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AboutMaking anticipatory governance usable
Foresight Policies turns the methods of the world's leading government foresight units into a free tool anyone can use in a browser, and into facilitated sessions for teams that want to go further.
Why we built it
Elite foresight, democratised
The main obstacle to future-proof policy is no longer a shortage of methods. It is that foresight stays an occasional, academic exercise, cut off from budgets, impact assessments and evaluation, and so it is reabsorbed by short-term pressure.
Introductory primers are accessible but shallow. Specialist scenario software is rigorous but needs training that busy civil servants rarely get. Foresight Policies sits in between: real methods, explained plainly, with a worked example and outputs you can put in a memo, a call for evidence or an impact assessment.
Who it is for
People who shape policy
- Policymakers and civil servants in ministries, agencies and regulators.
- Cities and regions, which feel shocks first and must respond fastest.
- Think tanks and researchers preparing evidence for calls and hearings.
- Civil society and companies that want to anticipate the rules of tomorrow.
Principles
How we work
Free and open
The wind-tunnel, the methods guide and the readiness check are free to use, with no account.
Private by default
Your work stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded unless you export or email it yourself.
Transparent scoring
Every score has a visible formula. You can see why a policy fails in a scenario, and change it.
Sources linked
Facts on this site link to the public reports they come from, so you can check them.
Illustrations labelled
Example signals, presets and policies are marked as illustrative. They are starting points, not findings.
Part of a family
We hand work to sister platforms for signals, public goals, transitions, investment and data.
Wind-tunnel sessions
Facilitated sessions with your policy and your people
Every session uses the same four modules as the free tool, prepared with your context and run by an experienced facilitator. You keep the workspace file and a written report.
Policy wind-tunnel
Build a cross-impact scenario set with your experts, run your policy through it and hold a structured premortem.
Anticipatory regulation studio
Diagnose the problem and design the instrument: a sandbox charter, a deliberation protocol or a verification blueprint.
How a session works
- Intake call
- Preparation with your documents
- The session
- Report and workspace file
- Optional follow-up and signpost review
The family
Part of the Summanity and Humanity Solutions family
Foresight Policies is built and run by Humanity Solutions in The Hague, the team behind these sister platforms.
SignalsForesight InfluencersSignals worth hearing, solutions worth spreading.
AspirationsAspiration PlatformAn open directory of public, dated aspirations.
TransitionsForesight TransitionsInterim management, advice and investment for volatile times.
InvestmentsForesight PropertiesProperties for resilient and joyful futures.
DataData Exchange PlatformFind, share and reuse data for the changes that matter.
CommunitySummanitySum Salons on Summanitism and working with AI.
Get in touch
Questions, session requests, a correction or an institution to add: write to connectwithus@humanitysolutions.net.