Peter Jones
The futures of Canadian governance: Foresight competencies for public administration in the digital era
abstract evidencebased practice advanced public administration increasing reliance social research population sampling decision making yet evidencebased turn risks marginalizing value strategic foresight futures competencies informing policy planning evidence enables policymakers select best nearterm course action future outcomes inferred projected determined past evidence foresight provides necessary competency defining investing right direction future policy action articulating future problematics multiple foresight methods social technological futures cannot precisely predicted future scenarios prospectuses designed inform options trajectories intervention new policy emerging area digitalera governance examined complex scenarios future policies based present evidence trends informed speculation formulate policies options dynamically changing societal contexts