Promoting foresight education, careers, and research. Join us!

FERN is a global community of foresight students, alumni, faculty, employers, and advocates of graduate foresight education, employment, and research.  What's New  FERN has a new Executive Director for 2012, Susan Chesley Fant. Ms. Fant is a recent MS management grad of University of       St Andrews, with Scenario Planning experience. Welcome Susan! Please join us in supporting the world's community of foresight students, alumni, and faculty, improving foresight career resources and opportunities, and advancing foresight research. We are looking to grow the FERN team in 2012. Here's How You Can Help. FERN Mission To network students, alumni, faculty, employers, and advocates of global foresight graduate programs and certificate programs. To help foresight graduates and professionals find jobs and advance their careers. To improve the quality, visibility, and use of foresight curricula and research. What You Can Do - Next Steps Join the FERN Facebook and FERN LinkedIn groups. Hang out with us! Post to one of our Pages at GlobalForesight.org, our foresight resources directory. Share your knowledge. Look over the Projects below. If you think you can help out a bit with any of them, check out How You Can Help. There are four sections in this wiki. Use the navbar at left or click below: I. Team (Want to help the FERN team? Join our staff, or become an advisor, or sponsor.) How You Can Help (Passionate about foresight education, jobs, or research? Join us! We'd love to work with you.) Staff (Are you a student, alum, faculty, or friend of graduate foresight ed. or research? Join us! We'd love to work with you.) Advisors (Are you a leader in foresight education or research? Available for brief consults? Join us as an advisor.) Sponsors (Are you an advocate of foresight ed., employment, or research? Can you help financially? Join us as a sponsor.) II. Topics (Info on the wiki pages FERN maintains -- see the pages themselves at GlobalForesight.org) 1. Foresight Communities (online social networks, events, and conferences for foresight students, faculty, alums, and advocates) 2. Foresight Frameworks (common definitions and models of the skills, methods, and specialties of foresight) 3. Foresight Education (graduate, certificate, undergraduate, secondary, and primary foresight programs, courses, and curricula) 4. Foresight Professionals (professionals, academics, researchers, educators engaged in long term (10+ year) foresight work) 5. Foresight Organizations (top general, science, tech, business, govt, policy, philanthropy, social, health, and other foresight orgs) 6. Foresight Employers and Jobs (contact info for foresight employers, job types, and other foresight career resources) 7. Foresight Reads (foresight periodicals, books, articles, websites, roadmaps, plans, slides, audio, and video) 8. Foresight Resources (databases, models, games, trends, scenarios, weak signals, quotes, stats, problems, and solutions) III. Projects (Our current projects - pick one, get involved! Also, propose new projects to FERN staff...)  1. Foresight Careers Guidebook (a free guidebook for foresight students and alums to aid in job finding and career advancement) 2. Foresight Careers Conference (help us get grad students, alums and employers together to pursue foresight-related careers) 3. Foresight Publications Community (help create a pre-print feedback community to increase quality of foresight pubs) 4. Foresight Curricula (help us find and share curricula for global undergrad and grad foresight courses) 5. Foresight Rankings (help us rate universities, countries, corps, consultancies, and websites for foresight quality) 6. Foresight Talent Database (help us build talent databases of foresight students, alumni, profs, and professionals globally) 7. Future Problem Solving Program (help support the leading global foresight development program at the high school level) 8. Future Salons (help build and support free monthly foresight meetups in cities and colleges globally.) 9. Future Feeds (help us build a scraper of future-oriented blogs and twitter feeds in key foresight categories) 10. Futurepedia (help us grow and improve all the foresight and "future of" pages on Wikipedia and Scholarpedia) 11. University Foresight Network (connecting university foresight programs for faculty and staff) IV. Alliance Partners (Select foresight community organizations that we particularly endorse.) 1. Global Foresight Books (Searchable abstracts of over 1250 books on foresight, trends, and proposals for global/US issues!) Please join our: FERN Facebook group (our social hangout space for students, alums, faculty, employers, advocates, just started, 30 members).  FERN LinkedIn group (our professional space for everyone, just started, 116 members) and if applicable, FERN Educators (for educators teaching foresight classes, certificates, or programs around the world) FERN Students (for foresight graduate, certificate program and other students, and alums and others who support students) We also have an older FERN subgroup (244 members) inside Shaping Tomorrow's Foresight Network (STFN).  Please visit our free directory of global foresight resources at GlobalForesight.org! Feel free to add your favorite links and resources there. FERN is presently administered through the ASF nonprofit. Editors Needed!  If you would like editing privileges here, please email the wiki moderators, susanchesleyfant{at}gmail{dot}com or  johnsmart{at}accelerating{dot}org, with a brief paragraph on your background, and ask for privileges. We are always looking for more foresight students, faculty, researchers, alumni and advocates to post here, to work with, and to help our community. Thanks for visiting the FERN wiki. We look forward to meeting you in the future!