Explore our Futures explorations

Together with tech and sector experts and colleagues from the FCDO, we hold space to run in-depth horizon scanning journeys. This fore-sighting work helps us to anticipate the potential consequences and opportunities of technology, and builds a critical understanding of how technology is shaping our world.

Each learning journey includes insights we know already, and dives into possible futures we’re seeing signals for.

  • Foresighting for Policy Development

    As governments navigate uncertainty, the need for a proactive and future-oriented approach to policymaking has never been greater.

    That's why we're asking ourselves: How can foresight and Futures thinking be applied to support long-term, evidence-driven policy development.

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  • The Web3 Symposium

    Through a series of talks, debates, and workshops over 4 days we attempted to move beyond the hype of NFTs and Bitcoin to have a nuanced conversation about the future potential of Web3.

    That’s why we are asking ourselves: how can Web3 be utilised to help solve the world’s biggest challenges?

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  • The Future of Frontier Tech for Development

    New technologies create opportunities to approach long-standing development challenges in a different way. But they also bring significant risks.

    That’s why we are asking ourselves: what are the frontier technologies showing the most promise for impact in international development?

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  • The Future of Elections

    From authoritarian governments shutting down the internet to low-orbit satellite internet provision, digital technologies are changing the way that people engage with elections.

    That’s why we’re asking ourselves: what will elections, as they expand into the digital democracy space, look like in 2025?

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  • The Future of Money

    Money is rapidly digitising, accelerated by Covid-19 and the rise of e-commerce. New digital currencies have been growing and who has access to both digital and traditional money is being shaped by the rise of AI and machine learning.

    That’s why we’re asking ourselves: what role will institutions and technology play in determining access to money?

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Codifying the Futures Process

We continue to refine our working process with every Exploration that we run.

We’ve produced this document to help you run your own Futures Exploration, or to better understand how we run them so we can collaborate effectively.