by Wendy McGuinness | Feb 5, 2025 | Project ForesightNZ
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past[1] As Waitangi Day nears, we at the Institute have been thinking about Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi and its impacts across Aotearoa New Zealand’s past, present...
by Wendy McGuinness | Nov 23, 2023 | Project ForesightNZ
The UK Ministry of Defence’s think tank is called the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC). I met with the team at DCDC twice this year, once in Wellington (New Zealand) and once in Oxfordshire (UK). For anyone who has studied the history of...
by admin | Aug 1, 2021 | Project ForesightNZ
21 JULY 2021 Review into the Future for Local GovernmentTe Arotake i te Anamata mō Ngā Kaunihera The purpose of the presentation was to contribute to a review of the future of local government. As background please find links to the following information: An overview...
by admin | Dec 17, 2020 | Project CivicsNZ, Project ForesightNZ
Over five weeks I took part in ‘Leadership and Character in Uncertain Times’, a Harvard Kennedy School executive course. The course was all online and took place in the middle of the night (on Eastern Standard Time) with live seminars twice a week, group work once a...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jun 25, 2020 | Project 2058, Project ClimateChangeNZ, Project ForesightNZ, Project ReportingNZ
To manage Aotearoa New Zealand’s transition to a low-carbon future, every professional financial decision must take climate change into account. How do we manage this transition? How essential is disclosure in achieving this? On 28 May 2020, Simpson Grierson, Climate...
by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | Project ForesightNZ, Revisiting Tomorrow
Revisiting Tomorrow: Navigating with Foresight was a public event hosted by the McGuinness Institute at the National Library of New Zealand on 30 October 2019. The former prime minister Rt Hon Jim Bolger was joined by former members of the Commission for the Future...
