Wanted: Contributor NominationsWanted: Contributor Nominations

Work needs to be done! This is a list of organisations and individuals that, through their mind- or skill set, are especially qualified for taking part in the collabarative design process of a better global society framework. You can make nominations at the bottom of this page; submissions will be reviewed and – in case of sane reasoning behind the nomination – appended to this list.

Scientists, Engineers and Professionals

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Name: 
Dr. Uwe Wiemken
Completed Degrees: 
Professor of Sociology and Philosophy
Professional / Academic Status: 
CEO of Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis (INT)
Expertise / Qualification: 

Specialized in long-term technology forecasting and risk evaluation.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Technology Risk Assessment, Scenario Space Evaluation
Name: 
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stichweh
Completed Degrees: 
Degree in Psychology and Graduation in Medicine and Philosophy
Professional / Academic Status: 
Headmaster of University of Luzern
Expertise / Qualification: 

Expert on the topics of state theory, global society and science history.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Governance System Engineering
Name: 
Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer
Professional / Academic Status: 
Head of the Clinic for Psychatry and Psychotherapy at University Hospital Ulm
Expertise / Qualification: 

Deep insight into the thought processes within the human brain.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Collective social Behaviour Modulation
Name: 
Prof. Dr. Heidi Keller
Professional / Academic Status: 
Head of Culture & Development Unit of the Department for Psychology at the University of Osnabrück Faculty of Human Sciences
Expertise / Qualification: 

Has researched issues like parent-child relationship and education in general within a very broad range of cultural contexts.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Education System
Name: 
Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer
Professional / Academic Status: 
Director of the Center for Interdisceplenary Memory Research at KWI Essen and Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Witten/Herdecke
Expertise / Qualification: 

Familar with behaviour of cultural collectives and influencing factors.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Transition management and applied reverse memory research
Name: 
Holger Redlich
Professional / Academic Status: 
Teacher at Public Vocational School for Automobile Technology Hamburg
Expertise / Qualification: 

Confronted with failed school careers, he regularly accomplishes to change young guys to the better.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Education System
Name: 
Raymond Kurzweil
Completed Degrees: 
Bachelor of Computer Science and Literature at the MIT and countless honorary degrees and doctorates
Professional / Academic Status: 
Inventor, Computer engineer, Technology entrepeneur and natural born Futurist.
Expertise / Qualification: 

What ordinary people call ‚future‘ is Kurzweil's habitual environment.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Technology Forward Projection, Scenario Space Estimation

Groups and Organisations

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Name: 
Religions for Peace
Expertise / Qualification: 

From its roots back in 1961 to today's World Conferences bridging the gaps between religions.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Interreligious Communication
Name: 
United we change
Professional / Academic Status: 
Youthchoir and Singer from Heilbronn
Expertise / Qualification: 

The mission – World Peace, NOW!

Authors and Journalists

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Name: 
Malcolm Gladwell
Professional / Academic Status: 
Journalist and non-fiction writer
Expertise / Qualification: 

Author of the great book „The Tipping Point – How little things can make a big difference“

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Project Strategy Guidance
Name: 
Ulrich Wickert
Expertise / Qualification: 

Highly talented investigative journalist, news reporter and book author, experience with media since 1969.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Project reflection and practicability evaluation
Name: 
Ulrich Tilgner
Professional / Academic Status: 
Foreign correspondent currently employed at the Swiss TV station SF
Expertise / Qualification: 

Reporting since 30 years at the core of many conflicts from within the Arabic region he has acquired a valuable level of comprehension of Islamic culture and life.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Transcultural communication
Name: 
Bernardin Schellenberger
Professional / Academic Status: 
Freelance writer and translator
Expertise / Qualification: 

Philosopher examining spiritual questions of the third millennium from a Christian point of view.

Name: 
Winfried Wolf
Professional / Academic Status: 
Chief Editor of the Lunapark21 magazine and co-producer of the 'Paper against war'
Expertise / Qualification: 

Critical mind actively engaged in a couple of projects against free market insanity.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Global Resource Flow Management and transregional Logistics
Name: 
Carl Josef Kutzbach
Professional / Academic Status: 
Freelance Journalist and Writer
Expertise / Qualification: 

Brilliant radio reports and print articles about issues of great importance for our society testify of a broad horizon.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Project Advisory Board and Strategy Evaluation

Artists and Creatives

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Name: 
Beastie Boys
Expertise / Qualification: 

Punks!

„Now who in the world do you want to fight
It's against the system – we should unite“

Name: 
Anthony Rother
Expertise / Qualification: 

Acoustics Hacker.

Name: 
Die Fantastischen Vier
Expertise / Qualification: 

Artists of sound and thought. Futureproof thinking.

Name: 
Chemical Brothers
Expertise / Qualification: 

Great musicians in favor of acting for progress („Push the button“)

Name: 
Kenneth Loach
Professional / Academic Status: 
British movie director
Expertise / Qualification: 

Critical view on the current ‚system‘ as expressed in his 2007 feature film „It's a free World“

Activists and People of public life

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Name: 
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai
Professional / Academic Status: 
Ph. D. (veterinary medicine), Nobel Peace Price (2004)
Expertise / Qualification: 

Political fighter (against corruption and dictatorship) and founder of the Green Belt Movement that is providing support to rural people (especially women) in Africa by educating them on topics such as sustainable agriculture, ecological tourism and combating environmental problems like deforestation.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Agricultural concepts and Africa-specific topics
Name: 
Greg Craven
Professional / Academic Status: 
Science teacher at the Central High School
Expertise / Qualification: 

Understanding of the importance of massive global changes as an application of riskmanagement, plus great talent of communicating complicated matters in a comprehensible manner.

Proposed Field of Operation: 
Scientific opportunity / future scenario evaluation

Contributor nomination

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If you have in mind an organisation or individual whom you consider qualified for – aswell as interested in – collaboration on the topic of Human Future Optimization, you can make a nomination here.

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