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4 The summit could play a crucial role in strengthening the global Futurist network, rapidly advancing information dissemination and connecting stakeholders at a multiscalar, inter-cultural level. It is imperative that this summit should not repeat the essence of many global summits of the past, which merely generate vague and overarching policy documents, a series of uplifting speeches, but no pathway to operationalisation - consequentially leaving participants without the tools to implement their newly acquired knowledge. This summit should use interactive sessions to generate real, tangible strategy and practical implementation plans as well as inter-country agreements on projects. To adhere to Commitment 1 Leave no one behind it will be fundamental to design the logistics considering accessibility - i.e. location of summit, bursaries for those without funds to travel, translator support to include diverse languages, etc Ensuring equal opportunities for participation from all countries and all socio-economic levels should be integral

5 The risks and crises faced by mankind are real. However, due to different interests or demands of different countries and groups, many specific measures in practice are difficult to be implemented synchronously despite the desire to cooperate and face common challenges. In the face of these problems, we should make good use of the United Nations as a platform to put good ideas into action in specific international economic, political and cultural cooperation projects through various channels.

6 Una reunion de lideres mundiales es importante en la medida que asistan los maximos lideres y se cumplan los compromisos o se pidan rendiciones de cuenta publica a los paises que no han cumplido.

7 Las iniciativas aisladas no resultan eficientes, se deben enfrentar estos fenómenos con una mirada sistémica. Eso solo se logra haciendo confluir a todos los actores con alta capacidad de decisión en instancias como estas, pero con agendas claras y precisas que permitan obtener resultados concretos.

8 Where real issues, emerging issues and probable issues need to be discussed. Ideas generated, possible and plausible action and solutions. The awareness, urgency and most of all call to action where these issues are impossible to be solved by a single nation or even a block of nations. The democratisation of science technology and innovation and the solutions will be a platform for a more sustainable, long term future for the earth.

9 As we have not paid enough attention to the previous predictions we hve got and taken correspondings preventive measures in time, we are now suffering from the plague like Corvid-19 and globall warnings about climete change. Therefore itis necessary for us to establish an office coordinated and gethered by UN Secretariat to plan and design the global future as a whole based on the research and abservations of the futurologists. The government officials, futurologists, scientists, Astrologers,fortune tellars,ect.form a specisl organization to hold the meetings, seminas, forums to exchange views ideas and observe the results of researches. Report those results to the authority department in time to solve the problems we may face as soon as possible.

10 (SL begins) I feel this OCA approach is disastrously wrong. A key passage in the preface to OCA is, “Member States asked me to report back with recommendations to advance our common agenda. This report is my response.” Maybe something was lost in translation, but, ‘to advance’, means more, ‘to deliver faster’, than it does, ‘to review’. Disastrous therefore, because, vastly more time and resource (including goodwill) is being expended on NOT DELIVERING. Furthermore, what has been presented is devoid of critical context: in particular, the mapping of current UN activities, deliverables to date and ‘SMART’ targets for the future. Instead, OCA makes only partial reference to the wider ‘PESTEL’ (Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal) context. One suspects that ‘UN politics’ of ‘deliberate ambiguity’ have gone TOO far. The task to get the UN more efficient and effective at delivering positive changes, as opposed to just yet more reports and summits, needs to start with proper mapping of the UN, as it currently is and acts first. The focus should be on how it could deliver more, quicker, with its current resources, with a view to both some ‘quicker wins’ and informing a FUTURE, dynamic strategic review, planning and delivery cycle (which it seems to lack). In THIS context, an ideal launch report would have been titled, ‘Our Common Asset’. As the world realigns around factions with evolving and different takes on what are the priority PESTEL issues, the UN risks becoming a diminishing side-show, relative to these factionalised alternative multilateral entities. I propose an alternative way forward in the section, ‘What other strategies to consider’, below. (SL ends)

11 Summit is an opportunity for serious and systematic futures dialogue, within the framework of strategic foresight (i.e. creating meaningful foresight and insights for decision-making)

12 The Summit could be the forum to: 1) force politicians to think long-term and systemically; 2) get policymakers familiarized with futures research as a real field that could help their work and should be taken seriously; 3) develop coherence among policies designed for different sectors and agree on a strategy for the global future; 5) discuss an annual report about potential futures and outcomes of various alternatives; and 5) discuss the threats and opportunities facing humanity and the planet, establishing which departments should address which issues. The Summit could be an opportunity to re-establish democracy at global level, by fostering dialogue in a democratic manner, free of present agenda and double-standard.

13 El Cambio Climático unido a las condiciones de salud de la población, a las cuales se agregan los elementos de desplazamientos debido a migraciones por razones políticas, de guerra, hambre e indefensión, buscando mejores condiciones de vida, son situaciones que hacen fundamentar la actual perspectiva sobre el futuro, tal vez, mediato.

14 It is important to bring efforts together from all social actors globally in order to generate employment and income in post-covid times.

15 Holding the future summit in the name of the United Nations will help to gradually build a consensus on a global scale: as human beings sharing one earth, we must transcend geopolitical contradictions, ideological and cultural gaps, consider long-term future risks, pay attention to the study of the future of humanity, the future of the world, the future of the earth and future civilizations, and jointly discuss how to build a common, permanent and peaceful future for mankind.

16 Summits are, fundamentally, about dialogue. Without dialogue, there can be no progress.

17 Such a summit is CRITICAL, YES! And I agree with many other futurists' suggestions about what might come from it - better broad exposure for decision-makers, better grasp of and likely follow-through on long-term thinking and planning, etc., with most entities developing better knowledge of the growing value of futures thinking in the face of growing complexities of issues, rising threats and the accelerated likelihood of lone wolves and black swans. HOWEVER, just one summit on the future is not going to have much impact, if any. Especially if it is organized as these UN and other global multi-nation events are always organized: with emissaries of nation-states paying lip service to the public good while focusing all their energy on fiercely protecting their own goals, working to further concentrate their power and strengthen their position as - no matter what the future may bring - they see their key existential threat as their ongoing competition against rival entities, both governmental and corporate. Page 1 of the Our Common Agenda summary RIGHTLY says: “In our biggest shared test humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: a breakdown or a breakthrough… These challenges can only be addressed by an equally interconnected response, through reinvigorated MULTILATERISM… In preparing the report, we have engaged with a broad array of stakeholders… One message rang through loud and clear: the choices we make, or fail to make, today could result in further breakdown, or a breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. HOWEVER the report next says, “Our Common Agenda is, above all, an agenda of action designed to ACCELERATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING AGREEMENTS.” NO! This is the loophole they left to make everyone happy - especially those who wish to avoid real change! It is not enough to simply “accelerate the implementation of EXISTING agreements.” A new paradigm is necessary, one initiated out of new approaches that involve and empower NON-governmental leaders and other stakeholders over and above governments’ domination - it is necessary in order to effectively accomplish the overthrow of the tyranny of the status quo. No useful progress will be made if the same old good old boys’ network is left in charge of things. We can’t be divided by national boundaries and save the world and its people. We have to all really believe and act as if we are on the same team. I would like to think that this is possible, and I do encourage the development of ANNUAL Summits on the Future, not just one, but if the tone and truths embedded the written outputs and action plans emerging from these events are shaped by policy teams and pieced together with concession after concession - as all such documents are now and have been for most if not all of human history - I fear that very little if anything will have been accomplished to improve our likely chances for the best future humanity could truly achieve. We can't take decades to come around to doing this right. The time is NOW. Humans - all humans - have to start thinking about the planet as one living organism that may collapse within itself if we don't start working as one, if we don't stop acting like starving wolves only thinking about filling their bellies right now and grabbing as much of the kill as they can. You know, it is sad to say, but many of the world’s greatest futures thinkers believe that artificial intelligence - if tasked with protecting the overall good of the planet and possibly even the Universe - would have to decide to eliminate humans; it's a no-brainer. Can we please recognize this and do something about it? I hope so.

18 The summit could be key to exchange best practices among Governments and other international public and private stakeholders. It could be like a Futures Davos Forum.

19 Los diferentes intereses y tipo de regímenes e el mundo determinan que no existan acuerdos y consensos para solventar problemáticas que afectan al mundo

20 The summit will help to collect perspectives from many stakeholders from around the world. The commitment toward the renewed social contract discussed in the report could be achieved at the summit level. The political-economic crisis in the post-pandemic in many nations including Sri Lanka with unsustainable debt levels is valuable lesson that could be shared with other nations/participants at the summit to learn and develop the future risk assessments to mitigate such crises.

21 I agree with all of the responses to this cell and would add the following: 1. Country issues and priorities should be on the agenda, both in the context of the OCA and national future policy and institutional considerations. 2. Summits on the Future should be biannually and as inclusive as possible. 3. Educational options for encouraging research and training for foresight thinking and working should be a priority in terms of global, neurobiological risk.

22 Discussion is of importance and can have impact. Its vital to be able to take action for common purpose. The base of the discussions needs to be prepared to be successful. Each country needs to do it homework, involving different stakeholders, from young people to different interest groups in each of the countries involved, not only form the political arena.

23 The idea of UN summit on the future is very attractive. I think that before summit a worldwide foresight program should be organised in which many type of stakeholders could participate. Therefore the foresight process should be organised in online network form. This is the right way to get information about very different thoughts on common human future, to form them into different possible world future scenarios. They can be discussed and valueted during foresight process and the finalized alternative could be the subject of UN Summit. I

24 Summit of the Future es muy importante para pensar conjuntamente en las enormes posibilidades que ofrece el futuro desarrollo de la humanidad. Sin embargo la gobernanza de este tipo de acuerdos es normalmente débil, más aún si se trata de temas generales. Los acuerdos puntuales suelen ser más efectivos. Aún así estamos en un período en que las tendencias nacionalistas, proteccionistas, y el creciente número de autocracias en el mundo hace difícil la reflexión conjunta, la cooperación entre países y el someter las prioridades nacionales a prioridades globales más importantes, como lo ha demostrado la falta de cumplimiento de los acuerdos de París por ejemplo. Se necesita buscar un consenso entre todos los países para alcanzar las metas propuestas para el futuro que se quiere, con compromisos concretos y rendición de cuentas por parte de los países.

25 El consenso de la humanidad sobre la gobernanza del futuro sobre los bienes públicos globales es crucial y urgente. Se necesitan redoblar los esfuerzos de comunicación y compromiso de todos los países porque está en riesgo la sobrevivencia de la especie humana. Los primeros 5 años de implementación de la Agenda para el Desarrollo Sostenible muestran que las metas prioritarias no se cumplen. En el Perú, las entidades responsables el Centro Nacional de Planificación Estratégica (CEPLAN) y el Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI), no logran convertir las políticas y metas de sus planes con proyectos, menos con los presupuestos respectivos. El Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, opera solamente en el corto plazo prescindiendo de las políticas de mediano y largo plazo. De otro lado, se concibe en la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos que la economía de libre mercado no debe sujetarse a ningún tipo de plan.

26 We are tending to be more in the pace of our economy based on the quarterly intervals than looking to longterm consequences of what we are doing (climate change is just an example and still widely underestimated, cyber crime is another one, impact of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and the like need to be discussed in the realm of future impact ). Summits that are addressing these topics are needed and not politicise the discussions. Also make it accessible for everybody, meaning that in principle everybody should understand it.

27 The dialogue is essential - the agenda could be expanded to consider other kery areas essential to a viable and sustainable future for all - education, health, regulation of science and technology, policy making - the list goes on. Some of the process challenges will be 1) ensuring that the preceding activities and events tee up meaningful conversation at the final summit; 2) that leaders are convinced to take part; 3) that truly meaningful actions can be agreed and followed through; and 4) finding a way to get to a common agenda of priorities when there are such diverse views between nations on what a desirable future could and should look like. (Rohit Talwar)

28 Humanity will create the future they want and the Summit will provide a platform for charting that future. We need to eliminate present widespread primitive tendencies in various parts of the world by creating equal educational and economic opportunities for all regardless of race, religion and sex and advance ideas and technologies that can advance human civilization without damaging prospects for a better future. We need to strengthen trust among nations, religions and races to reduce wars. We need to have ways of stopping deliberate human-made calamities that may arise by neglect or lack of future foresight in future or emerging technologies and opportunities like AI, space exploration and build up of destructive weapons. Space exploration particularly to our Moon creates a potential threat to humanity's future if human activities shift the orbit of the Moon around planet Earth. This could spell global catastrophe as pointed out in my book (Adetiloye, 2016) Religion, Science and the Future) and other publications Adetiloye, 2014, 2021, Windstorms, rainstorms and thunderstorms). Hence all space missions to the our Moon and activities there must follow all approved safety protocols and be publicized and approved by UN Space Lunar Committee. All missions, activities and findings of the Moon must remain unclassified to protect humanities future as unguided human activities on the Moon pose a veritable threat to the future of human survival on planet Earth.

29 Se requiere de acciones conjuntas para la solución de problemáticas presentes y futuras que nos afectan de manera global. Por lo cual, la posibilidad de dar respuestas a estas a partir de una visión futura y de consenso se entiende pertinente y relevante.

30 The Summit is an opportunity to put strategic foresight at the center of multilateral decision-making. It must be a Multi-stakeholders Summit: States (Governments and Parliaments), NGOs, Networks of businessmen and workers, Universities, Scientists, Think Tanks and other protagonists of the XXI Century society.

31 Summits give a clear vision of the future in view of the decisions that are taken and the quality of the discussion

32 Survival is the eternal theme of mankind. The future summit is not just a seminar for experts and scholars. It should be a forum for all stakeholders to attach great importance to the long-term survival of mankind, especially developing countries. At present, as a basic unit of global action, the state plays a vital role in all actions for the long-term survival of mankind, which must be paid attention to.

33 I think a Summit on the Future will be very important to draw the attention of different stakeholders to the importance of reflecting on the future and acting now in order to avoid and remedy the threats to our planet. However, I think a great advanced action of capacity building is important. What skills and abilities must be developed so that people can participate in a discussion on this subject in a qualified way?

34 Only the UN can bring together the breadth of global issues and the depth of the number of national/cultural participants, as well as the size of its research bureaucracy, to discuss and analyze our mutual global future. I also agree with critics, who say that past UN efforts have been ineffectual, overly bureaucratic and indecisive, and lacking in authority, from the depths of the ocean to the reaches of outer space. Similar international talking conferences, however, have been, mostly, equally so and subject to criticism for their pursuit of relatively narrow agendas and lack of action. Until the past few years, however, I thought we were, at least, making some progress, in the form of the global economy. Recent events have shown that we are, instead, slipping back into a self-centered, multi-polar world, which will waste time that we no longer have. A UN Summit on the Future needs to recognize global threats and global action items we can agree upon. Or we're all dead.

35 There is a significant need to strengthen foresight capacity in general, but especially in inter-/transnational arenas. It has been quite clear for a long time that rates of technological and social change are increasing. Equally important, but less prominent in general discourse, is that technological and social change are very unevenly distributed - and this is not only a developed vs. under-developed issue. Even some of the most developed regions of the world are denied full access to current technological capabilities for various reasons (consider as an obvious ex. that currently available AI assistants like Google Home only support a handful of languages giving those regions that use supported languages a considerable edge over the unsupported). These two issues (and certainly others) demonstrate the importance of basing policy discourse in carefully crafted long-term future-oriented contexts that take into consideration the many challenges, opportunities and hinderances that face humanity.

36 Estamos alcanzando y también sobrepasado límites en la ocupación y uso de recursos del planeta. Pensar el futuro es pensar en un tiempo que ya está muy cerca.

37 El mundo ha cambiado y sigue cambian rápidamente al punto que hoy nos encontramos en un punto de inflexión como los que solo se presentan pocas veces, porque está cambiando todo en todas las dimensiones y eso hace muy compleja la gobernanza global. Están agotándose aceleradamente los códigos que nos guiaban como sociedad e incluso como humanidad, así que llegó la hora de hacer apuestas en común para trazar nuevos códigos que nos permitan transitar juntos hacia un nuevo mundo. Una cita como la que se plantea es no solo necesaria, sino fundamental para trazar esos puentes hacia el futuro mejor.

38 Row 1 of 6 SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE ??1????????? I believe that the Future Summit will advance governance arrangements in areas of international concern mentioned in the OCA report and possibly other ideas that have not yet formed or need to be updated and should be on the agenda on the basis of extensive consultation from the Advisory Committee.According to the findings of the Advisory Committee, the main topics should include: a) scientific and technological governance al public goods and other areas as appropriate; b) advancing governance in globI believe that the Future Summit will advance governance arrangements in areas of international concern mentioned in the OCA report and possibly other ideas that have not yet formed or need to be updated and should be on the agenda on the basis of extensive consultation from the Advisory Committee.According to the findings of the Advisory Committee, the main topics should includec) expecting sustainable development and climate action beyond 2030; d) a new agenda for peace and security and peace; e) digital technology for global digital contracts; f) outer space, seeking agreements on sustainable and peaceful use of outer space, reach a global system, coordinate space transport, and agree on principles for future governance of outer space activities; g) major risks andagreements; The h) possible agreement on the Declaration on Offgenerations or the Universal Declaration of the Future. ?????“????”????OCA?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????a)??????b)???????????????????c)??2030???????????????d)????????????e)????????????f)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????g)????????h)??????????????????????????

39 - Excellent communication opportunity to raise awareness on long-term issues facing humanity AND to stimulate a global culture of long-term thinking, incentives and commitment. - The Summit would provide a framework for countries to explore the future, and to prepare and benchmark their preparedness capacity.

40 Though we have seen that summits such as COPs fell far short of realizing the cherished objectives, nevertheless, global dialogues are still the only effective way to address issues of global concern that stretch beyond national boundaries such as climate change, COVID-19, air pollution and others. However, such dialogues would have to be more inclusive and interactive and involve inputs from stakeholders at all levels. In other words, preparations for such summits should involve more of bottom up exercises with informed participation rather than top down approaches imposed upon the stakeholders.

41 An instance like the summit on the future is very important because we live in times of real danger for the human species. Climate change and other conflicts, such as potential wars and pandemics, must be addressed from the highest level, both at the level of government and collective intelligence specialists in future studies.

42 A summit of this nature and stature would cross different disciplines and juristictions, and generate a discussion at this level that could be a catalyst outside. It would improve internal foresight capacity quickly, but also it should not become an exclusive club. They may not be binding agreements on their own initially, but this could be the only realm in which future oriented anticipatory governance is focused on at this level.

43 Another bureaucratic UN group unable to be effective

44 I feel this will be another session for politicians to pontificate but will not produce measurable or actionable results. However, it could promote awareness and provide a platform for foresight professionals to be the disruptors in the room. Might there be an opportunity for professional foresight practitioners to present their findings and draw a line in the sand? Could those some people come back year after year and continue to present their findings, using data and evidence to show a trajectory? Might this help the UN body begin to understand the gravity of the challenges facing us and act? I'm hopeful and I think it is something that must be done if we are to address increasingly complex challenges.

45 La reuniones de Cumbre suelen limitarse a representantes gubernamentales, las personas interesadas quedan limitadas por disponer del tiempo y del dinero necesario para asistir.

46 Such a summit could become a forum for explaining to global media, and through the media to interested citizens and observers, what is being contemplated and considered. As such, the Summit could become a catalyst for global action, implemented locally. The most likely outcome, however, is that the Summit would be mostly ignored and viewed as yet another gathering for speech making and posturing.

47 Too many summits take place - these are just events that are soon forgotten, do not have much impact

48 Si bien existen agendas globales y nacionales al respecto, se requiere un consenso de prioridades, lo cual es difícil.

49 It is convenient to prepare for the future, but almost always foresight is incomplete and new developments (war, technology, changes in the distribution of power within the international system, etc.) influence the agenda and change the priorities abruptly.

50 Pienso que, aún siendo relevante como marco general, son más críticos los acuerdos regionales o entre naciones, pues dicen relación con accciones más concretas

51 Summits are useful as tools to present results to the wider audience, and could help promote the relevance of future studies as valuable tools. However, lack of interest from countries and participants, or unwillingness to transform insight into really actionable proposals will limit the overall effectiveness. They should be considered the last step for making things work, not the first one.

52 Porque en una cumbre no se definen todas las soluciones de los problemas globales, porque hay fallas de cooperación internacional. Además las visiones de país son muy contrastantes, si no hay convicción y voluntad política los acuerdos los dejan pasar

54 La efectividad del proceso, ademàs de la firma de acuerdos y voluntades, está en el seguimiento efectivo que se realice, para verificar que las acciones propuestas vayan generando resultados.

55 These types of summits are important for global cooperation and can foster alignment among stakeholders, who have oppositional views as they are exposed to the insights of other perspectives and rationale. However, the content seems to be very high level and thus implementation of ideas presented here is limited. It would be beneficial to focus on encouraging collaboration among participants with opposing views at the summit as this is an opportunity to moderate a discussion on global issues and a possibility to change or advance perspectives on burning issues.

56 This could better connect professional futurists with their governments. Gets each nation on the record about the future, that could be analyzed and synthesized for a report by the Office of the UNSG for a “state of national thinking about the future,” which can then become a focus or benchmark for improvement.

57 Choice of the tracks will be important. An additional track could be State of Science. Also I note that the Summit could replace the function of the World Future Society's (WFS, now defunct) international annual future conferences; interchange information about futures frontiers, methods and topics.

58 If there is serious preparation and involvement of key countries, it can be a catalyst for raising interest and put policies in action

59 On the one hand a summit of the future makes politicians accountable to media ( the public), on the other hand a summit does not in itself make a difference. In diplomacy a summit like this would often be used to promote other areas (geostrategic interest, trade etc), which is what we see with the EU ministers of the future. The effectiveness of a summit would also be dependant of major countries typically the US to driven and push for an agenda.

60 This Summit, although high level, shall not be detached from other foresight conferences, such as the Futures Conference of the WFSF World conference. Exchange and capacity building will be a key among policy makers, strategic foresight experts, futures thinkers and relevant stakeholders.

61 Agree that this would primarily be a space for high-level decision-makers and leaders to see and be seen, which is to say that the optics of this event are just as important as the content discussed. Accountability, specifically real financial support, is critical to ensuring that any and all proposals go beyond mere ideation.

62 Summits are useful for raising awareness, but their effectiveness depends on the political will and commitment of participants. Only in rare cases, their effectiveness is high.

63 It is important to place the issue of the future in the decision makers of the States or countries at the level of generating changes in the development models of our societies.

64 Introduction and awareness of foresight practices as an instrument that contributes to shape the global challenges awareness and need to take actions. Enhance “system-wide” communication and coordination.

65 This Summit on the Future will only be effective if it includes many key participants not part of the UN system itself, but persons who have demonstrated experience and knowledge of the potential, tools and limitations of futures research and action planning techniques and/or who come from a wide range fields and backgrounds and include significant representation of youth. There will need to be a significant element of education at the beginning of the Summit. Also, to the extent possible, the Summit should bar open to as broad a public as possible, because they also need to be educated to the potential and possibilities and reasons for effective futures work.

66 Forging blindly ahead is always a bad idea. A Summit on the Future can discuss future opportunities, challenges and pitfalls on an informed basis, making it possible to chart a path to the future that makes use of the opportunities, handles the challenges and avoids the pitfall that the future will or may present.

67 It would be very critical in a better-than-this world, where the scientific community should be the very first to be listened by the governments. In a better-than-this world, wellbeing on Earth should be the target of the scientific community, of course. In a world like this, we can try to be critical - sometimes we get it all.

68 Summits can provide more visibility to foresight results and provoke changes with the pressure of the public opinion on politics.

69 We're are at a Fork in the Road, and must come together for emergency action planning

70 UN Summit on the Future needs to be prepare with a precise process that allows ideas and proposals to be analyzed in depth and prioritize over time in order to implement them easily and quickly.

71 This is a critical need and I think that it should be organized in that way that small countries with not so wealthy industry can be involved at least by following other countries and by making copies of some of their good solution for similar problems that all countries have. In that sense, it would be necessary to have once in a year an opportunity to see some kind of summary of all activities.

72 the world definitely and urgently needs an approach to the future, the long term is already short term if we do not take the appropriate measures in relation to the risks that humanity is running. It is necessary for Summit for the Future to have a sense of urgency and qualify the word future because it carries a temporal distance that leads people to put it aside.

73 Sharing perspectives formally helps to build needed consensus and highlight problems and opportunities including conflicts to be resolved. This would be a Critical requirement

74 These type of summits/conferences are important to keep the matter in review/discussion on a high level of awareness among incumbents and practitioners.

75 Looking at the whole future of humanity to anticipate its opportunities, risks and consequences is critical today and not tomorrow.

76 Abre una oportunidad de diálogo entre culturas y aun entre civilizaciones.

77 Done well, this Summit could have a huge impact.

78 With so many challenges that we have to face in the future, it is crucial to try to put all countries - especially underdeveloped and developing ones that still face basic problems such as access to health, education, and housing - on the same page so that everyone understands that this needs to be a global agenda.

79 Great proposal to have summits, but first of all we need a more future-oriented thinking! I suggest to propose an annual summit

80 A summit, to have impact, should be followed by national Summits on the Future, that diccuss and complement the global report and global conclusions. This will help to expand consciouness and future thinking. Also the debates should consider the present level of acomplishment of SDG´s by different countries and help those lagging behind.

81 I think this is important for improving the effectiveness of global foresight, and it is also conducive to promoting more people around the world to pay attention to the future of mankind and our common world.

82 Awareness and engagement: Establing common ground and appreciation of a wide range of viewpoints is essential

83 Se hace necesario un espacio político específico y colegiado, donde se den avances sobre la implementación específica del resto de temáticas presentadas en la agenda. Este debe llevarse mediante un proceso político, que si bien presente como respuesta una serie de acuerdos no vinculantes y declaraciones de interés, será utilizado para habilitar y facilitar la implementación del resto de medidas sugeridas por el Secretario General en su reporte. Por todo lo anterior, el proceso de la Summit tendrá especial importancia para el resto de elementos, pues mostrara de primera mano el nivel de apoyo multilateral a estas cuestiones prospectivas.

84 Unfortunately, no other options could be provided for the time being.

85 Such a Summit on the Future will draw global attention to foresight and futures thinking generally (much like the Rio Earth summit did)

86 The future of mankind is important

87 I agree with many other futurists' suggestions about what might come from it - better broad exposure for decision-makers, better grasp of and likely follow-through on long-term thinking and planning, etc., with most entities developing better knowledge of the growing value of futures thinking in the face of growing complexities of issues, rising threats and the accelerated likelihood of lone wolves and black swans. It is very important to organize future summits that must be organized among developing and industrialized countries to regularly discuss the future of humanity.

88 The Summit is vital for the goals highlighted; governance and effectiveness in addressing the multiple tracks including capacity for anticpatory decision making, addressing both international areas of concerns and opportunities. Then to also go beyond considering ideas and consultants, and to focus on the implementation [“ Our Common Agenda is, above all ..designed to accelerate the implementation of existing agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals”. OCA pg 3]. The implementation focus on both emerging ideas from the summit, and previous agreements need a future ready approach. Much like the NHS Cygnus Exercise, a war game simulation or a similar tool could surface learning publically about what pathways that lead to successful implementation, and those that do not yield timely action.

89 It is important that there is a strategy and goals that enough national politicians worldwide and communicators trusted by their general publics are prepared to get behind and see through.

90 Al tratar sobre posibles mecanismos de gobernanza en los ámbitos de interés internacional (por ejemplo bienes públicos globales). la Cumbre del Futuro tiene un objetivo crítico para la renovación o actualización de las Naciones Unidas. Tomando en cuenta la fecha prevista de su celebración, ¿es suficiente el tiempo de negociación para llegar a compromisos y no sólo a un acercamiento de acuerdo sobre el mecanismo de gobernanza compatible con un multilateralismo más interconectado y más inclusivo? Tradicionalmente, las reuniones de alto nivel tienen segmentos como los sugeridos en el informe del SG. Todos los temas son importantes. ¿no sería más pertinente centrarse en gobernanza?

91 this summit could work as a base to have a realstic approach towards the completion of the SDG 2030 agenda within a realistic timeframe.

92 Summit on The Future is critical if the intention is not only to produce Foresight Reports but also monitor and measure existing Foresight Projects and Actions. Transversal , commitment and appropriate communication of the common goals, plans, actions and outcomes should be established and respected by all stakeholders involved. 4 or 5 year periodicity is appropraite.

93 Prior to the Summit, the UNSG could issue some key results from this Real-Time Delphi and/or conduct a Real-time Delphi specifically on the agenda for action to be considered at the UN Summit on the Future.

94 Think about the possible use of social and more conventional media to carry a live broadcast of the proceedings with commentators who interpret what is happening as in a ball game or the Olympics. Stream on social media.

95 clear aims, responsibilities and measures, not only on the science and technology or economic side, but also in societies, media and the virtual worlds

96 This Summit could rotate among continents, not always at the UN in NYC, but moving yearly to other UN headquarters in Africa, Asia, Europe, etc.

97 Se debe tener una visión y un panorama claro sobre lo que se va a discutir, especialmente en relación a las estructuras de las sociedades en cada uno de los países y, eventualmente, sus transformaciones debido a las acciones antrópicas sobre el medioambiente.

98 It is a very valuable opportunity to identify new emergent elements of analysis and to diversify points of view and generate variety in the analysis of scenarios.

99 Interdisciplinarity and inclusion will make this Summit successful, including representatives from all relevant groups, i.e. Quintuple helix ((Carayannis and Campbell(2006, 2009, 2010)

100 In the play Oedipus by Sofokles, a blind man represents he who can see the truth which is hidded (insight and foresight). There is a special form of tragedy that plays out, whenever a child stands in front of the general assembly. Like in ancient tragedies the child, like the blind man in Oedipus, becomes the truthtellers. The child speaks on behalf of countless victims of the future and lay bare the blindness of our own generation. It is very powerful. Giving the children of this world a voice could be way to create an impact.

101 A summit provides an opportunity for many different groups to come together and explore the future. It would need to be able to connect with a diverse group of people, led with expert facilitators to work on futures thinking practices, and have tangible problems to work through.

102 Reuniones regionales, preliminares con participación de expertos en estudios de futuro, científicos, académicos, ONG y periodistas

103 Engagement from and with decision-makers and leaders, and a space for actionable commitments to be made.

104 Participation by both recognized leaders and subject matter experts, as well as by futurists to guide the process, can lead to insights that temper opportunities with political/economic constraints, both actual and perceived. Such a mix can provide compelling content for media outlets and rapporteurs that can spark a sense of optimism about the future and our ability to thrive in the face of anticipated challenges as well as surprises. If successful, a Summit would generate enthusiastic support for repeating periodic summits, which themselves could become the/a nexus for assessing and reporting on the state of the future.

105 Es necesario que se involucren a los actores sociales de las regiones de los países. Esto es un reto principalmente para los países demasiados centralistas. Para que sea mas eficaz, se debe mejorar los procesos de divulgación y apropiación por parte de los actores sociales.

