Delphi Research
APEC Center for Technology Foresight has conducted 2 Delphi Research on Water Supply and Management and Technology for Learning and Culture in the years 1998 and 1999.
Water Supply and Management and Delphi Research
The topic of water supply was one of the three highly rated projects identified in a wide survey of opinions for possible topics for the APEC Center for Technology Foresight prior to the APEC Symposium at Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 10-13 June 1997. The background paper for the opinion survey stated: “Water Supply Dephi Research”
Beyond 2000 there will be great need of supplies of water for domestic, agricultural and industrial uses while excessive water supplies cause seasonal flooding and global warming may start to increase the sea level causing flooding of low lands. Clean water will become ever-increasingly scarcer. Technologies include water management, remote sensing, irrigation with environmental concerns, and recycling and conservation technologies. Other technologies to purify water such as membrane filtering are needed.”
At the initial meeting on 2 February 1998, the International Advisory Board of the APEC Center identified this topic for early study and broadened it to “Water Supply and Management” Delphi Research to reflect the issues raised above. This was endorsed by the Steering Committee. Further issues were identified in the Workshop held in Bangkok on 4-6 February 1998 when the topic was used in the session on Delphi techniques and Delphi Research.
Technology for Learning and Culture and Delphi Research
The use of technology to enhance learning and culture for the future is of common concern to all APEC economies. While multi-media technologies are resulting from a convergence of computing and communications, Delphi Research, the implications in terms of future planning of education systems, equity of access and impact on national cultures have not been assessed. Different technologies may be suitable for different economies.
This project was initiated at a public seminar in Bangkok, described below. Mr. Jacques Lyrette, Vice-President of the National Research Council of Canada presented an Issues Paper to set the framework for the study and stimulate debate. An Experts’ Meeting was held in Vancouver, Canada in 3-6 May 1999, to review these ideas and develop scenarios for the future. Following this, a multi-country Delphi Research Survey was carried out. The final reports of this Delphi Research study are available.
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