1. Sustainable development and climate change - How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change?
2. Clean water - How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
3. Population and resources - How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
4. Democratization - How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
5. Long-term perspectives - How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?
6. IT convergence - How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?
7. Rich-poor gap - How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
8. Health issues - How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced?
9. Capacity to decide - How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?
10. Peace and conflicts - How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
11. Women Status - How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition?
12. Transnational organized crimes - How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated global enterprises?
13. Energy - How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
14. Science and technology - How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
15. Global ethics - How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
A more detailed description of these challenges are in the State of the Future, annual report published since 2009 by The Millennium Project. Click on the blue bullet to understand the underlying dynamics of futures scenarios, challenges and actions.
How can we then participate within our own capacity and sphere of influence?
We can add your updates and improvements to the short versions of the 15 Global Challenges at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/challenges.html
We can add yourself to the public listserv at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/listserv.html
We can contact the Chair of a Millennium Project in our area of the world. See http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/nodes.html
We can apply to be an intern with the Millennium Project. See http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/inship.html
We can suggest research and joint projects, e.g., if we are doing a futures research project in our area and would like to have global futures input, or we think a global assessment of some future issue that has never been studied before, or we are creating some new future-oriented adventure and see potential synergies with The Millennium Project, email to jglenn@igc.org
We can contact our local universities to explore using the annual State of the Future report http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html in global issues or futures-related courses and Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0 in courses on research methods and futures courses http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html
Or if you are a teacher or professor, you can integrate these materials in your classes contact jglenn@igc.org
We can suggest an item to millennium-project@igc.org for the monthly environmental security reports. See: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/env-scanning.html
We can enter the competition for the Global Millennium Prize. See: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/GMP.html
We can write articles for the general public using the State of the Future as a source of ideas to help public understanding of the challenges we face around the world. If you do, send us an electronic copy and we will post on our press room:http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/press.html
We can explore The Millennium Project in Second Life: http://mpcollab.org/MPbeta1/node/1694
If the Executive Summary of the 2010 State of the Future is not in our language, we can translate it. See: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html
We can volunteer. We let them know what would we like to do. Email to: millennium-project@igc.org
We can purchase the 2010 State of the Future at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html#orderand/or Futures Research Methodology version 3.0 at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html#order
We can donate to The Millennium Project – as a non-profit tax exempt organization (we need to have a: click here to donate button – and what service should we use?)
We can add your updates and improvements to the short versions of the 15 Global Challenges at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/challenges.html
We can add yourself to the public listserv at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/listserv.html
We can contact the Chair of a Millennium Project in our area of the world. See http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/nodes.html
We can apply to be an intern with the Millennium Project. See http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/inship.html
We can suggest research and joint projects, e.g., if we are doing a futures research project in our area and would like to have global futures input, or we think a global assessment of some future issue that has never been studied before, or we are creating some new future-oriented adventure and see potential synergies with The Millennium Project, email to jglenn@igc.org
We can contact our local universities to explore using the annual State of the Future report http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html in global issues or futures-related courses and Futures Research Methodology Version 3.0 in courses on research methods and futures courses http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html
Or if you are a teacher or professor, you can integrate these materials in your classes contact jglenn@igc.org
We can suggest an item to millennium-project@igc.org for the monthly environmental security reports. See: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/env-scanning.html
We can enter the competition for the Global Millennium Prize. See: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/GMP.html
We can write articles for the general public using the State of the Future as a source of ideas to help public understanding of the challenges we face around the world. If you do, send us an electronic copy and we will post on our press room:http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/press.html
We can explore The Millennium Project in Second Life: http://mpcollab.org/MPbeta1/node/1694
If the Executive Summary of the 2010 State of the Future is not in our language, we can translate it. See: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html
We can volunteer. We let them know what would we like to do. Email to: millennium-project@igc.org
We can purchase the 2010 State of the Future at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html#orderand/or Futures Research Methodology version 3.0 at: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/FRM-V3.html#order
We can donate to The Millennium Project – as a non-profit tax exempt organization (we need to have a: click here to donate button – and what service should we use?)
References:
15 Global Changes, 2010 State of the Future, The Millennium Project
Futures Matrix, 2010 State of the Future, The Millennium Project
15 Ways to Participate in the Millennium Project
15 Global Changes, 2010 State of the Future, The Millennium Project
Futures Matrix, 2010 State of the Future, The Millennium Project
15 Ways to Participate in the Millennium Project
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