106 1,Clear goals: Each summit has clear (limited) objectives; 2. Three aspects of preparation? 3. Not always at the UN headquarters in New York, but every year to Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, etc??let the world know the importance of future research

107 Agencias u organizaciones internacionales para lograr sensibilizar a las autoridades de los gobiernos.

108 Invite a diverse public and make them speak up. Different cultural visions from different layers of the population and different age groups. Broad reach, for example via social media, but also physical gatherings for global participation

109 The summit should signify unequivocally that we are all in this together. There can be no trading-off. That said, the richer countries should foot a larger bill.

110 In addition to policymakers, the Summit should also include professional futurists to: 1) get policymakers familiarized with futures research as a field and make them understand how foresight could help their work; 2) use foresight methodologies for advancing the works and outcomes of the Summit; 3) discuss various potential futures and outcomes of policies; and 4) identify new threats and opportunities facing humanity and the planet and eventually, how could they be addressed. A Summit on the Future should also include representatives of the citizens (separate of politicians), and of the young generation. The outcomes of the Summit should be clear and actionable.

111 A set of moonshot pledges on future issues similar to SDGs/MGs must be collected prior to the summit for it to have any real impact.

112 THE MAIN ROLE SHOULD HAVE FUTURISTS AND NOT LEADERS AND ACTIVISTS

113 It should be used as an outside in instrument to cross check the results coming from the strategic foresight report: Are there any other signals that were not identified before? are there any wildcards? It should spark further investigation for coming working groups.

114 It will be necessary to include the active participation of a broad range of non-UN staff or country representatives in this Summit as facilitators, educators, provokers, mediators because the whole purpose is to shake up the UN status quo and begin a critical reorientation requiring outside intervention. While certain introductory sessions may be required to frame the process and introduce concepts and terminology and such interactive sessions will be required to ensure sufficient understanding for making informed contributions to the proceedings. Also, using social and conventional media to carry live the proceedings with opportunity to submit questions and suggestions to forward the agenda and proceedings. Because of the magnitude of this, it might require s series of regional summits culminating in a global summit that brings together the disparate regional viewpoints into a common agreement on detailed action plans for moving forward the different elements of the futures agenda in the UN system.

115 Who: suggestions from public participation in addition to experts and decision-makers What: interactive and collaborative platforms

116 People have to be aware of the seriousness of all the critical areas. There is a need to give more visibility to the report.

117 1. Make very short briefs (4-5 pages maximum) and short videos (5 minutes) of action required by national governments and citizens IN ALL GLOBAL LANGUAGES 2. enable an online platform to allow ALL GLOBAL CITIZENS to review actions, report good practices and point out hindrances and what is not working

118 It can spread all over the world the voice of the scientific community, and it is important

119 The UNSG should organize it inviting key actors who are leading futures implementation in the public and private sector. The success would be linked to an action plan to extend futures initiatives worldwide.

120 The UN has the leading role in making it successful. Besides, the UN should divide the summit on the future by geographic location to foster the discovery of local problems and solutions, and geopolitical settings (such as developed or developing countries) to discover patterns in existing solutions to be spread worldwide.

121 It will be successful if the summit could bring regional views from around the world.

122 - a real commitment with the future and assuming the risks through a Global Document signed by the Secretary=General United Nations together with the Country-Members in the next UN Assembly - the publication of this committment for the whole world - the creation of a Foresight Assessment Department just after the results of the Delphi study - The next UN Assembly should have all governments presenting committment with the future

123 Devolution of the responsibilities to regional blocs and continents. These blocs to further assign countries. The Summit must be for continents/countries to report on assigned duties. More action is required than mere discussions

124 Governments continue to be the key influencers in achieving common global goals. In practice, we can give full play to the role of think tanks, support influential think tanks in various countries to actively respond to the call of the United Nations, form systematic and persuasive international reports in advance, and influence government decision-making and international cooperation.

125 The base of the discussions needs to be prepared to be successful. Each country needs to do it homework, involving different stakeholders, from young people to different interest groups in each of the countries involved, not only form the political arena. There needs to be wake up activities in each of the countries, get respond for variety of groups how with help of research involving university and other similar bodies to take part in and take action to the policy in question.

126 It would be essential to have some really different speakers at this event - a wider range than academia, imho

127 Before Summit a foresight process should be organised and run with participation of national and regional and international reprezentatives of business, society, governance, civil society and citizens etc. to find out the new future shaping elements working in our world. This type of foresight activity should be organised as a regular activity before every Summit deals with the future.

128 Create a Virtual Reality Platform to generate ideas from the identified key factors of the real time Delphi. Access to Metaverse is not a fashion. It can definitely facilitate youth participation, but not only to prepare the Future.

129 Use appropiate media for that showing in particular the recent Ucrania war situation

130 ***Whatever will be done make understandable and accessible what is presented

131 Proveer a todos los países un pronóstico de lo que se espera multidimensionalmente el futuro para los países y para el mundo de continuar el comportamiento de business as usual y las medidas concretas que deben adoptarse para lograr avances tangibles en todas las áreas, especialmente en lo que se refiere al Cambio Climático, derechos humanos, paz y seguridad. Se necesita un intenso trabajo previo a la Cumbre del Futuro para con este propósito.

132 Thematic areas should be identified for regional blocks, Asia, America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Euro-Asia etc. to be discussed in regional conferences and online participation prior to a global conference with online participation with adequate funding. Players in areas that pose major threats to humanities future, such as climate, pandemics, space exploration, governance/poverty/wars, religious conflicts, emerging technologies etc. to interact with multidisciplinary global audience on global best practices for sustainability of human civilization. UN must set up Special Special Committees to provide regulatory guidelines for all human activities that threaten our future survival. For example, a UN Lunar Explorations Regulatory Committee must be set up to actively regulate, monitor, identify and prevent unhealthy human activities on the Moon that can directly or indirectly affect the delicate geomagnetic and climatic balance on planet Earth. Any such disequilibrium can spell global catastrophe due to dramatic shifts in the spin of the Moon around the Earth, alter the Magnetic North Pole, affect ocean currents, communication systems and networks, cause sever rainstorms, windstorms and thunderstorms that could severely devastate cities, human populations and infrastructure in the near future as many nations rush to explore the Moon for different reasons without censorship.

133 Participation of both gubermental top responsables and specialists in the matter of discussion and planning.

134 Emphasis on participation by all nations needed at Summit so all views heard

135 This Summit could be broadcasted live through all the continent and could take place in different countries. The ideas to discuss during the Summit could be shared prior to it by the experts all over the world

136 Establecer una agenda que permita escuchar expertos desde diversas disciplinas y no políticos. Se necesita avanzar en cosas concretas y no buenos deseos. No pude finalizar con un discurso que refleje intenciones, sino con un programa de trabajo realista, sobre criterios técnicos. Se debe abstraer de la coyuntura política y, sobre todo, de las ideologías.

137 To establish only a few priorities and define only a limited number of objectives. Be ambitious, but do not overreach. Many times this kind of events set a large number of objectives, which create a large and inneficient bureaucracy to implement them, with little or none effectiveness.

138 Este debería contar con una representacion de cada uno de los grupos de interés que inciden en la planificación y la toma de decisiones de las diversas regiones. Ademas, considerar la participación de una muestra representativa de los distintos grupos etarios de los países. Esto se lograría, realizando la actividades primero por país, luego por regiones, despues por continentes y al final, una representación global. Esto permitiría ir desde lo particular a lo general atendiendo a las problematicas características de los participantes.

139 Los asuntos propuestos por la Secretaría General son, como siempre en la ONU, excesivamente generales, neutros, elusivos. El éxito del diálogo dependerá, en mi opinión, de que dentro de cada uno de los objetivos señalados pueda definirse tempranamente uno o dos puntos efectivamente relevantes, seguramente conflictivos o polémicos. Por ejemplo, las consecuencias de mediano y largo plazo de la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia.

140 Quer me parecer que são ações macro que estão muito longe das reigiões. (No sentido de pouca adequação às realidades locais.) Sim, são importantes mas, será preciso aproximar dos povos e das regiões para que o conhecimento e as ações passem a fazer parte do dia-a-dia das pessoas. Concordo mas, gostaria de mais praticidade na aplicação.

141 published material of all studies distributed in advance and having the summit all over the world, not only in institutional centres.

142 - To assure the wider range of social political actors participating at national and regional levels.A balance between politicians and representatives of civil society, academics, scientists. - Address from multidisciplinary perspectives the fracture in the relations between society and State, identifying the main issues that are affecting daily life at local communities. Gender, inter-generational, knowledge, technological gaps exacerbate poverty and exclusion. Can we really think of a common future unaware of what has led to this point?

143 Solid definition and explanations of purpose, aims, limits and costraints to the wider public will help worldwide public opinion understand its value.

144 Es muy importante que los Objetivos y Metas de La Agenda Común sean acordados en cada país con el Congreso de la República y el Ejecutivo y se exprese en los Planes Nacionales de Largo Plazo, con las prioridades, metas y proyectos prioritarios. La Agenda para el Desarrollo Sostenible al 2030, por ejemplo en el Perú, si bien, inspiró una Visión de Futuro al 2050. Este documento, al no tener metas, ni un valor mandatorio, es asimilado por CEPLAN con similar naturaleza declarativa y por los Ministerios y Gobiernos Regionales, sin ninguna priorización nacional de los objetivos, lo cual conduce a que estas entidades sectoriales y regionales se orienten por objetivos de corto plazo, dado que el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas elabora el Anteproyecto de Presupuesto de cada año y el Programa de Inversiones públicas, sin hacerlo congruente con los ODS, la Visiòn de Futuro, ni las prioridades nacionales. CEPLAN hasta ahora no ha formulado el Plan Estratégico de Desarrollo Nacional para el periodo 2022-2030. No se cumple así la disposición anterior que las prioridades y metas del Plan deben guiar el presupuesto y los proyectos sectoriales y regionales. De otro lado, los actores más importantes de la sociedad civil que producen el 80% del PBI en el Perú, La Empresa Privada, los Gremios, Partidos Políticos, las ONGS, Organizaciones Sociales y los medios de comunicación tampoco son convocados ni por el Poder Ejecutivo ni por el Congreso para difundir los ODS y consiguientemente Nuestra Agenda Común, seguiría ignorada, pese a su trascendencia.

145 1.- Must be an starting point for the reform of the UN and the multilateral system, to ensure a sustainable future and manage strategic and existential threats to humanity. 2.- Multi Stakeholders

146 1. Agree re: online platform for accountability 2. Involve non-state actors and allow all global stakeholders to present and participate to the greatest extent possible 3. Provide clear, actionable recommendations following the summit

147 Will the Summit actually address the truly vital questions, or instead get bogged down in politically correct / convenient sentiments? I fear the latter. Alas, the Common Agenda Report shows far too little appreciation of the huge forthcoming disruptions likely to be generated by new waves of AI functionality. Unless that issue is put at the forefront, and the conversation is guided by people knowledgeable about the true risks and opportunities arising, the Summit will be ineffective.

148 involvement of UN organixations. GEO UNEP model might be helpful

149 Summits succeed when there is a clear and transparent dialogue; It serves foresight through the future-carrying signals carried by the results and recommendations of those summits

150 This summit should address the different challenges that developed, underdeveloped and developing countries have to face in order to show that some countries has much more job to be done but should be supported for those that have less to do in order to balance and to achieve the global goals.

151 The vision is blurry and disjointed with the reality because the stakeholders are the main drivers of the issues. How can suppose that the actors of disasters could fix the situation? Only an innovative approach based on the involvement of the local communities, not their alleged representatives will change the framework and the rules

152 I suggest to have an annual summit on future! However, we should start from a future-oriented thinking, otherwise the dialogue will be not valuable. It is raccomandable to have different expertise in the panels, also citizens.

153 Every country in the world should be represented by a trained futurist that speaks the language of that country and has in depth knowledge of the country and its government.

154 Broad communication of main risks through social networks addressing young generations. And register main reactions and proposals. Promote the creation of Future Units in all countries that could manage and enhance deliberations within governments and civil society organizations

155 In order to make it more successful, it must have the participation and efforts of those developed countries. And moreover,we should make better use of social media for propaganda and education, which will help more people reach a consensus. In addition to inviting leaders of various countries to participate in the Summit, the elites in various fields, especially futurists, should also be invited to participate in the Summit.

156 Es importante mantener una participación amplia y multilateral con una gran cantidad de actores estatales y no estatales, pues esta podría presentar una esperanzadora instancia para la aplicación de nuevos modelos de gobernanza que permitan hacer frente a las diversas problemáticas presentadas por el SG. El desarrollo de la Summit debe incorporarse de manera periódica y temática al resto del sistema de naciones unidas, aprovechando las sinergias generadas por sistemas de políticas publicas internacionales encargadas en organismos especializados de las Naciones Unidas.

157 The most impactful decision-makers must be part of this conversation: representatives of the main emitting countries and the main economic sectors that emit the most. Leaders of the main banks, managers of the main funds, and multilateral credit organizations. In addition, there must be a leading role for representatives of groups that have been excluded from development dialogues for decades: indigenous people, youth, women, blacks, LGBTQ+ groups and representatives of poor countries (Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Asia) - government, civil society, private sector. The challenge will be to facilitate dialogues and extract innovative ideas and solutions.

158 Young (less than 35) influencial policy makers with different cultural background are collected to a preliminary session to discuss with prominent futurists.

159 I agree with most of these comments of others and would add that we must encourage the use of future-language in the summits and throughout so that our leaders make more reference to what if, etc.

160 Governments and decision makers of concern and those able in industrial countries

161 Que en el Congreso se desarrollen herramientas para la implementación de restricciones en temas de cambio climático, garantizar compromisos en temas de seguridad mundial y llegar a acuerdos en fondos de financiamiento para el logro de los principales objetivos de desarrollo sostenible. Es necesario que la Cumbre sea muy diversa en expertos y sea representativa en corrientes de prospectiva. Auditoría a los fondos, que se cumplan las metas del fondo fiduciario y se transparente los resultados por país

162 pienso que los acuerdos globales son importantes pero no cuentan con la suficiente capacidad de obtener los resultados deseados porque las autoridades y las poblaciones no tienen suficiente coordinación entre si.

163 There are two key questions: who gets to participate and what happens after the summit. On participation it is crucial to include voices that are not heard now: minorities, next generations, other species etc. On what happens after it should be clear how the summit influences policies and strategies.

164 The need to incorporate the voices of the youth in the summit. They will take charge of creating their future when the time is right. We need to hear the hopes and dreams of the young parents whose children are still babies and toddlers, we need the hopes and dreams of children for a better world, and the teens can already start on the concrete futures work and participate in the summit as their own representatives. But the youngest and the unborn generations need stronger advocacy! For inclusiveness - each and every country needs to be represented. There should be a focus also on where we come from - the heritage, the past... So that we can agree on our shared vision for the future.

165 A summit such as what is being proposed needs to be very participative and include a broad range of futurists, policymakers, practitioners, experts, NGOs, youth, general public, etc. Key to the success of an endeavor of this nature is that everyone involved have a clear understanding of the goals of the summit and basic competence needed to appropriately engage with possible futures. The summit needs to address these needs to ensure that the future is adequately problematised and prioritised in a way that leads to concrete (and long-term) action.

166 Just the summit itself is not enough to improving the effectiveness of global foresight. It needs real engagement by the stakeholders.

167 We need a summit to gather our visions, release the strongest voice to pay attention to the future and reach a consensus on paying attention to the future.

168 The participation of all mankind will contribute to the success of the summit

169 Identificar las amenazas y las alternativas con claridad, que las personas alfabetas del mundo puedan comprenderlo y asimilarlo.

170 See my answers to the first question. Additionally, true representation from across the planet, generations, ethnicity, gender, and diversity in all senses; Processes that engage and allow people to speak in their native languages. Avoid this becoming a forum where futurist compete with each other on being the most insightful.

171 It is necessary for us to establish an office coordinated and gathered by the UN Secretariat to plan and design the global future as a whole based on the results and predicts after the researches and observation. We are now suffering from the plague and global warming about climate change, because we have not paid enough attention to the previous predictions and taken corresponding preventive measures in time. I suggest that the futurologist. Government officials, futurologists, scientists, meteorologists, Yeologist experts, astrologers, fortune tellers, etc. should form a special advisory board to regularly hold meetings, seminars and forums regularly to discuss, exchange academic views, ideas and observe the results of the researches. Report these results to the authority department in time to solve the problems found as soon as possible. To make Global foresight more effective, we should pay close attention to three elements: 1. hold regularly the summit of the UN member countries because the government leaders are decision makers in their countries. 2. We need to get more and more people like futurologists, scientists, meteorologists, Yeologist experts, astrologers, fortune tellers, etc. to be involved in Global foresight. 3. We need to have NGO, Private sector?enterprises and entrepreneurs, charitable organizations and philanthropists to participate the Global foresight for financial reasons. It is necessary to have future research laboratory of the United Nations. It is the exhibition and seminar room for the research results of various countries. Future research is the common endeavor of all mankind. We should explore and practice realistically from a historical and dialectical perspective. The future laboratory is the center for collecting data and discussing feasibility. Its goal is the goal decomposition model of the overall system. Future research academics should practice the research direction and publish the results in a practical and realistic manner. We should have special envoy for future generation. Young generations are hope and future of mankind. They will take over the Future research and education should take the lead in guiding young people to pay extensive attention to and participate in it?as young people will continue the unfinished cause of our generation?like sustainable development and climate action beyond 2030.

172 make sure that there are representatives from ALL stakeholder groups including representation for our planet the summit could be virtual with hubs that people could attend or regional sessions to make sure that all are heard and have the opportunity to participate

173 Lograr una participación amplia y transversal para que se expresen distintas visiones sobre el futuro. También es importante lograr la participación activa de líderes y autoridades mundiales en la mayoría de las dimensiones claves para la vida en el futuro. Lograr una organización que facilite y permita la convocatoria y participación de las personas interesadas Definir con claridad con suficiente anterioridad los objetivos y la dimensiones que se trabajan en en la cumbre y los resultados que espera alcanzar

174 In order to raise awareness as well as comprehension of complex issues affecting various stakeholders, inviting a broader specter of participants could move the discussion from general and high level to concrete challenges in real life. A mix of both can enrichen the summit, if the invitation to such event is open to organizations and individuals engaged in societal change.

175 It is hoped that experts and scholars from all walks of life will be invited to observe from different perspectives of social practice, put forward multifaceted suggestions (those that have been practiced and those that have not yet been practiced), and find out the plans suitable for human development.

176 UN is a respectable institution and can trigger a singal in the market. Yet, professional associations may not be that eager to connect with a political setting. So in terms of generalterms this send out a message, while in terms of specificity may have a limited impact.

177 The Utility both for participants and UN would be aggressive advancing of peer level awareness of better practices among informal communties or state members that have led to bright spot outcomes. Offer some robust measures and benefits for participating governments to optimise foresight orientation, decision making and preparedness. Specifically those in line with the 12 Committments. Highlight what works well. Who is adapting well. How are they doing that. Whats unique about them. How are they learning. How is all of that contributing to “Leave No One Behind, - Being Prepared et al]. The preparatory steps are where most of the creative, collaborative and heavy lifting gets done. Therefore those processes might benefit from having deliberate attention to robust facilitation, diverse participation - citizen stakeholders and orgs, scientists and artists, supported on global online and local physical platforms for equitable access and input as well as concise ouptuts that support UN and state member decision makers.

178 UNSG have to launch RTD for collecting all important metadata attributes of Future society. Metadata attributes of Future society could be formed and published by special RTD

179 You need a board with a wide range of diversity in age, culture, gender, professions, social status. The summit needs a side programm in which creative thinking, gaming and discussion is possible to create futures and pathways independet from current patterns.

180 First, the aim to set a planetary strategy for achieving equilibrium in human affairs by 2050, or, more simply, to set clear long term goals. Secondly, to get national politicians of mature stature from as many countries as possible actively involved. Thirdly, to get polymaths who are first class communicators with and respected by the public involved. In the UK this would be people like Sir David Attenborough (although he is now 95 years old.

181 The summit must have a practical outcome. It has to popularise the global challenges detected in the future studies and provide practical recommendations. It needs a media coverage on international basis. It should not be another conference on future studies but the floor for leading experts on the subgect.

182 Es fundamental que quienes participen, sean tomadores de decisiones, no representantes. Para mejorar la efectividad de los procesos, es esencial trabajar sobre documento/s de compromisos previos al encuentro, de forma tal que se respalde lo previamente concertado.

183 La visión del multilateralismo del Informe del SG abre la puerta a mayor participación de partes interesadas e interlocutores, además de los gobiernos de los Estados miembro. Sería necesario, entonces, garantizar la presencia y participación de otros interlocutores durante la preparación de la Cumbre y en la propia cumbre, con claridad en el tipo de participación que tendrían Es un trabajo a realizar por la Secretaría General y el representante del SG en los países, a nivel país y región, identificando a los actores que den voz a diferentes grupos de la sociedad y de los gobiernos. El material de la discusión tendría que estar acotado a lo que se espera de la Cumbre

184 The Summit should be organised in a co-creative and interactive way. Brief talks by different opinion leaders of serious futures researchers would feed ideas and inspiration for a common discussion and elaboration by the participants. The aim could be twofold: 1) inspiring and setting the scene for future challenges; and 2) ideation and elaboration of needed steps and measures for tackling the challenges. The ultimate goal would be futures resilience - that is beyond futures literacy. Futures resilience means surviving and overcoming crises and conflicts through futures consciousness that understands that managing the crises is not the goal, but living in the crises, living with the crises, so that the negative impacts are minimized and in the best case various crises are inhibited before they escalate.

185 Enable an easy access to multiple actors from across the globe, taking into consideration the impact of climate change, social crisis or other phenomena that could avoid people from vulnerable communities to have a voice in the summit

186 Propose a workable agenda that does not collide but complement the conversations held in other forums. Make it open to civil society, private sector and academic sector.

187 UN members, Futurists and Foresight organizations, associations, academic and corporate. Diversity in generations and gender. Location: rotate among continents.

188 Real-time Delphi need to be conducted prior to the summit as a part of the preparatory phase.

189 For the instance to be effective, representatives of high-powered companies and government should be invited to make decisions, so that there is a space for direct dialogue. Companies and governments have an important role, companies because they drive the economy and governments because they have military power and that is a threat.

190 Naturally futures research networks, and those connected with applied foresight, national foresight and new areas like anticpation studies should be at the core, however in considering the themes to be addressed, especially future generations and lawmaking - the nexus of those involved is much wider. In this way an understanding of how to implement issue based agendas will be further informed. Learning from advances in participatory decision making should be employed - so as to avoid only expert keynote presentations.

191 The Summit must be related to a permanent UN collective intelligent process to allow knowledge co-creation, and broad and rich interactions. Participants: multiple and diverse, but with high level inter and transdisciplinary knowledge future oriented expertise

192 There should be some good ideas from this study to share with member states before the Summit. A future-oriented survey should given to all Member States six months prior to the Summit and results should be shared with all Member States two months before the summit to encourage bold new incentives, programs, concepts for the future of humanity.

193 Offer a prize for best new incentives as determined by vote of the attendees at the summit or registered on line.Prize might be a paid-for visit to the futures lab.

194 1. Call for participation on Projects with enough time in advance (2 years) before he Summit. 2. Publish this Delphi study report outcome and make communication webinars to promote engagement and participation. 3. Provide and publish prior Foresight REports from the previous years. 4. Ask for involvement and contribution to all regional Futurist associations: APF; FEN, Millenium Projects, , FTI, IFTF, Copenhagen I for the Future, etc. 5. Ask for volunteers 6. Call for papers to work on desired and needed Foresight Initiatives related to the fields part of Summit of the Future.

195 Esta es una respuesta difícil de establecer dado que las debilidades mostradas por la organización frente a los desafíos actuales, especialmente la resolución de los conflictos debidos a la guerra y la burocracia que evita acciones efectivas y rápidas, conforman un panorama muy poco auspicioso y con una serie de obstáculos que son intrínsecos a la propia organización y que si no se corrigen, tenderán a hacer poco factible su actuar.

196 Open and transparent, ideally broadcasted live! Representatives voted from the public shall have access to ensure intersectionality and gender equality, representation from youth as well as vulnerable groups.

197 Agreed on the need for participation, and there should be alternative spaces where less formal and more exploratory approaches and processes can be used. In short, this event should have both cathedral (formal) and bazaar (informal) spaces for participants to engage.

198 Structure the Summit to attract and support public interest, educating the world about the state of the future, rather than as yet another dry, esoteric international conference. There will be other opportunities to dig into the specifics and provide for exchanges among specialists. This Summit should be optimized to attract and hold public eyeballs and minds.

199 Llegar a las diferentes comunidades de los territorios

200 Step 1: To create and environment of trust among social actors Step 2: Prioritise collectively the strategies for employment and income generation Step 3: To sign an agreement between multimillionaires from the five continents in order to support projects led by social productive organisations Step 4: To monitor and follow-up these projects

201 1. Before the meeting, two to three representative non-governmental international organizations will be organized to study the main objectives of the summit and send them to delegations for reference before the summit, so as to facilitate consensus 2, seriously consider and study the reform of the United Nations

202 Pay attention to the planning models of the different countries and develop proposals for long-term thinking sustained over time.

203 create sub communities for local participation.

204 Heads of states could be invited to share with one another, behind closed doors, what is on their personal minds. Acknowledging vulnerabilities might help build like-mindedness and cooperation.

205 The present crisis of multilateralism due to war in Ukraine

206 Inviting world leaders to bring contributions as well as innovators, forwards thinkers to enlarge spectrum of opportunities and divergent thinking

207 One might want to think of this as fundamentally a consciousness raising process, and therefore known effective processes for such should be liberally employed. Also, sufficient time should are allowed for participants to absorb and process the information and concepts and then figure out how best to apply them to the UN system. Open, transparent, live broadcasts that allow for viewer/listener inputs and queries would allow for the kind of public engagement that there is never enough of in UN summits.

208 a global participatory platform for individuating early signal should be the base for the activity. there should be a way to really make people pursue what comes out from the process.

209 No lessons learned. We are in a war period. We are in the middle of climate change. We are experiencing new kind of pandemics. What humankind learned from the past? Nothing. About nothing. Although, we cannot lose the hope. We have to reach the political decisors, and make them listen our arguments.

210 Work in close cooperation with futures leaders and practiciones, such us the Millennium Project, Foresight Europe Networt, RIBER-Iberoamerica, APF, etc.

211 Country specific push factor is required for the summit and commitment is required from individual nations government level.

212 To implement an yearly Futures Summit just like the Climate Summit including new generations

213 The first step is to have foresight units in all UN member states. The Covid 19 lesson is for all to see and remind everyone of the importance of foresight.

214 The consistency of views among the permanent members of the United Nations is very important. This consistency should be reflected not only in ideas, but also in concrete actions. If there is only joint cooperation at the meeting but no specific action plan, the effectiveness of the summit will be greatly affected.

215 Members countries need to their homework before this session, build a infrastructure to take on possible proposals or ideas of success. Mape out those who can be main players in implementing necessary programs for different actions. This could be done in parallel with the debate before the conference. Involving research groups, action groups, government institutes etc

216 Active state and integration level participation makes possible to get a lot of information about future thinking of other partners. It would be useful to use an online platform for carrying out the whole foresight process. The risk of the foresight that should run before Summit is foresight process could be unfinished and alternative futures could stay rougly outlined. It would be desirable if every nation and regional organization and UN have foresight units that work on future problems of different types continuously.

217 Create a plateform dedicated to the preparation of the summit in real time in order to ensure coordination between all the participants and to follow the projects in progress, upstream of the holding of the summit.

218 Updated information concerning economic and social impacts the Sanitary and Climate crisis.

219 ***Results should be actionable, e.g. it should be part of the curricula of (high) schools... We need that future orientation asap

220 Se necesita un trabajo diplomático intenso previo a la Cumbre del Futuro para que países que tienen grandes rivalidades entre sí y que no cooperan normalmente en acuerdos internacionales, estén dispuestos a participar y a comprometerse con acciones específicas para que el mundo pueda alcanzar el mejor futuro posible.

221 To be able to harvest the largest pool of human intelligence on our common future, the conference should be organized at several stages, through online and physical participation at regional levels on selected thematic areas and the report will be collated and studied to assist in making preparations for a manageable global summit on the future. The regional level submit will bring out the peculiar challenges of each region and how we can globally address the challenges. The summits should be well publicized and all stakeholders in different sectors and disciplines should be able to contribute to the regional and global summits.

222 Experiences like COVID-19 response at a global level, can provide inputs as to things that should be avoided and improved upon.

223 There should be something that could bring the UN strategies to every day life of ordinary people all over the globe. UN and its strategies should not be a matter of the governments only. It should not be closed from ordinary people. May be free streamed channel which broadcast the news, the ideas, the strategies.

224 Establish follow up meetings and agreeing on strict criteria of accountability. Create a team to do the basic woark, but keep it tight and under severe control by the governments and other actors involved.

225 Lo primero es realizar acciones que aporten la participación de todos los países. Para esto, se deberán identificar acciones que permitan la consertación y creación de sinergias para lograr el objetivo propuesto. Debe tenerse en cuenta, que cada uno de los actores del proceso, posee un contexto bajo el cual presenta problemáticas y genera respuestas a partir de ellas, por lo cual, es importante situar a cada uno en el futuro donde pueden observarse las distintas situaciones con un mayor margen de objetividad.

226 Aumentar a divulgação. Criar escritórios locais, ou nomear agentes locais, ou representações, que possam aumentar a divulgação em pequenas comunidades.

227 presentation of a progress of each country on the next summit sent 2 months in advance to all participants

228 A Summit of the future, as an entry point, requires to learn from the various consequences that have been altering States behavior as a result of implementing the economic structural adjustment applied at a global scale in the 1980s. Excess of public resources privatization, free markets overwhelming predominance in fixing economic policies, for a long period has been disrupting continuously state capacity to maintain the minimum of social tissue required for shaping citizens new perspectives for resiliency and adjustments. The effect is a cultural transformation in daily life, expressing the decay of the public space: riots, violence,corruption,crime and delinquency. In LA the social revolts, have a common pattern: state abandonment, and a population embedded in a fractured relationship towards society as whole.

229 The Summit need previous disemination, all over the world and in the global and local community, the MP study and other inputs from think tanks and universities. At the same time, a people consultation, similar what was made by SG Guterres prior to his Inform Our Common Agenda during 2021.

