Status update for

Millennium Project Planning Committee

Mexico, October 2017

2016/17 Summary

▪ Quiet year, largely sorting out

administrative issues

▪ Maintaining FFD activity

▪ Initiating Future of Work SA project

Foresight for Development

▪ Sep '17 - Waste II

▪ Aug '17 - Mining II

▪ July '17 - African Futures

▪ June '17 - Crime & Justice

▪ May '17 - Books & Libraries

▪ Apr '17 - Education V

▪ Mar '17 - Green Energy

▪ Feb '17 - Urban Futures

▪ Jan '17 - Education IV

▪ Dec '16 - Alt Economies

▪ Nov '16 - Artificial Intelligence

▪ Oct '16 - Education III

▪ Sep '16 - Econo Integration II

▪ Aug '16 - Health Inequity

▪ July '16 - Future Thinking

▪ June '16 - Africa Day

▪ May '16 - Alt Financial Systems

▪ Apr '16 - Sustainability II

▪ Mar '16 - Alt Economies

▪ Feb '16 - Water II

▪ Jan '16 - AfriCities

http://www.foresightfordevelopment.org

Monthly Themes continue…

National planning group and relevant contact people

Mlungisi CeleNational Advisory Council on InnovationDepartment of Science and Technology

Tanja HichertNational Workshops Content ModeratorEmail: tanja@hichert.co.zaMobile: +27 82 576 6429

Geci Karuri-SebinaNational Workshops Facilitation LeadEmail: GeciK@yahoo.comMobile: +27 72 148 1132

Jak KoseffGauteng Provincial Government

Hameda DeedatNational Labour and Economic Development Institute

Jan BezuidenhoutNational Workshops CoordinatorEmail: Jan.Bezuidenhout@za.ey.comMobile: +27 83 6595827

Ish MkhabelaActivist and Community organiser

Derek PowellDullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human RightsUniversity of the Western Cape

Rasigan MaharajhMil. Project Southern African Node – ChairEmail: rasigan@ieri.org.zaMobile: +27 82 882 8781

Jan-Jan JoubertSunday Times

Editorial Panel

Alec ErwinUbu-holdingsFormer Minister

Rasigan MaharajhMil. Project Southern African Node – Chair –Lead editor (Editorial panel)Email: rasigan@ieri.org.zaMobile: +27 82 882 8781

High level project plan (South Africa) – 2017/2018

Aug Sept Oct Nov

Kickoff

National Planning Group

Established

Gather resources arrange

national workshop/s as per

resources aquired

National workshops

Gather inputs, research and

analysis

Feedback to global report

Finalise concept note and

detailed project plan for

national workshop/s

Dec Jan Feb March April May

Specialists

workshop

26-27 January 2018

Development of

suggested responses

through facilitated

sessions of specialists

in the agreed sub-

themes i.e. education,

science and

technology regulation,

economy, business

and socio/cultural

Public event/s

TBC

Internationally

recognised public

speakers on the

topic take part in

public forum/debate

in major centres of

the country i.e.

Johannesburg,

Durban, Cape Town

Going forward

▪ Continuing activities for 2017/18:

▪ Execute national Future of Work 2015 programme

▪ FFD Monthly themes / Newsletters

▪ Expand platform and activity into more African countries and issues

▪ Partnerships/ MoA’s with other organizations: e.g. regional universities, African

Union initiatives, UNESCO

▪ Cooperation with other Nodes where possible

▪ Strengthening SA Node institutional and governance arrangements