How do you engage hundreds – or even thousands – of people in a well structured, self-organising discussion of their knowledge and views on the future?

The DTN sponsored the creation of http://scenariothinking.org – the largest public repository of scenarios in the world. It is based on wiki technology and allows for large scale creation and sharing of views and knowledge about scenarios. More than 200 driving forces have been catalogued for public use.

We apply our learning in the public space to service our commercial clients. For each major project, the DTN sets up a secure, tailor-made, wiki project website to enable the broader organisation to participate in the scenario building process. People in the organisation can view hours of streaming videos and podcasts of the external interviews. They can read and contribute to the scenarios and the driving forces report; and discuss the implications with their colleagues.