230 1. Agree with formal, high-confidence presentations, and exploratory workshops 2. Secure support for funding global public goods 3. Identify pathways for non-state actors to provide global public goods eg. research on strategic threats

231 Ahead of the Summit, participants should read The Singularity Principles: Anticipating and Managing Cataclysmically Disruptive Technologies, available via https://transpolitica.org/projects/the-singularity-principles/

232 Transform the decisions and recommendations made at the Summits into decisions that are binding on the countries that have agreed to them; urged countries to immediately implement it

233 Its necessary to understand the status of each group of countries (developed economies, economies in transition and developing economies) with a big survey and try to focus in the main challenges that could be addressed.

234 Inviting governmental leader, stakeholders, citizens etc. to have all the expertise. It is important also to have a clear platform where the data, info, discussions are included.

235 the chances of success will depend on the ability to connect global and national risks in the long term with daily life urgencies. The fate of the future generations is the major motivation for families. They will accept restrictions now if new initiatives will deliver more benefits to their children tomorrow. And this relates to a new Social Pact and the provision of basic goods and services for all. This is critical for gaining a higher level of trust needed to change course.

236 Before the Summit, a global platform should be established to induce more people who care about the future of the world and mankind to speak freely, so as to sort out some key issues that they hope to discuss at the Summit, rather than talking about some topics in general without a clear goal.

237 El Summit debe acompañarse de una gama de pre-discusiones que permitan el enfoque de la reunión en conseguir insumos útiles para las siguientes reuniones y para el accionar del resto de la ONU y su sistema internacional. La generación de planes de políticas y metas de desarrollo deben ser realistas, graduales y contar con el apoyo transversal de agentes estatales y no estatales, para una correcta reunión de esfuerzos en estas áreas.

238 There is a need to be very well promoted and to attract people based on quadruple-helix principle.

239 A massive communication and advocacy strategy must be in place, making the importance of this event understood by all social groups in all UN member countries. This is a very complex and challenging task. However, the UN can take advantage of the capillarity of its national agencies and its partners - everyone must be involved in this task of mobilization and convincing. Information and concepts must arrive in simple language at the local level and in strategic language to engage leaders at all levels and sectors. The COVID pandemic, the effects of climate change, and the impacts of the war in Ukraine should always be used as an example to convince people about the importance of the issues raised in the Common Agenda. Finally, having a strong governance strategy that transforms listening into actionable plans, with leadership commitment to resource allocation and continuous monitoring and evaluation, feeding transparent information systems so that society as a whole can be informed.

240 Economically Boycotts to non responsive states

241 The UN should support a worldwide effort to educate everyone in futures thinking, as a part of critical thinking in basic education. Based on the methods taught, the UN should provide a database of inputs to futures thinking that has common formats, including text and multimedia, multi-lingual representations of data, art, and sensory representations, for which all levels of literacy and cultural understanding can take part in futures research.

242 Debe considerarse la conformación de comités de seguimiento de los principales temas de la agenda de la cumbre. Construir una agenda global al 2040 y 2050 con la participación de gobierno, empresas y organizaciones sin fines de lucro. Mejorar el control del Fondo Fiduciario, dirigido a proyectos que sean plenamente evaluados y sostenibles. Incluir más políticas demográficas en los países con más crecimiento poblacional. Lecciones: dado que en muchos casos los países no cumplen los acuerdos, es necesario reforzar los acuerdos y darles seguimiento continuo. Deben funcionar mejor los fondos mundiales de vacunas y de salud para los países más vulnerables. Mejorar la descentralización por tema para evitar que los países actúen desalineados, es necesario medir los avances. Incluir penalizaciones por incumplimiento a los países en los acuerdos globales de ambiente, salud, paz, género y otros temas globales de importancia. Para el financiamiento de proyectos de cambio climático y otros ODS deben construirse comisiones técnicas por región, que den seguimiento a los proyectos y evalúen su impacto

243 The Summit on the Future needs to involve more than politicians, lobbyists, expert scientists, and celebrity activists. It should also involve a selection of ordinary people reflecting on their own lives and their cultural practices (I mean cultural in the ethnographic sense describing how people make sense of the world and live their lives accordingly). They will represent the billions of ordinary people.

244 The EU futures conference could be used as a benchmark.

245 Everyone should be able to participate - an online virtual forum, dialogue for those who have the tools and internet connection + the skills to use the computer, but we also need physical meetings/dialogues on the ground level with marginalized groups. It has to be as inclusive as it can be - and from different perspectives - people in different cultures and different socio-economic and age groups do not have the same opportunities to participate and have their say. Participation has to be built on many levels to reach all groups whose voices need to be heard. Nations have to do the most ground work in the own languages and in their own communities to make sure that having a say is possible for as many as possible.

246 The main step is to somehow guarentee the stakeholders will indeed engage in Foresight

247 To learn from the United Nations Environment summit, first of all, we need to issue a common declaration at the national level. Then Prioritise collectively the strategies for employment and income generation. At last to monitor and follow-up these projects.

248 The summit should be organized by developed countries.

249 Lenguaje claro, representación clara del futuro. La ignorancia derivada del uso recurrente del volcabulario tecnicista impide que las personas asimilen la situación en que nos encontramos. Los sistemas de instrucción pública debieran ser parte de la difusión de estos temas. El populismo, que se basa y fomenta las interpretaciones básicas de los problemas que afectan a la humanidad atentan contra el respaldo de las personas a las iniciativas internacionales que urge aplicar en todo nuestro planeta.

250 Multiple pre-summits for different communities – physical and virtual. Experimentation with processes. National level dialogues. Bring this into schools. Turn it into a catalyst for thinking about the future and embedding it. Encourage other global economic, social, and business forums to run similar exercises e.g. Davos, global association conferences, etc.

251 Opportunity: 1) the Summit can foster democracy at global level through transparent dialogue, free of the current agenda and double-standard; 2) get a sense of the will of the majority of the citizens and collect input/ideas on issues of concern ahead of the Summit through an online platform open to everyone. The inputs can be first distilled using some clustering software and then further debated by experts in the respective domains. Obstacle: continuity of the current use of the UN for justifying policies and actions serving special interests of a few.

252 It is hoped that experts and scholars from all walks of life will be invited to observe from different perspectives of social practice, put forward multifaceted suggestions (those that have been practiced and those that have not yet been practiced), and find out the plans suitable for human development.

253 The only obstacle I can think about is forcing a certain direction or stripping off content.

254 There are lessons learned from diverse international summits (UN and other), in which there is no real dialogue, listening, conversation. People tend to come with position statements created in advance, and simply deliver them. In order for a summit like this to work, there must be enough time allocated to real dialogue organized in diverse forms.

255 The Summit is vital for the goals highlighted; governance and effectiveness in addressing the multiple tracks including capacity for anticpatory decision making, addressing both international areas of concerns and opportunities. Then to also go beyond considering ideas and consultants, and to focus on the implementation [“ Our Common Agenda is, above all ..designed to accelerate the implementation of existing agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals”. OCA pg 3]. The implementation focus on both emerging ideas from the summit, and previous agreements need a future ready approach. Much like the NHS Cygnus Exercise, a war game simulation or a similar tool could surface learning publicly about what pathways that lead to successful implementation, and those that do not yield timely action. Features: The Utility both for participants and UN would be aggressive advancing of peer level awareness of better practices among informal communties or state members that have led to bright spot outcomes. Offer some robust measures and benefits for participating governments to optimise foresight orientation, decision making and preparedness. Specifically those in line with the 12 Committments. Highlight what works well. Who is adapting well. How are they doing that. Whats unique about them. How are they learning. How is all of that contributing to “Leave No One Behind, - Being Prepared et al]. The preparatory steps are where most of the creative, collaborative and heavy lifting gets done. Therefore those processes might benefit from having deliberate attention to robust facilitation, diverse participation - citizen stakeholders and orgs, scientists and artists, supported on global online and local physical platforms for equitable access and input as well as concise ouptuts that support UN and state member decision makers. Steps: One vital measure of success of such a summit might be the establishing and communicating the action and learning effectiveness of previous or similar summits. This can support a better understanding of what actions, conditions, behaviour and actors can be part of the solution for each pillar, and likewise which ones may collaborate and contribute to stalemate. This is in line with a few of the commitment pillars 6, 11, 12 related to rapid learning [Global and National Listening and Envisioning the Future Exercises, Building Trust, Long Term Thinking via Futures Labs et al.] Consider leveraging futures lab prototypes or other collaborations to prepare these systems maps as pre-summit content : 1. Our Learning - Pathways leading to Implementation, including Scenarios and Conditions for making implementation progress 2. Our Learning- Pathways of Anti-Implementation : Scenarios that Barriers for effective progress. 3 War Game this process to determine the learning needed for genuine action steps. Consider making such a simulation public or even experiment by running some of it online. This might be handy for internal teams as well as offer a strong case for potential participants to engage but then also galvanise support and trust for future and localised summit efforts.

256 It would be very difficult to fond enough able politicians and communicators.

257 1. Summit should be fundamentally prepared. It needs collctively created programme; 2. Participants should be high class experts from different countries (even from so called rough countries) 3. Summit needs international media coverage 4. Final results should be publish at least in all official UN languages.

258 Es interesante la decisión del SG de solicitar a una Junta Consultiva de Alto Nivel que trabaje a partir de las ideas de su informe. Los resultados del trabajo de la Junta serían la base de las deliberaciones en la Cumbre. Ese material, en el formato que decida el SG, tendría que distribuirse en la fase preparatoria tanto entre ls gobiernos como entre otros interlocutores de gobiernos subnacionales, parlamentos, sociedad civil. academia. Sería indispensable establecer un calendario de reuniones informativas coordinadas por un grupo ejecutivo de Naciones Unidas, de oficinas vinculadas al tema de gobernanza.Es decir, que sea responsabilidad del Sistema la conducción del proceso, sobre quienes recaerá la responsabilidad de su ejecución. La difusión desde NU es relativamente escasa y se requiere un acercamiento que vaya más allá de los expertos y especialistas

259 Encourage the Member States to send in advance similar inputs as this study is inquiring. Member States should nominate people as Champions of the Future, selected to be companions and focal points to other instances, like the Special Envoy for Future Generations.

260 More understanding among the nations and willingness to rise above narrow national interests to reach a global consensus are the prerequisites for success.

261 Strengthen the space for dialogue between business and government: history teaches us that many companies, especially those dedicated to the energy sector, have been largely responsible for pollution, and at the same time governments have been protagonists in initiating military conflicts. A space for dialogue is mandatory for the success of peace initiatives and a better world, as it is the basis of the desire of the United Nations as an institution and as a common citizen of the world.

262 crucial themes must be addressed, that are framed well, as not to be the futures of anything and everything. However, they must ALWAYS be thinking about the interconnected issues not initially seen as directly connected. Not only technological solutions. This may be a problem to face, as the foresight field does have its biases. The Summit might not always work, it is representative of the cause - and the high level of dialogue about futures. How to generate legitimacy? UN naturally has this.

263 I want to suggest pre-Summit activities, like we have in preparation to G7. We could have a working group per megatrend (maybe 5-7 megatrends) which gathers foresight results from communities of experts and non-experts. Each megatrend group to release a briefing book ahead of Summit. In addition, the UN country chapters should hold national conversations pre-Summit to increase participation and buy-in. Some rock star endorsement is needed along with strict governance and tracking of Summits outcomes and work-in-progress to make the Summits as important and relevant as COP-meetings. Summit also carry a message of hope: we can foresee and address long term challenges today

264 I feel that an environment of free exchange away from publicity may be more helpful than summits. The Committee for the Future of the Finnish Parliament is a good example of a forum that enhances the value of, and commitment to, foresight.

265 This is a comprehensive round up of all the naive suggestions which have been made for decades about the quest for more effective universal government. Not surprisingly, the SYG discovers that a more robust and understanding UN is the answer to that quest.

266 I justify the participation of stakeholders who have the resources and decision-making faculties to enact projects in benefit of populations with high unemployment risk

267 The United Nations system is already very large. The responsibilities and functions of various institutions have been subdivided. In the face of global problems, we should pay more attention to how the existing United Nations agencies can play a more efficient role, rather than the establishment or restoration of institutions.

268 Trust is essential due to the complex dynamics of todays lack Goverance and advances in Corruption.

269 Creating some responsible bodies

270 Although this will require a change to the UN Charter and UNGA agreement, it is worth the effort to make it so, as this is the most important UN structural change for foresight. By multi-stakeholder I assume that includes business, academics, NGOs as well as nation-states. This would be a TransInstitution that has the ability to act through these different institutional categories making it potentially very effective, and could meet in Metaverse so that very large numbers could attend in both planetary and smaller group sessions, and even asynchronically.

271 A similar concept is used on a national level by some countries (like Wales, Finland, Hungary) will diverse results. The key is to have an independent council with the suitable resources to review policies or fund research.

272 A multi-stakeholder approach needs a co-creation process and a long-term vision. An action plan shall be co-designed and impact shall be monitored. Otherwise it will only be talk!

273 Despite the many examples of foresight work that anticipated and outlined the consequences of global system breaks, leadership and accountability by global leaders has been lacking. This is partly because the work of futures researchers has not been elevated to global discourses such as that representative of the UN and other global governance bodies. Furthermore, no single body has been given the accountability for matters of the future and as a result, passing the buck and / or finding loopholes has typified global decision making on the future. The futures research community has been calling for a long time for the establishment of a trusteeship council.

274 Enshrining foresight formally would send a message that this is not a mere fad. Additionally, it is essential that such a council be truly global scope and scale with an attentiveness towards participation, in some way, with/from unusual suspects.

275 The trustee council helps candid discussions about challenges facing humanity

276 We need a council of the wise people

277 Trust is the currency of the future. Currencies can be organised... Trust will only have a chance if it is radical transparant what this council is doing

278 Policy formulation and implementation require well informed experts that should not be delayed by bureaucracies. This is where a multi-stakeholder foresight body will be more effective than any Council based on regional representation. Regional balancing should also be built in the multi-stakeholder foresight body to address regional peculiarities from informed perspective.

279 Repurposing the Trusteeship Council for emerging threat to the Commons is one of many possible means to make strategic foresight actionable

280 In the 21st century, international relations and multilateralism have multiple actors, not just States. That is why this proposal for a multi-party Council is very important.

281 The Public Relations Board as a multilateral foresight body; It is very important because there must be a guardianship that takes care of the future

282 Esta acción permitirá que las decisiones sean tomadas bajo diversos criterios, lo que genera un resultado objetivo. Ademas, propicia la formación de confianza entre los diversos grupos de interés.

283 Lead by asking guiding questions instead, such as the following during decision-manking: - What Laws of Nature might occur? - What practices do they demand? - Are the decision-makers and their advisors educated in relevant Laws of Nature?

284 The future problem is also the present problem. How to integrate the future prediction with the present problem requires the stable cooperation of professional and various experts.

285 I understood that the idea of repurposing the Trusteeship Council is to open a space for the Youth to contribute to reshaping the future (of the trustee territories?). If I understood well, I think this idea is fantastic. And it should be inclusive and diverse in terms of regions, race, and gender identity, at least.

286 A trustee council for governance of the global commons implies to me that it have an awareness of the inter-relationships between all of the existing international governance bodies of agreements and laws, including law of the seas, space law, climate change agreements, geoengineering, international crime and money laundering, and so forth.

287 Porque el financiamiento es vital para llevar a cabo las principales iniciativas de futuro, en especial para los países más vulnerables.

288 In various senses, mankind is standing at a crossroads. In this critical era, the United Nations really needs an institution dedicated to future research. Therefore, repositioning the Trusteeship Council is a forward-looking structural reform.

289 Trusteeship Council as a bridge to promote the development and fairness of the summit

290 Not sure if is a single body or network of bodies that are brought together as an ecosystem. Twofold goals here – 1) oversight of the process and outcomes; and 2) ensuring that countries, communities, institutions, business, etc. are really preparing for the summits, putting in place implementation mechanisms for what comes out of the summit, and then monitoring the implementation. Needs a globally transparent monitoring and reporting process / framework / system to see what’s happening and allow countries and stakeholders to learn from different / best practice implementation actions around the world.

291 Row2 of 6 TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL AS A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER FORESIGHT BODY SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE The Trusteeship Council should follow the principles of national stakeholders, and therefore, I propose, to restart the Council as an important part of the follow-up to our common agenda, and to invite countries to consider making the Council function as a multi-stakeholder body.In particular, as a forum, the representative provides advice and strategic guidance for the future, the continued development of human health, the long-term governance of global public facilities, the provision of global public goods, and the management of global public facilities, the provision of global public goods, and the management of global public risks. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

292 I'm agree with this comments: Policy formulation and implementation require well informed experts that should not be delayed by bureaucracies. This is where a multi-stakeholder foresight body will be more effective than any Council based on regional representation, even though regional balancing should be built in the multi-stakeholder foresight body to address regional peculiarities from informed perspective.

293 It might not act a foresight body in the same way that a think tank could, but i could set the foundations for future foresight estudies.

294 It is very important that this space for dialogue be resumed. Meeting points are needed today because we are in a changing and convulsive environment (Vuca), therefore an instance of advice and continuous vigilance is needed to act quickly and prevent problems

295 Of course the effectiveness of such a group depends upon the group's membership, the amount of time, talent and other investment put into it and so on, and - generally speaking - these decisions become politicized before the group even meets. If you don't have a fairly large number of members in such a group, it can't be representative enough to truly serve the global public good. If you have too many members, this introduces myriad difficulties and raises more threats and lessens the chance for good outcomes. In addition, such select councils/groups generally do not meet often enough, their members often do not immerse themselves fully enough in the topics at hand to be trusted to fully understand how to work toward the world's best interests, and their members often do not put the public good before the interests that best serve those they wish to impress or empower. As we have seen in several attempts at multistakeholder policy - for example, Netmundial - the stakeholders are never really on an even playing field. Government actors, state actors always revert to form. Would I like to see a wonderful, trusted group of sage leaders and young geniuses from across global society coming together in a magnificent council? Of course. Is this possible? Hmmm? If you create a council that can't effectively improve upon what is happening now all you do is create another layer of useless activity that gains the world nothing, or - worse - creates false hope or acts to move in ways that are counter to the success we need to see.

296 Same as above. Other approaches are needed.

297 No hay garantía alguna que los representantes gubernamentales tengan alguna formación o interés prospectivo, y si que representen intereses locales parciales

298 Although such a council would ideally be effective in the proposed roles, there will be bureaucratic and political obstacles to its effectiveness, especially if it attempts to go beyond providing advice and guidance with respect to long-term governance of the global commons, delivery of global public goods and managing global public risks. Advice and guidance may be achievable, but may not be sufficient to create meaningful change. Nevertheless, it may be worth a try, if populated with members whose aspirations aren't too easily jaded.

299 The key is to have an independent council with suitable expertise and resources to review policies and fund research. The Trusteeship would need to involve not just UN staff and representatives but almost more importantly civil society, private sector, applied research, leading women's and youth representatives to provide legitimacy to its work. A key question is how to give this group enough real teeth so that it does not just end up making recommendations that don't get implemented? Actionable agendas with measurable goals based upon science-based foresights for making a future better than the present.

300 Too many global bodies, but with no power over national governments

301 No veo mucho sentido en revivir el Trusteeship Council que dejó de funcionar en 1994 que tenía funciones muy distintas a las que se le encomendarían ahora: gobernanza de los bienes globales comunes. Temo que el re-crear una institución para estos fines puede burocratizar y entorpecer el llegar a acuerdos en este importante tema. Las Naciones Unidas, ya siendo un organismo muy grande, podría buscar formas de llegar a acuerdos sobre los Global Commons en forma más y puntual y expedita, con compromisos específicos sobre cada uno de los bienes globales por parte de los países.

302 Like many other parts of the Common Agenda report, this suggestion seems more pious than inspired. Yes, it's important to improve the governance of the global commons. But it's not at all clear that this particular body will make any actual difference in the real world.

303 Debido a su propuesta como cuerpo consejero, que permita un seguimiento y sugerencias sobre el uso de los bienes comunes globales, el fondo fiduciario podría tomar un nuevo rumbo como organismo eficiente en la mantención de los compromisos conseguidos en instancias como la Summit, mientras ejerza una presión efectiva y multi-nivel sobre temáticas preocupantes. Un tema criticó sería el desarrollo de este cuerpo como un verdadero espacio con múltiples participantes, que permita una visión más amplia que la tradicional perspectiva estado-céntrica para hacer frente a problemas prospectivos.

304 While the Trusteeship Council is important overall, it is not the most critical element for improving effectiveness of foresight. Most important for improving effectiveness of foresight is that there is a general understanding of what foresight is, what it is for, how foresight outcomes are used to inform policy decisions, and a clear mandate to make necessary changes at policy and institutional levels. The Trusteeship Council will in and of itself not address these needs unless these needs are used to select members of the council.

305 The Trusteeship Council can be implemented as an overseer of the Summit on the Future results, to guarantee the needed actions to be taken. However, it also can be easily turned into a bureaucratic corner that hampers consensus about changes. This makes me skeptical about its criticality.

306 I generally prefer reforming existing organizations and improving existing organizations rather than creating new ones - though new organizations of course provide new opportunities to bring in underrepresented voices.

307 this Council could be an important support to achieve SDG´s in each country

308 I do agree with statements above that we need to incorporate youth in those perspective and independent council, but we do have to reshape the form it has in the past. People decide to cancel that council before with some reason. It should be checked and tried to avoid same mistakes.

309 The proof of the pudding is always in the eating. For eal influence, a Trusteeship Council must demoinstrate that it can seriously influence international behaviour.

310 Las Comisiones para lograr resultados, cada vez màs prueban sus ineficiencias en gestiòn. Es màs factible, la contratación de asesores expertos para temas puntuales, que acciones a travès de comisiones inoperantes en sus resultados.

311 Los conceptos de bienes comunes globales y bienes públicos globales ponen de relieve la importancia que tienen para la vida de ls personas y del planeta. Y de ahí cómo se gestionan, administran, quien lo hace.. De los bienes globales comunes y los bienes públicos globales identificados en el informe del SG, varios son ya objeto de tratados, convenciones y el trabajo cotidiano de Programas de las Naciones Unidas y de sus organismos especializados. El tema crítico es que las convenciones y los tratados, pese a establecer obligaciones por parte de quienes aceptan ser Estados Parte, no cuentan con mecanismos para obligar al cumplimiento. El recurrir a una nueva versión del Consejo de Administración Fiduciaria para mejorar la gobernanza de los bienes comunes globales, no resuelve el tema anterior. De hecho, si bien se suspendieron sus actividades en 1994, existe como órgano de las Naciones Unidas y está constituido por los cinco miembros permanentes del Consejo de Seguridad. no se reúne. Pero tiene un presidente y un vicepresidente La propuesta habría de considerar sobre qué bienes comunes existen mecanismos incipientes de gobernanza y fortalecerlos (convenios, tratados) y cuales requerirían una nueva institución sombrero. Y qué reformas necesita el actual Consejo de Administración Fiduciario para responder a una visión del siglo XXI

312 If the new purpose is to support the Special Envoy for Futures Generations I understand its value. Council should exist if it provides actions and results. Perhaps the new role is to lead and govern overall new initiatives proposed in the Common Agenda. I assume Trust is a value by default in all the initiatives.

313 This comment is addressed to the previous participant who suggested Transinstitution. What incentives would you suggest to encourage participation of key sectors or companies? Words are cheap but key institutions may not be eager to contribute.

314 Si bien es cierto es una estructura necesaria, no es desde mi punto de vista una entidad que sea decisiva para la previsión entre partes interesadas, ya que mientras no se solucionen las otras condicionantes previamente expuestas, no será efectiva ésta.

315 Will these people be able to make decisions that are binding? I suspect not...and if this is the case, they will deliver a lot of shelfware with no teeth and no incentives for countries to adhere to their suggestions. The UN is massive - might I suggest we try to eat the elephant one bite at a time instead of trying to chew the entire animal. Could we scale back this an other initiatives to a point where they could develop actionable agendas and measurable goals. Small, incremental progress might be the antidote to the UN's inability to act or implement change.

316 The activity of the Trusteeship Council being suspended since 1994, it was the right time to try to give this body a renewed raison d'etre.

317 Motivating others to cooperate, engaging them in collective action symbiotic constructions of a better world

318 The Trusteeship Council could be a good alternative to make this initiative happen, but it is not the only one feasible and the UN could use other existing bodies for it, as long as they are under the UNSG´s leadership.

319 We are where we are because we have disconnected from our ancestral responsibility. We are occupying the mental and geographic territories of our descendants, those who are alive and those who will still come to the planet. Getting in touch with this responsibility is the duty of all systems and the UN must lead this movement. As I read in a UNICEF exhibition years ago in New York this land we are borrowing from the new generations. We still think we are ceding the land to them. I applause this initiative.

320 The council needs to consist mostly of professional’s researchers, foresights people and actions bodies from different fields to prevent political issues or obstacles. Giving a long terms view of global risk for the public and to prepare different government bodies and companies what is ahead.

321 Trusteeship must welcome youth in it to be really effective.

322 Independent oversight is important and might help to obtain better results. However, the devil is on the details and the way this council`s attributions and composition are designed will define if it is only an ornamental or an effective body.

323 After the firts foresight be made, it has to be monitored and the scenarios has to be revised at least once a year in order to serve as a real strategic tool for the leaders of the countries and give the information they need to face the problems.

324 I do not understand how a suspended council could improve the situation. It is only another space for talking and debating.

325 Such an approach is crucial, but it will take a long way to establish and improve such a multi stakeholder foresight body.

326 I think a parallel discussion with less public attention takes a different tone. Also, a new set of people participating in discussions inevitably results in a different set of ideas, perspectives, and challenges that could be overlooked. This could also be a space for less prominent members to step up or have a greater impact.

327 Global infrastructure is so fragile that some international activity of this nature is essential to deal with the problem of the global commons.

328 I believe the Trusteeship Council may play a more critical role than the Summit, because it may provide a scenario for frequent conversation between Member States, rather than the unique, high-profile Summit, that may fall into a mere declaration of good will.

329 A trusteeship council can provide coordinated guidance for providing sustainable solutions for global issues.

330 UNSG could request IT leaders to make this new Trusteeship Council on the Future a model of modern decision support software systems. Define multi-stakeholder to include future-oriented businesses, academia, and NGOs. Since it will be difficult to get all the multi-stakeholders in the hall, it should function as a virtual body; hence, it could have large numbers, and many sub-elements using software to collect, assess, and recommend actions: Some actions for government to take; some actions for businesses to take; some actions academics to take (universities and think tanks), and some for NGOs to take.

331 it depends on the power and what the council is able to implement; no new discussion round needed

332 Un liderazgo efectivo con personas que puedan formular políticas independientes de intereses y con miradas que pongan la ética por sobre los anteriores, es una solución que es complicada de implementar pero no es imposible hacerlo con aquellos que tengan mejor formación en el ámbito humanitario holístico y sin anteponer lo económico (aunque sea su campo de acción preferente)por sobre lo que la población requiere.

333 Conceive in advance and in a versatile way the definition of the analysis system, so that this allows novelties in the election of the stakeholders in the different versions of the council

334 Drawing on the example of the Finnish Parliament, I would hope that the Council would a) draw a report on the future regularly and infrequently (e.g. every 4 years) b) to act as an ambassador / multiplier of foresight culture in the UN system, and c) to keep away from the politics of other UN Bodies (e.g. I would not expect it to have views on the future of war and security as this is the subject of the security Council)

335 Keep aspirations and expectations reasonable. Expect bureaucracy. Strive to provide meaningful insights, rather than to compel behavior.

336 An encounter with the top 100 millionaires in the world would generate awareness around the subjects to be addressed by the United Nations and the Millennium Project

337 Both the summit of the future and the trusteeship council can be of critical importance or have a rather small importance it depends on how important the individual countries deem it.

338 create a democratically and transparently chosen council Voice of the council may give direction in national decisions.

339 The Trusteeship Council was designed to supervise the governments of trust territories and to lead them to self-government or independence. In the same spirit, a repurposed Council might serve to to enhance the governance of the global commons, especially where internecine conflicting interests or lack of foresight vis-à-vis emerging challenges prevent or hold back progress. Harking back to its original objective, the Council would likewise serve as a deliberative forum acting in the name and on behalf of future generations, not forgetting today's youth.

340 It needs a budget to side with other international foundations in investing in laudable projects.

341 Manage the trade-off of independence. Organizations might have good will but also might have an agenda. Governments compete by nature, factors such as geopolitics or economics will tend to shift points of view or contributions.

342 This could be a base of reference for the summit to discuss its contents and could gain support from a continuous collective intelligence platform for analyzing early signals and trends in a participatory way

343 A true multi-stakeholder foresight body should include political decision makers, academic specialists, professional futurists and representatives from selected future-orientended foundations, businesses and NGOs. To ensure that the council has a public esteem that will make it listened to, the council should include celebrated scientists (perhaps a Nobel laureate or two), renowned activists or philosophers, political leaders and possibly cultural icons with a future-oriented agenda (think Greta Thunberg).

344 The Council or similar body should integrate other UN bodies, academia, private sector, NGOs and Governments, as the Millennium Project does.

345 I think that the Council should be the permanent arm of the Summit of the Future to enforce action between events. The council also should have the role of negotiating with governments worldwide to binding agreements on the relevant subjects of the future.

346 - The creation of a special comission of youths, they will be advisors for the UN departments - Leave space for the voice of young people: we talk about them but we don't talk to them - Do projection exercises (rational dimension) and imagination (subjective dimension) bringing together all the leaders who make global decisions and who have descendants: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. There has to be an emotional approach in this direction within a great public consultation - Build intergenerational dialogues towards common futures - because today for the first time in history we have 6 generations living together. This is an immense opportunity to expand creativity to create solutions to the crisis and create a collaborative culture instead of generational warfare.

347 Appointed think tanks selected from each continent or region

348 If this committee can really play a role, it needs to define its functions more clearly and give clear work content and implementation plan.

349 Hasta que los países no vivan una situación extrema no habrá conciencia de las necesidades de unión

350 The council needs to consist mostly of professional’s researchers, foresights people and actions bodies from different fields to prevent political issues or obstacles. Giving a long terms view of global risk for the public and to prepare different government bodies and companies what is ahead.

351 It will be necessary to create subgroups using a digital plateform to collect information, analyse it and propose action plans. A section dedicated to academics with universities and high schools will be binding.

352 ***Radical transparency, open mindedness, focus on good examples that work (e.g. bringing in experiences and results from indigenous populations) and learn...

353 The Council will be more effective if they can create parallel councils among multi stakeholder future foresight bodies in each region and each country with offices in the Office of the President and membership from various sectors; academia, industries, NGOs, government. The council should have active and regular online interaction with the public on matters of future foresight interest and as an avenue for collecting early warning signals on various future challenges.

354 Include as members of the Council people who can dedicate reasonable time to it and are committed with the responsibilities that this entails.

