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Shaping Tomorrow: Towards Egypt a member country in OECD by 2030
Studies
Date of publication   Wednesday. August 11, 2010

 

Egypt's vision 2030 – conducted by the Center for Future Studies at the Information and Decision Support Center – has set up a number of criteria to assess the extent of achieving the goal of this vision by 2030.
 
On the top of these criteria is Egypt's accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – known by the organization of rich countries - by the year 2030 given that this cannot be achieved unless Egypt fulfill a minimum level of economic, social and political development.
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The Future of Culture in Egypt: Film Industry as a Model
Studies
Date of publication   Thursday. July 8, 2010

 

Consolidating Egypt’s cultural standing especially concerning the film-making industry is considered a main aspect of Egypt’s Future Vision 2030, and which is in accordance with the set vision for Egypt to become an Arab and regional center for the cinema industry.

Realizing this vision is supported by the several relative and competitive advantages that the cultural sector in Egypt has in general, and the strong infrastructure in the field of film production in specific, which can be seen in the huge institutions specialized in technical and cinema teaching, as well as enhancing the public’s cultural and cinematic sense.

 

 

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The Future Impacts of Climate Changes on the Agricultural Sector in Egypt: The cost of adaptation
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. July 4, 2010

 

The climate change is expected to have negative impacts on the Agriculture sector in Egypt.

In the scope of the available study the climate change  will result in the sea- level rise leading to the  flooding  of  vast areas in the Delta ,reduction in the  crop productivity mainly ( wheat , rice and maize), changing in the composition of  the crops ,time of cultivation and its geographical distribution, decline in fishery productivity, increase in the rates of desertification and negative impact on the livestock production, and the spread of diseases affecting the land productivity.

Within this scope, the study reached the importance of the implementation of Adaptation Projects to face such changes. These projects will save about 174 billion Egyptian pounds.

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Building the scientific base of Egypt and its educational tributaries in future: a study on the future of math and science education
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. January 3, 2010

Egypt's efforts to build an advanced scientific and technological base by 2030 faces many risks that threaten Egypt's aspirations to fulfill its future vision-shifting from a developing to a developed country by 2030.

It includes the deterioration of the quality of the education system in general, and the decline in the interest in learning math and basic sciences in specific.

The CFS has undertaken this study with the aim of warning from the dangers that resulting from students refraining from learning math and basic sciences, and the underlying effects on the technological fields that have been identified as leading sectors in Egypt's vision 2030

  

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The Future of the World Order in 2030: A Future Vision of an External Role that Realizes Egypt’s Vision 2030
Studies
Date of publication   Saturday. October 31, 2009

 

The study is divided into 4 main sections; the first addresses transformations of the world order during the last two decades, which were identified as three sequenced transformations:
 
i.    termination of the bipolar order in the beginning of the nineties
ii.   Domination of military power on the overall interactions of the world order after 11th of September 2001.
iii. Change of the equilibrium of international actors in the world order.
 
The second section reviews the most important variables affecting the future of the world order, i.e. surfacing of concepts, issues, and new international institutions on all political, economic, military levels and multi global dimensions of the Information Technology and Communications (ITC) revolution.
 
As for the third section, it conducts a SWOT analysis of areas playing a crucial role in affecting Egypt’s position within the world order.
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The Regional Environment of Egypt: Conflicts and Alliances in 2030 and the Location of Egypt
Studies
Date of publication   Thursday. July 2, 2009

Egypt's Regional Environment: Conflicts and Alliances in 2030 and the Location of Egypt is a topic that is considered as one of the key features of the future vision for Egypt 2030 and with regards with Egypt's effective regional role that achieves its national interests and contributes to strengthen  the security and stability in Egypt's regional environment.

 The study aimed to monitor the current regional conflicts and alliances, and proposing several opportunities for the exploitation of Egypt's role in resolving the regional conflicts and the integration of potential and desirable alliances in the future.

The study also aimed at the formulation of alternative future scenarios of future conflicts and alliances in 2030 and the role of Egypt in three major circles: the Arab, the African, the Euro-Mediterranean circle.

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Development of Egyptian the Desert: Creation of Areas of Excellence and Sustainable Cities (Executive Summary)
Studies
Date of publication   Monday. June 1, 2009

This study aims to formulate a future vision for sustainable cities under the current circumstances and future challenges.

