2016 PIP meeting

The first meeting of the PIP which tackled the major drivers of change for humanity, had the following goals:

• to identify weak signals, emergences and the evolution of trends on the horizon of 2030-2050, and also to take the crowdsourcing on the international level into account, by distinguishing the differences between the global plan and those of the regional level,
• to put these different elements in order to develop systemic visions on the horizon of 2030-2050, in which the issues are clearly formulated and ranked, according to the most possible objective criteria.

A reading grid was adopted to identify and catalogue the major trends by 2030 and 2050, distinguishing between global and regional evolutions. This grid is based on the "Future Compass" tool developed by IRES, which the panelists used to map the trends into the four following categories:

• Stable trends with fairly substantial observation elements to understand future evolution and the resulting impacts.
• Bifurcating trends which may lead to contrasting trends and where the degree of uncertainty remains high.
• Weak signals about which questions are infrequent and data virtually non-existent.
• Emergences which seem to be unlikely developments for human being, but whose impacts could be significant if the context becomes positive

Reading grid

The major trends identified by the panelists were grouped in the appropriate four reading grid categories. They cover all the dimensions likely to have an impact on the future of humanity.

Structural trends on the horizon of 2030-2050

The major issues identified by the panelists are nine, and were positioned according to the level of uncertainty, emergence and time horizon:

• The Anthropocene,
• The population explosion,
• The emergence of new forms of governance,
• New tools for power shift,
• Reconciling multiple identities within the same person,
• The deep shift in cultural values,
• Technological unemployment,
• The vigorous seniors,
• The rise of violence.

Four other major issues concern "Drivers", namely:

• Overdependence on algorithms due to the increasing digitization of human activities,
• Industry 4.0,
• The increase of human intelligence,
• Creativity without chaos.

Major issues for the future of humanity

 

A conference was organized also by the Royal Institute for Strategic Studies at the National Library of the Kingdom, on July 13, 2016, entitled "Great challenges of tomorrow's world". This conference was attended by diplomats, senior representatives of public and private sector, as well as civil society actors and academic.

Presentations

• Présentation de M. Antonio ALONSO-CONCHEIRO
• Présentation de Mme Geci KARURI-SEBINA
• Présentation de M. Christopher CORDEY
• Présentation de M. James A. DATOR
• Présentation de Mme Aditi KAPOOR
• Présentation de Mme Nisreen LAHHAM
• Présentation de Mme Wendy SCHULTZ