by Wendy McGuinness | Aug 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
A key part of Project 2058 is to develop a strategy for New Zealand’s long term future, consequently a visit to Michael E. Porter (author of Upgrading New Zealand’s Competitive Advantage), was a must. Unfortunately the man himself was on holiday, but one...
by Wendy McGuinness | Aug 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I visited the United Nations, specifically the ‘Office in Charge of the National Information, Monitoring and Outreach Branch of the Division for Sustainable Development for the Department for Economic and Social Affairs’ – which was over the...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
Well it’s the last day, and I am sorry to see it come to the close. Today is what is called the Professional Members Forum, titled: Global Futures Projects: Innovations and Outcomes. Thankfully there were no more hard choices to make as the programme was set....
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today there were so many presentations I wanted to attend (9.00-10-30) and they were apparently all fabulous. We all met up for coffee and the room was abuzz. People in particular to Google include: Medard Gabel (Big Picture Consulting); Jerome Glen and Theodore J...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today I attended a presentation by Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA, who was fascinating, but I was out of my depth. He is clearly a brilliant man who has an extremely good grasp of technology. Much of his thinking will feed into ‘7×7’ in August and...
by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Tonight the conference began properly with the Opening Plenary. The key speakers were Edie Weiner, co-author of FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, and Bill Drayon, a founder of Ashoka and former assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental...
