The next decade will likely mark the first since the industrial revolution when emerging economies add more to global growth than all the developed countries combined. In our view, Africa will be a c

The 17 years at the Institute for Futures Research were for this author a period of great fulfilment. The challenges were exciting, not only because of the turbulence of the 1980s in South Africa, bu

At the heart of the Media 2015 approach is Scenario Planning, a technique adapted from military strategy for corporate use by the big oil companies in the 1970s. Scenario Planning is now an oft-used

This seminal study regarding Medical Tourism in Egypt has been carried out by the consortium on behalf of the Industrial Modernisation Centre (IMC). It provides sector-specific data and information o

The reasons for the oil shortage, which in this paper is assumed to be peak oil, could as well be political disruptions, military conflicts or terror attacks in the oil producing countries. For the a

Megacities on the Move is designed to be a practical toolkit which can help public bodies, companies and civil society organisations develop strategies which will enable people to live and travel mor

South African Scenarios 2014 describe relevant and challenging memories of the future that will help us make decisions in the present. These scenarios are a tool for allowing us to think beyond narro

Scenario planning is increasingly recognized as a useful tool for exploring change in social, ecological systems on decadal to centennial time horizons. In environmental decision making, scenario dev

Mounting interest in the field of mHealth—the provision of health-related services via mobile communications— can be traced to the evolution of several interrelated trends. In many parts of the world

A range of major forces are set to cause profound changes in natural and human environments across the world over the next 50 or so years. Besides climate change, examples include the growth of mega-