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This book is about the role and impact of future explorations
in the Dutch government landscape. It presents
a diverse range of future explorations and thus shows the broad
instruments that advisory councils and public knowledge institutions
have developed to deliver future-proof information.
The contributions in this publication are from eleven public knowledge institutes
and advisory boards that carry out future research themselves
and publishing: the Advisory Council for Science, Technology and
Innovation (awti), the Central Bureau for Statistics (cbs),
the Genetic Modification Committee (cogem), the Central
Planning Bureau (cpb), the Royal Dutch Meteorological
Institute (knmi), the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL),
the Rathenau Institute, the National Institute for Public Health
and Environment (rivm), the Social and Cultural Planning Office (scp), the
Foundation for the Future of Technology (stt) 1 and the Scientific
Council for Government Policy (wrr). On the basis of
recent explorations of the future, per chapter as a case
be elaborated will be different methods and techniques
are presented that they use to get a grip on the
future. Here insight is given into the way in which
future explorations find their way to the Dutch
political decision-making and the impact they have. - Dit boek gaat over de rol en de impact van toekomstverkenningen
in het Nederlandse overheidslandschap. Het presenteert
een divers palet aan toekomstverkenningen en toont zo het brede
instrumentarium dat adviesraden en publieke kennisinstellingen
hebben ontwikkeld om toekomstbestendige informatie te leveren.
De bijdragen in deze publicatie zijn van elf publieke kennisinstellingen
en adviesraden die zelf toekomstonderzoek uitvoeren
en publiceren: de Adviesraad voor Wetenschap, Technologie en
Innovatie (awti), het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (cbs),
de Commissie Genetische Modificatie (cogem), het Centraal
Planbureau (cpb), het Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch
Instituut (knmi), het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (pbl),
het Rathenau Instituut, het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid
en Milieu (rivm), het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (scp), de
Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek (stt)1 en de Wetenschappelijke
Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (wrr). Aan de hand van
recente toekomstverkenningen, die per hoofdstuk als casus
worden uitgewerkt, zullen verschillende methoden en technieken
worden gepresenteerd die men inzet om grip te krijgen op de
toekomst. Er wordt hierbij inzicht gegeven in de wijze waarop
toekomstverkenningen hun weg vinden naar de Nederlandse
politieke besluitvorming en de impact die ze hebben.

The Dutch government has a large and diverse range of advisory councils and planning agencies that produce studies of the future as an input to the development of strategic government policy. The work of these organisations is important and relevant, as well as very diverse in terms of their approach to the future, the methodologies they use, and the topics on which they focus. In particular, they serve different users, who all use these studies for their own purposes. As a result, there is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach to designing a futures study. To deal with this variety, we use a contingency approach with which we set up a framework presenting different 'futures studies journeys' that relate different user goals to different approaches to the future, to different phases in policy-processes in which the futures study is used, and to different methods to be employed.

Part 1: Keynote Panel ; International audience ; Governments have always retained public service data internally in their own systems with only limited information provided to the public and other stakeholders such as the business, charitable and NGO communities. However, the rapid advancement of ICTs coupled with electronic publishing via the Internet in the last decade in particular has enabled governments to exploit the potential of wider distribution and use of such data previously held in internal systems. The panellists will discuss how Big, Open and Linked Data (BOLD) can be utilized to drive innovation and what obstacles and challenges may be encountered. Empowering citizens, potential mis-use in identity theft, policy manipulation or market distortion, and the need to combine open data with closed sources will be discussed.

Nature conservation in southern Africa has always been characterised by an interplay between Capital, specific understandings of Morality, and forms of Militarism, that are all dependent upon the shared subservience and marginalization of animals and certain groups of people in society. Although the subjectivity of people has been rendered visible in earlier publications on histories of conservation in southern Africa, the subjectivity of animals is hardly ever seriously considered or explicitly dealt with. In this edited volume the subjectivity and sentience of animals is explicitly included. The contributors argue that the shared human and animal marginalisation and agency in nature conservation in southern Africa (and beyond) could and should be further explored under the label of `sentient conservation'. 0Contributors are Malcolm Draper, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Jan-Bart Gewald, Michael Glover, Paul Hebinck, Tarito Kamuti, Lindiwe Mangwanya, Albert Manhamo, Dhoya Snijders, Marja Spierenburg, Sandra Swart, Harry Wels