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Bertelsmann's "Future Challenges" Launches

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The Bertelsmann Foundation’s newest project “Future Challenges” was launched on 22 April at a conference in Washington D.C. featuring the annual convention of the foundation’s American subsidiary.
This is what the project team has to say about their initiative:

“Mega trends are shaping the global agenda. Their impact is reaching far into our daily lives. We are gathering tons of information on each single trend, but we hardly know anything of how these trends interact, which interdependencies exist between them and what they will cause. Up until today science generates knowledge in a very exclusive way: research results are mainly discussed within closed “expert” communities far away and mostly untouched by a broader audience. Internet and social networks aren’t embraced by scientists. But we think science should become more public, and science should depend on public support. […]”

The “Future Challenges”-Team of the Bertelsmann Stiftung intends to overcome these limitations. Our new internet-platform futurechallenges.org aims to spread knowledge on global change and make it accessible for everybody. […]”

At the moment, the use of social media tools is limited on the site but the project coordinators envision to gradually expand their usage as the project grows and its instruments develop over time.
The new site features a version of my latest article “Social Media in Georgia: Challenging Invisible Boundaries in War and Peace” that is available for easier reading via Scribd (page 105ff) or on the “Future Challenges” website itself.
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Posted by BijanK at 23.04.10 12:05

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