Pardee Center Research Presented at Rockefeller Meeting in Bangkok

A presentation on the Pardee Center research project on developing data analysis and visualization tools for futures foresight was made at a meeting organized by the Rockefeller Foundation in Bangkok, Thailand on December 15-16, 2010.

The project is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and is led at the Pardee Center by Prof. Adil Najam and Prof. Suchi Gopal. The project seeks to systematically visualize, analyze, and draw conclusions from a collective body of trend monitoring produced in different regions of the world as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight program. The project goal is to textually identify and visually represent the key ideas and themes emerging from regional trend analyses in a way that is user-friendly, globally accessible, visually interpretive, and policy relevant.

Although the project is still in its early phases, the presentation in Bangkok – made to Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight grantees from the Asia Region, other Rockefeller Foundation partners developing suites of visualization tools, and overall team manager from the Foundation – presented the conceptual architecture of the tools that will be developed and deployed at the Pardee Center as part of this project. On behalf of the Pardee Center project team, Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston University, made the presentation.