GT4 – Análise Prospectiva

Coordenador:

António Brandão Moniz (FCT-UNL) – Coordenador do Programa Doutoral em “Avaliação de Tecnologia”

 

Membros:

Maria João Maia (investigadora no CICS.NOVA e doutoranda no PDAT da FCT-UNL)

Nuno Boavida (investigador no CICS.NOVA e doutorado em Avaliação de Tecnologia PDAT)

Susana Martins Moretto – doutorada em Avaliação de Tecnologia (PDAT)

Rosa Antunes (consultora) – Estudante de doutoramento (PDAT)

Mário Nuno Farelo – aposentado da FCT-UNL e doutorando no PDAT

Gabriel T. Velloso – Estudante de doutoramento (PDAT)

Carlos Alberto Silva (Univ. Évora) – Professor do Departamento de Sociologia

 

A proposta de trabalho para 2011-2012 encontra-se aqui

Actividades:

Workshop “A prospectiva na avaliação de tecnologia”, dia 13 de Abril de 2012

 

Estudo “Towards Scientific Foresight for the European Parliament” do STOA (Parlamento Europeu)

  • This study has been written by Lieve Van Woensel, PhD, and Darja Vrščaj, MSc, of the Scientific Foresight Service within the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Service (DG EPRS) of the General Secretariat of the European Parliament.

Página no Linkedin para debate de ideias sobre o tema deste grupo de trabalho. Disponível!

 

 

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12 Responses to “GT4 – Análise Prospectiva”
  1. Susana Martins Moretto diz:
    3 Setembro 2011 às 15:15

    Gostava de fazer parte do grupo

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    • António Brandão Moniz diz:
      4 Setembro 2011 às 22:09

      Obrigado Susana. O grupo está aberto e estamos agora a iniciar a discussão em torno de um documento genérico sobre os objectivos do grupo.

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  2. Rosa Antunes diz:
    5 Setembro 2011 às 21:00

    Gostaria de participar nos trabalhos deste Grupo. Podemos trabalhar no GDoc’s?

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  3. abmoniz diz:
    8 Setembro 2011 às 22:25

    UK Foresight reports:
    http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight/publications/reports

    Foresight / Health / Nanotechnology

    http://www.foresight.org/challenges/health.html

    Foresight / Body & Mind Sciences cluster

    Click to access s_t_clusters__body___mind_sciencesdoc_v01_12_06.pdf

    Scenario planning

    Click to access foresight_scenario_planning.pdf

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  4. mariajmaia diz:
    29 Setembro 2011 às 19:53

    Gostaria de partilhar um anexo do estudo “Screening the foresight exercises
    undertaken in 12 countries” e talvez sugerir a grelha que foi utizada para o desenvolvimento do nosso trabalho. Portugal faz parte do estudo! Sujeito a criticas!
    O que acham?

    mjmaia

    Click to access 12CountryForesightScreening_EU.pdf

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    • abmoniz diz:
      2 Outubro 2011 às 20:16

      Interessante este resumo. Pena que sobre Portugal apenas haja informação do ET2000 que foi um exercício dedicado às possibilidades e limites do desenvolvimento da engenharia. É um estudo que teve bastante apoio financeiro, mas os resultados foram relativamente limitados. A metodologia apenas esteve assente em entrevistas a especialistas e em workshops. Em minha opinião, foi um exercício de prospectiva muito limitado e com muitas deficiências metodológicas.
      A grelha pode ser interessante para coligir informação sobre outros exercícios nacionais.

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  5. abmoniz diz:
    6 Outubro 2011 às 15:22

    Do nosso colega José Luiz Almeida e Silva:

    Subject: FUTURIST UPDATE October 2011

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    October 2011 • Volume 12, No. 10 In this issue:

    Tone of News Predicts Broad Social Behaviors
    Building Stronger Skyscrapers, Faster
    THE FUTURIST Presents an Evening with Aubrey de Grey
    Progress in Improving Global Literacy Is Steady, but Slow
    Votizen Wins Disruptathon Social Media Competition
    What’s Hot @WFS.ORG

    Tone of News Predicts Broad Social Behaviors Properly analyzed, the tone of news articles can predict large areas of the future, according to Kalev Leetaru, a researcher at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. First, you need a lot of news items; Leetaru’s sample sets ran into the millions. Then you need the right parameters; Leetarau began with 1,500 dimensions of human emotions. Finally, you need a supercomputer capable of petascale processing (more than one quadrillion operations per second). Using a large, shared-memory supercomputer called Nautilus and a 30-year archive of global news, Leetaru was able to pinpoint the location of Osama Bin Laden within a 200-kilometer radius of Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terrorist leader was eventually found. His model also retroactively predicted the social uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. “News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western intelligence agencies.… Computational analysis can yield novel insights to the functioning of society, including predicting future economic events,” Leetaru writes in his paper Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global Media Tone in Time and Space published in the September 5 edition of the journal First Monday. Source: “Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global Media Tone in Time and Space” Special thanks to Alireza Hejazi for this tip! Building Stronger Skyscrapers, Faster Building a skyscraper around a core wall, or vertical spine, could speed up the construction process as well as enhance the structural resistance to earthquakes and high winds. 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An Evening with Aubrey de Grey On October 12, Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, will discuss prospects for extending the human life span indefinitely at the Community College of Baltimore, an event sponsored by THE FUTURIST magazine. http://www.wfs.org/content/wfs-fall-events. De Grey is the chief science officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also editor-in-chief of Rejuvenation Research, a peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000, respectively. He’s also author of the bestselling book Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. 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Using the most recent data available (2009), the Institute reports that more than half of the world’s illiterate population resides in South and West Asia, while sub-Saharan Africa represents 21.4% of the human population who cannot read. “However, rates can vary widely across countries in a region. In Mali, for example, merely 26% of the population is literate in contrast to Equatorial Guinea where 93% of the population can read and write,” according to the Institute. The researchers state that literacy rates have risen 2.3% in the past 10 years, and 10.6% in the past 20 years. Sources: UNESCO, Download the PDF Votizen Wins Disruptathon Social Media Competition Pete Ericson’s most recent Disruptathon Social Media Innovation Forum wrapped up in Washington, D.C., on September 27, bringing together technology watchers, venture capitalists, and start-up founders from around the Mid-Atlantic. 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    Full Circle: a Bethesda, Maryland, start-up that “allows you to identify and communicate with other members nearby and search or filter members by profile details, keywords, interests or likes. ”
    And Trendspottr, a Web service that identifies real-time trends and trending information from Twitter and Facebook for any search query.

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  6. abmoniz diz:
    30 Janeiro 2012 às 14:41

    Sobre o 9º exercício de prospectiva na Japão: relatório 145 do NISTEP – http://www.nistep.go.jp/achiev/ftx/eng/rep145e/pdf/rep145e.pdf

    e a colaboração com a Finlândia: http://www.tekes.fi/en/community/News/482/News/1344?name=Finland+and+Japan+together+focus+on+the+future

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  7. abmoniz diz:
    26 Novembro 2013 às 14:12

    O GT4 do GrEAT vai ter mais uma reunião de trabalho no próximo dia 3 de Dezembro, de manhã, na FCT-UNL. Em breve deixaremos aqui mais informação

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