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We look forward to the 12th Annual Meeting of Global Vision, Inc. ...

... to which the public is invited:

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2006
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

2nd Floor, North Conference Room
The NEW Center
1100 North Main St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Agenda:
10 a.m. Annual business meeting of Global Vision, Inc.
11 a.m. Demonstration global forecasting program -- discussion.

Ample free parking is available at the location. Driving directions will be provided upon your request. Please direct inquiries to Paul Williamson, as indicated at the bottom of this message.

Recent and current activities 2005 / 2006

Global Vision, Inc. ...

... Held the 11th Annual Meeting of Members and Directors, last September 25 at the University of Michigan, which featured a review of the projected GVI Reference Model. (See below.)

... Held, at a meeting of the Peace Science Society, International last November 3 in Iowa City, a review of the September forecasting conference (see above), featuring discussants from University of Idaho, University of Michigan, and State University of New York at Binghamton.

... Are involved with collaborators at Stanford University and University of Michigan to produce and publish a book further developing the computational global modeling / forecasting themes and issues that were addressed at the conference “Illuminating the Shadow of the Future”. (To learn more, click here .)

... Continue to develop the global modeling / forecasting Resource Directory, which can be found here.

... Continue to work toward the first operational date of the GVI Reference Model , see below, a demonstration computational global forecasting engine. For discussion, click here. We are:

(1) focusing, initially, on ability to forecast world-wide energy prices and distribution, including the synthesis of pertinent other factors such as violent conflict, politics, and weather / climate;
(2) looking into the possibility that the demonstration model entry point (which can be found here) can serve as a means of accessing forecasting models that have been created by a variety of other parties.

Recently Completed at University Of Michigan:

Global Vision, Inc. collaborated with co-sponsors at the University of Michigan and Stanford University to plan and carry out a conference on global forecasting, entitled “Illuminating the Shadow of the Future: Scientific Prediction and the Human Condition” , held last September 23 through 25 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Participants came from many places in the United States and from Germany, Japan, and Switzerland. To learn more, click here.

Computational global social-environmental forecasting model
(GVI Reference Model – see above)

Work continues on a demonstration version. When finished, this model will be accessed via a graphical user interface reached from the GVI site you are now viewing. The model will be available to all users who access this site. This demonstration version will be a small replica, containing some of the elements of a fully functional forecasting model.

Developing, testing, applying, and teaching others to use such computational global models is, of course, the central goal of GVI.

The effective constraint on rate of progress toward meeting this goal is availability of adequate funding, for which we depend on voluntary contributions from organizations and private individuals. As funds become available, we will use them to move toward this central goal.

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