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"The 4th International Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Symposium will be held from 18 to 19 October 2011 in Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore. The symposium is organized by the National Security Coordination Secretariat at the Prime Minister's Office. About 300 international participants are expected for the by-invitation-only symposium, mainly from governments, think tanks and private enterprises with a strong interest in horizon scanning."

"The Horizon Scanning Centre is located within the National Security Coordination Secretariat. HSC explores and investigates, through horizon scanning, case studies or other initiatives, key emerging issues as well as risks or uncertainties across various domains that would have significant impact on Singapore."

"Foresight's Horizon Scanning Centre has built this toolkit: Exploring the future: Tools for strategic thinking for anyone who uses, or would like to use, futures thinking and analysis to make better decisions today. The toolkit is intended for futures analysts, policy-makers, strategists and people managing a futures process. The toolkit draws extensively (but not exclusively) on the approach that Foresight's Horizon Scanning Centre (HSC) takes in its own futures work. "

" Welcome to the Sigma Scan - a searchable repository for horizon scanning papers, designed for government users. To create it, the Horizon Scanning Centre has collected 'evidence of the future' from more than 6000 document sources and interviews with 300 leading thinkers, and condensed this into 250 short papers to challenge assumptions and spark ideas. "

About the iKNOW projectiKNOW is a new blue sky research and horizon scanning project launched by the European Commission and led by Rafael Popper of the University of Manchester and the participation of seven other partners (FFRC, Z_punkt, TC AS, RTC, ICTAF, Cyber Fox and Mindcom). iKNOW aims to advance knowledge and tools related to events and developments (e.g. wild cards and weak signals) potentially shaping and shaking the future of science, technology and innovation (STI).

Futures Diamond -We are a spin-off company built on a combined 20+ years research, innovation and information technology (IT) experience of Dr Rafael Popper (The University of Manchester, UK) and Jan Klusáček (Cyber Fox, Czech Republic). By joining forces, Popper and Klusáček aim to position Futures Diamond as a leading player in the provision of state-of-the-art technologies and systems for Foresight & Horizon Scanning (FHS) processes.

Everstate is an imaginary state in our contemporary world of the beginning of the 21st century created to identify and imagine various futures. It will be used to represent all states and each state. Everstate is thus an ideal-type state …

To explore the iKnow system please use the top navigation menu to access the iScan - to monitor and search WI-WE issues, the iDelphi - to assess and prioritise WI-WE issues, the iLibrary - to share innovation and foresight and horizon scanning (FHS) documents, the iCommunity - to engage and network innovation and FHS people, the iNews - to feature selected contributions to iKnow's FHS systems, and the iOracle - to map FHS practices, players and outcomes - in collaboration with the mapping activities of the European Foresight Platform. To learn about the iKnow project's objectives and background, please click here .

From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego embarked on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon to explore the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre.

The 100-Year Starship study will examine the business model needed to develop and mature a technology portfolio enabling long-distance manned space flight a century from now.  The year-long study aims to develop a construct that will incentivize and facilitate private co-investment to ensure continuity of the lengthy technological time horizon needed.

ONE of humanity's ultimate dreams, to peer into the future, may be moving a step closer with a controversial €1 billion ($1.3bn) EU plan to recreate the entire world in a computer system. The Living Earth Simulator project would take the vast streams of data pouring into the internet, ranging from Facebook and Twitter to dry-as-dust government statistics, and try to spot the economic and social trends that will shape the future.