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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
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