The intention of this forward looking study was to inform the U.S. National Intelligence Council’s 2020 project – www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_2020_project.html – and help provide U.S. policymakers with a view of how world developments could evolve, identifying opportunities and potentially negative developments that might warrant policy action.
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EFP Brief No. 90: Global Technology Revolution 2020
Friday, May 20th, 2011Tags: defense, developing countries, education, electricity, housing, hygiene, manufacturing, quantum cryptography, safety, sanitation, sensors, waste, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Geography, Global, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Themes, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off on EFP Brief No. 90: Global Technology Revolution 2020
EFP Brief No. 33: Austrian Safety and Security Research 2011
Friday, May 6th, 2011Austria intends to launch a national research programme on safety and security that is complimentary to PASR – an EU funded Preparatory Action on Security Research as well as the upcoming Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union. To prepare the ground for this new national research funding initiative, a foresight process was started to investigate conceptual issues concerning safety and security research and to identify Austrian priorities for research in this area. This initiative was coordinated by the Federal Ministry for Transportation, Innovation and Technology of Austria.
EFMN Brief No. 33 – Austrian Safety and Security Research 2011
Tags: cities, construction, converging technologies, education, medicine, migration, OPEC, quantum cryptography, safety, services, social science, software, terrorism, textiles, universities, vehicle, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Transport (including aeronautics) | Comments Off on EFP Brief No. 33: Austrian Safety and Security Research 2011