Strategic Foresight

The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 provides comprehensive insight to address the global e-waste challenge.

This brief showcases how two large Chinese companies leverage advanced liquid-cooling systems to cool their data centres.

The report reveals 30 signals that shape the “where, who, how, and why” of the changing nature of work, including opportunities, threats, and solutions from local contexts.

Exploration of the multi-faceted opportunities and risks that digital innovation can bring to social connections and community cohesion among migrants and host communities.

For the third year in a row, the UNWTO has partnered with the fDi intelligence from the Financial Times to develop a joint publication on Tourism Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) analyzing data on Greenfield investments trends. The relevance of this report is pivotal to governments and investors because it exposed data on flows of capital, and destinations for investments providing insight on market trends for the tourism recovery.

This report seeks to inform ongoing discussions regarding the means for countries to scale up their resilience, develop recovery plans, and shift toward more sustainable and inclusive development pathways.

This document is a practical guide to exploring possible futures associated with development.

The Foresight Playbook explores entry points to incorporate foresight approaches, methodologies, and tools into UNDP’s work with the aim of building anticipatory capacities to better respond to risk, uncertainty, and opportunities in the future.

A discussion on signals of change, part of a webinar series involving acclaimed futures thinkers from around the world.

A discussion on sci-fi, world-building, and experiential futures, part of a webinar series involving acclaimed futures thinkers from around the world.

A session on future scenarios, part of a webinar series involving acclaimed futures thinkers from around the world.

In this special edition of UNDP Arab States' discussion series on futures thinking, we spoke to Jane McGonigal, PhD, a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games.

A session on storytelling and how narrative can empower people to feel a greater sense of agency - as part of a webinar series involving acclaimed futures thinkers from around the world.

This dialogue highlights the role of futures thinking, innovative foresight practices and new tools for strategic anticipation for improving policy design.

This webinar encourages actors to use innovation to reduce food loss and waste, restoring and building back better more efficient, inclusive, sustainable and resilient agri-food systems.

The event provided an overview of trends and developments in child sexual exploitation online, and discuss how AI might be leveraged to turn the tide on child sexual exploitation investigations.