Monday, February 29, 2016
Futurists Worldwide 24-Hour Discussion to Celebrate World Future Day March 1st to be Hosted Online by The Millennium Project
Five international futurist organizations have joined forces to invite their members and the public to come online at 12 noon in their time zone (or any time during the 24 hours) to explore how they can help build a better future.
On March 1st, International Futures Day, five international futurist organizations will come together to conduct a 24-hour conversation about the world's potential futures, challenges, and opportunities. This online conversation will be moving across the world with people entering and leaving the conversation whenever they want. The five organizations will provide facilitators for each of the 24 time zones as possible. In addition to The Millennium Project, they are the Association of Professional Futurists, 'Science, Technology & the Future', World Future Society, and the World Futures Studies Federation.
Four years ago on March 1st 2012 groups around the globe celebrated Future Day for the first time - hosting activities both locally and online to both a) celebrate the possibility of and b) strategize to bring about positive futures. This year Joyce Gioia, CEO of The Herman Group and Dr. Claire A. Nelson, Founder of The Futures Forum will join Dr. Jerome Glenn, CEO of The Millennium Project to make this global online event a success. The objective is to support humanity in thinking about a more positive future.
"Anyone, anywhere, and anytime beginning on MARCH 1st NOON AUCKLAND time (GMT +13)
and ending MARCH 1st 1:00pm HAWAII time (GMT-10), can call in and join the conversation on "The Future We Can Create", said Dr. Claire Nelson, president of The Futures Forum, and one of the coordinators of the event. "This will be an exciting worldwide event", added Joyce Gioia [joy-yah], author of The Herman Trend Alert and the other coordinator.
People just have to click the Future Day link at www.millennium-project.org to join the conversation. If the limit of interactive video conference participation is reached, new arrivals will be able to see and hear, but not have their video seen and voice heard, but they can type in their questions and comments at: https://twitter.com/MillenniumProj that the facilitators can read live in the video conference. As people dropout, new video slots will open up. This is an open, no-agenda discussion about the future, but in general people will be encouraged to share their ideas about how to build a better future.
The contacts for the leaders of these organizations are:
? Association of Professional Futurists, Joyce Gioia (for Cindy Frewen, Chair) 336.210.3548
? Future Day, 'Science, Technology & the Future': Adam Ford - tech101@gmail.com
? The Millennium Project, Jerome Glenn, CEO, Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org
? World Future Society: Julie Friedman Steele, julie@wfs.org
? World Futures Studies Federation, Dr. Jennifer Gidley, President wfsf.president@jennifergidley.com
The Millennium Project is a global participatory think tank connecting 50 Nodes around the world that identify important long-range challenges and strategies, and initiate and conduct foresight studies, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training. Over 4,500 futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities have participated in The Millennium Project's research since its inception, in 1996. The Project's mission is to improve thinking about the future and make it available through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today. It produces the annual "State of the Future" reports, the "Futures Research Methodology" series, the Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS), and special studies. The Millennium Project was selected among the top ten think tanks in the world for new ideas and paradigms by the 2013 University of Pennsylvania's GoTo Think Tank Index, and 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate for its contributions to collective intelligence systems. The forthcoming 2016 "State of the Future" will be available in March 2016.
Future Day
Future Day provide a fantastic way of channeling peoples' attention and energy.
Most of our days of celebration are focused on past events or charismatic individuals, or on the rhythms of nature. History and nature are wonderful and should be honored — but the amazing future we are building together should be honored as well.
Future Day is a way of focusing and celebrating the energy that more and more people around the world are directing toward creating a radically better future.
Future Day Links: Facebook | Twitter | Website | Google+ Community | Videos
Additional contacts:
Joyce Gioia, CEO, The Herman Group, 336.210.3548, joyce@hermangroup.com
Claire A. Nelson, Founder, The Futures Forum, thefuturesforum@gmail.com
202.643.2510
Adam A. Ford, Director - Future Day, 'Science, Technology & the Future'
Australia Mob: +61 421 979 977 | Email: tech101@gmail.com
Future Day images can be found at:
Future Day 2016 cyborg banner (portrait, hires 300dpi): https://archive.org/details/FutureDay2016Flyer
Future Day cyborg banner (landscape): https://archive.org/details/FutureDayFlyerGlobalMarch1st
Future Day colorful banner: http://future-day.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Future-Day-wide-960x396.jpg
Future Day logo: http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/future_day.png
Follow the Conversation on Twitter:
#FutureDay2016, #FutureWeCreate, #FutureWeShare, #FutureWeWant
@FutureDay @TheFuturesForum
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