Egypt

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Objective:

Disseminate awareness, thinking and implementing the futures’ disciplines and methodology, among the public and local decision makers.

Recent activities:

Main activity is focused on creating global Futures’ partnerships especially Middle East, MENA, Africa and Arabia.

International Conference on Future Technologies for Sustainable and Resilient Systems, Alexandria, 2–3 December 2026:  Prof. Dr. Kamal Zaky Mahmoud Shaeer, conference co-chair and scientific-committee member.

Some other activities are:

  • ASRT collaboration (2013–2016): The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology commissioned The Millennium Project to develop ECISIS (Egypt’s national Synergetic Information System), an Egyptian adaptation of TMP’s Global Futures Intelligence System. The three-year collaboration included software transfer, customization, staff training, and development of a public national foresight and collective-intelligence platform. Cooperation with ASRT’s Council for Future Studies and Risk Management continued through subsequent futures conferences and activities.

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Egypt Node

Cairo

1997

 

Institution hosting the Node

  • EAFRA — The Egyptian-Arab Futures Research Association

Chair

  • Prof. Kamal Zaky Mahmoud Aly Shaeer, Professor Emeritus of Andrology and Reproductive Medicine, Cairo University; founder of Cairo University’s Future Research & Study Center; founder of the Egyptian-Arab Futures Research Association (EAFRA); founder of the Council for Future Studies & Risk Management at Egypt’s Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

Node members

  • Prof. Ahmed Shawki, Professor of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University; specialist in genetics, genetic engineering, agricultural biotechnology and biosafety; member of Egyptian national committees concerned with genetics, genetic engineering and biosafety.