ISS Conference, Pretoria: Global Trends 2030: Fulfilling the African Promise?

Date: 2012-07-16

Venue: , ISS Conference Room , Block C , Brooklyn Court , 361 Veale Street , New Muckleneuk , Tshwane (Pretoria)

RSVP:
Mr Thembani Mbadlanyana
Tel: 012 346 9500
E-mail: [email protected]

Over the last six years the Atlantic Council and the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) have partnered to advance research on futures analysis through specialised workshops, international conferences, and global trends reports (most recently Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World and Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture). In cooperation with the NIC, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, which will be part of the soon-to-be-launched Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, has convened a wide range of premier experts this year to address issues ranging from the future of urbanisation, new trends in global migration, and risks of new pandemics, to the economic future of the US, the changing meanings of geography, and the impact of disruptive technologies on our global operating environment in the years to come.

The Global Trends project has been brought to 17 countries in East, Central and South Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe, in an effort to support the ability and capacity of other nations to engage in long-term trends assessments. This year, after visiting Brazil and China, the African continent will be the third stop of the Atlantic Council and the NIC in their series of international conferences. While on the continent we will also be having meetings in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, and Gaborone.

The Atlantic Council and the NIC will also come to South Africa on 14-16 July to host different meetings on global trends in order to gather as much insight and innovative ideas as possible for the new report Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds. The aim is to gather the insights and critical views of South African experts with respect to the current draft report. Among others, the conference will address the following questions: What will be the impact of mega-trends in the future of South Africa and the continent? How could some of the game-changers develop in Africa? Which future scenarios are more likely to happen?

Conference discussions will feed-in and augment the upcoming Global Trends 2030 report, which will be released after the US presidential election in November 2012.

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