EXTRACT
The following table shows the information flow of this report:
Table 1
| Conclusions and Recommendations | ||
| Correspondence with Futurists and review of articles to identify and write examples of futures in decisionmaking |
Impediments to the use of Futures Research |
Factors required for the timely use of Futures Research in decisionmaking |
| Interviews with decisionmakers and policy advisors |
�including the moral issues with the decisionmaker | Recommendations for institutional usage of Futures Research |
| Questionnaires to Global Lookout Panel |
Information found to be useful in the timely use of Futures Research |
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| Experience of the Authors |
More than 250 futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers from over 50 countries participated in the questionnaires and interviews for this study. Representatives in ten locations around the world translated and distributed the questionnaires and conducted interviews in Rome, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Aspendale (Australia), London, Teheran, Beijing, Cairo, Madurai (India), Tokyo, and Olomouc (Czech Republic).
The interviews asked policy makers to think about situations in which early warnings were given and timely actions followed. For those situations they were asked to identify the type of information that had been important to effective decisionmaking. The questionnaires asked the “Global Lookout Panel” to assess the results of the interviews, and to provide additional illustrations of information about the timely use of early warnings.
