applicable to the construction and testing of scenarios and other futures work.

6.5

Use various scenario and modeling software to extend and give quantitative detail to the Millennium Project scenarios in this report.

6.6

Poll participants to nominate normative scenarios. Develop criteria for creating, judging, and using normative scenarios.

6.7

Review the scenario bibliography, add some, delete others for improved listings in next year's report.

6.8

Further develop the future of Africa scenarios sketched in preparation for the UNDP/African Futures 2025 session at the UN.

6.9

Set-up a scanning system to track the 15 issues, and actions in this report to produce an up-date for next year's.

6.10

Explore new applications for these activities on the Millennium Project's homepage.

6.11

Pending funding, conduct research panels and studies on: a) Environmental Security; b) Complexity applied to Socio-Political Stability with Application to Russia; and c) Identification of Rules of Economic Development for a Rules-Based Model.

Your feedback on anything in this book or next year's plans are welcome. Please send them to:

The Millenium Project
AC/UNU
4421 Garrison Street, NW
Washington, DC 20016
USA

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