This badge is issued to people who have identified and thought about their most essential skills for the future.
The Institute for the Future predicts that our future learning and working pathways will be based on skills in five key areas. Some of them will be more important than others, but they will all be part of our futures.
- Make Yourself Known with skills for managing your reputation and identity;
- Befriend the Machines to curate, create and simulate our complex world;
- Build Your Crew with start-ups, communities and networks;
- Make Sense with storytelling, frameworks for action and ecosystem thinking;
- Keep it All Going with skills for caring, sharing, and evolving human capacities.
The holders of this badge have identified and thought about the future skills and their relevance to future learning, civic engagement and careers.