UPCOMING
The Future-ready Society series of events is a partnership between Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), and Tote Board
The flagship conference on 10 May 2023 aimed to understand the future trends, emerging issues, and opportunities looming on the horizon. By identifying responses and showcasing solutions that address those issues, curated learning journeys and panel discussions can also help to introduce ideas and spark dialogue with people, private, and public sectors, as a lead-up to the conference.
The series of events will help form the focus of the Future-Ready Society Impact Fund. Tote Board launched this Fund to pilot novel solutions that can respond to present-day complexities, as well as emerging issues on the horizon. These solutions will be informed by research, co-designed with partners, and driven by the community.
The projects will also help to build the capabilities of partner organisations, and a more innovative social ecosystem.
Key focal areas for the Fund include, but are not limited to:
- Building resilient families
- Empowering communities
- Deepening meaningful citizen engagement.
Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) will engage in futures-oriented research to identify insights and opportunities, while Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) will focus on curating and incubating solutions that can be piloted. The guiding sensibility of this three-way partnership is to experiment with bold concepts.
In 2023, the theme will be on “Resilient Families and
“Empowered Communities“
What do resilient families and empowered communities look like?
- Do we clearly understand what is ideal before we focus on solutions that get us there?
- Is there a flip side of resilience that we should be aware of?
- Do our communities really want the responsibilities that come with empowerment, or have they been ready for some time now?
Should future societies
be more local?
- Should goods and services be produced locally and regionally to serve the needs of the community?
- Can money that’s spent on everyday goods, circulate in the local economy, to local businesses so as to provide ample meaningful employment opportunities?
Can peer-to-peer or common-based approaches to societal change complement the dominant professional-led forms of service delivery?
Can communities self-organise to understand and address their own needs through mutual aid and support?
What is the role of placed-base approaches that focus on tapping into local assets, connecting community partners, and allowing the diversity of possible responses, even as we focus on scaling standardised evidence-based programmes across the nation?
Will Web 3 technologies revolutionise community self-management and non-profit organisational structures through mass participation, or is it merely a fad, and no-tech or low-tech platforms do just as well?
Can real-world games be a force for meaningful social change?
What is the potential of game design in building stronger families and connected communities?