Regretfully, Covid-19 has modified the plans for the WOSC Congress as well. Due to the pandemic related national and international activities are being restricted and will continue to be restricted for some time. We have concluded that the 18th  WOSC Congress cannot happen this coming September. Thereby, we have agreed its postponement to September 2021. WOSC’s 18th Congress will take place from 27. to 29. September 2021 in Moscow, where we should have the opportunity to meet in person, and also on-line, with those unable to join us physically in Moscow.

  Together with this change, we want to open the space for strengthening the outcomes of WOSC 2021. We want to run an online event of conversations about the already proposed manifesto for WOSC 2020, as well as of its planned themes and sections, during part or all of the original dates from 16. to 18. September 2020. The conversations should provide to all of us an option to connect with our section co-coordinators and also among ourselves. In particular, we think that the COVID 19 pandemic should give us new perspectives about Crisis and post-crisis viability and governance.​

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  In addition to the four Congress themes, we would like you to contribute by addressing the Crisis and post-crisis viability and governance, which is forming based on your  active participation.

 

16th September Scheduled programme:

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8:00 Colombia, 9:00 East USA, 14:00 UK, 15:00 EU, 16:00 Moscow, 23:00 Melbourne

  Igor Perko, Raul Espejo and Vladimir Lepskiy. Introduction to the organizational aspects of the online event and the preparations for WOSC 2021 (up to 15 minutes);

  Questions from participants will be accepted and will be answered at the end or later during the on-line event.

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Roundtables Part I

8:15 Colombia 9:15 East USA, 14:15 UK, 15:15 EU, 16:15 Moscow, 23:15 Melbourne

Theme 1: “Philosophical and methodological foundations

for the development of the systems approach and cybernetics”

Moderator: Raul Espejo (UK) (plus technical moderator and interpreter for Q/A)

  Michael C. Jackson (UK), Vladimir Lepskiy (Russia), Michael Lissack (USA), Dmitry Novikov (Russia), Stuart Umpleby (USA), Clas-Otto Wene (Sweden)

  Participants will have up to 10 minutes to introduce their contributions, optionally supported by ppt, which will be followed by discussions among them.

  Open discussion: online questions (about five questions and 3 minutes per Q/A); online external participants will be asked to send questions in advance and moderators will put them forward to table participants.

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Online coffee break (15 minutes)

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Roundtables Part II

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10:30 Colombia, 11:30 East USA, 16:30 UK, 17:30 EU, 18:30 Moscow, 01:30 Melbourne;

Theme 2 “The cybernetics of society, ecology and governance”

  Moderator: Allenna Leonard (USA), Tatiana Medvedeva (Russia)

(plus a technical moderator and an interpreter for Q/A)

  Ray Ison (Australia), Bernard Scott (UK), Georgiy Malinetskiy (Russia), Boris Slavin (Russia), German Bula (Colombia), Shann Turnbull (Australia), Matjaz Mulej (Slovenia)

  Participants will have up to 10 minutes to introduce their contributions, optionally supported by ppt, which will be followed by discussions among them.

  Open discussion: online questions (about five questions and 3 minutes per Q/A); online external participants will be asked to send questions in advance and moderators will put them forward to table participants.

 

First day programme finishes at:

13:00 Colombia, 14:00 East USA, 19:00 UK, 20:00 EU, 21:00 Moscow 04:00 Melbourne

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17th September Scheduled programme:

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  8:00 Colombia, 9:00 USA, 14:00 UK, 15:00 EU, 16:00 Moscow,23:00 Melbourne

(15 minutes of introduction, open discussion and answers to questions)

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Roundtables Part III

8:15 Colombia 9:15 East USA, 14:15 UK, 15:15 EU, 16:15 Moscow,23:15 Melbourne

Theme 3 “Technology and humanity: co-developing a hybrid reality”.

  Moderator: Igor Perko (Slovenia) (plus technical moderator and an interpreter for Q/As)

  Christoph Stuckelberger (Switzerland), Alexander Ageev (Russia), Francesco Caputo (Italy), Alexander Raikov (Russia), Mikhail Goubko (Russia), Andrei Khrennikov (Swedish), Teodora Ivanusa (Slovenia):

  Participants will have up to 10 minutes to introduce their contributions, optionally supported by ppt, which will be followed by discussions among them.

  Open discussion: online questions (about five questions and 3 minutes per Q/A); online external participants will be asked to send questions in advance and moderators will put them forward to table participants.

 

Online coffee break (15 minutes).

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Roundtables Part IV

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10:30 Colombia, 11:30 USA, 16:30 UK, 17:30 EU, 18:30 Moscow, 01:30 Melbourne

Theme 4 “The creation of new areas of knowledge from the transdisciplinarity of systems sciences and cybernetics”

  Moderator: Sergio Barile (Italy)/ Marialuisa Saviano (Italy)

(plus technical moderator and an interpreter for Q/As)

  Alfonso Reyes (Colombia), Jose Perez Rios (Spain), Aleksander Kovriga (Russia), Tom Scholte (Canada), Clive Holtham (UK) Alexander Koblyakov (Russia), George Kleiner (Russia), Igor Gundarov (Russia)

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END of roundtables:

13:00 Colombia, 14:00 USA, 19:00 UK, 20:00 EU, 21:00 Moscow, 04:00 Melbourne

 

 

Videos, published within the WOSC 2020 On-line event

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To advance the communication between the peers, WOSC Congress section coordinators kindly agreed to highlight in their contributions possible topics to develop in WOSC 2021 in the form short -15 minute videos or alternately presentations.

As these will be published throughout September on WOSC2020, YouTube, and Facebook, please be free to watch, comment and share them with your peers.

Theme 1

• Carlos Senna Figueiredo (Brasil)

• Viacheslav Maracha (Russia)

• Timofei Nestik (Russia)

Theme 2

• Sandro Schlindwein: sustainability (Brasil)

• Alexandre Perez Casares (Spain)

• Angela Espinosa (UK)

• Igor F. Kefeli (Russia)

• Denis Zhurenkov (Russia; Anton Saveliev (Russia)

• Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek (UK) and Matjaz Mulej (Slovenia)

Theme 3

• Massimiliano Pirani (Italy)

• Jerzy Josefczyk (Poland)

• Stefano Armenia (Italy)

• Sifeng Liu & Yingjie Yang (China-UK)

• Peter Ototsky (Russia) and Francesco Caputo (Italy)         

Theme 4    

• Primiano di Nauta (Italy)

• Rodolfo Hernandez (Spain)

• Cristian Pristipino (Italy)

• Nadezda Bagdasaryan (Russia)

• Vyacheslav Moiseev (Russia)

• Vladimir Shalaev (Russia)

• Vojko Potočan (Slovenia)

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WOSC 2020 Videos and on-line event streaming are available at WOSC2020 Online