FuturICT

Global Computing for our Complex World

  • "The FuturICT flagship project seeks to create an open, global but decentralized, democratically controlled information platform that will use online data together with novel theoretical models to achieve a paradigm shift in our understanding of today’s strongly interdependent and complex world and make both our society and global ICT systems more flexible, adaptive, resilient, sustainable, and humane through a participatory approach."
  • "Data is the new raw material of the 21st century." Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt.
  • "....our fates are interconnected; in a global economy, nations will rise, or fall, together." Barack Obama.
  • "I think the next (21st) century will be the century of complexity." Stephen Hawking
  • "The crisis should motivate economists to think further about their modelling of human behaviour." Ben Bernanke
  • "An economist who is only an economist cannot be a good economist."  Friedrich Hayek, Nobel Prize 1974
  • "I urge students to read narrowly within economics, but widely in science." Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize winner 2002

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Science

The ultimate goal of the FuturICT flagship project is to understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus on sustainability and resilience.

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Policy

FuturICT will build a Living Earth Platform, a simulation, visualization and participation platform to support decision-making of policy-makers, business people and citizens.

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Technology

Integrating ICT, Complexity Science and the Social Sciences will create a paradigm shift, facilitating a symbiotic co-evolution of ICT and society.

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Big Science

FuturICT wants science to catch up with the speed at which new problems and opportunities are arising in our changing world as consequences of globalization, technological, demographic and environmental change, and make a contribution to strengthening our societies' adaptiveness, resilience, and sustainability.

It will do so by developing new scientific approaches and combining these with the best established methods in areas like multi-scale computer modeling, social supercomputing, large-scale data mining and participatory platforms.

To learn more about FuturICT, download the project overview documents below.

 Download: FuturICT Project Summary         Download: FuturICT Project Outline

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