Millennium Project
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The Millennium Project [1] is an independent international think tank with 40[2] "nodes" around the world that gathers and accesses information on futures studies that produces the annual State of the Future report since 1997 and the Futures Research Methodology series Versions 1-3.
The Project was formed by the Futures Group International, the American Council for the United Nations University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the United Nations University via a three year feasibility study in 1992 funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, United Nations Development Programme, and UNESCO, after a one year pre-feasibility study funded indirectly by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a general grant to AC/UNU. Since the beginning of operations in 1996, about 2,700 futurists, scholars, decision-makers, and business planners from over 50 countries have contributed with their views to the Millennium Project research.
The Project now has nodes in 38 countries and 2 others are global/functional nodes: Cyber Node and the Arts/Media Node. These are independent organizations (composed of both organizations and individuals from different institutional categories - government, corporations, NGOs, universities, individuals, and UN or international organizations - which acts like a transinstitution) which co-operate with each other and the Project to provide an international perspective on futures research. The Project is currently directed and coordinated by Jerome C. Glenn.