355 Reconvertir el Consejo Fiduciario en un sistema de autogobierno de los países del mundo en vez de 14 colonias, para enfrentar los retos del futuro, el cumplimiento de los bienes públicos globales, que deben proteger o implementar para la salvación de la humanidad post pandemia, requerirá formas complejas y novedosas de gestión. En primer lugar este Consejo debe estar conformado por los líderes científicos, políticos, empresariales, religiosos, académicos y juristas, entre otros, que actualmente desarrollan las acciones más destacadas y eficaces en la construcción del nuevo orden social del futuro, teniendo como base los bienes colectivos mundiales. Este Consejo debe operar en todos los países coadyuvando un liderazgo institucional de largo plazo con los actores sociales e institucionales involucrados. El Consejo debe supervisar su elección y a la par hacer un monitoreo de los plantes, objetivos, y metas de largo plazo, haciendo transparente sus proyectos y presupuestos con un sistema de gobierno electrónico y Observatorio, que la sociedad civil y las naciones puedan seguir comparando y compartiendo sus logros, fracasos y también las sanciones correspondientes. Entre los miembros de este Consejo no pueden faltar los representantes de los pueblos originarios que aún siguen discriminados como en México, Guatemala, Bolivia, Perú, Chile, en América Latina, sin cuya incorporación, no será posible eliminar el colonialismo interno aún existente.

356 This Council cannot be just a deliberative forum, it must have some powers and be consulted in a mandatory manner for making decisions that compromise the intergenerational future.

357 UN organizations. One has to use GEO UNEP experience

358 The Council should be enlarged and with equal representation for all continents and then for all countries with equal voting

359 After the foresight the action plan should be followed by UN people, foresight practitioners in each country and whoever would be helpful in the process. Its important to have an international committee that should follow the situation in the whole world as well and give advices and support for those who are find it more difficult to achieve the goals.

360 Se requiere de elaborará una política conjunta entre cada uno de los paises donde se indiquen y expongan a la mayor contidad de personas los objetivos que se pretenden lograr con esta acción. Estas informaciones se brindarán de forma conjunta con un llamado para ser participe en la implementación de este proyecto. A partir de los resultados de este llamado, bajo criterios ya especificados, se podrán seleccionar quienes formarán parte.

361 local organism with effective power to intervent on the environmental local policy

362 50%+ of the council are highly experienced Polymath people (= have extensive knowledge across fields and able to differentiate effective solutions from symptom treatment).

363 Perhaps an important function of this Council could be to monitor and promote the main results of each Summit, and coordinate subcouncils of different stake holders, universities, countries, generations, regions, gender.

364 La aplicación de metodologías participativas amplias y no excluyentes, que generen sinergias de esfuerzos hacia problemas acuciantes, podrían ser útiles para mejorar la labor del fondo. El desarrollo de discusiones que involucren a múltiples actores privados y públicos de distintos niveles, sin una separación necesaria entre sus intervenciones, permitirá elaborar recomendaciones holísticas que tengan en consideración la interconexión actual entre los esfuerzos prospectivos. Asimismo, el fondo podría tomar un factor de apoyo académico, que ayude a generar discusiones y recomendaciones sobre temáticas no concebidas originalmente.

365 The council will be effective if the members will be selected in a transparent way and they will be change-makers. Also it is important to be organized based on the quadruple helix principle, giving a voice to all the actors in the innovation ecosystem.

366 That young people really felt heard and had the power to influence future strategies. That they could use their power of communication and their presence on social media to expand this listening among young people, with diversity and inclusion

367 I agree with the responses of others and have nothing to add, except DO IT NOW!

368 Members from industrial states

369 The Trusteeship Council will need to have adequate foresight competency and clear mandates that enable it to overcome systemic inertia in the organisations, institutions and other bodies that it deals with.

370 It is important as long as their members can influence their peers to engage in the activities for real.

371 1?The key is what the so-called multi-stakeholder group should be, 2. The problem is that the current UN Security Council members cannot represent global stakeholders, but it is also difficult to involve all multi stakeholders

372 The head and organizational structure of the Trusteeship Council

373 An ability to connect into a wider ecosystem of stakeholders so that it doesn’t become a small group of elites deciding what constitutes good stewardship / trusteeship on behalf of the planet. Rotate people through, multidisciplinary and truly representative membership. Ensure that this group 1) understands foresight; and 2) takes on the lessons from the past of what it takes to turn foresight into meaningful action and outcomes – from individual level through to countries, and global collaborations.

374 Make this process even more participatory and transparent through a global consultation, in all countries, where citizens are asked: who should lead and integrate it, how they should be selected, how to organize themselves, their skills in global issues, duties, the budget that should allocate the means and resources. The consultation could be articulated in a different way in each country, but guaranteeing representativeness: young people, companies,...

375 More focus on the content and emphasis on the human aspects of issues instead of global economics and politics. The aims of the council should be concrete and shall encourage the exchange of best practices and the implementation of their suggestions.

376 Trainership opportunities are imporant for two resons : giving the young some skills and knowledge and updating the old. Trainerships should be done more hands on business and lack formal boundaries.

377 As with question one above, setting clear goals and bringing on board politicians of international stature and communicators trusted by the general public to carry the strategy through.

378 It can be combined with the LAB as an analytical and executional division. Otherwise it can develope in another do-nothing body.

379 Me parece que el punto positivo de pensar en el Consejo de Administración Fiduciaria para mejorar la gobernanza de los bienes comunes globales, es que es uno de los seis principales órganos de las NU. Es decir, contaría con un alto rango de autoridad. PERO requiere de reformas que no se han hecho en 28 años. ¿ o supondría dejar la gobernanza en manos del Consejo de Seguridad? Eso no queda claro en el Informe del SG, quien, en cambio, habla de la reforma de los tres órganos principales de las Naciones Unidas Para ser factible, se necesita contar con la anuencia de los Estados Miembros. Y una consulta con los organismos especializados y programas de las Naciones Unidas vinculados con los temas específicos ( medio ambiente, océanos ...) De otra manera, se repetiría la duplicación de esfuerzos y sustitución de áreas especializadas

380 - Create a Global Future Compact instead. See my Row 6

381 To have a clear definition on what topics are going to be prioritized in its agenda. Have a close relationship with Member States to provide them with useful recommendations on effective use of foresight to tackle global issues.

382 Multi stakeholder involvement such as that of the industry, especially IT industry captains, futurists, environmentalists and similar empowered groups is necessary to make the council more effective.

383 it should be led by the United Nations and for it to be effective, special ambassadors from the countries and representatives of the business world and workers (ILO) should be added.

384 20 years ago Silicon Valley corporate leaders were prepared to upgraded the UN system at no cost to state of art information management systems, but senior UN management could not come up with their requirements. Today, the UNSG could make their request again to make this new Trusteeship Council on the Future a model of modern decision support systems.

385 Follow-up by rewarding participating institutions that follow the recommendations. A plaque, a favored institution status in future procurements, scholarships, etc.

386 Debe ampliar la participación de otras instituciones u organizaciones planetarias, de modo que la base de opciones se diversifique y se puedan tener mejores propuestas con opciones diferentes, alternativas o de elección, ante los desafíos propios de lo que se debería solucionar con mayores probabilidades de éxito.

387 The public needs to be involved. Citizens need to have trust and hope for the future to understand that only with change of mind and behaviour we will be able to reach SDGs and our Common Agenda. Media and social media networks need to be involved! A just transition needs to be supported by all stakeholders!

388 Que no quede reducido a la participación de los estados miembros e incorpore expertos y OOII de estudios de futuro

389 Whereas the work of the Summits should be very publically visible, the activities of the Council should be shielded from non-professional influences by maintaining a low key as long as possible while being open to meaningful scrutiny.

390 A Futures Lab should promote Futures Literacy among citizens and the public at large.

391 Step 1: To take actions to generate motivation and engagement to participate in the event by 100 millionaires Step 2: To unfold a communication strategy from the United Nation in the most prominent media in the world. Step 3: To define through foresight activities, the top 100 millionaires who could boost employment and income-building programmes in the world

392 execute research on the preferred composition of the council. To avoid an old boys network or a preferred kids podium.

393 Much as the Security Council, the revamped Trusteeship Council must be made more representative of the 21st century: this implies enlargement, including better representation of countries around the world and arrangements for more voices at the table.

394 Ensure there is proper representation from multiple country-wide society groups are included to prevent bias or dominant culture.

395 Existing UN bureaucracy needs to somehow bar set aside long enough for collective intelligence systems across not only the entire UN system of organizations, but tapping into a much wider range of institutional knowledge and expertise including multilateral and bilateral donors, private industry groups, educational and civil society and technical and social research institutions. The UN is not alone in not being able to communicate across itself, the IMF is similarly functioning on unintegrated digital systems which means they are even beginning to be able to apply AI to their myriad economic analyses. Also, somehow the public needs to be able to be involved, either by great transparency of the actions, deliberations and recommendations and subsequent consequences of the Trusteeship. And politics needs to be kept out of it as much as possible!

396 Access is important, especially if its works are also connected to online collective intelligence platform. Moderation is not trivial. The most important things is to stop having empty representatives talking in circles

397 Need for clear rules and initial agreements on how the Body would operate.

398 The most important lesson to be learned is the use of binding agreements to achieve desired futures. Countries that usually refuse to join such agreements due to economic costs, such as the USA, should be penalized by the global community with some sort of economic sanction.

399 Serious vetting before appointing trustees, check the capacity before appointing a University or a think tank

400 The work of the Trusteeship Council needs to be connected to online collective intelligence platform and on a Metaverse dedicaded.

401 The council needs to consist mostly of professional’s researchers, foresights people and actions bodies from different fields to prevent political issues or obstacles. Giving a long terms view of global risk for the public and to prepare different government bodies and companies what is ahead.

402 - start promoting young voices initiatives like what Teach the Future movement is doing - Promote youths and policy makers dialogues - Create youths councils across all UN departments

403 Rienforce Compliance at al llevels

404 Make it digital in an attractive way by design. Focus on building a future where trust reflects in everything. We need to make small steps that works as hat Kevin Kelly calls: Protopia. And make that visible... Also, can we define the purpose of the world that is Massive, Transformative and Inclusive. Futurist Peter Diamandis talks about the MTP (Massive Transformative Purpose). Each and every organization (and even each individual should have one). I added inclusiveness to that Purpose to reflect things like Trust.

405 The key is that all the actors in the system and international society are previously informed, can make proposals that are distilled and presented to the Council, and public opinion receives transparent information. There must be an ethical commitment of all the actors.

406 The formation of the council must first be approved, then its establishment, and the most important thing is to activate it

408 The futures language should be more accessible to the people in general through media and opinion leaders.

409 El alcance y la magnitud de esta propuesta conlleva como primer paso exponer las necesidades de formación del consejo. Para esto deberán ser utilizadas las diversas vías de comunicación existentes. Con esto se busca integrar a la mayor cantidad de interesados en asumir los las responsabilidades individuales y colectivas que esto genera. Como lección aprendida deberá tenerse en cuenta, cuales acciones incidieron en la formación de confianza entre los grupos de interés. Además, la identificación de las características de los grupos mas interesados y representados para ser parte de ese proyecto.

410 Education and coaching of the members in the highest-impact in relevant Laws of Nature

411 El fondo debería incorporar más actores en distintos niveles de gobernanza, para hacer frente de una manera global y a la vez localizada de las problemáticas prospectivas discutidas, esto podría entablar problemas de desarrollo y organización de las reuniones, por lo que el fondo podría tomar en consideración los avances hechos en materia de reuniones y discusiones virtuales, como las desarrolladas durante la pandemia de COVID-19, desarrollando un modelo novel de organización y generación de insumos para los miembros, esto puede ser apoyado por las capacidades de actores privados en la aplicación de metodologías flexibles para las discusiones.

412 There is a need to be very well promoted and the members should be persons able to spread the world in their communities. The council will be effective of the people will trust its members.

413 This council has to have direct support from the UN General Secretary - they must feel that their advice matters and is influential.

414 All States of international community power including China and Russia has

415 The Trusteeship Council needs to be visible and accessible. Communication will be key to its success: it needs to be able to communicate its activities and outcomes in ways that are meaningful to a broad range of stakeholders. It also needs to demonstrate that it is responsive to concerns of those that it is meant to represent. The most significant challenges that need to be addressed, however, are to problematise and prioritise the future, and to present the future as a viable means to address contemporary challenges. To this end, the Trusteeship Council should be focused not only on envisioning futures, but also promoting practical implications of envisioned futures.

416 As the Foresight Body, the positioning on behalf of multi-stakeholder may be wrong. The organization responsible for the future of the world and mankind should go beyond all kinds of interest related organizations. Therefore, a representative future research institute or team that transcends interests and borders may be closer to the original intention of the UN Foresight Body

417 The Trusteeship Council needs to establish its own organizational structure, rules and regulations, and operation mode

418 Wide consultation on the design of the Council and howe it operates, and then regular check-ins with the wider ecosystem to see howe it’s doing. Total transparency of its discussions, interactions, assessments, and interventions and their impacts. Need a clear process for how this group works with the ultimate Summit decision makers and those who will lead implementation of the outcomes.

419 As with question one,the difficulty would be finding enough politicians and communicators of sufficient stature to carry it through.

420 1. Desde la secretaría de las Naciones Unidas, definir el objetivo y funciones que se darían al Consejo de Administración Fiduciaria relativa a los bienes comunes globales (y otros) 2. Consulta con los organismos especializados y programas de las Naciones Unidas involucrados 3. Organizar una consulta con científicos en las diferentes materias 4. analizar la estructura del Consejo, membresía, funciones, responsabilidades, apoyo de la secretaria o de ? 5. A consideración de los Estados miembros la reforma correspondiente

421 The Trusteeship should have a proper representation of all reginal groups of Member States and also academic sector, private sector and civil society. It should mantain a healthy balance between diplomatic/political and technical participants.

422 It should be ensured that the advice and guidelines issued by the councils are accepted and implemented by all the national governments.

423 -More actions committed and less intention followed by no action, I guess. - Involve experts and actors that are key influencers in each of the 12 domains. - Include public monitoring board available to all interests to visualize the goals, plans, projects, actions and success progress in each domain as well as stakeholders commitment progress and evolution. Make public whoever is violating plans and goals committed.

424 The activities of the Trusteeship Council should be continuous and act in real-time, that is, take advantage of new technologies and establish spaces for continuous dialogue. The addition of other civil society organizations, such as NGOs, representatives of the church, and the academic world should also participate in this type of instance, it would make the diagnosis and decisions more complete because there would be more representation.

425 This should be open as possible, not an exclusive old boys network. Also the western bias may need to be addressed. Alternative models and experimentation may need to be adopted to form its own thriving foresight culture. Trusteeship sounds like a more just approach to formalise action.

426 This laboratory is very useful. In terms of solving common problems faced by mankind, this laboratory can be a platform for policy communication and Simulation in various countries, or a test platform for many new technologies and new solutions.

427 Without a real confidence that somehow the Futures lab would be hear and overcome poliitcal barriers, not much would get.

428 El laboratorio de futuros debe predefinir el tipo de enfoque prospectivo. La Agenda para el Desarrollo Sostenible al 2030 y Nuestra Agenda Común post pandemia establecen metas deseables, por tanto se sigue el foresight, que concibe el principio de la construcción de la realidad futura factible (Futurible). Este laboratorio debe partir de metas mínimas deseables con alcance normativo para lograr preservar o implemEntar los bienes públicos mundiales en las dimensiones económicas, políticas, sociales (incluyendo las migraciones) y las medio ambientales. Los stakeholders que establecerían este piso mínimo, deben ser las personalidades con mayor consenso provenientes de los organismos multilaterales, la academia, de la experiencia gubernamental democrática, de la empresa privada transnacional y MYPES, ONGS, entre otros. Luego de establecer estas metas, el laboratorio debe construir los Índices internacionales comparativos correspondientes para tener una supervisión y un diagnóstico electrónico permanente en cada país, que muestre las brechas en cada dimensión. En cada país debe instituirse, ademàs de los stakeholders locales, especialistas nacionales e internacionales que transfieran las lecciones aprendidas de los paìses màs exitosos, en proyectos de largo plazo y el presupuesto por resultados consiguiente con aprobación de los congresos correspondientes, siguiendo la lógica de los Bancos de Proyectos tanto del sector público como del privado.

429 It is necessary to have future research laboratory of the United Nations. It is the exhibition and seminar room for the research results of various countries. Future research is the common endeavor of all mankind. We should explore and practice realistically from a historical and dialectical perspective. The future laboratory is the center for collecting data and discussing feasibility. Its goal is the goal decomposition model of the overall system. Future research academics should practice the research direction and publish the results in a practical and realistic manner.

430 Discussions and talks are not sufficient. You need to engage in workshop mode. Futures lab is one option. Futures Clinique is another option. The main thing is that participants immerse in future images or scenarios in order to decide what kind of futures are desired. Futures Lab should be an open concept. Who will run it? Who will gather the data achieved? Who will analyse such insights and foresight? There are questions that have to be thought carefully in advance. Also, dissemination of results produced in a futures lab should be rapidly and widely disseminated.

431 Gives a focal point for collecting global futures research and assessing these to find the high impact strategies to improve the prospects for humanity.

432 Could be the center for analytic models that are used in forecasting. Functions to evaluate and distribute models and to furnish hard data on which such models may depend. But be careful: this might result in a not invented here syndrome so registering a model as official or acceptable like a seal of approval, could constrain thinking. The lab could also disseminate materials to schools so that students could become familiar with modelling.

433 Having UN and national officials participating in future labs is the best way to increase capacity on futures thinking and engage senior officials with long-term thinking.

434 Top-down (decisionmakers and policy makers, governance)and bottom-up (society, economy, academia)need to meet here and experiment together.

435 This is very critical but absolutely dependent on its ability to conduct rigorous, defensible and compelling work that has the respect of the broader UN community. This depends largely on the commitment and ability to recruit highly skilled futures researchers and foresight practitioners.

436 This could make a difference. Ensure this is populated by a diverse set of individuals, demographically, ideologically, politically, etc. This cannot be another forum for groupthink or agenda-driven bickering. If the people assigned to this lab can research, think, be open minded, and be willing to LISTEN to other points of view, this could be a huge success. If this becomes another echo chamber of the prevailing narrative, it will be another useless appendage that will be ridiculed and mocked. Unless done correctly, this could set the cause of foresight back many years.

437 The UN system has lacked a high-level space for futures and foresight, which has led to fragmentation and lost learning. The lab could serve all agencies and driver further engagement across the entire system. If it is truly a lab, then it should be grounded in sound science and practice.

438 This functionality would be where the real work gets done, hopefully shielded from political and bureaucratic influences for as long and as much as possible. If good ideas are to be cultivated and nurtured, this environment would be where it would happen. Without such a capability, the other fora, councils and conferences would just be more exercises in futility.

439 ---In fact, this may have the similar function as UN Office on Strategic Threads recommended by MP and other organizations ---It will be the largest laboratory for the future survival and development of mankind, helping UN officials and national leaders improve their ability to think about the future, the best way to think about long-term strategies.

440 A UN Futures Lab is critical to all of the other foresight efforts mentioned in the OCA for the following reasons: 1. Properly staff and supported by external technical and financial resources and serving across the entire UN system spectrum, it will serve as the central capacity building and foresight enabling medium. Engaging UN and national officials in Futures Lab activities will necessarily increase their capacity and inclination to think longer term and smarter with science-based decision making. 2. By functioning across the entire UN system it can be the means for integrating and cross referencing data between UN organizations, enabling science to supersede politics both within and among disparate organizations. It would necessarily have to function across all UN agencies in order to guarantee participation in and utilization of its work and its findings and recommendations. Only functioning as such could it have recognized legitimacy throughout the UN and beyond. 3. By including external technical, financial and data resources, it can be shielded from much of the usual UN political and bureaucratic influences. 4. With #1,2 &3 functioning, the Futures Lab can implement an across UN system and beyond (multilateral institutions, bilateral donors, academia, private sector research and technical AI data analysis system without having to convert all the myriad IT systems of numerous UN and other global and national and local organizations to be compatible, both saving time and money on that conversion. THIS COULD BE THE BASIS FOR A GLOBAL COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM. 5. With a diverse (demographically, ideologically, politically, including youth, and technically) staff allowed to research, experiment, and explore and listen to diverse viewpoints, more or less independently This could be the driving force for the expansion of foresight use in the UN and in global and national policy and implementation decision making.

441 We need this dearly, but DO NOT call it the UN Futures Lab. We all agree that an ongoing Futures Research and Action Initiative is crucial and that it should be established as a global multistakeholder body. HOWEVER it should be independent of the UN or any other global political organization that already carries all sorts of political baggage, bad habits and iffy global reputation. A global future summit led by the UN might be the place at which to start to put together a beginning framework for it before it is actually shaped and established, but it should have absolutely no overseers or minders other than a consortium of non-governmental organizations and/or some other respected independent and unaffiliated, global-good-first think tanks, etc. It's a good thing the Internet Engineering Task Force does not fall under the auspices of the UN or the ITU or we wouldn't have the miraculous connectivity and global knowledge graph we have built today. This should be established as soon as possible. Recognized global futurists whose work has been inspired by our departed but most-beloved and prescient predecessors should be the independent experts who work to design the framework. A global tax of some sort might fund the work. It should not be named UN Futures Lab. Both UN and Lab are not wise. People assign highly varied meanings to the word lab - sounds like a place where experiments are carried out that harm living things. And the UN should definitely take advantage of what the new Global Future Research Organization or whatever will develop and contribute greatly to its inputs, but it should not be - in any way, shape or form - the UN's unit.

442 If the Trusteeship Council and the Futures Lab are separate bodies, there is a risk that they will chart competing paths for the future, causing a lack of clarity of goals.

443 As futures studies are still a young planning discipline, there is a need to have a strong futures lab within the UNGS office that would support the work of the whole new UN futures network.

444 As a part of a future lab myself, I see how futures research needs methodological rigor to keep the subjectivity of analysis as low as possible.

445 multiple valuable research is conducted at many think tanks from around the world, the UN futures lab can work as the main hub to synergise, increase value and amplify the importance of the futures work.

446 UN Future Lab could accommodate a space of creativity where ideas of all kinds would be taken in account with benevolence in order to identify weak signals. Researchers in Foresight studies and Creativity would animate this space.

447 I think that this is critical. Here, ideas can be shared scrutinised

448 Agree with the many comments on how Very Critical a Future Lab is. This Future Lab could provide the scientific and objective basis for UN discussion, decisions and activities related to the Future. This would fulfill a foresight function with best practices that could be useful.

449 Threats to the future survival of human race are increasing in number and magnitude due to population explosion, inequitable distribution of wealth, poverty and poor governance in many poor countries of the world. New technologies and frontiers are emerging in robotics and artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, weapons of war and space exploration with little or no consideration for possible errors that could have negative global consequences in the use of emerging technologies. The Future Lab will provide a veritable platform where every voice can be heard and where every voice matters, and where decisions and proactive measures can be communicated to relevant bodies for action to guarantee the future survival of the human race regardless of differences in race, religion, sex or region.

450 Future Lab as a basin of the continuously changing world futures where these possible futures are getting to the surface. Without this function we cannot explore or construct the widest range of possible world futures.

451 The futures lab is critical for the continuous scanning of signals of change. It will help in detecting, categorising signals to future challenges and opportunities. Simulations and experimentations are some of the functions taht must be performed by the futures lab.

452 It's where the real work is done, and also where the main insight for all other UN and international bodies is created and evaluated. It will create a sort of standard (but flexible) toolbox of analytical methods, know-how and international experties that national governments can mirror for their own future labs (if they don't already have one). It will also spur an increase in young reseachers and analysts pursuing a career in future studies, which will help improve the overall level.

453 1. Agree that the naming can be contentious - given historical wrongs relating to human subject experiments 2. However, also agree and recognize the significance of funding and supporting futures research as a global public good

454 It is esential as a body which can put the future oriented view for the global gobernance.

455 Everything mentioned in this paragraph of the report is important.

456 It is simply not possible to care about the future without the presence of a research LAB that delves into the study and analysis of the future

457 This lab is fundamental to make it work.

458 Dice una frase popular que lo que no se mide no se puede controlar, de ahi parte la relevancia de crear este laboratorio. Las interacciones que se dan glabalmente, hace necesario considerar que los futuros deban obeservarse desde un punto global, considerando las particularidades de cada uno de los paises que permean esos futuros. Este laboratorio permitirá generar modelos que incidan en el logro de los objetivos de la construcción de escenarios futuros, siendo una de ellas, evitar las fatalidades.

459 This is a great idea. People from different levels can collide and run in their thinking here and share their innovative ideas.

460 El laboratorio sería tremendamente útil para generación y difusión de capacidades de prospectiva hacia las entidades participantes, tomando en consideración que la prospectiva como un área de estudios aún es un nicho minoritario en los currículos nacionales de estudios políticos o de Relaciones Internacionales. El laboratorio también podría servir como cuerpo concejero para el resto de instancias, como el reformado fondo fiduciario y el Summit, creando avenidas de discusión nuevas que permitan continuar la discusión y establecer nuevas áreas de preocupación sobre problemáticas crecientes.

461 I am totally in favor of the creation of a Futures Lab. In my opinion, the main merit of Futures Lab is to incorporate evaluative thinking into the strategies of the common agenda, connecting the learning of the programs to the desired future transformations. Learning must be related to the analysis of program designs and implementation processes, in addition to results and impacts. This is the most essential reflection. As an evaluation specialist, I see that people have a short view of this activity and think it only serves to verify accountability. Bringing the contemporary view of evaluation (based on principles, connected to systems thinking, embracing qualitative and mixed methods as rigorous evidence, and connected with transformational changes) will be an excellent asset for Futures Lab. Learning from the past, learning to see the future. It will allow us to understand how to avoid mistakes or consolidate innovations.

462 As with design thinking, futures thinking requires a laboratory and many workshops, in order to allow new practitioners to experiment with futures methods. Important is to develop methods for futures solutions prototyping. Importantly, the UN has the database to allow lab users to use real-time, live data. It is important to visualize and experience data in multiple forms, including data visualization, graphical recording, acting out scenarios, and so forth.

463 Porque un laboratorio de futuros, que haga simulación de políticas públicas, evaluaciones de políticas públicas permitirá reducir los efectos negativos de malas decisiones. No obstante, la implementación de las políticas públicas requiere de análisis técnicos, la voluntad política de los gobiernos tratantes

464 There is a critical need to put futures into practical contexts for proper dissemination and I would foresee a lab such as this taking on that role. There are two key functions that the lab would need to undertake: 1) To promote futures literacy and capacity (as is mentioned in the report), and 2) to derive from foresight outcomes practical implications for relevant stakeholders, i.e. not only what the future could look like but what it means for what *I* do.

465 Only an effective organization can facilitate the development of the future field

466 Cada ciudadano planetario debiera tener acceso a algún nivel de participación y a la información que se levante.

467 The establishment of the UN Future Risk Laboratory is a visionary initiative!Where will humanity go?What is the future civilization of mankind like?Where is the direction of human evolution?Is it possible for mankind to create great civilizations together?And so on, these problems are not a distant problem, but a contemporary urgent problem to face.We must break the shackles of thinking, gather experts and scholars with foresight and vision in all fields, and open up a field with the collision of theories and ideas and using modern science and technology, various disciplines and interdisciplinary practice ——. This is the practical and future need to establish the United Nations Future Laboratory. ??“??????????”??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????——????“????????”????????????

468 It is crucial to test the ideas and assumptions and exchange experiences that would enable better predictions. A playful approach enables us to think out of the box and eliminate the state of current societal and political order from future projections.

469 Because a laboratory of futures, which simulates public policies, evaluations of public policies will reduce the negative effects of bad decisions. However, the implementation of public policies requires technical analysis, the political will of the treating governments.

470 such a lab will be a useful tool to test approaches and to collect information bottom-up

471 The global issues that we currently face can only be attacked through a collective intelligence system of this nature involving a wide range of international and professional bodies, transnational organisations and diplomatic channels.

472 El laboratorio de futuros es un espacio de construcciòn esencial para delinear estrategias con objetivos y acciones para todos los actores participantes, quienes a su vez, se motivan e interesan por el tiempo futuro.

473 It´s critical and essential that UN establishes this FUTURES LAB. We not only have to get together and think about the Future, but WE have to unlearn, learn and relearn concepts about it, analyze it to understand it and be transformative and work and build impactful and visible initiatives that are shown through and by this LAB to de World. Also, UN should collaborate with other worldwide private and public organizations that are already working and dedicated to Foresight like Association of Professional Futurists, Universities, private Orgs like Institute for the Future, Future Today Institute, Copenhagen Institute for the Futures and other likewise to integrate their valuable work into the FUTURES LAB.

474 A UN Future Lab could help developing countries in the public policy creation process, by providing aditional information and a deeper comprehension of the topics that governments are trying to fix.

475 In my opinion the Futures Lab, along with the Reports are the most critical of the initiatives proposed by the SG. This Futures Lab may well be the place to access open and collective knowledge, from the most acknowledged persons and organizations that work on foresight.

476 A futures laboratory is very important, especially because it can deliver in real-time and also report on potential risk scenarios for humanity and countries.

477 For whom? With whom? To do what?

478 Solving future problems requires long-term funding and government support. First, people from all walks of life need to improve their understanding.

479 A Futures Lab is critical to improve global foresight for several reasons, including: 1) to create an official space for systemic and systematic global futures research; 2) perform foresight using futures studies methods and with the participation/coordination by professional futurists; 3) creates a space for democratic brainstorming among experts and non-experts for providing input to politicians -- who, ideally, would also be involved in the process; 4) are the appropriate structure for identifying potential issues and opportunities concerning the common future of the planet in a collaborative way.

480 Yes, that would be a valuable service

481 Too many international/multilateral bodies, reports, FULL OF BUREAUCRATIC JARGON!! Knowledge is NOT the limitation. REFUSAL to act by rich and powerful governments as well as individuals is the BIG LIMITATION!!

482 No solo es crítico sino que urgente e indispensable hacerlo a la brevedad posible, con el objetivo de poder tener antecedentes que permitan formular políticas claras respecto de la situación actual con miras a corregir el futuro, pero ahora ya, si más dilaciones.

483 The EU foresight focus as well as the OECD focus both contribute to the field. The same would go for a UN futures lab.

484 There is need of independent unite working with various bodies, both public and privet focusing on development of humankind, forces in question towards different futures. Benefit of this is clearer decisions, better and sustainable politics towards long terms goals of common good.

485 This initiative could help to : a) analyze hundreds of yearly reports on the future and extract and prioritize the main conclusions, risks and opportunities; b) deepen on specific issues c) help counries to develop their national foresight capacities.

486 Este laboratorio de futuros lo veo como un organismo articulador de visiones y creador de visiones holísticas sobre las dimensiones más crítica para el futuro y a la vez como un entre que promueve, inspira e impulsa la gestión de los gobiernos de los países para la creación de sus propios futuros.

