Currently we are a subgroup of people mainly from the Multiple Intelligence School in Suva, Fiji Islands.
However we also have people who are outside of the school structure but who are still keen on participating in imagining what Fiji’s possible future(s) could be.
Although this has been set up as a school’s ‘parent activity’, we think that this is a very strong point for creating dynamic groups that are keen to actually do something rather than just talk about doing someting. Our parents range from business owners/operators, to volunteers in NGOs, civil servants, senior administrators and technical experts in regional and global organisations, and government officials. Already these parents are not ‘run of the mill’ because they have enrolled their child in a progressive school that does not follow the ‘traditional’ curriculum of rote learning the three ‘R’s’ (Reading, wRighting and aRithmetic).
Fiji’s current pathway into the future is not something that Fiji citizens consider much. Although we have a democratically eleected government that has a strategic planning division, the idea of planning 75 years into the future is not something that any current government can afford because of the 4 year election cycle.
Right now in 2025, Fiji, along with the rest of the world, is going though dramatic changes both globally and also nationally. For instance:
The world order is changing where the current ‘superpowers’ are going to be at least enlarged, or even supplanted by other nations that are moving into the future.
Global warming appears to have contributed to subjecting Fiji to it’s first recoredd category 5 hurricane (Winston, 2015), from which we are still recovering. The future is likely to have more of these and more frequently.
The advent of technologies such as artificial intelligence (A.I.) in large language models such as ChatGPT, is predicted to be a disruptive technology.
Fiji is entering a dangeours phase of having access to drugs such as methamphetamine which has also contributed to an exponential rise in HIV-AIDS (through needle sharing).
These dramatic changes are things that need to be activley thought about before they impact across all of our society, because by the time their full impact is felt, we may find it extremely hard to respond adequately.