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‘UK Foresight – A Living Programme’ Jon Parke

Foresight Future Flooding Project USA: Expert Workshop 15 to 19 September 2008, Washington D.C. ‘UK Foresight – A Living Programme’ Jon Parke. UK Foresight Programme - Aim -. “Strengthen strategic policy making by embedding a futures approach across government.” By:

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‘UK Foresight – A Living Programme’ Jon Parke

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  1. Foresight Future Flooding Project USA: Expert Workshop15 to 19 September 2008, Washington D.C. ‘UK Foresight – A Living Programme’ Jon Parke

  2. UK Foresight Programme - Aim - • “Strengthen strategic policy making by embedding a futures approach across government.” • By: • Understanding what futures might be possible • Challenging presumptions • Building a more robust approach to the future

  3. Mental Capital and Mental Wellbeing Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Tackling Obesities: Future Choices Sustainable Energy and the Built Environment Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention Exploiting the Electromagnetic Spectrum Cognitive Systems Flood and Coastal Defence Foresight Projects

  4. Government Major Projects Foresight Horizon Scanning Civil Society Research Base Programme stakeholders

  5. Expert Advisers Ministerial Stakeholder Group GCSA & Sponsor Minister GO- Science team Science Advisers Government Departments Civil Society UK and International Experts Project contributors

  6. Analysis and Implica- tions for policy Action • Evidence gathering - evaluating risk and response options • Review of science and engineering • Futures techniques • Qualitative methods • Quantitative methods 18 months to 2 years £0.5 to 1 million Project structure Scoping

  7. Impact - UK • Influencing government policy eg: • Addressing multi-departmental targets – Obesities • Informing the UK Strategy for Information Assurance – Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention • Influencing government spending decisions eg: • Environment – flood defence budgets • Investment in technology development • Treasury – setting departments’ budgets • Influencing research agendas eg: • Government:Research Council:Business initiative - £12 million to fund R&D in intelligent transport systems • Research Council programmes – Infectious Diseases and Cognitive Systems

  8. Impact - International • North America • Canadian Animal Health Strategy • US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention • China • Taihu Basin flooding project • Infectious Diseases - drivers • Africa • AU and Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance • EU • Nutrition Platform • European Centre for Disease Control

  9. Foresight Future Flooding Project USA: Expert Workshop15 to 19 September 2008, Washington D.C.

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