Millennium Project Planning Committee in Chicago

29.07.2009 Azerbaijan Future Studies Society (AFSS) has attended the annual meeting of Millennium Project Planning Committee in Chicago.

Azerbaijan, as one of 32 nodes of the Millennium Project across the world, was represented by its respective organization AFSS in that meeting for the first time.

In her address, Reyhan Huseynova, chair of Azerbaijan node of Millennium Project and AFSS chief, focused on some recent work of her organization`s own research, the role of her node in the country, and future steps. She also touched upon Azerbaijan`s rapid development despite global economic crises.

The meeting discussed a variety of urgent issues, including a new mode of knowledge production, collective intelligence for global energy, environmental security, and climate change adaptation.

Attendees were representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Central countries, Finland, Germany, Turkey, Great Britain, Russia, China, India, Japan, Republic of South Africa, New Zeeland, as well as UNESCO and Rockefeller Foundation.

The Millennium Project is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The purpose of the Millennium Project is to be an international utility to assist in organizing futures research by continuously updating and improving humanity`s thinking about the future and making that thinking available for feedback as a geographically and institutionally dispersed think tank.