487 It will be critical if the results coming from Lab sessions are really listened to and seriously considered

488 I would suggest a foresight living lab, rather than merely a foresgiht lab that conducts the day to day foresight work needed. The living lab aspect is highly local, deals with real pressing issues, highly participatory and experimental. I am suprised the UN does not have such a lab (I think they do) so we should build on the work that is already done. Living labs are also potentially temporary, mobile, and in this way could compliment the fixed futures lab conducting foresight reporting.

489 It should build a collective intelligence system of new ideas and projects to improve humanity which can feed to the relevant actors including the proposed re-purposed UN trusteeship council.

490 Imagine the lab as a place which collects and catalogs scenarios and using AI to find those developments or policies that make different scenarios more or less likely. Also, over time, keeping track of which scenarios the world seems to be tracking.

491 Public and private collaboration

492 I would say that a UN Futures Lab should work on creating an integrated planetary index which collects all the different indexes developed so far by the UN and the MP in order to rank order countries based on their contribution to a Good Planetary Governance. Such an integrated index should involve at least three key elements Human Development, Economic Development, and Political Development. Your favorite index actually reflects your preferred future and and an overall index could set Our Common Agenda for See below the sketch of my attempt https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zKUGOzEwUCngi6sJxYTWaCS-tObBTBOl/view?usp=sharing

493 Generar y/o convocar a las personas más estudiosas, preparadas y conocedoras de los actuales problemas críticos y en conjunto con ellos poder formular, como función principal, planes, proyectos y llevar a cabo o conducir aquellas acciones tendientes a modificar las conductas erróneas, con el objetivo de corregir y evitar los errores cometidos para obtener con algún grado de éxito (parcial, total o definitivo) un mejor, más claro y prometedor futuro.

494 Prepare versions of futures labs that can be carried out and discussed in secondary education, that allow the participation of youth in initiatives, and whose contributions can enrich the participation of delegates.

495 It should mobilize a wide network / community of futures labs across the world and play a key role in the further development of that community

496 - a focus on quick wins i.e. clearly defined first tasks and deliverables early on that provide proof of concept early on - and integrated review / learning loop systematics where the approach can be continuously adapted due to learnings from previous steps - i.e. no carved into stone approach, methodology, institutional set-up - avoiding re-inventing the wheel, i.e. learn from best practices, learnings on how foresight can be implemented in institutions and membership-based organizations best - hire people ( build an internal team that knows how to set up foresight, from the practical / research and methods side as well as in terms of working with leadership and stakeholders, making results usable and communicating them etc. - build on existing knowledge

497 Collect national foresight results and interlink the results with a country perspective to identify different expectations across the globe.

498 Ensuring that the system as a whole has the capacity and resources to support country teams. Additionally, the lab can be a space where any and all UN staff can go to secure resources and support to integrate futures and foresight into any project and/or program.

499 Para que esto sea un éxito, deberá ser un trabajo mancomunado entre todos los actores sociales. Pero es fundamental el liderazgo de la ONU, con el fin que presione a los países para apropiar la importancia de reflexionar sobre el futuro. Las funciones mas importante: - divulgar permanentemente sobre las megatendencias, para que sean tenidas en cuenta en el desarrollo de políticas publicas. - concientizar y formar sobre estudios de futuros.

500 The most important functions of the Lab should be: 1. To bring efforts together to generate effective programmes to generate employment and income globally 2. To foresee mega-tendencies that could affect employment and income at a global level. 3. To design strategies to face potential risks and make the most of the opportunities derived from projects to generate income and employment.

501 The key is the composition of laboratory leadership and members, which should pay attention to 1, The participants should be interdisciplinary, cross-field researchers; 2. Researchers of different regions and different political views or ideologies, forward-thinking leadership; 3.Absolute respect for science and no interference from politics; 4,Encourage the development of future prospects and analytical models at the national and global levels for reference by countries and regions; 5,it must be practiced in some regions or countries to constantly promote the creation of new ideas and innovate through experiments and Practice

502 output will be communicated broadly and used by national governments Provide clear output, become a reliable reference

503 Public-private partnerships are essential to ensure long-term thinking. A major weakness of the Millennium Development Goals was the failure to reach out to the private sector: the result was top-heavy, public sector-minded, decision-making that under-delivered.

504 Leading scientific researchers and private sector leaders together with social/civil entrepreneurs working together

505 A knowledge-oriented body that produces reports on a regular basis would improve the profile of existiential threats, but it would work best in conjunction with trustees.

506 An intelligence unit that combines vast amounts of structured and unstructured information in new ways, integrate it, analyze it, and deliver it to decision-makers in powerful new formats and timeframes, and give the lab participants a line of sight to see the future, quantify impact, formulate scenarios and anticipate change

507 1. Properly staff and supported by external technical and financial resources and serving across the entire UN system spectrum, it will serve as the central capacity building and foresight enabling medium. Engaging UN and national officials in Futures Lab activities will necessarily increase their capacity and inclination to think longer term and smarter with science-based decision making. 2. By functioning across the entire UN system it can be the means for integrating and cross referencing data between UN organizations, enabling science to supersede politics both within and among disparate organizations. It would necessarily have to function across all UN agencies in order to guarantee participation in and utilization of its work and its findings and recommendations. Only functioning as such could it have recognized legitimacy throughout the UN and beyond. 3. By including external technical, financial and data resources, it can be shielded from much of the usual UN political and bureaucratic influences. 4. With #1,2 &3 functioning, the Futures Lab can implement an across UN system and beyond (multilateral institutions, bilateral donors, academia, private sector research and technical AI data analysis system without having to convert all the myriad IT systems of numerous UN and other global and national and local organizations to be compatible, both saving time and money on that conversion. THIS COULD BE THE BASIS FOR A GLOBAL COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM. 5. With a diverse (demographically, ideologically, politically, including youth, and technically) staff allowed to research, experiment, and explore and listen to diverse viewpoints, more or less independently This could be the driving force for the expansion of foresight use in the UN and in global and national policy and implementation decision making.

508 A SIMPLE report card in 25 to 30 global languages on each rich country and each billionaire in the world on what they have done to solve the identified global problems

509 The UNSG office should lead this initiative with the support of a strong virtual platform that would collect and disseminate the best tools and practices worldwide.

510 Methods based on large datasets should be increasingly common in Futures Research. Therefore, experts in data analytics are important to aid in further research. The most important function of the UN Futures Lab is to discover problems and propose solutions to the Council and the Summit of the Future.

511 At present, UN futures lab is the most important platform for information exchange, sharing and application. In this laboratory, various challenges and risk issues will be intensively analyzed, and different solutions from countries around the world can also be effectively shared.

512 Una de las responsabilidades de la ONU es presentar opciones y estrategias para el logro de los objetivos. para ello seminarios o talleres de personas expertas son necesario

513 To develop and present a better narrative on the future, outside of the tech industries, and beyond academia, too. To make some powerful FILMS that need to be spread globally, generating hope and optimism

514 The unite should give independent reports and important signals towards different forces that can affect humanity. Working in this manner with public and privet bodies within various countries of concern.

515 It should be also a force of proposing ideas, solutions and projects to be developed jointly thanks to the perspective of improvement experiences already in progress or already successful throughout the world.

516 It would have to be a study center not only for researching futures but also for experiencing futures through immersive techniques - the future has been a poorly understood field of study for 70 years and for the urgency to be felt, it is necessary to incorporate new techniques and approaches such as: design, experiences, creativity

517 Simulations of the future could be made for all sorts of subjects that need to be addressed. AI and ML could be helpful for predictions. There is so much information available around the world that AI and ML for this lab would be helpful. Maybe big companies such as Google, Oracle, MIT, etc. could help here as long as their input (read: algorithms) is neutral

518 La forma en que se propone hacer este Future Lab parece ágil y muy útil para evaluar el futuro impacto de políticas y programas, que estaría al servicio de los países a los que podría apoyar conjuntando las habilidades de los mejores especialistas en el mundo. Pero yo veo este esfuerzo más como la construcción de una red de la inteligencia ya existente en el mundo y a través de la cual se pueden construir puentes entre especialistas, expertos, entidades que trabajan en estos temas y los países que necesitan este apoyo en lugar de crear un nuevo cuerpo de la ONU.

519 Deve envolver agentes de todas as regiões. Deve colocar o pé na vila mais pobre e na mais rica. Deve envolver pessoas analfaetas e pós-doutoradas! É este desdobramente e envolvimento comunitário que poderá gerar frutos para um futuro mais igual.

520 All countries (future concerned) must have access and contributions to the lab. To make it more inclusive let every node have one member dedicated for lab business at the node level. This create new knowledge and models that are then synthesised for global intelligence.

521 Main task of the UN Futures Lab (UN FL) would be to gather the declining and the new and shaping trends, weak signals and wild cards concerning different fields or global problems. On this basis this institution could help or give future information to national states, integration organizations and other professional institutions and citizens, too. The UN FL could function as a bank of foreword-looking thoughts and ideas. The way of its working form could be organized via internet. On the other hand this intitution could also gather foreword-looking information produced at bottom level from different parts of the world. Horizon scanning of the changing world futures should be dominated its continuous activity. Its Regular Reports could serve as a results of a world radar system.

522 UN Future lab could be distributed (ie: not just having one location) across the globe.

523 1. Diverse perspectives and representation 2. Young scholars who may bring experimental approaches and perspectives towards the discipline

524 I fully agree on what OCA mention: support States, sub-national authorities and others to build capacity and exchange good practices to enhance long-term thinking, forward action and adaptability

525 Make sure this lab involves futurists who have a good understanding of the radical risks and opportunities that lie ahead - the cataclysmically disruptive issues. Don't let the lab become a mediocre recycler of ideas about incremental change.

526 The UN FUTURES LAB should have branches in all continents and representation from all countries

527 The futures lab should make big societal shifts comprehensible and accessible for everybody. Because of that it can act as a direction for strategy on various levels and in various fields. It should focus on positive examples of developments: what concepts/ actions etc are moving society towards a better and more inclusive future? Letting trendprofessionals worldwide work together in the lab will both increase the knowledge levels and strengthen the feeling of one world.

528 - bring in strategic foresight professionals from the countries involved; - Involve the population and have diversity and representation; - Have an easily accessible platform where people can easily follow the evolution of goals and find information; - Share results and best practices; - Involve design people and communication specialists to get people involved.

529 Este laboratorio deberá ser el punto de acopio de otros laboratorios similares creados en cada país. Como característica común deberán ser parte de ellos personas interesadas en el bien colectivo con las competencias necesarias para ofrecer datos relevantes y pertinentes al contexto en el cual se le solicite. Esto permitirá interrelacionar las informaciones obtenidas y brindar una visión mas puntual de los futuros.

530 A FL should undergo its proposals to the dwellers, interact with all the grade of the government, rehearse new strategy of sustainability shared with the local community.

531 It should be an innovative centre with different activities. The aim the should have is to orient people to the future thinking, by simulations, East activities for children for example

532 Critically, thinking about possible futures improves thinking about possible futures - i.e It call previous thinking into question. Such a process should have open boundaries and include inputs that are as diverse as possible, especially from the young and the wise. The lab should encourage people in all parts of the world to conduct their own futures labs and communicate their outcomes.

533 National future labs should be set up and a global future lab. They should work as a network - future mind of the planet. Experience of GEO UNEP might be used

534 The key function of the Lab should be to identify and continuously track issues that may become important risks and threats, determine priorities, and provide early warning to countries around the world.

535 This Lab should illuminate how global issues affect national goals. Countries focuse on their own challenges and expect that some others look and warn about new emergimng global realities that surpass national capacities to explore. But natioanl actions are increasingly conditioned by global process that fall in the hands of weak global institutions unable to act efficientely. This worrying reality should be transfered to nations and arise their attention.

536 Generar una plataforma que permita formar una base de expertos que puedan ser consultados en forma continua. Establecer una librería digital que organice libros, papers, ensayos e investigaciones sobre el futuro. Establecer un sistema de procesamiento de la información mediante inteligencia artificial.

537 El laboratorio debería valerse del conocimiento práctico y teórico desarrollado por instituciones académicas, organismos especializados y ONGs especializadas en la prospectiva, considerando sus diferentes vertientes y enfoques. El laboratorio también podría consolidar su labor y funciones mediante programas de entrenamiento especifico para funcionario de las Naciones Unidas y otros organismos, quizás incorporándose y formando parte de futuros currículos en la Universidad de las Naciones Unidas u organismos similares. Entre los elementos más importantes está la cooperación continua con diferentes organismos de múltiples áreas del conocimiento, en concordancias con la multidisciplinariedad de los problemas vistos. Asimismo, debería tener una representación multinacional en todos los continentes, para tener una visión global y a la vez localizada de los problemas prospectivos.

538 There is a critical need for such a mechanism in order to bring the political decisions and actions close to the people and to empower them to contribute in an active way in designing and implementing the decisions taken for a better future. The lab is a connecting point between goverments, academia, business and civil society. Functions: space for accelerating public policies, support for political decisions, bringing the ideas from society to the govermental forums, creating capacity for strategic foresight, building capability for decision makers, exploiting the knowledge and the talent of quadruple helix actors

539 This unit could promote the establishing and participates in the study efforts of parliamentary committees for future like the Committee for the Future of the Finnish parliament. In the committees, both parties of the government and opposition are represented and that comments the futures oriented programs of the government and makes its own reports (compare European Parliamentary Technology Assessment EPTA unit)

540 There are so many excellent comments here on content and I agree with these. At the operational level, it is critical to encourage all countries to begin with these labs at the national level so there can be a multiplier effect based on seeing how one functions. In each country, they can decide how they wish their labs to function and what innovations they will embrace, yet many times good ideas at the international level get struck as everyone waits for others to implement. That is why some starter funding is essential along with a nice menu of ideas and dynamic NGOs to get started. We support the Teach the Future approach among others.

541 Las principales claves de éxito tienen que ver con la correcta implementación de las políticas públicas globales, así como el seguimiento y evaluación de las mismas. Exploración de tendencias sistemáticamente, para anticiparse a los riesgos, mitigando los efectos de eventos inciertos

542 The lab should act as a champion on foresight with a focus on: 1. Challenging existing assumptions and images of futures, 2. Increasing the capability to use foresight and futures knowledge, 3. Imagining alternative futures and 4. Connecting all of this to existing policymaking and changemaking, including the assessment of existing policies from a futures perspective.

543 The success of the lab will hinge on its ability to engage practitioners (in whatever field is relevant to topics addressed) pursuing preferred futures. Although disseminating foresight outcomes will be an important function of the lab, far more important will be to demonstrate in meaningful practical terms what this means for practitioners. For ex. descriptions of possible education futures can be interesting but are unlikely to have any significant impact unless they also demonstrate what teachers and administrators will be expected to do in the future being depicted in terms of, pedagogy, teaching strategies, communication with learners, etc.

544 We need some new strategies and new tools to forseight the future. we need more experts engage in these goals and a world class institute to make something happen.

545 The laboratory should be organically integrated with future summits and councils

546 La clave para que UN Lab sea efectivo es lograr que los países lo vean como un organismo de apoyo, inspiración y promoción. Las principales funciones serían: 1) Realizar estudios holísticos globales, 2) formar capacidades y crear herramientas que los gobiernos y organizaciones puedan utilizar para hacer sus propias investigaciones, 3)Convocar y coordinar reuniones globales para el debate de los futuros globales posibles, investigar y promover instancias de gobernanza global viables.

547 Futures lab should connect all the UN initiatives and invite partners to contribute their knowledge (for example partnership for digital anthropology). In addition to programs, ongoing access to communication platforms could be open to all interested individuals (for example Slack, newsletter, etc.). A community built around the lab would provide constant resources of knowledge and people. This would enable faster organization and alignment on issues as more engaged participants will easily cooperate. Last but not least, the results and best practices should be freely accessible to attract new members and encourage wide implementation.

548 Collaboration with already well-established global foresight organizations such as the WFSF, the MP, and the APF, as well as with entities working on foresight at national government and private sector levels should be beneficial for a UN Foresight Lab.

549 Futures lab should connect all the UN initiatives and invite partners to contribute their knowledge (for example partnership for digital anthropology). In addition to programs, ongoing access to communication platforms could be open to all interested individuals (for example Slack, newsletter, etc.). A community built around the lab would provide constant resources of knowledge and people. This would enable faster organization and alignment on issues as more engaged participants will easily cooperate. Last but not least, the results and best practices should be freely accessible to attract new members and encourage wide implementation.

550 This Lab should be a cornerstone. Also it should produce something businesswise.

551 The effect will rise the deeper the futures labs will be integrated in societies and the more citizens are able to be part of the futures´ development. In the tradition of Jürgen Habermas, there is a big need of public politic discussions to makre the concerns of citizens public. Future is a public good, thus it needs to include the public!

552 Getting quality leaders and communicators on board. All the functions described are important since not nearly enough attention is paid to them now.

553 Hacen posible el laboratorio, expertos y maestros conocedores de las diferentes escuelas de estudios de futuros y, expertos en la aplicaciòn de metodologías, técnicas y herramientas. Las funciones de un laboratorio se inscriben entre otras en: 1. Ser un medio fundamental para la innovación y adaptación a los cambios disruptivos del medio. 2. Generación de caminos útiles hacia la transformación empresarial y en acompañamiento a empresas/organizaciones/instituciones del ecosistema de ciencia y tecnologìa. 3. Propuestas de què hacer y còmo hacerlo, a travès de planes y programas que efectivicen el mayor y mejor aprehendimiento de los desafíos del tiempo presente y futuro. 4. Impulsar centros de futuros que no solo aborden la investigaciòn sino sumando emprendimientos acordes a las necesidades reales de los sectores socio-productivos globales, regionales y locales.

554 FUUTRES LAB should be a vivid and alive observatory, where organizations get together to work in Foresight Projects applying Futures Studies and Foresight Methodologies to imagine, create and build tangible outputs in the form of scenario Exhibits, design Future artifacts, webinars, trend monitoring dashboards, Foresight Training initiatives, World wide hackathons to involve young voices to participate using innovative technology like AI, VR/AR/MR to be immersive. A place we all can visit digitally or physically any time that shows the progress and monitoring of UNS Foresight initiatives.

555 - Lots of existing success and failures knowledge for Future Labs - study and design, but allow some flexibility at the agency or topic level (probably not a single format for all) - Needs to be a mandatory and unescapable activity and success factor for each agency and its head/under-secretary performance assessment. - Clear and mandatory reporting of the Future Labs activity, reports and recommendations (incl. divergent opinions and unique, serious point of views). - UN country level chapters to host their Future Labs too. - Strong communication plan, resources and plateforms, including archivals.

556 The collective participation of the most renowned academics and organizations that work on foresight or strategic planning for future global issues.

557 The lab should collect and catalogue all possible scenarios of important issues of concern such as climate change, threat of emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19, air pollution, ocean pollution and others. Use of AI and other relevant technologies is imperative.

558 Lab should address pressing issues but also those that are not addressed anywhere else. It should be participatory, and it should also function to offer a level of maturity on the issues to those involved and public/citizen participation also.

559 Discussions and talks are not sufficient. You need to engage in workshop mode. Futures lab is one option. Futures Clinique is another option. The main thing is that participants immerse in future images or scenarios in order to decide what kind of futures are desired. Futures Lab should be an open concept. Who will run it? Who will gather the data achieved? Who will analyse such insights and foresight? There are questions that have to be thought carefully in advance. Also, dissemination of results produced in a futures lab should be rapidly and widely disseminated. Futures Lab should be facilitated smoothly but rigorously.

560 A laboratory based on collective intelligence and collaboration could be very successful and effective, as a great neural network of theoretical and practical knowledge that serves public policies and the common good of humanity.

561 Make it the foresight brain of humanity with special attention new and innovative ideas and successful projects. it should identify future-critical issues, like how to govern the transition from artificial narrow intelligence to artificial general intelligence.

562 The problems addressed in this lab could be rated for significance to establish priority, including consideration of number of people likely to be affected, imminence (time available to invent a solution), public awareness of need to act, funding, significance of problems to be addressed, etc..

563 El primero es convocar (no seleccionar) a quienes de una forma u otra, a la fecha hayan hecho aportaciones concretas o sugerencias en la dirección de alternativas viables para un futuro adecuado a las condiciones y exigencias de la vida humana en concomitancia con el resto de los seres vivientes, el entorno y la naturaleza, sin la cual, está claro, no es posible la subsistencia de la vida como la conocemos, evitando profundizar las brechas económicas, ecológicas, históricas y sociales que conforman la comunidad de naciones.

564 Key functions of the lab should be a) to identify emerging issues that have the potential to become important risks and threats but are not (yet) worthy of a response (canary in the coal-mine) and b) to sustain a global conversation on the need to identify and track such issues and on their evolution.

565 Funding, funding, funding. A multi-year, if not decade-long, commitment to fund the Lab is essential.

566 A Futures Lab should promote Futures Literacy among citizens and the public at large.

567 Importante recopilar los estudios que han realizado los diferentes centros de pensamiento sobre estudios de futuro.

568 Lessons to learn from: 1. Governments should not redirect taxes towards big corporations for them to generate employment 2. The lack of resources in productive social organisations is a big limitation in their development 3. There are large gaps between the centres for science, technology and research and productive social organisations

569 The key to the success of the laboratory lies in the operating mechanism of the laboratory and the reform of the current decision-making mechanism of the United Nations

570 unite current future labs, in order not to form competition but synergy.

571 Our Common Agenda offers no details of how a Futures Laboratory might support states, subnational authorities, and others to build capacity and exchange good practices to enhance long-termism, forward action, and adaptability. It might be helpful to examine what directed the establishment of the International Space Station (e.g., principles, governance, processes) and how disagreements (if any) have been resolved in that challenging instance.

572 A global patterns of change - is an established future trend that is shaping the future strategic environment. Balancing the trade-off of global and regional patterns of change, that generally score higher in priority than global pattern of change by virtue of sheer proximity to countries is critical for adoption and engagement

573 the rich and poerful countries must be willing to be scrutinized and criticized. Same for every billionaire. Those who refuse should be globally listed and named.

574 The lab should have the best economic and human resources to implement activities.

575 The UN Future Lab can improve its success if they provide open calls to funding Futures Studies by other labs worldwide, increasing their capability and variety of Futures Researches.

576 How to make the private sector better participate in the construction of this laboratory is an important challenge.

577 Output of this unite most be professional output, foresight activity build on research not political views or thoughts.

578 The question of its financing remains to be defined even if the work of the laboratory can be done in part remotely. Face-to-face meetings will be necessary to create and maintain sustainable links between participants.

579 Gather the main futures thinkers and futurists from all continents in a Summit to present risk studies and facilitate sessions with UN officers: this would be the kick off action To promote the launch of the next State of the Future report in the UN General Assembly and facilitate workshops using SOF as a framing

580 Involve more important gruops like the World Economc Forum WEF as well as Financila Agencies like the the Back Rock

581 ***Reach out to nations to select people for the lab (could be a competition). Populate the lab with small diverse teams (age, gender, experience, region) and make the reporting back of insights to all the other teams accessible for the general public around the world. It can be organised in 3 or 4 different timezones at the same time. Relevant themes to proceed with, can be chosen by the audience. Next lab(s) will focus on those themes but there should also be room to add new ideas... (all the time since the world changes quickly)

582 For objectivity the Futures Lab should have the status of government agencies tasked with research and be an independent entity but the results would be connected to UN as a whole for usage.

583 The biggest lesson that can support this strategy is the success of the concept of the node. Let the lab follow the same route and ride on this tried and tested concept of horizontal and vertical networks. The last thing that must be avoided is that of centralising the lab in one country or region

584 La forma en que se organizaron los científicos y cuerpos médicos para interactuar entre sí y compartir información científica sobre la forma de atacar el coronavirus COVID-19 deja muchas lecciones acerca de como cooperar internacionalmente para resolver los problemas que trae el futuro.

585 Expert members of this Future Lab must be in permanent contact with common people, politicians and civil organisations, to combine the expertise with the people feelings and needs.

586 Test response 3 (amended)

587 Engage people and make them interested in the future.

588 Es necesario que desde la instancia principal en este caso la ONU, se plantee la necesidad de formar estos laboratorios en cada país. Es importante crear laboratorios pilotos y a partir de estos identificar cuales han sido las barreras de entrada para lograr el objetivo de estos?, cuales fueron los canales de comunicación mas efectivos? y, cuales fueron los elementos característicos de los grupos mas interesados en participar y con mayor tasa de rechazo a la propuesta. Con estas informaciones, podrán ser instalados los laboratorios faltantes con mayor efectividad.

589 Such a laboratory is just the hub that the United Nations lacks at present. It should be based on a collective intelligence system composed of new ideas, and a perfect mechanism should be established to further stimulate the enthusiasm of participants.

590 Es necesario generar un plan de acciones amplio, conjuntamente acordado entre los participantes, pero también enmarcado en la libertad de investigación y entrenamiento de cada organización miembro, los cuales podrían ser incorporados mediante sus acciones específicas y focos de acción sobre las temáticas prospectivas, para esto es necesario una planificación adecuada y la entrega de financiamiento efectivo para la labor continuada del organismo. Otra área de importancia es la interconexión entre los esfuerzos y la implementación de las labores del laboratorio en el resto de sistemas de Naciones Unidas, aplicándose como insumos útiles para la discusión en otras áreas, como el Fondo Fiduciario y el Summit.

591 It is important to have an educational campaign of how importanf is to be prepared for the future and to understand the idea of a Black Swan and how this kind of work is able to respond properly to situations like this.

592 Develop competencies and skills that allow evaluators to incorporate systems thinking, complexity, use of technology (AI, Big data, etc.), gender, equity, and sustainability in the evaluations of major policies. Also, connect evaluation studies with foresight and planning exercises. This capacity development process can be done with the participatory formulation of theories of change and the practical use of contemporary approaches. Some examples are: developmental evaluation, principles-focused evaluation, gender-responsive, culturally responsive, footprint evaluation and blue marble evaluation.

593 Lecciones: La soberanía nacional no debe ser un límite para el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos, por eso deben ampliarse las funciones y los alcances de las Naciones Unidas. Del arquetipo de los límites del crecimiento del Club de Roma se tuvieron muchas lecciones que no se tomaron en cuenta en las decisiones. Este laboratorio de futuros debe convertirse en un órgano que proponga políticas públicas óptimas y los países participantes se comprometan a cumplir.

594 Include the theme of culture and how it may evolve in future decades, e.g. in the context of climate change and resulting migration, urbanisation, longer life expectancy, artificial intelligence, globalism, periodically shifting values. At the moment, culture is ignored in foresight and cultural practitioners ignore foresight themselves - as culture is widely assumed to be timeless (wrongly as we see in hindsight).

595 A key focus of the lab could be to serve as a platform that allows stakeholders to try on various futures using simulations, games, virtual reality, etc. Such tools could be used as intelligence gather mechanisms to gauge and assess practical implications of multiple futures to be disseminated to stakeholders.

596 Funding is the most important things. and an ambitious goals may be helpful.

597 Develop a cooperation mechanism

598 Diseño de una estructura orgánica convocante del tipo sistema de sistemas autónomos, que coordine e inspire y se retroalimente, pero no que imponga.

599 How to make the private sector better participate in the construction of this laboratory is an important challenge. Output of this unite most be professional output, foresight activity build on research not political views or thoughts. to need the inestment continually and support from UNO and all governments worldwide.

600 Partnerships all around the world and open conferences for a larger interest may general some sort of success.

601 As with the first two questions, the difficulty will be finding enough quality leaders and communicators.

602 1. The LAB should analyse different forecasts all over the world 2. It has to provide permanent cooperation floor for differnet experts 3. It should publish some kind of methodological guidances 4. Its activity should be public

603 1. Find Funding and Investment committed by all countries part of UN. 2. Futures Lab locations in different world regions and countries. 3. Establish a board of government. 4. Hire Futurists and Foresight specialists form academic and enterprise fields to participate and lead the projects. 5. Hire experts in different sectors and and related to technology, economics, foresight and futures Thinking, sustainability, politics, environment, social and anthropology and ethnography. 6. Include Young voices in the LAB projects. 7. Work on Labs for different Futures of X and produce Futures exhibits with artifacts related

604 This instance should mantain a technical focus to ensure its success as a provider of reliable data and innovative insghts on topics that Member States are usually not looking into.

605 Global collection of high input data on critical issues followed by prioritization and framing of corrective measures are important.

606 As mentioned, very carefully framed issues that allow iteration. New discussions and methods to address issues will be the output of this maturity offering process

607 Media should be involved as well. In other words, a regular reporting on the results of the work done in a Futures Lab should be ensured.

608 That it is a great space of collective intelligence and there is a variety of approaches and at the same time they are in close ties with governments, companies, and the world of work and academia.

609 The strategic foresight reports must contain the agreements and disagreements between the parties involved .

610 This would be a good supplement to the World Economic Forum.

611 That is the strength of the United Nations. At the same time, only by providing more detailed and reliable data and cases can we better promote countries to take action.

612 This would help to learn about the importance of these reports and eventualy become more well known

613 El Informe de prospectiva y riesgo global cada 5 años será muy útil si responde a como se indica a los temas, políticas y metas del Laboratorio del Futuro planificado para que la temporalidad de largo plazo sea monitoreada y evaluada cada mediano plazo. El Fracaso relativo de las Metas del Milenio y de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, frente a los retos para la sobrevivencia de la humanidad post pandemia así lo obligan. Las amenazas se han intensificado, diversificado y ahondado. Este informe también debe ser enriquecido con el aporte de la sociedad civil en cada país miembro y no solamente de los gobiernos como hasta ahora. También las misiones de evaluación de los organismos multilaterales y especializadas de las Naciones Unidas deben ser transparentadas y difundidas obligatoriamente. Gran parte de la cooperación externa se ha perdido por la corrupción y la falta de rendición de cuentas a los involucrados. En cada país existirían Observatorios o varios según la temática. El conjunto del sistema, cada organismo multilateral debería consensuar metas y proyectos de inversión pública y privada de largo plazo guiados por la obtención de los bienes públicos mundiales, sobre la base del nuevo contrato social que revierta la tendencia a una distribución desigual de la riqueza y del poder, estableciendo una nueva división internacional del trabajo más equitativo entre el Norte y el Sur. Dada su trascendencia Naciones Unidas podría organizar, coordinar y promover los variados informes públicos y privados, como los de la Contraloría, así como los provenientes de los Observatorios del Futuro, las Universidades y ONGS especializadas de la sociedad civil.

614 Risks and crises should be an integral part of any foresight exercise. Actor perspectives should be taken into consideration. What is a risk or crisis for someone, may be an opportunity, or a source for success or revenue for someone else. Therefore, equality and ethical issues are important to study when addressing risks. The impacts of combined risks or crises is often unknown. More attention should be given to this kind of study. Crisis awareness should be part of futures awareness. Instead of trying to manage crises and risks, we should learn to live in crises and live with crises.

