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FERN LogoWelcome to the FERN wiki. This is a work and discussion community for foresight students, faculty, alums, employers, and advocates working to improve and expand foresight education and research globally. Join our social network at the link above. We are affiliated with Shaping Tomorrow's Foresight Network (STFN), the largest free online social network for futurists at present. We have a FERN group inside STFN. Feel free to join STFN then click FERN and join our group. We also have a publicly-editable foresight directory, GlobalForesight.org. Feel free to add your foresight links and resources there. FERN is presently administered through the ASF nonprofit.

FERN Mission
Supporting students, faculty, alums, and advocates of foresight courses and Foresight MS and PhD programs, advancing careers of those in foresight education or research, and improving the quality, visibility, and use of foresight education and research globally.

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, director, or volunteer. Help us in admin, funding, promo, or projects.)
Sponsors (Are you a distinguished advocate of foresight education 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.)
Directors (Are you a doer with training in foresight? Willing to lead projects and supervise part time? Join us as a director.)
Volunteers (Volunteers are the heart of FERN. Are you a student or advocate of foresight ed. or research? Join us as a volunteer.)
Administration (Are you an organizer and communicator who is detail oriented? Help us out in administration.)
Fundraising (Interested in finding good people to financially support our mission and projects? Join the fundraising team.)
Promotion (Want to help in building the FERN brand, marketing, and cross-promotion with appropriate partners? Join us in promotion.)
Projects (current FERN project priorities - pick one and get involved! Also, propose new projects to the directors...)
1. FERN Online Community (help build and support online community for foresight students, faculty, alums, and advocates)
2. Global Foresight Directory (help find and describe the best foresight networks, orgs, and resources at GlobalForesight.org)
3. Foresight Careers Unconference (find the best foresight ed., strat., planning, policy, writing, & other careers)
4. Foresight Employers and Jobs Wiki (help us evaluate current and potential foresight employers & job prospects globally)
5. Foresight Publications Community (help create a pre-print feedback community to increase quality and diversity of foresight pubs)
6. Foresight People Database (help us find and describe foresight students, educators, researchers, and professionals globally)
7. Future Problem Solving Program (High School) (help support the leading global foresight program at the H.S. level)
8. Future Salon Meetups (College) (help build and support free monthly foresight meetups. Now in 15 cities or colleges globally.)
9. Foresight in Curricula (College) (help list and establish more foresight-enabled courses and standalone foresight courses globally)
10. Foresight Rankings (College) (help us rate universities, countries, corps, consultancies, and websites for overall foresight quality)
11. MS and Full-Time PhD Programs in Foresight (help support the eighteen primary graduate foresight programs existing today)
12. Online and Part-Time Doctorates in Foresight (help find the distance foresight doctorate options for working professionals)
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

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.