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Welcome to the FERN wiki. FERN is a global community of foresight students, alumni, faculty, employers, and advocates of graduate foresight education, employment, and research. Please join our social network, at Shaping Tomorrow's Foresight Network (STFN), the largest online community for foresight professionals at present. We have a FERN group inside STFN. First join STFN then click FERN and join our group, presently at 244 members. We also have a publicly-editable foresight directory, GlobalForesight.org. Feel free to add your favorite foresight links and resources there. FERN is presently administered through the ASF nonprofit.

What's New

FERN has a new Executive Director for 2012, Susan Chesley Fant, a recent MS management grad of U. of St. Andrews, with Scenario Planning experience. Welcome Susan!
We're looking to grow our team in 2012. Here's How You Can Help.
Join us in supporting and networking foresight students, alum, and faculty, in improving foresight employment resources, and advancing foresight research!

FERN Mission
Networking students, alumni, faculty, employers, and advocates of global Foresight graduate programs and courses,
helping graduates find jobs and advance their careers,and
improving the quality, visibility, and use of professional foresight research.

There are five sections in this wiki. See navbar at left or click below:

Team (Want to join the FERN Team? Become a sponsor, advisor, or staff member. Here's How.)

Sponsors (Are you an advocate of foresight education, employment, or research? Can you help us financially? Join us as a sponsor.)
Advisors (Are you a distinguished leader in foresight education or research? Available for brief consults? Join us as an advisor.)
Staff (Are you a student, alum, faculty, or friend of graduate foresight ed. or research? Join us! We'd love to work with you.)

Projects (current FERN project priorities - pick one and get involved! Also, propose new projects to FERN staffers...)

1. FERN Online Community (help build and support online community for foresight students, faculty, alums, and advocates)
2. MS and Full-Time PhD Programs in Foresight (help network students, alums, and faculty at all grad foresight programs in the world today)
3. Online and Part-Time Doctorates in Foresight (help find the best distance foresight doctorate options for working professionals)
4. Foresight Employers and Jobs Wiki (help us find and evaluate current and potential foresight employers & job prospects globally)
5. Foresight Careers Conference (help us get graduate students, alums and employers together to pursue foresight-related careers)
6. Global Foresight Directory (help find and describe the best foresight networks, orgs, and resources at GlobalForesight.org)
7. Foresight Publications Community (help create a pre-print feedback community to increase quality and diversity of foresight pubs)
8. Foresight People Database (help us find and describe foresight students, educators, researchers, and professionals globally)
9. Future Problem Solving Program (High School) (help support the leading global foresight program at the H.S. level)
10. Future Salon Meetups (College) (help build and support free monthly foresight meetups. Now in 15 cities or colleges globally.)
11. Foresight in Curricula (College) (help list and establish more foresight-enabled courses and standalone foresight courses globally)
12. Foresight Rankings (College) (help us rate universities, countries, corps, consultancies, and websites for overall foresight quality)
13. Foresight Frameworks (help find foresight ed. and practice frameworks used in universities, institutions, and consultancies globally)
14. FutureFeed (help us build a portal and scraper of leading future-oriented blogs and twitter feeds in 14 essential foresight categories)

15. Futurepedia (perhaps our most ambitious project--just a proposal at present, but as our community grows, we can make it real)

Resources (teaching resources for introductory undergrad and graduate foresight courses -- educators, pleases add to these!)
Curricula (open access foresight course curricula avail. for use -- link to yours here, and at Peter Bishop's Foresight Education Project)
Career (career foresight resources for students of undergrad and grad foresight courses -- educators, please add links to yours here!)

What You Can Do - Next Steps

Join the FERN Social Network (240+ members), a group inside the free Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network (3,000+ members)
Look over the FERN Team and Project descriptions above. If you'd like to talk about working with us, email John Smart or Frank Spencer ASAP!
Join and post to GlobalForesight.org, our global foresight resources directory, and to this FERN wiki (see posting info below).

Thanks for joining the FERN community. We look forward to meeting you in the future!

Editing Permissions:
1. Anyone on the web can view this wiki. Send the link to your foresight-interested friends!
2. Anyone with a Wetpaint account can add comments at the bottom of any page (resource sharing, discussions, etc.).
3. Those who have been sent an invitation* can edit these pages (login and click "EasyEdit" at top of any page).

*Students, Faculty, Alumni and Advocates of Foresight Education and Research:
If you would like editing privileges, first join the FERN wiki at the top of this page, then post a very brief profile and picture (telling the community who you are), then email wiki moderator (johnsmart(at)accelerating{dot}org) and ask for posting privileges. We are always looking for more students, faculty, researchers, alumni and advocates to post here, to support foresight students and educators globally, and to share our collective insights on foresight education and research.

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