615 Yes reports are useful - but not under the current format of foresight reports. Risk reports are many, useful for the few. Reporting is essential, but they are not magic. Reports are used for provocation and to inform - but the context for the use of those reports must be considered. Reports alone are not the answer. Interactive, yes, World Economic Forum offers some great ways to inform widely - however they can be easily disregarded. We do not want a situation where scenarios are produced and then shelved. Re invent the report.

616 It would bring to government attention to threats that often are ignored with estimates of prevention and management - the cost of preventing or better managing the next pandemic with be far less that the costs when we don't. Bill Gates estimates it will cost $1 billion to address the pandemic comparted to the $15 trillion spent so fare on Covid.

617 La información oportuna y veraz es el pilar fundamental de sociedad de las comunicaciones, eso está claramente establecido y asumido, pero si no se lleva a la práctica no se obtiene nada positivo y menos guardando los informes o haciéndolos públicos con retraso o tardíamente. Es imprescindible ser efectivos en este punto porque que saber es parte ineludible del poder y sobre todo, del poder evitar mayores desastres por mal manejo u ocultamiento de los conocimientos adquiridos para ser puestos a disposición de todos los interesados.

618 There are a lot of strategic foresight and risk reports issued by international intergovernmental organizations (NATO, EU, OECD, etc), non-governmental organizations, think tanks, intelligence bodies, etc. According to my view, the UN Strategic Foresight and Global Risk Reports should provide a synthesis and a common denominator of all these reports.

619 As noted by other contributors, the World Economic Forum, many nation-states and others already issue such reports. The UN should definitely generate its own annual global risk report or at least publish one every two years. I did - in an earlier response - strongly urge that the global futures research unit the SG separately recommended be COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT OF and not affiliated with the UN at all. However, I do suggest that the work of that independent research unit will definitely become quite important in the UN's crafting of its own strategic foresight and global-risk reports (along with gaining inspiration from the WEF reports, and those made public by many other global strategy organizations). When all hands in an organization like the UN are expected to provide potential inputs for an annual report of this nature it helps them continuously remain aware of the importance of applying foresight methods and approaches in the everyday work they do.

620 Regular Strategic foresight should be made before the Summits on the Future and should guide the discussion. It also provides a permanent analysis performed by the UN Futures Lab.

621 World Economic Forum's global risk report became important during the pandemic since the past risk reports accurately predicted the pandemic multiple times. Its time to further the knowledge and importance of global risk and strategic foresight to individual governments.

622 Independent unit, internationally, supported by the UN is needed to enhance the debate of long terms risk, not like the Weforum, which it could work with but with more authority and taken into other than business related issues. It would strengthen the UN activities and give different subject more value.

623 To be widely distributed, this report would be declined in many formats : audio report, films, thematic podcasts, virtual reality experiences and adapted to all the audiences concerned from the youngest to the oldest, from the most trained to the less trained.

624 The no-return point requires risks mitigation and only futures research and strategic foresight can help the world with knowledge resources

625 Actionable and practical intelligence from these reports is Very Critical to stay ahead of threats and opportunities.

626 Threats to the future survival of human race are increasing in number and magnitude due to population explosion, inequitable distribution of wealth, poverty and poor governance in many poor countries of the world. New technologies and frontiers are emerging in robotics and artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, weapons of war and space exploration with little or no consideration for possible errors that could have negative global consequences in the use of emerging technologies. The Future Lab will provide a veritable platform where every voice can be heard and where every voice matters, and where decisions and proactive measures can be communicated to relevant bodies for action to guarantee the future survival of the human race regardless of differences in race, religion, sex or region.

627 If this background intitution of UN strategic foresight cannot work then the UN Summit On The Future stay only the place of a light chattering or the place where the strong global stakeholders can ability to enforce their interests concerning the world future.

628 This is very important. These reports awaken countries, corporates, and people to take action. Global risk reports help actors to plan risk mitigation ahead of time. However, there is a need for rigorous risk analysis and thorough strategic foresight to set correct precedence

629 Some countries will miss having their own future studies and foresight analysis, so spreading reports regularly helps keep all countries up to date.

630 A report every 5 years is not enough, because things are in constant change and emergin new challenges and opportunities. I propose every 2 years with and intermediate report every year. The report has to be like a compass more than a academic one.

631 Knowing the risks gives us the ability to avoid them

632 This kind of report is exactly the report that the United Nations should provide the world with more foresight, which is different from the similar reports of other agencies. With the help of the Futures Lab, the UN should be able to do better and better.

633 Immediate needs and short term decisions dominate personal and national thinking. A regular publication, its massive distribution for deliberations, from local to global spaces will increase a change of the mode in reasoning, observing and connecting different processes. A new culture requires a more dense network of debates and reports. Many messages should be directed mainly to students. Regular reports coming from the UN, that state different scenarios, could expand foresight capacity in each country and also could help create regional common work among different countries.

634 Not only need, but also need an index system.

635 La generación de un reporte público realizado por expertos ha demostrado ser una vital herramienta para poner a la palestra temáticas urgentes, que podrían no ser consideradas por Estados-miembro. Un ejemplo claro de un informe con poder de movilización y amplia difusión ha sido el informe de evaluación del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático, el cual ha podido convocar a la ciudadanía y otros agentes interesados a efectuar presiones necesarias sobre los Estados para poner en orden sus prioridades medioambientales. El reporte de riesgos globales podría servir un objetivo similar de convocatoria y difusión sobre las amenazas ignoradas por los miembros de la ONU, por lo que su desarrollo asesorado y amplia difusión son factores clave en su posible éxito.

636 It is important to identify or to create new measures of progress or decline in the major issues the regular summits and followup meetings identify as important and to provide real-time reports on progress. Virtually all industrial groups have such regular reports, monthly or daily.

637 Sirve para dar seguimiento a las metas globales y permite ver más claramente los cambios más dinámicos, además identificar los cuellos de botella y las mejoras necesarias para cumplir plenamente con los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible.

638 It helps to improve the consensus of global elites and national leaders on relevant future prospects; It is also a good measure to stimulate future thinking on a global scale

639 Para lograr coherencia en cada una de las propuestas que puedan surgir a partir de la construcción de futuros, es nacesario que se generen y se impartan las informaciones a cada uno de los actores involucrados en las acciones de mejoras. Esto permite ser transparentes y propiciar espacios de confianza colectiva en relación a los lineamientos para mejorar nuestros espacios comunes.

640 Time-sensitive information is needed to make the right decisions

641 Hay muchos temas que necesitan ser trabajados. Los reultados deben estar disponibles para toda la población mundial en un lenguaje claro. Debe hacerse un esfuerzo por ponder a disposición del ciudadano común este tipo de información.

642 In order to enable countries around the world and the United Nations to better predict and respond to future risks, use the network as the best thinkers and big data to present the external and within the United States a five-year study on strategic vision and global risks.The Regular Release of Strategic Forecasts and Global Risk Report should work closely with the planned United Nations Future Laboratory and existing mechanisms throughout the United Nations system and other countries, such as the IMF's annual early warning exercises, to collect and analyze short-and long-term data and risks. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????“???????????????”??????“????????”??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

643 We are going through a special moment in the history of humanity, having organizations that are concerned with forming holistic visions that are useful and inspire current countries and global organizations is key to building more responsible futures in a shared way with future generations. Based on the UNO organization can be our FUTURE LAB developted step by step succssfully.

644 This needs to happen ANNUALLY not every five years otherwise the general public will not be sufficiently involved.

645 es esencial y de hecho, los informes por ejemplo de Foro Econòmico Mundial son especìficos de la interconexión de què sucede alrededor y de las advertencias de hechos y sucesos que pueden potencialmente ocurrir con base en estudios previos.

646 I see this report very critical and should be publish every year. Global Risk Report from WEF is published every year too. THis way we make visible the continuous work and activities that it´s been done. Every 5 years si too long term. Foresight and Futures Thinking is a vivid and ongoing task, specially in the global scenario that we are all facing today.

647 These reports could serve as the starting point for taking informed and knowledge-based decisions rather than politically expedient measures.

648 A risk and prospective report are very important, but it should be every two years. not every 5 years...especially because the risks are less and less time.

649 On the same basis as the Futures Lab, the Strategic Foresight and Global Risk reports may be a simple and effective way to put forward to the public, not only Member States, certain subjects that may be underscored but are of importance to manage or even avoid global risks. The credibility is fundamental for it to play a critical role.

650 Permanent sharing of futures thinking reflections, experimental studies and learnings

651 If reports could change the world, it would probably be a very different place. People need to be put over paper.

652 Issue timely reports are more important than regular

653 we have enough reports... the problem is not the information it's the PERSUASION, The NARRATIVE not the facts

654 There is a dearth of reports. More of them will not necessarily lead to better insights - possibly more confusion. Unless the reports are used as an underpinning of more interactive activities.

655 A UN strategic foresight report has to be objective and neutral, showing potential future developments from many perspectives and to the interest of society and the planet as a whole. It should be free of political and special interests agenda.

656 Reports will be useful, but not sufficient as outputs of the creative process. Other ways to influence action could include - demonstration projects that could serve as models for emulation - training of experts who could start similar activities around the world - integrating outside participants, who could learn and take ideas for promulgation - creation of inventions that could impact key anticipated problem areas - etc.

657 The real independence of FL has to guarantee for having a reliable assessment

658 I have marked this as somewhat critical because I think there should be equal weight given to risks and opportunities. Foresight and futures studies have something of a reputation for doom and gloom scenarios and it gets to be tiresome. Opportunities can be as, if not more, motivating than foreseeable risks and may be more likely to foster positive long-term action than reactive mitigation (which tends to be prone to short-termism).

659 It is critical to build a network of thinkers and data externally as well. This should definitely support the Futures Lab as mentioned. However, long reports are read by a few. Therefore, shorter formats of the report would be very welcome.

660 The big issue here might be that what one institution sees as a threat, another might see as an opportunity.

661 Good idea but if they do not contain actionable items or recommendations, they will be nothing more than digital waste or dead trees. These should be based on solid science, allow for competing viewpoints, and not claim to be the only truth. Why not invite rebuttals to these reports - after all, we are talking about a future that hasn't happened. All sides should be presented and people should be allowed to make up their own minds. Governments, the expected audience should use these to inform plans. What better way to do that then provide multiple views of the future?

662 Prioritize global and regional patterns of change and wildcards to identify most relevant topics that will take place in the future. Decision-maker can define priorities to understand which research areas or public policies are required at government level to be enacted

663 Regular sharing of foresight activities and learnings from their application is very important in providing the transparency of them. It will also serve to bring to the attention of the public and governments to things that threaten the common good, like health, unregulated AI/AGI, climate change, asteroid collisions with Earth, WMDs in the hands of rogue governments or individuals, etc. Reporting balanced on issues and viewpoints encouraging feedback and data inputs will facilitate further discussion and contributions. Priority preventive actions should have a prominent place in this reports in order to make them easily practicable. Care should be taken to make the dissemination of the reports as broad globally, nationally and locally, so there will need to be communication strategies developed to ensure this happens at all levels of society down to marginalized. Audio and visual versions of the reports will be needed to achieve this. Agree this area should go beyond just reporting, and include such activities as: demonstration projects, trainings for extending or starting additional foresight and implementation activities. Does foresight automatically include action planning? If not, make action planning a required part of any foresight report.

664 the report should be ANNUAL or once in 2 years, not once in 5 years It should NAME and LIST countries and globally the biggest billionaires and should evaluate them on about a dozen selected criteria this should be widely shared in 25 to 30 global languages an through videos. Any citizen of the world should be able to access these reports and videos.

665 Este o estos informes que produciría la ONU con una visión prospectiva de los problemas estratégicos en el mundo podrían ser de gran utilidad dados los profundos problemas que se avecinan (o que ya estamos experimentando) pero como dicen otros participantes, si estos informes no se traducen en acciones concretas no habrá mayores resultados. Se necesita dar a conocer, entrenar personas que puedan instrumentar acciones concretas para hacer frente a los eventos adversos del futuro y para aprovechar las oportunidades que el futuro ofrece.

666 1. There are too many UN reports at this time - though they of course serve different purposes and they present opportunities to bring in new voices, they need to be consolidated. An integrated global risk-aware approach is needed. 2. Agree with the need to include methods forward, beyond just a report on existing threats. This may include activities such as projects, training, programs at secondary or tertiary educational institutions, etc. 3. Agree that a report once in 2 years is more meaningful given the pace of innovation and disruption.

667 Atravesamos un momento especial de la historia de la humanidad, contar con organismos que se preocupen con conformar visiones holísticas que sean útiles e inspiren a los países y los organismos globales actuales es clave para construir de forma compartida futuros más responsables con las generaciones futuras.

668 Compartir la previsión estratégica y riesgos globales colocaría a las Naciones Unidas en una posición de liderazgo. Sería un informe diferente al de los organismos financieros; por su periodicidad dejaría de ser un informe de coyuntura. Importante la inclusión de riesgos

669 A global risk report could help countries to find partners in the solution of common problems that could affect different parts of the world.

670 A UN Office for Existential threats should be established a part of the UN Global Pulse or as an independent unit within the Office of the Secretary-General.

671 Academic input is fundamental

672 Un organismo existente al cual se le asignara esta tarea, para no aumentar la burocracia y hacer realmente efectiva la difusión de los estudios y sus propuestas de solución de problemas o medidas que se deberían tomar, aplicar y controlar en todos los ámbitos involucrados o considerados para tales efectos.

673 The source of such reports are critical. The work must be of a high quality and recognised as compelling possibilities for world futures in any given topic. This would be highly dependent on the quality of the talent and ability to collaborate broadly. A critical talent criteria should be an established academic track record in futures research.

674 I do not think that reports should be frequent. Having said that, every 5 years feels a bit too far apart - maybe 4 would be better. Issue strategic foresight and reports are good for the recognition of the function BUT the value of the office is in sustaining the conversation on the future. Reporting and publishing should not undermine the networking function.

675 If the report is going to be effective, then it should be accompanied by a range of tools and processes that can be used by any and all UN staff.

676 Reports should be tailored to the intended audience.

677 It is important to bring together trade unions and civil organisations so they can both participate actively and contribute with their proposals to the reports

678 Broad exposure, with an emphasis on third world countries. Explanatory tools, for example representatives who will discuss the content and enter in dialog. scientific and easily understandable language.

679 Partnerships are of the essence. The World Economic Forum has produced global risk reports for close to 20 years and other institutions, such as the Millennium Project, have likewise produced state of the future reports. The United Nations should learn from the past, build on it, and look for synergies.

680 Like IPCC reports.

681 Regular sharing of foresight activities and learnings from their application is very important in providing the transparency of them. It will also serve to bring to the attention of the public and governments to things that threaten the common good, like health, unregulated AI/AGI, climate change, asteroid collisions with Earth, WMDs in the hands of rogue governments or individuals, etc. Reporting balanced on issues and viewpoints encouraging feedback and data inputs will facilitate further discussion and contributions. Priority preventive actions should have a prominent place in this reports in order to make them easily practicable. Care should be taken to make the dissemination of the reports as broad globally, nationally and locally, so there will need to be communication strategies developed to ensure this happens at all levels of society down to marginalized. Audio and visual versions of the reports will be needed to achieve this. Agree this area should go beyond just reporting, and include such activities as: demonstration projects, trainings for extending or starting additional foresight and implementation activities. Does foresight automatically include action planning? If not, make action planning a required part of any foresight report.

682 The UNSG office should commission this report to an independent external body, with a very strong futures studies track record, such as the Millennium Project.

683 The UN Futures Lab has the main role to perform the necessary analysis to develop a Global Risk Reports using strategic foresight techniques. I highlight the need for continuous analysis and engage in a broader academic discussion of the relevant subjects. The use of a global network of future labs is also an interesting approach to achieving these needs.

684 Participation is the key to successful reporting. High quality reports need the cooperation of the best professionals from all over the world.

685 Las estrategias deben tomar en cuenta a organizaciones de la sociedad civil de los diferentes países y no solo a los gobiernos Además estas organizaciones pueden ser las difusoras de los riesgos, retos y estrategias a seguir

686 Independent unit, internationally, supported by the UN is needed to enhance the debate of long terms risk, not like the Weforum, which it could work with but with more authority and taken into other than business related issues. It would strengthen the UN activities and give different subject more value.

687 The quality of the data and their triangulation is a key factor to success in the relevance of the report and an academic track record in futures research too.

688 We urgently need a politics for future generations. Present problems and solutions in a balanced report - The State of the FUture Report should be the main source Promote futures literacy in the UN systems

689 Existen informes que se producen regularmente sobre los temas -riesgos y oportunidades del futuro - por tanto la ONU tendría que basarse en estos trabajos existentes y construir sobre esa base y complementarlos, aprovechando sus vínculos con especialistas en todo el mundo. El informe debería contener sugerencias de políticas específicas a seguir (profundizando las ya existentes) para que el resultado de este esfuerzo no se quede sólo en papel.

690 ***Reports are important to keep people informed about latest insights. The reports could be done in a different way e.g. video, documentary, etc. People are more willing to watch than to read in general, especially with regards to these type of information

691 Futures Lab products would be useful and needed for these reports.

692 An independent organization for UN strategic foresight would be needed that could be work together with the UN Futures Lab. Main task of UN foresight organization would be to use results of UN Futures Lab for building or constructing world future scenarios. They should contain more possible future world alternatives with their risks and threats that are already present and that could be parts of our world futures. The process of scenario building could involve the different groups of stakeholders and experts who should work in cooperative form discussing every important future momentum.This collective scenario building can give a high quality basis for UN Summit on the Future. This organization could prepare world scenarios with their risks and threats as a working material or annual report for further discussion all over the world before UN Summit on the Future.

693 I suggest a special unit or a special UN organ on foresight. To make it successful, the UN must persuade governments (all) to create foresight units for leaders to take this issue seriously The reports must be on short term and long range foresight

694 Periodicity. No more than each 2 years, and with intermediate report. It is important that this instrument works for every gobernments and the whole system like a strategic compass.

695 Please tell me you're joking when proposing to only issue a report every five years! They need to be issued much more frequently. We are living in an age of rapidly accelerating change. Therefore the UN report on global risks needs to be rapidly and regularly updated. If you can't do that, then the management should all be sacked, and replaced by people who know about agile processes.

696 TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL AS A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER FORESIGHT BODY & UN FUTURES LAB, as monitors

697 Governments, Parliaments social organizations of each country could be requested to react to the UN report and define the national initiatives that are necessary to improve quality of life.

698 Es imperativo la generación de este informe siguiendo los principios de cooperación y apoyo entre las entidades parte del sistema de Naciones Unidas, así como de otras entidades afines como ONGs y el sector privado, que posibiliten un área de estudio amplio a las cuales efectuar el análisis de riegos próximos. Es necesario también hacer importante dentro del marco institucional de la ONU el desarrollo de estos informes como un punto de inicio a las discusiones sobre peligros existenciales venideros, y para entablar las hojas de ruta para el desarrollo de políticas globales.

699 It is important to have a transparent selection process and to have regular meetings of the people selected in order to exchange ideas and to create a bond between them. The Reports should be clearly written and have a modern design, should be accesible to the general public and very well promoted in social media and on TVs. The key is to have clear messages which might be understood by both decisions makers and the general public.

700 Absolutely agree with the others. Let us not duplicate but complement. Also, more use of video reporting as folks dont like to read anymore. Yet elders still do, so we must diversify the delivery of the info on global risks. Also, avoid fragmentation and focus on interactions among the global risks.

701 Estos informes pueden orientar las metas globales y las decisiones que se deben tomar en todos los países para garantizar el equilibrio ambiental, la paz y la salud en los países

702 These kinds of reports, especially coming from an established actor like UN, act as a way to frame discussions and actions about futures. In addition to the report, it is crucial to operationalise it and make its application as easy as possible. In practice this may mean providing trend/signal cards, workshop instructions and canvases and audio and video stories about futures to spark discussion.

703 An equal balance between risks and opportunities would likely make these reports more effective. The reports should be focused around notions of positive change more than mitigating disaster. Such reports will require high quality academic inputs, but would also benefit from practical insights as well (particularly for promoting positive opportunities). Thus, they would ideally be products of collaborative consultations involving multiple stakeholders and specialists. It might be wise to consider issuing reports on a 5-6 year basis with yearly amendments and special reports as needed (when significant developments rapidly emerge, ex. Covid, war in Ukraine). A longer time span between key issues would emphasise the foresightedness of the reports (how foresighted can they be if they need to be issued on a yearly basis?).

704 -In order to make the reports keep pace with the times, a United Nations Office of threats to life or the United Nations Research Center for Future Foresight should be established as a permanent body of the United Nations to improve the quality of these reports.

705 Deben generarse informes de manera sistemática. Los mismos deberán ser elaborados por diversos grupos de especialistas, pero con insumos de disntintos grupos de interés. Estos grupos de interes se escojen a partir de las problemáticas abordadas.

706 The report will alert people all over the world

707 The council regularly organizes and releases information

708 Access to the network of best thinkers should not be granted by invitation only. In addition to the long reports, iconographic and other shorter formats should be created, because they are able to reach wider audiences.

709 Foresight works with many alternative futures and scenarios. Issuing reports too often may generate some criticism. Better a larger report and many follow ups. Despite Academics may give a vision, I wouls concentrate more into fitting a professional perpective, like a policy document.

710 It is essential to get mainstream media (i.e. national newspapers, current affairs journals, international radio and television) far more interested than they are in such matters at present.

711 The report must have a fundamentally clear methodology. It must display the balance among radically different positions on evidentiary basis. It must include main spheres of global risks, provide information for limits of growth and show critical problems of current economical, social, ecological risks without any ideological prisms. It must include experts from different parts of the world and countries with different political systems and cultures.

712 Uniòn de fuerzas de Instituciones/organizaciones/empresas con potencial de producir estos reportes. la web del WWF es de mucha utilidad: https://intelligence.weforum.org/ Las características que hacen a estos informes efectivos, pasan por la credibilidad de resultados, la actualidad constante, la clasificación de temáticas, la inscripciòn de eventos que permitan conocer actividades sobre estudios de futuros.

713 El sistema de Naciones Unidas, incluyendo a la Secretaría, tienen una base de datos muy rica y confiable. Un ejemplo son los informes de avance de los ODM y los ODS Un informe de esa naturaleza requiere de un equipo importante para garantizar la calidad del contenido, con capacidad para sumar las informaciones, previsiones y análisis del conjunto del sistema y de otras fuentes especializadas del mundo académico (paz, conflicto, desastres naturales, pandemia, hambruna...)

714 - Needs to be different than other similar reports because of UN staff independent input/observations (lots of intelligence and internal expertise, ask them to contribute and communicate openly what is often kept as proprietary/secret UN risk information) - Published every three years (sections and scenarios are updated and others added) - Include a chapter on Actions taken since last report with examples of risk mitigation and management.

715 - Include a Global Risk REport section for each of the 12 commitments of the Common Agenda. - Futurists (academic and Corporate) from all Continents involved. - Experts in each of the 12 commitments involved. - Foresight REport tolls result likewise Probability Impact Matrix evolution year after year. - Risk Report for each H1,H2 and H3 timeframes. - Scenarios Risk reports related to different world views. - List of actions done with success and results. -List of plans to mitigate risks in each 12 domains. - List of actions not succeeded.

716 High quality and reliable data need to be collected from all possible sources while drafting the reports. Such data could be academic, administrative, economic, social, political, and from all other relevant areas.

717 That it be shorter in time, that one part is focused on a multifactorial analysis and another part with more vertical (specific) areas, and that each report has the flexibility to collect contributions in real-time due to unforeseen incidents (wars, pandemics)

718 Credibility is one of the main factors that will make this reports effective. The gathering of the biggest experts on certain topics, raising awareness on them as means to better manage or avoid global risks may compell decision-makers into designing smart public policies.

719 Since the rate of change is accelerating, this should be once every two years not every five years.

720 I agree: a single report every five years makes little sense. A more agile and dynamic model that provides continuous updates is not only feasible but also the most impactful given ongoing changes and those anticipated to come.

721 Step 1: Create a campaign of sensitisation and encouragement between the most salient trade unions and civil organisations> Step 2: Define the priority subjects for the reports with the participation of trade unions and civil organisations Step 3: Agree on collective actions with other social actors and stakeholders to minimise risks

722 inquire best means for distribution and create channels to receive feedback from a broad public.

723 The COVID-19 pandemic, for one (but also the recent Ukraine crisis), have underscored the extent and intensification of globalization and the speed at which changes in one part of the world can affect others. There is a strong case to present a Strategic Foresight and Global Risk Report to Member States of the United Nations every two to three years, not every five years. Indeed, there is no reason why real-time assessments might not be possible.

724 A taxonomy with within the global radar categories that are most shaping future strategic environment. This will allow to create models for impact analysis based on the societal context at a regional, county and global level.

725 Given the speed with which change is occurring in the world as well as the urgency for getting actions going sooner rather than later, five years is to slow for these reports to be coming out, unless there are yearly addendums in between. Again, the broadest multi-media distribution publicly and through official channels. Can we make these reports required reading for all representatives to and all staff of the UN and its agencies as well as national and state governments? And make it as accessible to all publics even to marginalized ones through multi-media versions thereof in all local languages combined with easy feedback or questioning responses that is incorporated in subsequent reports.

726 The report should be disseminated through a very strong marketing campaign worldwide.

727 The completion of high-quality reports requires the establishment of a high-quality research network. The integration of existing United Nations research networks is very important. At the same time, attention should also be paid to the compatibility between the United Nations Research Network and national research institutions.

728 It might develop future foresight index on different risk factors which is published every year, debated in the research community and in the political arena.

729 A report updated in real time would be very effective and established the culture of continuous improvement of foresight thinking, still too little implemented in practice.

730 To promote the launch of the next State of the Future report in the UN General Assembly and facilitate workshops using the next SOF report as a framing

731 Just beocm experts in Comuncation andspread this onreguar media all the time

732 ***Think that we have to move to another level of reporting. Maybe reports as a back up, but more in expressing insights through videos, art, movie, documentaries (even that is possible if it is under the umbrella of the UN)

733 The necessary steps could be: 1. Selecting major issues to report on for example issues of climate change that affect the entire globe. 2. Decide on the reporting channels 3. Decide the frequency of reporting 4. Capacitate actions on the risks reported on and set channels foe effective feedback

734 Spread it to the public opinion and make public opinion worldwide aware of it. Always highlight what has changed from the previous one and why - it will show what is persistent. Consider doing it every 2-3 years, not 5

735 1. Continuous involvement of civil society - a risk-aware society 2. Manage communications regarding global risks with care 3. Provide solutions and not just risks

737 Commitment to transparency and disclosure

738 Test response 4 (amended)

739 INTEGRATE EXPERTS BY EXPERIENCE who have found high(est)-impact and executable solutions in the midst of complex environments. True Polymath skills required.

740 In order to make the Report more systematic, authoritative and sustainable, it is necessary to establish a special department to coordinate the project, and a tool should be developed to facilitate more people to participate in it and contribute their ideas.

741 Si bien el informe está pensado para hacerse cada 5 años, es importante considerad el espacio de tiempo para el cambio de las situaciones internacionales y para el surgimiento de nuevas amenazas, que como se ha comprobado con la pandemia de COVID-19 puede ser extremadamente rápido, quizás sería buena idea incorporar la posibilidad de realización de insumos al reporte más amplio de un modo más continuo, enmarcado en la institucionalidad de prospectiva a desarrollarse en la ONU para mantener un control y conocimiento de la situación útil para el desarrollo de planes de intervención.

742 The reports should be clear and avaiable online. Some events should be organized around them to promote the messages.

743 Lecciones: reconstruir fenómenos de alto impacto, como guerras, pandemias, desastres naturales, identificando los elementos comunes por tipo de evento, para aprender a anticiparlos o mejoras las respuestas ante situaciones similares.

744 Reports should be issued every 5-6 years with yearly amendments and special issues as needed. Focus should be on preferred futures and risks presented as threats to them, thus an equal balance between opportunities and risks. It is questionable whether reports of this nature should include possible actions. The purpose of these reports should be to shed light on possible developments and too much focus on actions can detract from the important messages by suggesting that there may be simple solutions to challenges that may still be ill defined.

745 -In addition to the above-mentioned internal agencies of the United Nations, several representative regional or international cooperative future research institutions (in terms of funds and policies) should be supported, and they should be required to provide and regularly provide the strategic vision and global risk report as an annex and supplement to the United Nations Report.

746 La sistematización de los informes es importante para dar seguimientos a los que se producen en los diversos escenarios construidos. Se debe reproducir la información, junto a la concientización de la población, de tal forma que puedan involucrase en las propuestas de mejoras que de estos informes se generen para soluciones globales de impacto regional y local.

747 Multiple sources of information, real data, and timely release

748 It needs to have a thicking the box feature. This is what was said, this is what was done. We were right or wrong, or partially right or wrong. This convinces hearts and minds and also keep tracks of experts.

749 UNO is one of the best Network in the world and can support through the Future LAB to advice : 1. Continuous involvement of civil society - a risk-aware society 2. Manage communications regarding global risks with care 3. Provide solutions and not just risks We need this strategic foresight and globasl risk reports based on this regular basis.

750 Better links with journalists and media people to get wider coverage.

751 Integración de un equipo de trabajo de alto nivel que defina áreas de trabajo, temáticas, articulación con fuentes de información y análisis....comunicación y difusión. Aún tratándose de un informe de NU, en la medida en que incorpore socios académicos, e insumos y análisis de funcionarios a lo largo del Sistema, tendrá mayores posibilidades de ser adoptado/recibido como un informe también global, basado en la mejor evidencia disponible Es indispensable el trabajo de difusión para que los informes lleguen al publico y, sobre todo, lleguen a ser base de debates y de toma de decisiones. Es decir, que el documento no sea únicamente informativo, sino insumo para una decisión sobre acción a seguir

752 - Needs a global (not too geenral) version AND regional versions, with adaptated and unique contents including some country level specifics

753 This report should be published each year. Dashboards, monitoring quantitative and qualitative data and insights related to risks and opportunities related to each of 12 commitments. Dynamic content like Strategic Intelligence circles of systems that interrelate the 12 domains with each other. Publish VUCA thresholds that indicated extreme risks, medium, low... Probability Impact Metrics that identify Trends prioritization based on risks levels. Alternative scenarios monitoring.

754 The report should be published every two years. International coordination among data collection agencies and individuals is required.

755 A concrete project should be set up to study how cities can be made resilient against crises.

756 A new format, continous tag team type of work, a constant, highly useful and used, open, democratic, inspiring and educating. It should look long term, but generate action today. They maybe speculative even.

