In what year was one of the Future and Emerging Technologies projects founded?
Blue Brain Project The Blue Brain, a Swiss national brain initiative, aims to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry. The mission of the project, founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" (EPFL) in Switzerland, is to use biologically-detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mammalian brain (brain simulation) to identify the fundamental principles of brain structure and function in health and disease.
Third World Forum Third World Forum (Forum Tiers Monde) is a transnational alternative policy group that produces and disseminates analyses and information tools related to global development and promotes alternatives oriented towards the enhancement of democracy, social justice and ecological sustainability. Third World Forum was established in 1975 and is based in Dakar. It was among the organizations that helped to set up the World Forum for Alternatives, created in Cairo in 1997.Samir Amin is its co-founder and current director.