Join people from all over New Zealand in an on-line game in the future world of Pounamu to find thousands of answers to the question:

Pounamu: Generating Ideas.  On 7 and 8 June people from all over New Zealand are invited to create a better future for New Zealand by joining in the on-line, game in the future world of Pounamu.

The idea-generating game will run alongside the Transit of Venus Forum.

It is set in 2022, in a New Zealand where everyone is smart about science and technology.

Participants play by posting micro-forecasts (140 characters) of future possibilities and building on, or reshaping other players’ ideas.

Register on line to participate Find out more and play here.

See the Flyer.

From June 6-8 delegates from science, business, iwi and government communities will gather at the Transit of Venus Forum in Gisborne to hear some of New Zealand’s leading thinkers advance Sir Paul Callaghan’s vision for New Zealand – a place where talent wants to live – a community that is prosperous and inclusive.   Pounamu is being run to take the conversation out beyond the physical walls of the forum and involve New Zealanders from all walks of life in the conversation about creating our shared future

The game will run alongside the forum sessions. Questions and ideas from the forum discussions will be fed into the online conversation. Ideas, challenges and future possibilities from the game conversation will be fed back to the forum.   The game provides an opportunity for all New Zealanders to contribute to the conversation and for a wide range of different understandings and knowledge to be brought together to imagine futures for New Zealand.  There is particular encouragement for younger New Zealanders to add their voices to the discussion.

The Pounamu game is sponsored by the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, StratEDGY Strategic Foresight and the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, with support from the Royal Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Futures Trust.  The game is run with the support of the Institute for the Future on their ‘Foresight Engine’.