757 Issue the reports in a simple and clear language, and make them action-oriented. Needless to say that they should be highly accessible to the public, and translated at least in the official UN languages.

758 There are different aspects of education to take into account - education as currently practiced - the transmission of knowledge and also education for an unknowable future, which would aim increase resilience, creativity and capability. In addition to conventional educational institutions, there needs to be encouragement of alternative fringe provision.

759 the future is certainly related to the youth and young generations

760 We should have special envoy for future generation. Young generations are hope and future of mankind. The Future research and education should take the lead in guiding young people to pay extensive attention to and participate in it? As young people will take over and continue the unfinished cause of our generation like sustainable development and climate action beyond 2030.

761 El futuro de la generaciones futuras lo diseñamos las generaciones actuales, por eso es clave darle voz ahora a los que vivirán en ese futuro. Ese delegado sería lo más justo y responsable para el proceso de construcción de futuros

762 Además de Nuestra Agenda Común, tenemos la Agenda Futura con el protagonismo de los jóvenes, que tendrían una gestión semejante al de las Naciones Unidas. Dada la necesidad de gestar un nuevo orden planetario con retos de cambio estructural profundo en la sostenibilidad social, económica y ambiental de la humanidad, los jóvenes son los más indicados para ser los actores clave. Es insuficiente pensar en un enviado especial de las Naciones Unidas a los países miembros dada la envergadura de construir un futuro en su favor. Antes bien Naciones Unidas deben incorporar embajadores jóvenes de cada país, elegidos por voto democrático con la finalidad que integren los Laboratorios del Futuro aportando a definir las políticas, metas y proyectos con el apoyo de las entidades multilaterales especializadas de las Naciones Unidas. De esta manera su acción tendría el poder requerido y de manera más continua que una visita limitada a lo protocolar. Esta representación podría a su vez recibir el apoyo del Consejo de Administración Fiduciaria que posibilite el monitoreo y la implementación de los objetivos acordados en los Laboratorios del Futuro con su presencia.

763 Education needs to have a bigger focus and more importance in the future. Governments need to invest more. Youth shall in every case be represented and involved! Gender balance!

764 Enshrine this position and ensure that there is participation in all key activities.

765 Many valuable programmes on youth such as Global Dignity and Global Shapers, Young Global Leaders and many other youth initiatives need a voice to promote at the global level. A special envoy can disseminate the value in one voice to all schools and education institutes around the world. It is essential to inculcate programmes such as global dignity to school curriculum for social harmony.

766 The youth generations are the main actors who are to shape the world fututue. To develop their future orientation is crusial task of older genetrations.

767 As a force of reflection, proposals and actions, the youth should be integrated into the process of UN Summit on the Future. A special envoy for future generations is necessary to make a lasting commitment,as actors of their future and seize it.

768 Moving toward adcanced Changing Educational approaches focusing Evolutinary Conciousnes ( Bill Halal and Ervin Laszlo)

769 Of all, this is probably the most critical. Not only education needs more focus, but FUTURE thinking in curricula. I'm mentoring many young students (age: 12-17). It is incredible how they think about the future once they get the chance to share their thinking. These voices need to be heard, all the time, to inspire all generations

770 No serious program if the youth are not part of it. The future is for the youth and the coming generations

771 If we understand sustainability as using resources that does not compromise the needs of future generations, a special envoy and an active advocate is needed

772 Intergenerational responsability is crucial, so, this special envoy has to be support with the participation of students and young NGOs

773 Why talk about the future if we do not care about the participation of future generations in its manufacture?

774 Only a person! It is ineffective and useless. He/She will be only a testimonial

775 the main playground for changing conciouness is youth, schools, universities, where new leadership should be prepared to think long term. Political support to such changes, formation of teachers, programs , audio, visual, written material will gain support from families that invest in protecting their children and grandchildren. New programs should be proposed by a special envoy. One initiative could be to replicate the idea of special envoys in each country, or agencies in charge of the rights of new generations.

776 The creation of the post of Special Envoy for Future Generations can significantly help to link the work of scientists on global risks with real-world policy to address these risks. Currently, the main risks are well known, but the nations of the world do not rush to do something about it because it requires large-scale initiatives which are impossible without changing the paradigm of people's thinking around the world. In order to attract people's attention, we need a widely recognizable person who, through her/his position, actions and youth, will strengthen the principle of intergenerational equality in the people's minds. This principle actually means that people have to sacrifice their well-being for the benefit of future generations. So far, few are willing to make sacrifices, and this is the main problem that should be addressed.

777 Research shows that representatives (proxies) of future generations can sharpen decision-makers’ sensitivity to presentism, i.e. making decisions while assuming that the status quo is timeless and all futures will resemble the present. They can also support long-term thinking in decision-making. See e.g. Kamijo, Y., Komiya, A., Mifune, N., & Saijo, T. (2017). Negotiating with the future: Incorporating imaginary future generations into negotiations. Sustainability Science, 12(3), 409–420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-016-0419-8 Otten, M. (2018). Strong external representation of future generations: Legitimate and effective (Unpublished Masters Thesis.) Department of Philosophy, University of Leiden. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/65949.

778 To put it quite simply and bluntly, the future belongs more to the youth of today than us old farts, right?

779 Envoys can reflect the superiority of sustainable development

780 We talk of the good old days when we had good education, good moral upbringing, strong family ties and support, job opportunities and good health care among others. The decline in these opportunities and values for the youths and future generations has reduced access to good education for children in many families due to poverty and hunger, decline in job opportunities leading to increase in crime rates, recruitment of vulnerable youths into extremists religious and political fundamentalist ideologies and increasing consumption of narcotic drugs. These increasing challenges facing our youths and future generations have been exacerbated by poor governance especially in low income countries of the world leading to mass migrations to countries with strong economies. Many of such youths are exposed to various forms of suffering, abuses and dehumanization in the struggle for greener pastures. The special envoy for the future will have to a lot of work to do by developing indices for measuring opportunities for children/youths in various countries in order to identify policies and programs that each country will have to adopt to guarantee the right environment for proper development of present and future youth generations. Identify the challenges of youths in various countries by interacting with them and hearing their complaints. Models of countries with best practices could be studied and also demonstrated in other countries. Without good government and good homes that can make sacrifices that can provide good opportunities for children now and in the future, the future will remain bleak for the youths. So the youth envoy will not only focus on the youths but on good governance and good and stable family supports for our children and future generations. There is need to make access to quality and liberal education cheaper and better using the internet and innovations in telecommunications.

781 It makes sense to create a special envoy representing future generations to be responsible for representing the interests of those expected to be born in the coming century.The Special Envoy can also support the multilateral system on long-term thinking and vision, including through the future laboratories mentioned above.One of the envoy's priorities is to explore with the Member States the use of the Trusteeship Council to give a voice for future generations. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

782 Future Generations have no voice of their own. This has been missing from mainstream policy-making for hundreds of years. The time for listening to the unheard voices of the not-yet born has now come. Do we want to make the yet-unborn generations victims of selfish or bad decision-making, just as we are making the youngest children already born today? Who can speak for these people? Surely not the same people too deeply committed to preserving their present-day lifestyle. A Special Envoy can be very effective is his/her voice is respected and clearly heard. and - as indicated by others - it requires a well-staffed, well-funded office to really get things done.

783 there's a sort of rejection from older generation in power positions to incorporate young people in the decission making process, this special envoy could act as an example for older generations that young people can be just as much of an asset as a old man with several years of experience.

784 Futures Literacy should be included in all stages of Education in an individuals life. Educational systems and plans worldwide should renew their offerings to include a subject of Futures Studies, as well as there is History, or Natch, or Technology. The Envoy should act as the Pope,take an activist role to influence and make impact in all generations and world regions.

785 This is super important, the issue of future generations is quite remarkable as it is inclusive and can be addressed from all angles. This discussion however needs leadership and to be embodied, in this way actual person(s) represent future generations today. The idea also is that we all eventually take account of future generations. But formalising it in a governance setting is currently legally required. our study identified this issue as key, with the Wales case being most often cited. However what do you define as future generations, people today, next year, 100 years? Animals, plants? Land?

786 It is very important that representatives of the new generations are present in this type of initiative. Many experts say that in order to have a vision of the future, it is necessary to observe how children think and act with their environment.

787 I fear this position will not understand the needs of future generations and will not represent them effectively. This could set the cause of foresight back and discourage the younger generation from engaging with the UN. How will all interests be represented? I fear this is a position fraught with implicit bias and will fail spectacularly. As noble and altruistic as this sounds, this will harm the cause and be yet another funded bureaucrat with no real bias for action or change. Seriously, tell me who fills this position?

788 No me parece sea una solución hacerlo, sobre todo si se toma en consideración lo expuesto en la interrogante previa, de hecho, podría entorpecer o demorar medidas que se deban aplicar con premura.

789 Should be part of normal activities

790 A special envoy is not critical for foresight, but is a very interesting suggestion that could serve as an alternative appproach to the other sugested approaches. A special envoy for future generation would however have a huge signal value. Signaling that long terms thinking inter-generational solidarity is taken serious.

791 This role should be represented as part of the collective intelligence formed in the different instruments (future lab, the council)

792 As with many of the queries put to us about the SGs proposals, something along these lines might possibly be at least somewhat effective, but it depends upon the person, how that person is heard, what that person is tasked to accomplish and the circumstances that evolve from all of that. It seems most likely, however, to simply become a PR job - along the lines of having Audrey Hepburn or Angelina Jolie travel the world for UNICEF and gain a few headlines and maybe a television special now and then. PR is all well and good, but it seems highly unlikely that this position would be one that has enough influence or that any one person appointed to it would be able to handle the overwhelming burden of having to represent future generations in literally every aspect of the highly complicated and complex challenges we are facing today.

793 Any Individuals and new authoritative positions will not work!! It has to be a massive communication exercise to reach out to global citizens, especially with examples of who is and which country is doing good work and which country is not.

794 The Special Envoy for Future Generations has a complementary role in this process. I understand this position as an important mediatic appealing than as a futures research stakeholder.

795 It is a common challenge for all countries to focus on how to educate the next generation (morally, intellectually and physically well-developed?and concerned about the future) --- future education in the Internet era.

796 The youth generations are the main actors who are to shape the world fututue. the youth generaations is the hope of the human earth.let the youth generation to join on this action.

797 It is hard to see the critical role that a special envoy for future generations may play that couldn't be played by all the UN system as a structural mission or other actor within its framework. This does not mean that the engagement of young generations is needed to better plan for future challenges.

798 This could be a unique way to stimulate futures thinking in all UN programs.

799 This will be a hard role to effectively implement, but it coould make a useful contribution to the overall process without significant downside. Give it a try.

800 Gender balanced youth perspective is crucial to representative foresight. But this isn't a post, its requires a well staffed entire office(!) because, as stated, it needs to be in every element of foresight and across all agencies and institutions and organizations as well as in the public sphere as well. So, unless it is given the necessary support to effectively serve its principle functions, it will be an ineffective symbol rather than anything functional.

801 All countries in the world recognize the importance of the issue of future generations. Sometimes when facing the challenges of future education and health, this problem will become more prominent. But at the same time, in the short-term situation is not optimistic, this issue is also easy to be shelved or ignored.

802 This activity helps to build a world citizenry engaged in the Future via children education and outreach.

803 The effectiveness highly depends on the individual and his personal efforts. If he/she is seen as too academic or too distant from younger generations it will be a useless position. Its main role is gathering popular support for future-oriented policies and draw interest from younger generations into such topics and studies.

804 The young generation is the protagonist of the future world. Their cognition is crucial to the future of mankind and the world.

805 Si bien los liderazgos personales solo pueden llegar a cierto nivel de influencia y congruencia de intereses, la labor personalista de un enviado especial facilitará el proceso de creación de una institucionalidad de prospectiva en las Naciones Unidas, al dotar de dirección particular durante su mandato hacia ciertas cuestiones que el enviado considere más urgente. Aun así, debe tenerse cuidado que el cargo no termine vacío de significado como un ente consejero simplemente, y a la vez que no presente un obstáculo para el cambio de prioridades que podrían encontrarse en el resto de instituciones comentadas, como el fondo fiduciario o el laboratorio de futuros, en cambio, el enviado debería trabajar como un ente cohesionador e integrador de estos diferentes procesos.

806 Un sólo enviado parece un recurso escaso ante un elemento tan complejo, sería más factible un equipo técnico para atender el tema.

807 Mas que un enviado especial, debe pensarse en un la urgente formación de una generación capaz de construir futuros a partir de las ubicaciones geograficas que posean. Esto propiciará una diversidad de pensamientos que a su vez, se haran convergentes en los insumos para la creación de informes para el futuro de las naciones atendiendo a las complejidades de cada pais.

808 The mindset and thinking of younger generations bring a fresh perspective and help to disregard the current state of affairs that are changeable. Their participation will have a greater impact, if they will have a seat in all discussions and not only participate in events for youth. Raising awareness of such possibilities in the educational system will increase understanding of the value the UN brings to the world and ease the adoption of proposals in case of global challenges, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

809 This is effectively subsumed in the main exercise being undertaken here. By thinking about the long-term future, you are by definition thinking about future generations. Also, I'm not convinced that today's young people are very different from preceding generations. Demonstrating against climate change is all very easy and all very well, but it doesn't solve the problem.

810 Special envoys could achieve higher sensitization about the issues.

811 The person chosen should be recognizable and respected by young people

812 Representing the voice of future generations effectively and enabling such a voice, is critical. It should not be tokenistic and should have high quality information, resources and research at hand. Finding the governance mechanisms for a voice of the youth has been an ongoing challenge for many global entities. It is often met with cynicism or not taken seriously.

813 The speacil envoy could coordinate UN actions with the rest of the stakeholders.

814 Foresights activities, research needs to be more appreciated in public and privet arena, among educators and decision markers. We need to promote the field among young people, activist and other stakeholders.

815 Representative democracy systematically ignores the interests of future people. New generations will lead the world we are leaving miserably to them, so they need to be included and taught. Futures literacy should be included in all elementary and high schools.

816 Futures thinking needs to be part of the global education in critical thinking. How to read a map. How to read a chart. How to visualize data. How to make such information useful on a personal basis.

817 It´s highly important to conduct such a proceedsure, but a well preapred methodology is the base of quality and that´s the need to have a sustainable success. I see experts from the fields of foresight/futures studies, psychoanalysis, psychology socials science and design as also art in the forefront of developing appropiate methodologies and approaches. To develop a future it would be paradox not to think inside the box of future generations.

818 The Envoy should be able to challenge all UN agencies to take several future generations into account for all their programs.

819 The special envoy could broaden programs of UN internship which would bring promising young people to the UN and involve them in some of these future oriented programs.

820 The Envoy should be a big media personality, maybe from Africa or India? Or different people for different continents?

821 connect this initiative with futures lab, which can be developed in the school

822 Reitero mi postura de que no sería necesario dadas las razones esgrimidas precedentemente y porque las generaciones futuras, aparte de heredar un incierto futuro, tendrán expectativas diferentes de la visión que se les podría dar desde la situación actual y es mejor entregarles proyectos y no decisiones tomadas sin considerar su propio punto de vista.

823 Agreed that a formal role rather than theatrical participation is essential.

824 There should not be one, but multiple voices from children and young people regarding their worldview and futures-envisioning.

825 A special envoy could push for the use of different discount rates to be used when dealing with issues of great importance to future generations.

826 engage younger generations themselves of all countries. Also children with a lesser educational background, in order to feel heard and useful.

827 A Special Envoy for Future Generations would need to represent the interests of today's youth, not just those of succeeding generations. Today's youth will only have children if they are confident the future holds promise. Taking today's youth out of the equation would be a mistake and actually enshrine yesterday's mindsets into policy making and associated research. Only today's youth can make the work of the Special Envoy for Future Generations successful.

828 This should not be post. It is necessary to have an entire office staffed regionally and across all UN and multilateral institutions with well qualified and continually well informed diverse ethnically, gender, age, regionally and sectorally group of persons with sufficient resources to actually do the job or providing an informed voice for future generations.

829 Ideally, the Special Envoy should be a young person of public esteem, e.g. a famous activist, youth politician or cultural icon.

830 The special envoy should be a well recognized person in the field of futures studies and leadership (former DR President Leonel Fernandez, EU Foresight VP Maros Sefcovic, etc.).

831 The Special Envoy position is useful to engage the public opinion on relevant matters of Futures Research and to generate pressure on world leaders.

832 El incorporar a la juventud permitiría conocer cuáles son sus expectativas y propuestas ante la incertidumbre que las políticas nacionales e internacionales les están heredando. Las decisiones tomadas por personas mayores no necesariamente contemplan la sustentabilidad y sostenibilidad de un proyecto si no se hace na transferencia de hacia las generaciones jóvenes

833 I think that involvement of youth generation to the the shaping the future of world is very crucial issue in the work of UB Future lab and UN Strategic Foresight organizations. Young people like to use social media therefore its use could be the main mean toinvolve them. Young peolpe can drawn, design, paint their future imagines and othe older young generation can tell or write stories on the future as the think about it. The tenagers can involve the process of scenario building as the representatives of a special stakeholder group. It would be desirable to involve the reprezentative of youth generation from all over the world into the work of UN Summit On The Future. I hope this UN action will call the contries attention to develop future orientation of youth generation during their education and to involve them to decision making in topics that have impacts on their everyday life and their heritage of different kinds.

834 Education among young people, programs on how to see futures and different forces have a different in the long run. On all level of education.

835 The Envoy should be carried and relayed by a group of young people per country.

836 Children making questions to adults (those who make decisions) in a series of interviews promoted by a method like Appreciative Inquiry started in Chicago. Imagine the Future WOrld would be the campaign. Children should be trained to be the interviewers. THis should result in a global campaign having the SDGs as the framework. See Imagine Chicago here https://www.imaginechicago.org/

837 ***Identify organizations, schools, etc. who are already doing this and bring them together. Let them help to draft programs for all schools and with the help of the UN and Unesco, maybe these programs will land in schools. The developers of these programs could become the (virtual) teachers of this programs to not bother the sitting staff.

838 The youth oriented futures organisations such at the teach the future movement. These must certainly be part of the envoy

839 Envoy should be highly charismatic to draw interest from younger generations (so one of them is preferred). And it should not be patronized

840 in-depth and rigorous education; And cultivate the culture of the future

841 Freedom to provide both sollicited and unsollicited advice. Freedom to work with artists to help envision futures or help quetion them. Freedom to work with adolescents to help them voice their needs and shape their world. The envoy should not just be one person but maybe a person for each continent.Working together as a team and gathering/ voicing/ visualising information from their continents.

842 To create groups in every community with the task to address the learning and educational processes towards the scope

843 Focus on where the highest impact can be made at the lowest costs and risks at the system level!!!

844 Most young people are alarmed by climate changes and other challenges that they will face in their future, but they feel alone and do not know how to act in order to achieve changes. Such feeling of impotence creates anguish. Many think that they need to be organized beyond social networks. New strategies and programs that give young men and women specific ideas and instruments to act is essential. This should be a priority for a special envoy. Adults appear incapable to react rapidly.

845 Es importante que el enviado no solo represente un sentido común de las generaciones venideras, sino que aproveche los pilares de desarrollo que llaman a una mayor participación de los jóvenes en el desarrollo de políticas globales en el marco de la ONU, por medio de su patrocinio a un relevo generacional de mediano y largo plazo para la integración de mentes jóvenes en los sistemas e instituciones de la ONU en todo el mundo. La labor de este enviado estará supeditada necesariamente al grado de confianza y convocatoria que este tenga con los Estados miembro y con la sociedad civil global, por lo que sus mecanismos de influencia tienen que ser amplios y holísticos, con tal de ejercer presión real y útil para los fines que estimen los órganos prospectivos de Naciones Unidas.

846 There is a risk in having only one person as a special envoy. Maybe we can have a group of persons, mainly from the educational sector. This special envoy could be an influencer or could the form of Bureau/Office in each countries working to collect ideas directly from kids.

847 All good responses, yet why just one Special Envoy. Let us have a team of them and share the burden and the glory! Many colors, cultures, ages and ethnicities! Reaching the world in all the different ways that make us all so different, yet bringing us together for a diversified and united future. Many would be able to do this just for the honor & without payment. Let us get away from the fat UN salaries. Thanks for this, Jerry & team. It was fun and our congratulations on your headway with the UN. We are using Our Common Agenda in our virtual course in Spanish. Will send more info on this when we finish at the end of July. You can check it out here: https://fev-edu.wixsite.com/pce4

848 As already mentioned, the Special Envoy should be a media figure, a well-known celebrity. However, this should be a person from the first world, because it is the rich nations that are the main target audiences of the Special Envoy’s activities. These nations have to demonstrate the leadership in willingness to make real sacrifices for the benefit of future generations. Otherwise, things will not move from the deadlock. Provided that the Special Envoy is a person from developing countries then rich societies will perceive all this as just another problem of the third world which is not of much interest.

849 La clave del éxito está en la implementación de la prospectiva en las instituciones de cada país, asociadas a las nuevas generaciones

850 Having a singular actor representing plural voices is problematic both symbolically and practically. The perspectives (in plural) of future generations should of course be taken into account in all futures work. In addition, the voices of other species and ecosystems should be heard. Focus only on next generations is narrow.

851 This is the way forward, to actually pressure the governments across the world to take the long-term view of whatever they are doing. In this space and time, we desperately need this position. What can the Special Envoy do? If it is just another advisory position with no real veto rights or power in common decision-making, then BAU will still continue without taking the future generations into account. There has to be a careful balance there. Currently, the wellbeing and future of our children and the future generations is often used as a tool in political campaigning but when its time to make the real decisions, e.g. when the choice is between improving the lives of the children/future generations and improving the conditions of the adults or the elderly, the latter win, big time. Short-term political decision-making needs a good shake.

852 The Special Envoy needs to work closely with the Council to focus on human development

853 Create a Faculty in the earlier proposed future foresight University for Future Studies and research on youth development. The Faculty will work directly with the UN Office for the Youth Envoy.

854 Intergenerational discussions should become a common practice. Youth should not be given a parallel platform but have several seats when deliberating on any issue affecting them. They could also suggest formats of communication that are more suitable for the dissemination of ideas among their peers.

855 We got history and we got foresight. As everybody knows a bit of history, everybody should know a bit of foresight as well, as general knowledge. UN legislation is soft anyway, so it can start making more appropriate fute proof recomandations.

856 There is no need to build a separate system for young people alone! Young people were involved from the start.

857 participants will need to really discuss/interact by delving into a person living in this future. This needs to be enabled/facilitated.

858 It seems that mostly people are not so altruistic and problem solving should be established on specific detected challenges

859 Es importante contar con una imagen que mantenga viva la presencia de quienes heredaran el mundo que dejamos. Por eso considero crítica la figura del Enviado Especial para las Generaciones Futuras. De algún modo, le correspondería ser la voz que reclame y recuerde decisiones que deterioren el medio ambiente en el que van a vivir. El informe del SG dice que representaría los intereses de las personas que van a nacer el siglo que viene ¿no es muy tarde ya, cuando tendríamos que pensar en los que van a nacer después de 2050, año para el que se dispone ya de mediciones en el clima y en los recursos naturales? No está clara su función. ¿estudiar qué uso podría darse al Consejo dec Administración Fiduciaria para que representase a las generaciones venideras? En otra parte el informe sugiere como opción para ese Consejo, darle las funciones de seguimiento a la gobernabilidad de los bienes comunes globales. Es válido sugerir opciones, pero ésta parece sin fundamento De hecho, su primera tarea tendría que ser entablar un dialogo con los jóvenes de hoy. Ellos están más cerca de una generación por venir

860 - There could be several Envoys - Incl. UN SG when he/she is retiring - Incl. former big time achievers in specific domains such as education, health, nutrition, environment, well being, etc. - Serious and inspiring people with serious activity plan and performance assessment (not an honorary function to reward or park friends and politicians) - Responsible to communicate to children the need to think and act long-term, to become aware of future trends and potential world of tomorrow, to be positive and engaged about it. - Maximum five year term.

861 The envoys should be well-informed with enough awareness of global perspectives and priorities, and compulsions of certain nations while advancing their campaigns.

862 The Envoy should be a real activist with the purpose of acting and making impact to build a better Future World. Gather young voices all around the world. Promote Futures Literacy and Foresight action plans and projects. Represent the Summit of the Future plans along to supporting the mission of the Council. Be the vivid representative of these overall initiatives.

863 It cannot do all aspects, so it will have to pick a very particular role, with the hope that other aspects will also benefit. Youth today maybe an easy entry point, however it becomes more difficult when we consider preservation of life as we know it today with current growth models. The envoy may very well have their own agenda, and this might be a good compromise. Do celebs make good envoys? Or Politicians? You might consider an AI a good option (infallible?), but maybe it could be a lake? or a sacred animal? a metaphor for us all? - We must choose, democratically perhaps?

864 To have a presence in all instances of dialogue and meetings of the organization.

865 Not only youth but experienced futurists should be involved.

866 La mejor estrategia sería la de ir involucrando a las generaciones futuras en los laboratorios mencionados anteriormente y que en conjunto puedan aprovechar las experiencias y a la vez aportar con sus perspectivas sobre lo que deberán afrontar en, por y para sus propias vidas y las de sus semejantes contemporáneos.

867 There is quite a bit of ongoing work on Intergenerational Fairness and Justice, which is to say that this position should draw on ongoing research and practice. Furthermore, there should be metrics and measures for intergenerational fairness and justice for all UN activities, which can be ascribed by the Special Envoy.

868 To select young people school officials or other forms of representatives to take part in the foresight activities and exercises.

869 exchange of experience of different generations. Openness to listen and learn.

870 The Office of the Special Envoy for Future Generations could serve as an umbrella to the great many youth organizations that are found across the world. Needless to say, the Special Envoy would also need to work in tandem with the Futures Lab.

871 I think that ambassadors programme with VIPs and popular people, think actors, like in other UN initiatives would be better.

872 Tapping into existing youth organizations and utilizing current annual youth UN competitions to both promote foresight that more completely represents future generations because of their broader reach could be more effective than an Envoy for Future Generations. However, clearly something is needed within the UN world to wave the flag for thinking in terms of future generations. Roman Krznaric's book The Good Ancestor has some good ideas for Radical Prescriptions for Long-Term Thinking that provides other approaches to this strategy at all levels from personal to institutional to global.

873 The Envoy should also have a strong team to support his/her international work.

874 The use of young and famous voices is fundamental to achieving a global audience and changing the public opinion.

875 Education among young people, programs on how to see futures and different forces have a different in the long run. On all level of education.

876 The youth thinking should open the fields of possibilities for new representations of the world to be offered to all our leaders.

877 Decision makers being interviewed by children in a global forum Youths taking the lead in public sphere, political and cultural initiatives based on politics for future generations: Here are some examples of future generations leading projects (taken from an interview with the philisopher Roman Krznaric who has written the book Are you a good ancestor?. FINLAND “Finland, for instance, has a parliamentary Committee for the Future that scrutinises legislation for its impact on future generations. Between 2001 and 2006 Israel had an Ombudsman for Future Generations, although the position was abolished as it was deemed to have too much power to delay legislation.” WALES “Perhaps the best-known contemporary example is in Wales, which established a Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe, as part of the 2015 Well-being for Future Generations Act. The role of the commissioner is to ensure that public bodies in Wales working in areas ranging from environmental protection to employment schemes, make policy decisions looking at least 30 years into the future.” UK “There are now growing calls for a similar Future Generations Act to cover the whole UK. It’s an idea that may gain traction with a new All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations, formed in 2018 with support from Martin Rees, who sits in the House of Lords and clearly still has some faith in the democratic process.” CANADA “The veteran Canadian ecological campaigner David Suzuki wants to replace the country’s elected politicians with a randomly selected citizens’ assembly, which would contain everyday Canadians with no party affiliation who would each spend six years in office. “In his view, such an assembly, resembling a form of political jury service, would deal more effectively with long-term issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss, and solve the problem of politicians obsessed with the next election.” JAPAN “A new movement in Japan called Future Design is attempting to answer this very question. Led by economist Tatsuyoshi Saijo of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, the movement has been conducting citizen assemblies in municipalities across the country.

878 ***Using pop stars, athletes, artists, etc., of course from ALL continents, as patrons for this. They are able to reach massive amount of people.

879 Put a significant youth quota system on the envoy eg 50% quota system to guarantee youth representation. This would ensure a health blend of youth and experienced futurists.

880 Keep the envoy in touch with young futurists - a key issue will be linking the drive from young people with appropriate tools, because this will turn aspirations into real policies.

881 Modification of curricula and the commitment of countries to approve them

882 Test response 5 (amended)

883 El enviado debería ser un experto con una tendencia a aunar los esfuerzos intergeneracionales y multidisciplinarios para el desarrollo de la labor prospectiva de Naciones Unidas, esto podría realzarse con la incorporación de embajadores de buena voluntad y de partnerships específicos que potencien el proceso de publicación de las problemáticas venideras, no solo para la población joven, sino también para la población más adulta y que cuente con posiciones de poder e influencia política, para instarlos a considerar nuevas fuentes de inspiración en la solución de estas temáticas.

884 I think there are to many bodies and actions which may overlap ( the envoy, the council, the summit). All these should be a liasiom between the general public and the decisiom makers.

885 It is necessary to create a whole structure which could include, for example, representatives of the Special Envoy in regions of the world. They should encourage the creation of similar structures representing the interests of future generations at the national and subnational levels. The main goal is to convey simple and clear ideas that taking into account the interests of future generations in carrying out any activity is an integral part of the generally accepted principles of justice and responsibility.

886 Que haya un nodo de prospectiva estratégica para cada país miembro de la ONU

887 encouraging academic educational and professional university degrees (diplomas)

888 Entender el futuro como una construcción de la colectividad de las naciones, requiere de poder entender y atender a cada una de los grupos interes a partir de sus realidades como paises. Sus grupos etarios tiene igual importancia porque cada uno de ellos posee una experiencia y una visión que enriquece las propuestas de construcción del futuro que deseamos.

889 Council should provide envoys with global population development data to help envoys formulate effective policies

890 The Envoy and the University Faculty must developed a logical framework that can be used in each country. identify youth problems in each country. Identify objectives and goals. Ensure that government agencies implement the objectives and goals and ensure that the performance in each country is evaluated from time to time. Each country should provide funds or counterpart funding for the projects identification and implementation.

891 A special envoy may be laught at at first sight, yet, playing this right, has a reason behind it.

892 Different regions, different cultures, different social systems are obstacles to reaching a unified consensus. Use the future laboratory to let the younger generation communicate more at all times, and let the whole society participate in the theme of human survival.

