World Bank
World Bank Initiative on Strategic Communication and Good Governance 2011-
The Scenario Lab is developing a scenarios program addressing strategic communication and governance issues for the World Bank’s COMMGAP program. The particular regional focus will be Africa and the Middle East.
Cool California
Cool California public participatory scenarios project, 2010-
The Scenario Lab team is excited to have won a grant from the Annenberg Program on Online Communities for a public participatory scenarios pilot project with Cool California, a campaign aimed at encouraging Californians to understand and voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas footprint. The project will seek to incorporate climate change long-term futures thinking habits into the everyday habits of Cool California’s users through the integration of participatory scenarios with their news consumption environments and social media usage.
Future of the US News Industry
Beyond Broadcast Conference
Beyond Broadcast conference, 2009
In the summer of 2009, the Scenario Lab team ran scenario exercises at the fourth annual Beyond Broadcast conference. These scenario exercises helped conference attendees explore hypothetical situations which could transform the future of public and news media in the US, India, Africa and Europe.
Projects
The Scenario Lab is also developing a number of other potential projects and collaborations that at a proposal or exploration stage. These include:
Cross-cultural analysis of Climate Change discussion on international social media
Using Big Data tools, the Lab is analyzing how people talk about the impact of climate change on the future of their societies across multiple social media platforms in selected countries around the world
Emerging research & analysis collaboration with IFTF’s governance and civics futures projects
The Lab is exploring collaborative approaches to analyzing large sets of futures data from the Institute For The Future’s public futures of governance and civics projects.
Further Development of online scenarios platform
The Lab’s online scenarios platform may be adapted and further developed for future use with partner organizations.
Exploration of Futures in Virtual Environments
The Lab continues its interests in developing analyses and methods addressing scenario and futures practices in virtual environments.