Scenario Thinking Portal
The Scenario Thinking Portal is the place where we can share our favourite URL's on scenario thinking and the future in general. You are invited to use the links provided by others. But don't forget to leave your own favourite URL's as well.
The idea is to accompany the links by a short describtion of the site.
Resource Pages
This section contains links to other scenario or future resource sites
Scenario planning
Page by Martin Börjesson, scenario thinker and strategist.
A one-page site about scenario planning, with links to information, articles, reports and more.
Plausible Futures
Page with a wide variety of links to all kinds of views on possible futures. All links with a short description of its contents, divided by subsections. There is also a section on scenario's.
Scenario Processes
This section contains links to example scenario processes
The National Intelligence Council
The National Intelligence Council is a centre of strategic counselling within the US government, advising senior policy makers and the president.
This page contains some long term global trend scenario's on many different issues, based on intelligence information.
Shell scenario page
On this site you will find information on scenario planning by Shell. This includes information on the newest scenarios, as well as on some previous ones.
europa.eu.int Example of scenario planning within the European Commission
freepint.com Links to examples and an article about scenario planning(on page 8 of the PDF)
Business and Economy
This section contains links to resources about Business and Economy.
Global Business Network
The website of the Global Business Network gives us valuable information concerning the economy and future trends.
WTO Trade Statistics
Up-to-date trade statistics by the World Trade Organisation. Statistics on World trade as well as statistics per country. Current as well as past statistics.
Politics
This section contains links to political sites that are of interest for scenario thinking.
Project for the New Amarican Century
Page by conservetive Amaricans who are 'concerned with the decline in the strength of America’s defenses, and in the problems this would create for the exercise of American leadership around the globe and, ultimately, for the preservation of peace.'
And here you will find a comment on this movement by the britisch newspaper The Guardian, linking the organisation to the last war in Iraq.
International Institute for Strategic Studies
IISS is an independent organiation for conflict studies. It's aim is to provide polici makers all over the world with 'the best possible objective information on military and political developments relevant tot the prospects, course and consequences of conflict having an important military dimension'.
Demographical Data
This section contains links to usefull demographical recources
UN Department of Economic and Social affairs
UN site with lots of usefull demographical data, economical as well as social. Contains prospects of population, urbanisation and other demographical development as well.
Futurism
This section contains links to sites about and from futurists and their activities.
What is the difference between Futurism and Scenario Thinking or Scenario Learning
Association of Professional Futurists
Page of a community of professional futurists.
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