893 Special Envoy : Likely no one person embodies the interests of the next generation, and those of the member states. The envoy could be a collective instead of one person or office. Comprising likely a world music group, stand up comics, foresight researchers, artists etc who can better listen and express. Even kindergarten students. In considering what value /qualities / competencies / role these persons would need, the concept of Person of tomorrow [Carl Rogers] may come in handy. The development of this role (collective) can also based on direct recommendations among global voices of the youth. In terms of Involvement and participation the envoy/advocate role can have a constructive voice in Summits, UN Organs, Early Adopter Member States. Particularly if this younger voice (voices) is complemented by seniors - who have credibility on the lines of the Elders, whose voices resonate across cultures and boundaries. These can be expressions of solidarity and a bridge between generations which can endorse the envoys and open doors

894 Que el SG tenga en cuenta la imagen de su Enviado Especial. Una persona relativamente joven, con experiencia en educación, en proyectos de desarrollo con jóvenes. Se trata de una figura que recuerda el compromiso de la humanidad con las siguientes generaciones. Una persona, posiblemente mujer, que tenga disponibilidad para, primero vincularse y escuchar a los jóvenes de hoy, y luego, recordar el mensaje a las autoridades actuales

895 Envoys should comprise youth, experienced futurists, natural and social scientists and thinkers.

896 That the representative of future generations feel integrated into the groups of experts in prospective and future, the essence of innovation and collaboration is to bring together different mentalities and that improves and feeds the understanding of the present and the study of future scenarios.

897 Lack of clarity or transparency on how the Envoy will be assigned. Questions on the representativity of such person. It is also worrying that the special focus on future generations, which is good on itself, may lead to an exclusion of the elderly, as they are also usually one of the most vulnerable sectors of societies, and the ones that have most accumulated experience that may be as important as innovative thinking in order to tackle global challenges.

898 - Work with Foresight orgs dedicated to Youth like Teach the Future that operate worldwide and provide Foresight trainings and Futures Thinking trainings to teachers, parents and students. - Organize and Promote Futures Projects challenges as hackathons, contests to connect, engage and motivate young people to get involved in Futures Studies. - Work locally with Ministries of Education to influence and promote the inclusion of Futures Literacy to be part of official educational plans in every country.

899 Futures Literacy Labs as a crosscutting approach to critical problem solving as a inter and transdisciplinary learning strategy

900 State of the Future Index as an alternative to GDP Create a UN Office of Existential Threats to feed into the UNSG's periodic reports on global threats. It would continually document what we know about threats to the future of humanity and what research is needed to address what we don't know but should know.

901 Establish standards for modelling and scearios so that work done by different institutions can be integrated and compared. The UN should periodically define a new set of variables consistent with new global goals (similar to the SDG 17) and routinely declure which old goals have been achieved. Could there be an office of existential opportunities to balance the study of existential threats?

902 Incorporate private sector initiatives, and other major philantrophies, for example, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is much more important, and contributes more human and financial resources than most countries to build a better world.

903 Establecer canales de comunicación y difusión a través de todas aquellas instituciones académicas, organizaciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, centros de estudios, grupos de interés transversales de NU, mediante los cuales se pueda interactuar trans e interdisciplinariamente en pro de la búsqueda de un mayor acercamiento entre las estructuras de poder y las comunidades en general, de manera tal que el conocimiento logrado mediante la investigación y el desarrollo de las ciencias y las nuevas tecnologías, puedan ser aplicadas sin continuar dañando la biósfera por seguir tratando de imponer una tecnósfera que simplemente termine por hacer sucumbir a la Humanidad.

904 I think the UN should sponsor a global process to establish a simple vision for a mature sustainable world. It should be widely participated in by all sectors and all media, and guided by responsible leaders to form a few widely shared principles for a global consciousness. See www.BeyondKnowledge.org

905 Futures catalogues with clear crteria and long-term action plans for every country will enable monitoring. Yearly impact assessments and ranking lists shall ensure transparency! Joint working groups shall enhance actions and improve ranking of low performimg countries!

906 Regional Bureaus for Futures and Foresight that sit within hubs, so there is less of a broadcasted from NY feel to this initiative. Furthermore, the media budget should be sizable and include a range of engagements.

907 To promote Futures Literacy through all its available to it.

908 Crear oficinas regionales, para estudios de futuros. Ejemplo en LATAM, Africa, Oceania, America, Europa, Asia. Énfasis en el impacto de prospectiva tecnológica.

909 The UN could incentivise and encourage the use of arts and community arts among all sectors of society, so different voices can be represented through different media. Similarly, the UN could encourage initiatives at different levels (local, national, global), that aim to facilitate dialogue and encourage global learning, particularly south to south to decolonise institutional interventions.

910 The UN should be protagonistic in having countries set up their futures hubs to, inter alia, craft scenarios that are of domestic relevance but take the global existential scenarios as reference.

911 Crear oficinas regionales, para estudios de futuros. Ejemplo en LATAM, Africa, Oceania, America, Europa, Asia.

912 In the case of COVID a global technocracy would have been very helpful. Preliminary discussions on privacy of data sharing should be held in order to being able to overrule national decision making for the sake of the wellbeing of humanity. Global threats need global governance by integer (scientific) experts.

913 State of the Future Indexes, to be discussed at regular forums, ought to be instituted. Concomitantly, there is a dire need to further build futures literacy to empower the imagination and enhance our ability to prepare, recover, and invent as changes occur.

914 The UN Secretariat should take steps to ensure that future thinking and future literacy is taught in school from early years, thus ensuring that future voters and politicians are aware of the challenges and opportunitues that the future may offer, without resorting to business as usual agendas.

915 ONLY TWO things are needed. 1. HOLD the RICH and POWERFUL governments accountable with very clear parameters. Also hold rich billionaires accountable

916 A roadmap to prepare the post 2030 Agenda new global UN strategy with a clear futures approach (not like the 2015 MDG or the 2030 SDG).

917 The UN Futures Lab should form a network with other future labs, universities, think tanks, and private companies to unleash new future perspectives. Also, we should have aspirational agendas for each decade until 2100, keeping track of the actions needed and delays in achieving the results.

918 State of the future report and index by Millennium project to be discussed at regular forums.

919 It is important to increase the visibility of the UN, the success stories, and how it has contributed to peace and development. There has to be a more efficient manner to communicate with the normal people because it seems for many of them just another bureaucracy taking money from the governments without important results.

920 Facing the challenges and risks in the future, the United Nations should, on the one hand, play its role by optimizing the composition of existing institutions and enhancing its response capacity. On the other hand, the United Nations should take the initiative to fully communicate with various social organizations, especially with the help of professional organizations for future research, to jointly carry out research and action.

921 Es importante que quienes integran las diferentes oficinas de la ONU conozcan las características de los diferentes países y puedan instrumentar acciones de transversalidad entre ellas para contar con una visión integral

922 We need a Ministry for the Future, as outlined by KSR -- a body with real strength and power. We also need to start making PROFESSIONAL films and videos that can go viral and drive future-readiness. Think The Social Dilemma but with a positive ambition, with pro-topia not more doom-banging.

923 The unite needs to be represented in each country, as a note or some other form. The purpose would be to collect data but mostly be promoters of the challenge ahead, arrange a debate on different issue, together with privet and other public initiatives.

924 The UN Futures Lab should form a network with other future Labs and universities to promote anticipation and actions and enhance creativity in the prospective approach.

925 Computer Suported Collaborative Educational Strategies around the world, like the ICL in Brazil may really help : www.icl.cm.br

926 Fellowship programmes for PhD students.

927 Realizar cursos on line E presenciais para as escolas informando sobre ações e os avanços que são obtidos para a melhoria das condições da humanidade. Esta ação tornaria a divulgação e o comprometimento com o tema mais eficaz.

928 Criar sistemas de criações de cenários atraves de bigdata e análise de tendencias com uso do blockchain. Uso da tecnologia facilita e acelera a criação de cenários com previbilidade de centenas de anos e milhares de possibilidades e suas respectivas variações. Ainda esses recursos não estão sendo utilizados de forma apropriada, visto as incertezas e falta de qualquer identificação de presivibilidade nesta pandemia mundial.

929 -Enlist involvement of every trading/regional bloc -Allocate financial resources to push the future agenda. Resources can be managed through Non-Governmental Organisations -Push for mainstreaming of futures in global education. As it stands there are very few institutions offering it hence a large proportion of the world population does not recognise it -Make use of the global mass media and information technology companies to promote this agenda

930 To establish a sort of Foresight Maturity Index that would compare/rank various governments based on their futures-preparedness, effective foresight activities, futures-oriented policy, special dedicated ministries (ministry of the future? ministry for future generations?), etc.

931 1) agree with earlier comments on existential risk analysis. Mapping of risk landscapes is vital, though since member governments themselves are sources of rather serious risks, ways of avoiding political entanglement must be established. However, maybe the focus should be on Preparedness. In the COVID pandemic, this has been found to be highly inadequate in many countries who believed that they had effectively outlined preparedness issues: much had not been implemented. 2) agree with earlier comments on futures literacy. In the past UNIDO undertook training sessions in foresight for mainly government agencies, such initiatives are valuable and could extend to many other stakeholders. One thing that might be tried, additionally, is something like the fact-checking services provided by Snopes and similar bodies. I envisage a site which allows for critical examination of forecasts and foresight activities, pointing to strengths as well as weaknesses of published and publicly discussed work. 3) agree with and here I am elaborating on comments concerning need to support (development of) online multi-participant platforms for dissemination, discussion, gaming (scenario-based role playing), and more extensive discursive approaches on the lines of citizen juries, consensus conferences, etc. Need to apply methods to reduce subversion by trolls, bots and deliberately disruptive actors. 4) EC in FORSOCIETY, and now OECD do a reasonable job of linking governmental foresight agencies/activities. There are also some professional associations in the area like WFSF, networks like Millennium Project, and private initiatives like SOIF. But we lack platforms for practitioners to exchange, evaluate, compare and contrast relevant methods, models, messages and results. When this happens it is unsystematic with a lot of noise, typically. A few academic journals are active, but tend to produce work aimed at other academics. UN could play vital roles here. 5) Enhancing diversity in a field of work dominated by the usual suspects.

932 Promote Future Studies worldwide, so their use become better known and, therefore, relied on. I also agree with the formation of a Office of Existential Threats that continuously monitors the evolution of similiar issues

933 The SG could support an online real-time collective intelligence network similar to the Millennium Project network

934 Foresight needs to involve ideas of *desirable* futures as well as ideas of *credible* futures. Therefore, more work should be undertaken in support of building consensus about the kinds of society where human flourishing would be significantly increased. Specifically, I recommend a global project to revise the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the form initially approved by the UNGA in 1948, to take account of the opportunities and threats from new technologies, including what are known as “transhuman rights”. Another general comment about the Common Agenda report: it's got too much motherhood and apple pie in it. To capture attention (rather than putting readers to sleep) it should highlight much more clearly what is truly distinctive about the proposals contained. Other things I recommend (all of which came to my mind as I read the Common Agenda report): The UN should be encouraging a harder, more serious fight against the agents that are compounding the infodemic of false news. These malevolent agents should face strong penalties. There’s a great deal of practical good sense in proposals made by UK’s ex-PM Gordon Brown in his recent book “Seven Ways to Change the World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face”. He should be involved in this project. The UN should champion the use of rank choice vote systems in elections, rather than the First Past the Post systems that give rise to hostile partisan politics. The UN should also champion best practices in conducting citizens’ assemblies. The UN should champion the availability of free online first-class educational material for everyone, on the skills and principles that matter most – as per “The Vital Syllabus” project, https://londonfuturists.com/education/vital-syllabus/. To increase trustworthiness, the UN should remove from any influence over human rights matters representatives from countries that are flagrant abusers of human rights. Currently the situation is often absurd. Who in their right minds would trust such an organisation?

935 Science and ethics are two important pillars in creating the future. With the obligation to prioritize ethics over science

936 Help to make dealing with a VUCA world and foresight a mandatory subject in education on all levels so the future generations will start more prepared.

937 I suggest to extend profile of UN Futures Lab to give attention to create and/or disseminate online interactive futures studies or foresight methods and models. These tools as an internet games could contribute everyday peope to recognize world problems, possible world futures, future risks and threats that could await the earth planet and their homes.

938 to establish yearly budget not less of one/tenth of total UN budget for the strategy. The 80% of this budget chapter will be made available to local communities to counterbalance unsustainable government policies

939 A strategy to encourage, support and amplify non- thinking and reframing. Encourage groups to self-organise around future-thinking. Get facilitators around the world to train people in convening and managing the interactions of self-organised groups to think about how to thrive in times of multiple catastrophes and unpredictable changes. Devolve strategic future thinking to the lowest possible level - people need to be having these conversations in cafes and pubs. The aim needs to be to change how people think - how they frame challenges and what they regard as normal. We need everyone to have had the exercise of thinking about what life is about, as if they were no longer involved.

940 Invest resources in arts & culturally diverse projects to encourage futures thinking

941 Involve chuches, mosques, sinagogues, temples, religious organizations.

942 Establish a future forecast index system, similar to the intellectual property index system.

943 Delphi – Online Expert Surveys – by Artificial Intelligence, …

944 La resiliencia futura ante amenazas debería tener algún mecanismo de cuantificación, útil para establecer prioridades y hojas de ruta con mejoras específicas, que puedan dirigir mejor los recursos y esfuerzos de los Estados miembros a mejorar sus posibilidades de hacer frente a amenazas venideras. Por ejemplo, con un índice especial de resiliencia o de nivel de preparación ante eventualidades. Esto no debería estar en contra de la búsqueda de soluciones consensuadas y cooperativas para con los Estados más desaventajados en ciertas áreas.

945 I think the idea of Future Lab is nice and could be replicated in each country. It will be nice to have a Future Lab / Policy Lab around the schools/universities teaching govermental studies in order to collect various ideas and to stimulate people to involve in shaping their future.

946 Each country should have Ministries for Foresight guided by the UN Secretariat.

947 Understanding the neuroscience bases and cultural constraints to learning to think in the future so that our work as educators is easier. After 22 years of foresight teaching to cross-cultural groups, I have identified these 2 areas as limiting our knowledge on how we teach the future. Surely, there are others, yet both the differences in how the brain/mind operates and how we view & navigate our world make if imperative, in my opinion, that we give these two areas more attention. We need to move forward, faster in this area of learning/teaching to think in the future and not just rely on an elite group of futurists like those of us completing this lovely form!

948 Es necesario que todos los organismos de la ONU (FAO, Cepal, PNUD, etc) participen en la construcción de escenarios para los temas más importantes de la agenda global y que esos escenarios se consideren en los planes naciones de todos los países miembros. Que se construyan bases de datos sobre indicadores globales de cumplimiento de los objetivos de futuro.

949 Introduce Futures as a school subject

950 The main challenge is taking transformation seriously. Currently there is a lot of discussion on how things need to change, with an implicit assumptions that through these changes we can keep on continuing with business as usual. In other words, the discourse on transformation has been hijacked to promote status quo. The sooner we realise and accept that a more profound way in how we live, govern, work etc. is needed, the better. This of course challenges also the role of global institutions and the nation state structure they are based on. What this means in practice? Challenging current structures and ways of thinking, imagining radically different futures and operational models and experimenting and adapting.

951 find some networking and cooperative links with similar organizations dealing with the futures like Davos Forum and others

952 An important matter to consider in all of this is the tendency for the future to be pushed aside when matters that are perceived to be more urgent arise. For any endeavour, like what is being proposed here, to be successful, the future needs to be problematised and prioritised. It needs to be demonstrated that long-term future-oriented strategies are a viable, and even better, means of addressing immediate challenges than short-term ones are. I think one of the ways to overcome this is to avoid always framing futures in terms of risks. Risks suggest teleological approaches that purport to reduce the complexity of the future to simple problems to be solved definitively. This feeds the tendency toward short-termism. Framing futures in terms of opportunities gives more of a sense of ongoing projects in which a variety of challenges are addressed as a means to move toward a shared goal. This type of strategy will be needed to sustain global foresight.

953 Inciar ha crear conciencia de la importancia de que cada pais construya el futuro que desea alcanzar. Que estos sean los que guien las propuestas de políticas y programas públicos. Para esto, se debe comenzar desde ahora, con las generaciones mas jóvenes para que puedan recrear visiones cada vez mas divergentes en las posibilidades de mejoras de las problemáticas existentes y futuras. No obstante, esto deberá ir de la mano con una interaccion generacional continua, para que la objetividad que provee la experiencia permee, sin socavar, la relevancia de los desafíos y retos generacionales que se presenten ante los contínuos cambios que se dan en los escenarios globales que inciden en los escenarios regionales y locales.

954 Estoy de acuerdo que el documento Estado del Futuro del Millenium sería excelente opción para hacer del futuro una comunidad global.

955 The United Nations should pay more attention to the development of developing countries and third world countries, and promote the improvement of the global comprehensive level in the future.

956 Globalization of Future Foresight thinking, research and projects should be a priority in tackling threats to our future survival. The budget will be huge for the UN without making governments to take active part in funding in policy and programs formulation and implementation and without the use of innovative interactive platforms in which all stakeholders : UN, governments, private sector, universities and NGOs, youths etc. can actively participate at all times. The proposed Future Foresight University can develop and host interactive platforms such as the metaverse that enables active participation in real time by all stakeholders on various thematic areas for discussions, policy and programs implementations and evaluations across regions.

957 Row 6 of 6 WHAT OTHER STRATEGIES ARE IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER? What else could the UN Secretariat do to improve global foresight, to inform international decision-making, and to help enhance the future conditions for ??????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???? 1. Do a solid job in institutional form construction:2. Actively establish close contact mechanisms with national governments and relevant professional institutions to provide the ability to transform research results; 3. Strengthen the information communication between internal institutions, various departments and professional institutions of various countries, to effectively improve the research level. 1????????????2????????????????????????????????????3????????????????????????????????????

958 For the sake of the future of humanity and the future of the world, apart from the “Future Lab” or “UN Office on Strategic Threats” under the United Nations, a Global Future Research Organization independent of the United Nations should be established (World Future Alliance? ) , its backbone members should not only by senior futurist scholars and the famous future innovators and entrepreneurs, but also Representatives from different regions (Africa, Europe, Asia, America) were also recruited. They will be engaged throughout the years in the investigation and forward-looking study of the future of humanity, the future of the world - the creation of a better future civilization and the various risks facing it, including war and permanent peace, and their representatives should be invited to participate in every United Nations General Assembly.

959 Generar mecanismos sostenible para mejorar la gobernanza y prospectiva global

960 It is crucial to focus on diversity and inclusiveness, interdisciplinary approach as well as local implementation. Complex issues can be addressed only in collaboration with various stakeholders, especially those not commonly included in strategic foresight discussions. Their opinions and suggestions can also be gathered in a form of research. In this case, the qualitative approach will provide more insights as a survey. Working simultaneously top-down and bottom-up could accelerate the implementation, which is crucial for any visible results locally.

961 The UN should have an online platform that identifies the most important global trends with their potential developments, trajectories, and the actions addressing them, as well as a feedback possibility for the public to contribute ideas to specific trends or help identify new ones.

962 Naciones Unidas plantea 12 Compromisos en la Agenda Común que por su trascendencia para la humanidad deben concretarse en cada país, en las regiones y subregiones de la manera siguiente: a) Legitimar y empoderar la institucionalización de la planificación prospectiva porque en América Latina, con el Consenso de Washington desde los 90 hasta hoy, ha perdido su rol rector en la priorización presupuestal reduciéndose a la presentación de narrativas discordantes entre los países, y a nivel nacional a propuestas de corto plazo cambiantes y sin respaldo económico. b) Establecer escenarios preferidos con métricas de la situación de partida de cada uno de los países respecto de los bienes mundiales clave y propuestas de metas de largo plazo, evaluables cada 5 años. c) Imitar las lecciones aprendidas de los Bancos de Proyectos de los Sistemas Nacionales de Inversión Pública que posibilitaron el desarrollo de la economía de mercado y la disminución de la pobreza. En la actualidad se gestionaría a nivel internacional las fases de este sistema: Subsistema de capacitación en prospectiva y en la formulación y evaluación de los proyectos tipo de largo plazo; Subsistema Banco de Proyectos con acompañamiento y aprobación de cada ciclo de vida de los proyectos desde el nivel de idea hasta los estudios definitivos. Subsistema de Priorización y Financiamiento estatal, público privado y privado; Subsistema de monitoreo y Subsistema de Evaluación Ex Post. Se apreciará que así, se evitará gran parte de la corrupción prevaleciente que ha limitado la construcción de futuros deseables como por ejemplo la logística necesaria para la integración interna y regional. d) Promover el establecimiento de Observatorios de Prospectiva independientes en los campos prioritarios de los bienes mundiales consensuados, para asegurar el control ciudadano de la implementación de la Agenda Común, además de la evaluación quinquenal.

963 Do not force it politically. promote it and fight for it, make sure people and states know it exists to begin with

964 It must be systematic, standardized, modular, and the future research of mankind can automatically connect with human society. This would allow the United Nations to regularly define a new set of variables that are consistent with the new global goals (similar to SDG 17) and periodically determine which old goals have been achieved.

965 One suggestion I’d submit for your consideration is crucial to behavioural change and decision making capacity expected among the diverse UN bodies, partners as well as global leaders. For UN to ‘lead by example’, ’be future ready’ and ‘retain a relevant leadership role’ for different members the foresight learning and systems approaches need to be embodied and seen as embodied, even more. To have a stronger voice, and to build bridges among extremely diverse stakeholders’ (and adversaries’) shared interests and priorities, the UN can demonstrate learning what is working and what is not working. As an expression of trust and effort towards making progress. For the 12 Committments to see actionable progress, governance effectiveness will benefit from the foresight lens. Human Rights, Healthcare, Climate, Biodiversity and other aspects of global and local importance go beyond boundaries, but are constrained by them. Refer for example [..now is the time to correct a glaring blind spot in how we measure economic prosperity and progress. ..I call for new measures to complement GDP, so that people can gain a full understanding of the impacts of business activities and how we can and must do better to support people and our planet. OCA pg 4]. An illustration for one of the alternatives to complete dependence on Gross Domestic Product GDP measure is the Multidimensional Indices offered by [Stiglitz JE, Sen A, Fitoussi J-P (2008) “Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress”], which ricocheted for a while as a credible option. Yet the decision making is overwhelmed in dialogue. Could some member states consider prototyping this complementary measure - as part of the futures lab, in safe conditions? Could the UN facilitate that? These live labs or simulations could be tracked as they relate to impact OCA commitment themes.

966 Strategy product is : Crowd source made Model of the Future Society. This model could be done by offering metadata attributes of future society to be filled by public social network. Thus UN Special Foresight body could collect thoughts from crowd ( Crowd sourced) and as product deliver Dynamic Crowd source model of Future society. This model will be dynamically changed according to crowd thoughts collected by social network of UN body.

967 (SL begins) In my other entry to these Delphi notes I explained why I thought a more appropriate report might have been called, ‘Our Common Asset’. Details follow. Importantly, these acknowledge that the UN is hideously complicated by a need to maintain ‘buy-in’ from diverse member states and, ultimately, billions of stakeholders. It is further complicated by possessing within its network a huge diversity of perspectives and interests that, somehow, have to get along. Within this huge IGO-network there will inevitably be many male and female ‘placemen’, many of whom, will exert considerable power. There will also be others who operate in various ways against the wider interests and values of the UN. The third, ‘elephant in the room’, is that, behind all the ‘deliberate ambiguity’, many member states and powerful stakeholders possess vastly differing views on what the UN should be delivering. There is then a massive number of UN initiatives and sub-entities to map. Only when a decent understanding of the current situation is available for all to review, including all ‘the embarrassing stuff’, will those involved be able to make an informed review of how to move forward. Any mapping that avoids the essential realpolitik will undermine the UN. Instead, an acknowledgement of its necessary existence, can inform organisational improvement, just as ‘learning culture’ organisations, encourage admissions to failure, in order to improve. //Any mapping process will need to be multi-phased, ultimately transforming into an ongoing community resource, for the organisation to build upon. Mapping will reveal underutilised resources, engender inclusivity and mitigate duplication. Mapping will showcase the magnificence of what the UN achieves and is striving for on a day to day basis. Crucially, mapping will also present, ‘what there is to currently work with’. //As soon as a short initial phase has been completed, it would be timely to launch what would then become a parallel, ongoing planning, delivery and review cycle. This would be a dynamic, iterative process, covering, partly in parallel, review of the UN’s Strategy and Delivery Process (SDP - encompassing, vision, mission, values, external factors, internal factors, strategic objectives, operational deployment plans and SMART goals – where SMART = Specific, Measurable, Ambitious but Achievable, Resourced and Time-based) This SDP would be both dynamic, in that it would adapt and evolve according to a regularly revised understanding of internal and external factors and fractal, in that it could be cascaded down through the UN’s different divisions and departments. A report along the lines of OCA, would naturally fall out of and be periodically refreshed by such a SDP.//Internal and External factors continually reshaping and evolving the ongoing strategy process would include key metrics attaching to either the SMART program deliverables or wider PESTEL events. Ultimately at every level of the fractal process, the people involved would understand their objectives and targets, plus appreciate how things were progressing, relative to ‘control limits’ concerning key metrics they had previously had a role in determining. Within the fractal context of the wider framework, some reporting cycles might be based on days, whilst others would be based on years. However, within such a set-up, where key metrics rapidly depart from expectation in such a way that merits, any point within the system should be able to rapidly elevate its concerns, ‘upwards and outwards’ for an appropriately resourced response and to enhance both organisational learning and relevant evolving planning and delivery cycles, within the wider SDP.//Through such a SDP process, which will speed the delivery of mission values and SMART goals-based DELIVERABLES, the UN could be rejuvenated, giving us all more confidence that we can get the best out of our common future on this fragile planet. (SL ends)

968 Anything that raises the profile of foresight generally, but particularly among international leaders.

969 UN should publish more non-fiction high quality materials for non-professional readers on future in different languages.

970 Pensar en mecanismos de efectividad (eficaces y efectivos) que permitan reconocer la importancia de pensar en el tiempo futuro; buscando ver en la ciudadanìa la necesidad de dejar de ser tan reactivos y pasivos y màs pre y proactivos. Es un cambio cultural totalmente necesario en un mundo complejo, de incertidumbres y cada vez con màs necesidades para actuar y anticiparnos.

971 Afortunada o desafortunadamente, el Informe del SG nos llega en un escenario diferente al del momento de su redacción. Fue anterior a la Cumbre de la Alimentación y, por supuesto, previo a la guerra en Ucrania. El Informe tiene una gran riqueza que muestra el reto de NU para adaptarse al siglo XXI La gobernanza y las reformas a los órganos de las NU son un tema clave, que toca múltiples intereses. El gran desafío, me parece, es aprovechar la riqueza de la especificidad de los mandatos de organismos especializados y programas y encuadrarlo en el marco de las Naciones Unidas. Una de los valores agregados del trabajo de las Naciones Unidas es la capacidad de contar con: - información confiable - normas independientes y confiables Se trata de sumar y no de sobreponer.

972 incorporate economic variablkes in different currencies such as yuan or Euro, with the de-dolarization of some economies in favour of other currencies, it could help with the public policy choices that governments make.

973 GDP needs to be replaced by other indices that also take into account the damage done to the environment and health scenarios while measuring the level of progress and development. Chalking out a global plan and the political will to implement it once a consensus is reached are important prerequisites. Involvement of private sector has to be ensured. Regular framing and implementation of course correction based on the future reports will help.

974 Existential Risks and Strategic threats UN office should be considered seriously - including biodiversity, tech development and climate change. These issues are not competing, we need complimentary approaches to synergise solutions and methods. On the other side of this issue is soft power approaches to not only see imediate solutions without the social and cultural implications. We do not want a 1950s nuclear culture established, a clinical and cold approach. This should be very human - or anyway earthly. So a key conversation needs to be had to address global threats that allow the planet to thrive. Not bunkers for the few. Investing in education is quite simply the best answer.

975 UN should learn more about futures studies methods that are available. UN should integrate foresight and futures studies to all its units. UN should appoint a Futures Ambassador to each member state. UN should contact futures committees, esp. that in Finland.

976 - Create official Foresight reports dedicated to Futures of X (Metaverse, AI, technology, Food, Homes, Cities, Arts, Nature, climate, sports, health, media, security, digital, work, leisure,....) - Create a team of local and global Futurists Ambassadors that promote and facilitate Foresight Trainings officially designed by the UN, in different countries. - Create an itinerant exhibit Museum of Futures Artifacts. - Promote Futures Challenges like Hackathons to build scenarios that provide possible solutions. - Promote a prize like the Nobel Prize of Futures Studies yearly award.

977 Other suggestion, instead of the Trusteeship Council, I recommend a duplication of the UN Global Compact's creation, launch and structure. The UN Future Compact would deliver at least four things: - Assemble a broad community of private sector, foundation and NGO participants who have cutting-edge expertise to share and who adhere formally to a charter. To maintain membership to Future Compact, participants deliver a mandatory compliance and activity report every two years. Participants commit to contributing ideas, resources (people and money) and politico-economic support to promoting long term thinking, incentives and actions. - Host a Cooperation Office for the Future which serves as a coordination, communication and resource center for its members, for the UN system and in-between Summits activities and Global Threats reports. A bridge between all long term UN agenda, contents, projects and initiatives and the world of long term thinkers and doers outside the UN. - Strengthen regional networks of foresight and long term planning, investing and action with regional events and localised contents. Could involve UN country chapters as well. - Simplify and accelerate participants' sharing of foresight expertise and case studies as well as the co-financing of syndicated research that fits a three year exploration agenda voted by members (bold and original research on the future of neglected topics (avoid duplication).. The UN Future Compact could receive donors money, social funding and in kind contribution. The UN Future Compact would be accountable to the SG and would present governance statement and results scorecards to the UN general assembly. The Compact would depoliticize the foresight and future agenda efforts, deliver pragmatic and practiep an impartial tab on progress and integrate non-UN expertise.

978 To promote Futures Literacy through all its UN institutions as a capacity, competence and skill, applied in all programs.

979 This is a suggestion from the questionnaire

Comments:A UN Office on Strategic Threats dealing with existential threats to human survival should be created. It would address existential threats such as the weakening of the Earths magnetic shield that protects us from deadly solar radiation, massive discharges of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from de-oxygenated oceans, caused by advanced global warming, malicious nanotechnology, loss of control over future forms of artificial intelligence, totalitarian control resulting from brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), lone-wolf bioterrorism, nuclear war escalation, uncontrollable, more-severe and recurring pandemics, a particle accelerator accident, solar gamma-ray bursts, contacts with malevolent extraterrestrial civilizations, an asteroids collision with Earth. The UN Secretariat should involve in its foresight-oriented activities futurists from professional organizations such as the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), Association of Professional Futurists (AFP), Futures Europe Network (FEN), The Millennium Project, editor-in chiefs of professional Futures Studies reviews, as well as independent future-oriented experts from universities, think tanks, non-governmental organizations and civil society at large.