As a second generation foresight institute the AFI consciously integrates philosophy, foresight and strategy and fosters relationships across a broad spectrum of individual futurists, private think tanks and academic establishments. We have links with strategic foresight programs at universities in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, China, India and Taiwan.
This extensive network of strategic foresight practitioners enables us to advise governments and business leaders and to inform the public about future patterns, trends and choices from inclusively global (rather than exclusively Western) perspectives. Thus the work of the AFI attempts to counterbalance the prevailing euroocentric paradigm of civilizational progress pursued within the guise of industrial economism that still underpins most global policy initiatives and which we believe to be fundamentally flawed.