The Millennium Project is a non-profit organization that operates as a global participatory futures researchthink tank organized as an independent, interdisciplinary, transinstitutional, and multicultural information system, providing an international capacity for early warning and analysis of global long-range issues, opportunities, and strategies. The purposes of The Millennium Project are to assist in organizing futures research, to improve thinking about the future, and to make that thinking available through a variety of media for consideration in policymaking, advanced training, public education, and feedback––ideally to accumulate wisdom about potential futures. It connects futurists around the world to improve global foresight. It was founded after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, Futures Group International, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGO’s, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 3,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in its annual “State of the Future”, “Futures Research Methodology” series, future studies, and integrated into its Global Futures Intelligence System.
