Forecasting for Social Good

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## What is Forecasting for Social Good?

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##  What is Forecasting for Social Good?
### An annual workshop: [www.f4sg.org](www.f4sg.org)

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##  What is Forecasting for Social Good?
### A Research Grant

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##  What is Forecasting for Social Good?

### A Potential Research Network / IIF section

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##  What is Forecasting for Social Good?
### IJF paper

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## Democratising Forecasting
### Educating people about forecasting
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- 3 days workshop-Foundations of forecasting using R

- .remember[1 day workshop-Forecasting for managers]

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### .white[1.] What is meant by F4SG?

### .white[2.] What attributes make a forecasting process aligned with F4SG?

### .white[3.] How F4SG process might be different from other areas of forecasting?

### .white[4.] What are other social good initiatives related to F4SG?

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### .white[5.] What are research opprtunities in F4SG?

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## Why forecasting?

- You do not forecast for the .remember[sake of forecasting].

- You do it because you want to base .remember[decisions] on it.

- Ideally, make .remember[better decisions] in the .remember[light of forecast].

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## Make better decisions to ...

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- Increase profit

- Increase economic growth

- Increase resource utilisation

- Reduce Co2 emissions

- To not blow up the business

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>.title[With better decisions, we help someone/something to .remember[THRIVE].]

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.pull-right[.title[Doughnut theory]]

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>‘‘Instead of economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, we need economies that make us .remember[THRIVE], whether or not they grow’’. -- Raworth (2017)

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.footnote[Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist. Chelsea Green Publishing.]

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- The theory combines the concept of .remember[social foundation] with that of the .remember[ecological ceiling] in a single framework.

- .remember[Social foundation*:] to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials.

- .remember[Ecological ceiling**:] ensure we do not overshoot the planet’s capacity for critical life-supporting systems.

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[* Transforming our world : the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, 2015.](https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda)

** [Rockström, Johan, et al. "A safe operating space for humanity." Nature, 2009, 472-475](https://www.nature.com/articles/461472a?foxtrotcallb)

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## Where do we want to be?

Between the .remember[social foundation] and the .remember[ecological ceiling] lies a space in which it is possible to .remember[meet the needs of all people] within the .remember[means of the living planet] — **an ecologically safe and socially just space in which humanity can .remember[THRIVE]**.

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## .remember[Inform decisions that brings us into the space]

- The decision-making process needs to support all activities that bring us into the Doughnut space — an environmentally safe and socially just space — in which humanity thrives.

- This is where forecasting plays a role: .remember[to inform those decisions].
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## FSG process

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## Attributes of FSG

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## F4SG versus other area of forecasting

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## Are there research opprtunities?
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### FSG research maturity framework
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**The purpose of F4SG initiative is to:**

- .remember[Motivate engagement] with .remember[important issues] that .remember[our world and society face], and not only focus on forecast accuracy, methodological advancement and profit;

- .remember[Increase awareness and interest] from academics and practitioners in the potential impact of F4SG;

- .remember[Encourage] interested academics and practitioners .remember[to engage] in the FSG agenda;

- .remember[Inspire] the development of new forecasting methodologies tailored to social good applications.

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>.title[Qualifying what constitutes F4SG should permit academics and practitioners to appreciate the .remember[opportunity cost of not engaging with its scalable agenda].]

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.hand-large[Thank you]

### Resources:
### [Forecasting for Social Good conference](https://www.f4sg.org/)
### [Forecasting for Social Good Reseqarch Grant](https://forecasters.org/programs/research-awards/forecasting-for-social-good-research-grant/#:~:text=The%20Forecasting%20for%20Social%20Good,good%20practices%20and%20drive%20developments)
### [Forecasting for Social Good Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.02.010)
### [Democratising Forecasting](https://forecasters.org/blog/2018/07/10/new-iif-workshop-initiative-democratizing-forecasting/)

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