Innovation Tag: Futures and Foresight

SEA Observatory Platform is public-interest AI governance infrastructure for Southeast Asia. It brings together 350+ official resources across 11 jurisdictions and ASEAN, helps institutions verify rules against primary sources, and uses GovSim (Governance Simulator) to rehearse procurement, oversight, and implementation choices before harm occurs. Its innovation is one auditable workflow from policy discovery to verification to decision rehearsal.

Developed by the Ministry of Health to analyze data flowing from all healthcare facilities in real time, SINA is an advanced, big data-driven decision support platform that enables real-time data visualization, interpretation, and comparison. Integrated with the AI assistant JAS in 2026, SINA allows users to gain insights by asking questions in natural language. By leveraging big data and causal analysis, SINA improves health policies, service delivery, and public health outcomes.

A digital population twin, combined with financial impact analysis, helps governments anticipate how demographic change and shifting risk patterns affect future service needs and costs. Built from real population data and enriched with research and administrative data, it supports precise forecasting, simulation, and planning. In Finland, it has been used to model future accident risks for rescue services at a highly detailed spatial level.

Conecta is a platform that allows public administrators to use technology to anticipate problems faced by cities during extreme weather events, such as flooding, landslides, accidents, and fallen trees. The platform integrates and unifies real-time alerts from different technological sources, enabling faster decision-making and more effective emergency response. Additionally, all the data generated and compiled will allow society to understand new reality and measure how efficiently public…

Governments often struggle to decide which emerging technologies are worth adopting and how to apply them responsibly. The Future Technology Observatory helps government entities identify, assess, and test high-potential technologies before adoption. It is innovative because it connects technology foresight with practical experimentation and adoption guidance in one shared government capability.

A digital platform that provides strategic and prospective quantitative and qualitative information, specifically on trends, risks, opportunities, scenarios, future events, and other topics. It is designed for use, consultation, and input by planners and the general public. It seeks to reduce the information gap, ensuring the validity and up-to-date nature of data for the formulation of plans and policies, thus facilitating the anticipation of challenges and the exploitation of opportunities.

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) embarked on a groundbreaking project to create the world's first digital twin of a country. This initiative, known as Virtual Singapore, involved the use of cutting-edge technology to develop a highly detailed 3D representation of the entire island nation. The project used laser-scanning aircraft and vehicles equipped with lasers to capture terrain and surface information, creating a comprehensive digital model of Singapore. The digital twin encompasses…

Futures and foresight methods are fundamental tools to inform decision-making and public policy in order to consider a wide range of future possibilities. The creation of a Latin American Future Network seeks to articulate existing efforts from many countries and enhance capacity building in the region, since capacities are still not well developed. This will benefit citizens by improving public sector services and future-proofing policies aimed at the population wellbeing.

A savings Program that is designed to encourage savings and financial literacy amongst Saudi children and providing financial inclusion for Young Saudi population (>18) from an early age and encouraging them to save and achieve their goals by providing attractive incentives and rewards and leveraging fintech best practices while applying behavioural economics.

Itla View is a digital tool to help local services for families with children to manage their activities better using up-to-date data, to anticipate the need for corrective services and identify opportunities for preventive work. It enables different actors to form a shared holistic picture of the well-being of children, young people and families in their area. Itla View collects observations sent by field actors on the daily lives of children and families. It utilizes artificial intelligence to…