Open Foresight Hub

The Open Foresight Hub is a platform - based on open and collaborative principles - for the exchange of views about futures and the forces shaping them; and about foresight methods and the people and organizations creating and using them. Centered on crowd-sourced wiki principles, the Open Foresight Hub is designed for anyone to access and contribute to the collective effort. Three main spokes bring a diversity of views about futures into the Open Foresight Hub: Library: collections of reports, articles, books, multimedia, and other publications offering analyses and perspectives about possible, plausible, and preferred futures; and about the foresight field more generally Futures: crowd-sourced summaries of different futures and the myriad of forces shaping them; these futures are dynamically evolving, both synthesizing the diversity of existing perspectives and seeking additional perspectives Encyclopedia: a compendium of entries summarizing knowledge about the foresight field including theories and practice; methods and tools; people and organizations; history and futures Why Open Foresight Hub Now more than ever, our hope for a better tomorrow depends on many people coming together to create better futures. And creating better futures begins by envisioning better futures. Yet, it’s not enough for one or even two to envision the same futures. Rather, it takes many people assimilating, and aligning to realize, the same visions of tomorrow. To create broadly accepted visions of tomorrow at a global level requires us to collectively discern, decolonize, and democratize the diversity of views about our futures and the forces shaping them. This is only possible with a completely open and collaborative approach to foresight.