1. New Real Time Delphi Studies The World Bank: review of the Resource Allocation Framework of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) UNESCO: design of UN World Water Development Report Peru’s Energy and Mining Supervisory Agency: 10-year future of electricity Millennia 2015 : developments and policies to improve the status of women World Federation of UN Associations: current relevance and issues of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. MP: Priorities 2009-2010 MP: Elements of the evolving economic system

2. Recent Improvements Ease of initiation (load sheets) Addition of diverse inputs radio buttons yes/no true/false Identification of levels of agreement and disagreement Question statement carries generic column heading Simplified pricing

3. Next RTD Steps Student version Promotion A version with only qualitative inputs Mixed row inputs Training others

4. Data Imputation The problem: completing incomplete historical data sets Fill the blanks in WDI historical data for a set of 30 countries and 28 variables over 20 years. Used the JP7 statistical package

5. Techniques Raw data Interpolation Limits Country by country time series Other parameters Regress across all countries

6. Effect of Techniques TechniqueData Available Raw Data 60.1 Interpolation 62.5 Limits 67.8 Time series and other parameters 80.0 Regression across all countries 100.0

7. Raw Data Examples

8. Validation Examples

9. Next Steps Extend to other countries Continue validation Search for automated means of imputation Create “go-no go” rules Combine with global model