Technology foresight : first report. Volume II, Minutes of evidence and appendices / Science and Technology Committee.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology
Date:
1995
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    24 October 1995] [Continued ° 1995 September: Foresight Challenge Launch October: Foresight dialogues (Panels and Research Councils) CBI/AIRTO Conference on Foresight November: Deadline for Challenge bid outlines December: Progress Report on Foresight January: Deadline for Challenge full bids 1996 March: Challenge winners announced May: Forward Look Foresight progress review. 7.2 Looking further ahead, it will be important to maintain the momentum of Foresight over the medium term. It will be important to build upon the lessons learned during the first phase of the Foresight exercise. To assist in this it would be helpful to obtain evidence on the merits and shortcomings of the Foresight analyses undertaken in the first phase. Rather than rely on the selective recall of Foresight Programme participants in 1999 the OST is taking steps now to obtain such evidence. A questionnaire is being circulated to all Foresight panellists during the autumn asking for their views on each element of the Foresight process. OST and Manchester University are jointly sponsoring a CASE student to analyse these responses and undertake further evaluation tasks. In due course, it may be appropriate to supplement this work with an evaluation conducted by a fully independent external concern. OST September 1995 ANNEX A STEERING GROUP GENERIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGHY PRIORITIES Steering group science and technology priority Broad area Generic priority Recommendation Priority grouping Social Shaping and 1 Demographic Informing health care, retail, financial services, Emerging Technology Impact change leisure and learning markets; and underpinning assessments of health care effectiveness 2 Risk assessment In finance, food, health, travel, the environment, Intermediate and management etc., includes psychology of risk perception, and study of behavioural responses to risk 3 Workplace and Social acceptability of new technology in the Intermediate home home and workplace. Changing patterns of work and leisure resulting from multimedia, etc. Communications and 4 Communicating Interfacial software for the information Key Computing with machines, superhighway; virtual reality (e.g., in learning, including software leisure, shopping, banking and architecture); image analysis, speech recognition, and other technologies. Applications: Multimedia comms, vehicle guidance/control 5 Design and systems _ Integration of technologies, sub-systems and Intermediate integration software; CAD/CAM; concurrent engineering; requirements and system models; rapid phototyping; interoperability; life cycle cont/performance/quality trade off 6 Information Databases, security retrieval etc; information Intermediate management flows and reservoirs in large organisations, protecting the security and integrity of information, and validation of remote transactions 7 Modelling, Software and mathematical techniques for Intermediate simulation and modelling complex systems and events in areas prediction of such as product design, risk analysis, behavioural complex systems analysis, the environment, and financial products and markets