UNDP awards Synthesis Sea Change 2020 horizon scan

Good news: the United Nations Development Program has awarded Synthesis / ASU the contract for doing the Horizon Scan for emerging techniques, technologies, design methods, and learning sites that prepare the United Nations Development Program staff and constituents to meet unpredictable, inextricably entangled sociotechnical and environmental challenges.     Thanks to Sander for lending his experience and reputation to this brief but intense project.  And thanks to Theo Eckhardt and Emily Fassett for working intricately with the United Nations and Knowledge Enterprise to forge this exceptional consultancy.  

Project Title:
Sea Change 2020
Duration:
29 September 2020 - 31 December 2020
Principal faculty:
Prof. Sha Xin Wei, AME, Synthesis, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Prof. Sander van der Leeuw, SHESC, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems 
Dr. Brandon Mechtley, Synthesis, Synthesis
+ a PhD research assistant with Synthesis


 (This is independent of the Alternate Reality game / RPG that Synthesis is developing for UNDP's #NextGen event, also this Fall.)                                                                                           
Xin Wei
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