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Strategic Foresight : Engaging the Emergency Management community to look to the future. Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) Overview. The Future emergency management landscape. Engaging the entire Network. Guiding strategy. Coordinating Research and Analysis.
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Strategic Foresight: Engaging the Emergency Management community to look to the future
Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) Overview The Future emergency management landscape Engaging the entire Network Guiding strategy Coordinating Research and Analysis
Strategic Foresight Initiative Phases • Scoping Workshop (April 14) –Begin to define, refine, and highlight key drivers that may impact the future of emergency management • Network Collaboration (May-August) – Online community discussion focusing on better understanding emerging trends, key issue areas, and implications behind the emergency management drivers • Strategic Needs Workshop (August) –Synthesize and examine the results of the online collaboration to create an emergent picture of future strategic needs for emergency management • Network Engagement – Experts network continues to explore drivers and strategic needs and helps set ongoing research agenda
Drivers of Change Metro Area Populations Changing Role of the Individual Universal Access to/use of Information Global Interdependencies Government Budgets Critical Infrastructure Evolving Terrorist Threat Special Needs Populations Technical Innovation and Dependency Climate Change
Driver Discussion • What impacts would the drivers have on the emergency management community? • What are the possible confluences among the drivers? • What challenges or opportunities do the drivers present?
Engaging the Academic Community • Establishing an emergency management research agenda • Enabling an online/off-line collaboration space to share ideas, issues, and possible solutions • Strategic Needs Conference (est. August 2010)
Contact Information • EMAIL: FEMA-OPPA-SFI@FEMA.gov • PHONE: Brian Scully, SFI Program Manager FEMA, Office of Policy & Program Analysis202-646-2921