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Future of Alternative Energies in Egypt (Executive Summary)
Studies
Date of publication   Thursday. April 2, 2009

  The study aims to analyze the current conditions of the contemporary energy system in Egypt, the major opportunities and major challenges to Egypt in the present and in the future, so as to formulate some of the desired of the potential future scenarios for this important sector

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The Quest of R&D-RelatedFDI: Backround paper
Studies
Date of publication   Tuesday. July 1, 2008

 

The paper is constitutes a background paper for the INNFORMED` Success-Scenario Workshop on "Structural Foresight for R&D-Related Foreign Direct Investment" held in Cairo (July 2008).
 
The paper mainly highlights the spillovers of foreign investing in research and development, for both home countries and host developing countries. The paper as well addresses the negative concerns arising from R&D-related foreign direct investment (FDI) for both host and home countries.
 
In this regard, the paper draws attention on the Asian experience; namely the reasons leading Asian countries to become the leaders of the developing world in FDI in R&D and the largest attractors of TNCs Knowledge-intensive activities. The paper also explores recent empirical literature on R&D-related FDI. And finally, it defines the key drivers  for foreign investing in research and development.   
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Towards an Efficient Use of the Egyptian Geographic location
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. June 1, 2008

Given the strategic distinct location that Egypt possesses, allowing the opportunity to optimize its utilization, in accentuating its regional and international status, this study aims to present the best opportunities for utilizing Egypt's location, via terrestrial, naval, and aerial dimensions, and to identify the challenges facing these opportunities. By establishing a network of infrastructure, consisting of terrestrial, naval, and aerial routes, the status of Egypt can be consolidated, as a central junction point, between east and west, and between north and south. This can lead also to strengthening Egypt position in the international trade, developing the tourism sector, as well as achieving the domestic development.

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A positive Ethics Matrix to support Egypt's vision 2030
Studies
Date of publication   Friday. February 1, 2008

The Ethics Matrix in the Egyptian society has become a real moral crisis in the Egyptian society in a way that constitutes a serious obstacle to progress and development, therefore the present study aimed to reduce the spread of negative attitudes and to access to a set of positive values to support Egypt's vision. Thus, it attempts to formulate a gradual strategy to overcome such crisis, this was through identifying its most significant causes and indicators, as well as working on the interpretation and diagnosis of its implications on all societal dimensions. This study based on "Delphi" methodology.

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The future vision of the capital of Egypt 2050
Studies
Date of publication   Saturday. December 1, 2007

As a result of the chronic problems that are facing Cairo nowadays, the present study is an attempt to formulate the future vision for Egypt's capital 2050. The study developed a set of alternative scenarios for the future of their capitals. To conclude, the study asserts the necessity to move the capital due to the difficulties in overcoming the current problems of the capital.

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The future vision of Egypt 2030: Leading sectors
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. July 1, 2007

 
After the center for future studies finalized the general framework of a vision for the future of Egypt 2030, the next step was identifying a number of promising sectors that have promising indications in Egypt.
 
Choosing those sectors was based on a number of criteria, like extrapolation of global trends of demand, as well as investigating opinions of experts in different fields. Taking into account the consequences that these future trends may have on the conditions and current situation in Egypt and what kind of future effects they may have.
 
The center identified the fields of renewable energy (specially solar energy ), and pharmaceutical industries using biotechnology and nanotechnology and overseas services, exporting processed food products (specially olive oil ) as promising sectors in Egypt .
 
 The center also concluded that exporting labor surplus could be a supporting factor to the leading sectors, as it will absorb labor surplus in case unemployment still exists. Challenges and opportunities of each sector were identified as well as the main goals Egypt is seeking to achieve by the year 2030.
 
 
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The climate change and its impacts on Egypt
Studies
Date of publication   Friday. June 1, 2007

This study aims to refer to climate change and its impacts locally, regionally and globally. It also refers to the main potential impacts of climate change on Egypt though its impacts on different sectors, such as: coastal zones, River Nile basin, agriculture and food security, human health, aquaculture, and desertification. The study mentioned also the efforts made by Egypt to cope with climate change, and the adaptation measures necessary for some important sectors.

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Futures studies in Egypt: water foresight 2025
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. April 1, 2007

This paper aims to discuss the Egyptian Experience in futures studies through the conducting of a foresight study into the future of water in Egypt to 2025. It represents the obstacles that had to be surmounted in engaging key stakeholders in the foresight study and suggests a set of conclusions and recommendations that could help in a better integration of futures studies into the government's strategic planning process. This paper used some of methodologies or approaches, such as: Futures wheel, questionnaires, focus groups, and scenarios workshops.

