The Latin American Center for Globalization and Prospective (CelGyP) was first created in 1997, be the initiative of Dr. Horacio Godoy, who invited experts and specialists on different subjects to voluntarily join the Center, with the object of:

a) Searching and supplying global information to solve local interest problems

b) Developing programs of advance interactive training trough digital classrooms to strengthen the capacity of action on both phases of the globalization process: the global actions coming from outside the country and the action coming from the county to global scale.

c) Specials consulting on reengineering enterprise; institutional reforms, or new university level educational planes, all based on the knowledge of the globalization progress.

The sudden death of Horacio Godoy who was the founder and president of the Center meant a profound grief and an irreparable loss to all the members of the Center; Horacio Godoy was a man of intellectual capacity and spiritual strength. His regrettable absence was also manifested on the difficulties to keep the progress of the Center specially the South American Node of the Millennium Project

Then our first task was to keep the Center alive as a sincere tribute to the memory of its founder, and to continue his labor. The progress of the program during this period can be summarized in the following manner,
 

1. Design and management of a Home Page in the Internet: <global-latino.com> with links to the Millennium Project; works available, including the "1997 State of the Future" - in Spanish -.

 
2. Distribution of the Spanish translations of the "1997 State of the Future" report.

 
3. Invitation to Yoseff Bodansky, member of the Task Force on Terrorism and non Conventional Weapons from the United States Congress, with the object of work and interchange on meetings with local researchers.

 
4. Participation of Miguel Angel Gutierrez and Lic. Patricia Vasquez at the Millennium Project Planning Committee Meeting, held in Washington DC, February '98.

1. Distribution of the survey regarding to the "1998 State of the Future" gathering and canalization of answers.

 
2. Distribution of survey regarding the Environmental Security Report.

 
3. Translation to Spanish of the "1998 State of the Future" report

 
4. Invitation to Jerome Glenn, Co-director of the Millennium Project, to Buenos Aires in order to participate at the Bernardo Houssay's Course giving the lecture" The Millennium Project, a Global Future Research" at the Center for Advances Studies of the University of Buenos Aires, October 14^th, 1998.

 
5. Lecture and debate by the Co-director of the Millennium Project, Jerome Glenn, regarding the preliminary report "Environmental Security" as part of the program of lectures about Responsibility and Environmental Security organized by the Belgrano University and the National School of Intelligence, held on October 15^th, 1998.

 
6. During his visit to Buenos Aires, Jerome Glenn, also develop the following activities;

• Interviews with a Senator and staff of the National Congress.
• Lecture on the Millennium's Origins and Objectives at the Argentine Council for International Relations.
• Lecture and debate on the Millennium's Origins and Objectives at the Argentine Metallurgic Industries Association, and the Integration Foundation.
• Two interviews with the Secretary of Strategic Planning at the Executive Office Dr. Jorge Castro.
• Interview with Lic. Luis Calviño, Deputy General Secretary of the General Secretary, at Executive Office.
• Meeting with Dr Alicia Fernandez Cirelli, Secretary of Science and Technology at the University of Buenos Aires.
• Interview with the Research Group from the Center for Advance Studies of the University of Buenos Aires. This Group works on the Long Term Social Dynamics are directed by Dr Carlos Mallman.
• Interviews and lunch-meetings with members of the Latin-American Center for Globalization and Prospective.

1. Institutional participation of the Latin American Center for Globalization and Prospective (CelGyP) at the International Seminary "Looking For Comparative Advantages; Export of University Services in the Mercosur. A Development Strategy"; organized by the University of Buenos Aires, the Montevideo Group of the Universities Association, Chile's Foreign Relations Minister, ProChile. - Buenos Aires, and the Latin American Center for Globalization and Prospectiva, Argentina from the 4^th to the 6^th of November 1998.

 
2. Use of material form the Millennium Project at courses and other academic activities held by the Center's members in different universities' campuses and professional training during 1998 in Argentina and others countries.

 
3. Elaboration and Presentation of the Project about " The International Seminary: Globalization, Prospective and Future Research Methodologies", at the Financial Competition of Scientific Meetings of the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion - Argentine Republic. The Project was not selected.

 
4. Interviews with Ambassador Carlos Moneta, Permanent Secretary of the Latin-American Economic System (SELA), in order to coordinate activities and programs of common actions.

 
5. Electronic edition and distribution of the Spanish translation of the "1998 State of the Future".

 
6. Initial contacts in order to form sub-nodes in different countries of Latin America. In this moment we are working with Chile ( Dr. Guillermo Holzman Perez, Projects Coordinator from the Institute of Political Science of the University of Chile), Colombia (Dr. Francisco José Mojica (former director of the Graduate Course on Prospective of University of the Sabana) and Uruguay ( Dr. Jorge Grandi, director of The European Center for Formation on Regional Integration) focusing on regional integration.

 
7. Presentation of Research Projects in order to get auspice by South American Node of Millennium Project.

 
8. Sending of a proposition for a training program on Prospective in response to the petition of the Foundation Fundacite Lara from Venezuela.