The Future of Ilocano Language Usage Using Jim Dator’s Alternative Futures Archetype
The Center for Engaged Foresight just embarked on a project to explore possible and plausible futures of the Ilocano language. This initiative seeks to deconstruct and imagine alternative contexts, emergence of the Ilocano language and usage in the year 2040. Using Jim Dator's alternative futures method, it offers to situate the future of Ilocano language usage in a continued economic growth,
Student Scenarios on Philippine Higher Education Futures Workshop
I and Risa Jopson facilitated two foresight workshops in Laoag City and Metro Manila recently to explore student perspectives/scenarios on the future of Philippine Higher Education Institutions. Around 30 students/student leaders more or less participated in the focus group discussion cum futures workshop. The students deconstructed and imagined plausible alternative higher education futures using the futures triangle and scenario method. On the
Emerging Ways of Perceiving the Social Sciences
ISSC / 2013 WSSF Travel Grant Awardees for Early Career Social Scientists from the Global South photo © www.planetdirtproject.com Dinner and Waking up in Mont Royal So I arrived in Montreal, had a late dinner snack If I may and found myself deeply immersed in the exploration of global and regional social sciences futures the next day. Here, I met a couple of
Digging into Data and Digitizing the Social Sciences
John Willinsky, Stanford University, Curating and Digging into Data, Montreal, Canada, 2013 The surge of large data sets has changed the way we interpret and used data in research recently. Digging into data research tools as digital pundits called it has opened new opportunities for persons and systems to analyze massive data to anticipate the future, understand mainstream trends and gain insight
Plunging on Multidisciplinary Research
Plunging on Multidisciplinary Research: Notes from the 1st International Research Conference in Higher Education Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines are expected to be the major source of research-generated knowledge. With this assumption, the government, through some of its agencies like the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the commission that manages all HEIs, the Commission on Higher Education,
Who rules the world? A Call for Papers
“Who Rules the World?” A Call for Papers for a 2014 Special Edition of Foresight on Global Governance / Ruling Power Guest Edited by Professor Dennis R. Morgan Every research paper begins with a question. Of course, it doesn't always have to be a single question; sometimes, it's a set of related questions. Still, the single question, which may yet entail a set