Simon Forge

Simon Forge has worked for over 20 years in the information industries principally in the UK, France and Italy. He is director of SCF Associates Ltd. His strategy and economic studies have been used by major systems vendors, government and telcos to establish new directions. Simon has managed teams in systems integration, telecommunications, economic analysis of IT impacts, marketing and IT strategy. Currently he works on projects in telecommunications, computing and their socio-economic impacts, specifically exploring new radio and computing technologies with an emphasis on forecasting. For this, he often uses scenario analysis (with own methodology -SCF - scenario construction for forecasting, now with a new quantitative extension of tri-level macro-meso-micro- economic analysis). Currently working on design of a Future Internet for the European Commission