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CURAÇAO 2030 – A VISION OF THE FUTURE Dr. Miguel Goede is a management consultant, scientist, strategist, and one of the people behind Curaçao 2030, a platform that co-creates a vision for the future of the island. Miguel has been observing trends for a long time. In the 1990s, while working at Andersen Consulting (now part of Accenture), he collaborated on a document called “Creating our Caribbean Future” which was presented in 1997. WRITER: ÚNA JANSEN
The document presented a set of scenarios about life in 2020, most of which turned out to be surprisingly accurate, including the growth of the internet, the development of social networks, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and the massive increase in connectedness across the planet. In 2020, Miguel and a group of colleagues involved in the 1997 project got together to review the document, noting that while they had
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been successful in their predictions, they had missed out on the opportunity to bring about positive change on the island. “We didn’t believe in our foresight”, he says. “There was a vision, but no action”. In 2020, Miguel and the group of like-minded people started creating a set of scenarios for 2030 but this time, with the intention of using these to drive positive change on Curaçao. The Curaçao 2030 document posits four
potential scenarios for the future, depending on how the island responds to COVID-19 and environmental, economic, and social factors. The scenarios are: • Scenario 2.0: a centralized and hierarchical society based on neoliberal principles with limited innovation. • Scenario 3.0: a decentralized society based on neoliberal principles and driven