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Desalination Technology Roadmap 2030
Studies
Date of publication   Monday. January 1, 2007

 This study aimed at identifying the future needs for desalination technology development, charting a series of research and development activities that will result in cost-effective, efficient revolutionary desalination technologies that can meet the national future needs, and providing short and long term action agenda to guide desalination research and investments in Egypt till the year 2030. In the context of this study, a broad vision for desalination was formulated to cover the main national needs: "Develop desalination technologies that aim at securing cost-effective, drinkable, fits for its uses and sustainable water for Egypt in 2030".

 

 

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The Future Vision for Egypt 2030
Studies
Date of publication   Friday. December 1, 2006

The "Future Vision for Egypt 2030", represented by this report, is based on four main pillars: a secure country; with an efficient and sustainably growing, and internationally competitive economy; an integrated and democratic society; and a pioneering effective position both on the regional and international levels. In order to achive this vision, the main driving forces, key players and stakeholders, and possible interactions among them were determined. In addition, critical issues for the future of Egypt were identified. Among others, human capital development, and balancing population and resources through redrawing a geo-economic map for Egypt were selected as the most important issues for the future of Egypt.

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The Egyptian Higher Education System: Towards Better Quality in the Future
Studies
Date of publication   Wednesday. November 1, 2006

The main aim of this article is to suggest futures-oriented solutions for the problem of decreasing quality of the higher education system in Egypt. To achieve this aim the article started with referring to the mega driving  forces in society and higher education in the 21st century, a background about the Egyptian education system, and the main challenges facing it. Possible, probable, and preferable futures are then defined. According to the preferable futures a set of short and long-term recommendations for improving the quality of the higher education system are presented in the last part of the article.

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Foresight of Water Resources and Management in Egypt
Studies
Date of publication   Thursday. June 1, 2006

This study presents as a foresight study some of suggestions to help decision makers in making their choices regarding the situation of water resources and its management in Egypt. This was through investigated the future scenarios that governing the Nile water resources and how it could be affected by the situations of the Nile Basin countries and the Middle East, as well as prioritized the driving forces that might affect the futures of water in Egypt. "Scenarios workshops" was identified as the most appropriate methodology for the "water foresight" project

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International Experiences in Future Studies
Studies
Date of publication   Wednesday. March 1, 2006

 

 Aiming at monitoring the updates in the field of future studies, the Center for Future Studies has been analyzing future studies experience of several countries to present their methodologies and frameworks. This paper's objective is to introduce and analyze experiences of Israel 2020, and Nigeria 2010, and Ireland 2030.

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Transition Economies over 15 years: Challenges and Achievements
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. January 1, 2006

 

This study tries to evaluate the experience of transition from centrally planned to market economies, in 25 transition economies, in South and Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The Paper used a number of macroeconomic, socio-economic, structural reforms, and external sector indicators for the period from the beginning of the transition process in the early 1990s until 2004 to achieve this goal.
 
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Reality and future of water in Egypt
Studies
Date of publication   Sunday. January 1, 2006

Because of the importance of water as a vital and principal resource for all activities, and the imbalance water status in Egypt, which principally resulting form disequilibrium between water resources side (limited and constant) and water uses side (large and increasing), there are some expectations that Egypt will face a problem in the near future, and this problem will changes for a crisis in the far future.

Far all of that the Center for Future Studies conducted this study, aiming at standing on the water current status, and trying to suggest some solutions for eliminating these problems and crisis.

It was found that there are several solutions and mechanisms, which could be summarized in preserving international agreements and development for Nile waterway, benefiting from scientific and technological progress as an entry for increasing water supply, eliminating water pollution, applying good water management criteria's, benefiting from water pricing experiences as a tool for rationalizing demand for water, protecting public health and environment, and in addition some institutional and financial instruments. 

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Futures Studies Centers Directory
Studies
Date of publication   Friday. October 1, 2004

A paper which contains sufficient information on the most important research centers working in the field of future studies on the international, the regional and the local levels.

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The General Framework of the Center for Future Studies
Studies
Date of publication   Friday. October 1, 2004

 

The document contains the most important methodologies used in future studies and database for the centers and the experts working in future studies, as well as the most important periodicals and websites specialized in future studies in the world.

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The Most Outstanding Case Studies in Future Studies
Studies
Date of publication   Wednesday. September 1, 2004

A paper containing a selected set of the most important future studies on the international level as well as on the regional and local level.

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