As a result of the 1996 Mid-Year meeting of the Planning Committee, it is now appropriate to establish more formal relationships with the current nodes, and to establish guidelines for the recognition of future nodes.

A Millennium Project node is a self-organizing group of institutions and individuals recognized by the Project that will facilitate the Project's research or conduct autonomous research in support of the Project. In this capacity, each node will participate in the identification of incipient world issues and opportunities, study their prospect and their potential resolution, as well as methods for accomplishing such research.

Each node:

• assumes lead responsibility for a geographic area or subject
• has access to the entire Millennium Project (staff, information system, international panels, and the other nodes) in carrying out its specialized responsibility
• selects its own chair who is responsible for the work of the node and communications with the Project's coordinating office

Currently, the work of a node includes:

1. Select a regional panel for the Look-Out study the represents a diverse set of individuals. For example, three individuals per Project domain could be selected. These individuals should be selected because of their extensive knowledge and ability to add fresh or new thinking to the study
2. Translate the one-page Millennium Project Overview and make sure that translations on the homepage are of good quality
3. As appropriate and pending budgets, translate Global Look-Out questionnaires; distribute the translated and English versions together to the regional Look-Out panel that the node has selected; collect responses, translate to English, and send to the coordinating office at . Nodes may decide to work in English, but make provisions to assist those who prefer not to work in English
4. Identify and Interview political, business, NGO, UN leaders in your area during Round 4 of the Global Look-Out Study

Additionally, nodes will:

5. Be offered a variety of ways to financially participate in the sales of the annual State of the Future Reports, such as: the opportunity to translate Annual State of the Future Report, act as agent for the translated version, and or sell it regionally with royalties shared between the node and coordinating office.
6. Agree that overhead of approximately 10% (pending annual review) of grants and contracts secured by the nodes for work of the nodes is retained by the /Millennium Project coordinating office.
7. Initiate its own futures research, methods development, and advanced training with the results shared with the Project as-a-whole as they are produced. For example, a node might create scenarios that are germane to their specific geographical orientation or priority issues. These scenarios could be components of larger scenarios produced by other nodes or in the Project's global scenarios. Similarly, if a node produces a regional "state of the future" report it could become a component of another node's report or included in the Project's annual report.
8. Submit material for the Project's homepage on Internet and or create their own homepage that will be linked to the Project's homepage.
9. Recommend futurists, scholars, and other resources as needed to other nodes.
10. Organize a planning committee for the node that will review the node's plans and research findings; two persons from will participate as ex officio members of this committee.
11. Agree that if the work of two nodes overlap, the coordinating center node will act as a clearinghouse of studies, informing each node of the work undertaken by others, identifying needed study areas, and integrating the completed work of the contributors.

Be responsible for the quality of its work, assuring that its research is apolitical, and publishing the results of its work to promote public awareness and discussion.

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With any comments or questions, please contact Jerry Glenn, Millennium Project Director <jglenn@igc.org>.


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