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    WOSC 2020 On-line discussion
    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day1 full
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    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day1 full

    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day 2
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    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day 2

    The roundtables on WOSC 2021 themes: Technology and humanity: co-developing a hybrid reality and Transdisciplinarity of systems sciences and cybernetics: developing areas of knowledg
    0 WOSC 2020 OnLine introduction Raul Espejo
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    0 WOSC 2020 OnLine introduction Raul Espejo

    Important world institutions, such as the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are publicly recognizing the highly interconnected nature of our world and therefore the relevance of systemic thinking and cybernetics as leading knowledge foundations to deal with the complexity of economic, social and environmental issues. This recognition by major international agencies of the CyberSystemic nature of policy issues makes apparent that in the context of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics more than ever we need to debate and develop current ontological, epistemological and methodological approaches to understanding the future of humanity. WOSC is honored that the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) has agreed to be the venue for its 18th Congress (WOSC 2020). Consistent with its scope scientists of this Academy have made important contributions to key issues of human society over the past decades. They have contributed to problems of nuclear disarmament, space exploration, the fight against terrorism, self-organization for strategic projects and many more. More recently, they have been developing aspects of socio-humanitarian cybernetics and of self-developing reflexive-active environments. Indeed, the RAS is a most valuable setting to support further developments of these and other issues. Our aim in WOSC 2020 is to bring CyberSystemic scientists, and in particular younger researchers, together with politicians and practitioners to debate pressing economic, social and ecological problems of humanity, at all levels from local communities to global societies. For this purpose, we propose to focus the discussions on the following four themes: philosophical and methodological foundations for the development of the systems approach and cybernetics, the cybernetics of democracy, the cybernetics of hybrid reality, and governance in an increasingly interconnected, ecologically sensitive, world. Short summaries of these themes are introduced below.
    0 Vladimir Lefebvre contributions by Vladimir Lepskiy
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    0 Vladimir Lefebvre contributions by Vladimir Lepskiy

    Theme 1 Philosophical and methodological...
    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day1 full
    05:28:36

    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day1 full

    1.1 and 1.5 Systemic approaches and cybernetics - bases of development Vladimir Lepskiy
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    1.1 and 1.5 Systemic approaches and cybernetics - bases of development Vladimir Lepskiy

    Philosophical and methodological basis for the development of a systems approach and cybernetics. The evolution of cybernetics: first, second and third order cybernetics. Reflexivity in a systems approach and cybernetics. Cybernetics of hybrid reality environments (subject, digital, physical). Social responsibility and ethical regulators in the control of social systems. Modern ideas about the scientific cybernetic picture of the world. The specifics of the development of a systems approach and cybernetics in different civilizations, coordination and integration of international research based on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the development of socially-oriented types of cybernetics, the development of second-order cybernetics (S. Umpleby, V. Lepskiy, R. Vallée, S. Bozicnik & M. Mulej, T. Ivanuša and others). An urgent problem is the analysis of the foundations and models of different types of socially-oriented cybernetics. The focus of this section is third-order cybernetics developed in Russia. Third-order cybernetics (V. Lepskiy, 1998) is formed on the basis of post-non-classical scientific rationality. The logic of the formation of third-order cybernetics is based on the transition from first-order cybernetics - "observable systems", to second-order - "observing systems", to third-order cybernetics - "self-developing poly-subject (reflexive-active) environments". And also on the ascent from the paradigm "subject - object" to the paradigm "subject - subject" and then, in third-order cybernetics, to the paradigm of "subject - metasubject (self-developing poly-subject environment)". Third-order cybernetics has its own specifics and also defines a paradigm (framework construction) that includes first and second order cybernetic paradigms, similar to post-non-classical scientific rationality. On the basis of post-non-classical scientific rationality it became possible to integrate ideas and concepts of humanitarian studies: ideas about the noosphere (V. Vernadsky), the concept of society as a social system (N. Luhman), activity and subject-activity approaches (A. Leontiev, L. Vygotsky, S. Rubinshtein, et al.), contributions of Russian methodologists (G. Shchedrovitsky, et al.), interdisciplinary ideas of the formation of social cybernetics (S. Umpleby), sociohumanitarian analysis of the experience of developing automated systems (V. Lepskiy), and others.
    WOSC 2020 Innovation Lessons Post Covid 19
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    WOSC 2020 Innovation Lessons Post Covid 19

    The 10 minute version of my IEID talk
    1.2 Critical Systems Thinking Michael Jackson
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    1.2 Critical Systems Thinking Michael Jackson

    This session welcomes papers which discuss and critique the philosophical and methodological foundations of different systems approaches. Relevant papers will examine the manner in which the theoretical underpinnings of a systems approach (or approaches) impact – for better or worse - on its ability to address issues arising from the complexity of our highly interconnected world. Contributions that suggest how systems methodologies, and their theoretical assumptions, can be modified to make them more successful in practice will be welcome. As will contributions that debate how different systems approaches can be used in combination to manage complexity. Papers that reflect on what ‘improvement’ means, from a systems perspective, are encouraged. Finally, papers that demonstrate the case they make by using examples of practical application will be much appreciated.
    Theme 2 The cybernetics of society, ecol...
    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day1 full
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    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day1 full

    2.8 Citizenship and democracy Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek and Matjaz Mulej
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    2.8 Citizenship and democracy Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek and Matjaz Mulej

    Cultures may perceive citizenship and social responsibility from different perspectives. The West often reduces democracy to voting in elections, whatever are the aspirants’ personal attributes. Hence, power-holders are allowed, and even authorized, to be one-sided rather than requisitely holistic; to feel independent rather than interdependent; to be more socially negligent than socially accountable. And this is one of the best model so far, but not good enough for humanity to come close to what L. v. Bertalanffy called 'being the citizens of the world rather than of a country’. We understand citizenship and social responsibility as an interactive process related to social meanings, where we recognize others and ourselves through permanent negotiations, as properties that emerge from the way humans relate to each other. We are inviting contribution to explore these attributes as emerging properties within human social interactions, beyond legal and political conditions. Contributions that include the value of knowledge focused on innovative social transformations toward a socially responsible community and society. We welcome different approaches to identify the ways to build up communities more systemically (i.e. requisitely holistic), hence with an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes the attitude “Thank you for not agreeing with me, your insight is completing up my knowledge and values” as a basis for an ethics of interdependence, leading to a more holistic social responsibility and citizenship as a way of making a society more socially responsible, both locally and globally. Perspectives from local contexts and knowledge include co-learning processes to promote equality, diversity, inclusion, cohesion and real participation towards building up sustainable communities beyond technological innovation processes focused on the wellbeing of the people, communities and society.
    Managing the complexity of climate change
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    Managing the complexity of climate change

    WOSC September 16-18 "Discussion Paper" for a World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics online event replacing the 18th WOSC Congress in Moscow deferred until 27-29 September 2021. Refer to https://www.wosc2020.org/ The presentation is a call for System Scientists to educate political leaders, bureaucrats, CEO’s and society that wicked complex problems like global warming, pollution, inequality or lack of bio-diversity and universal wellbeing cannot be reliably or comprehensively solved with markets or hierarchy not found in natural self-governing systems, but with "polycentric" networks of self-governing components that can introduce a requisite variety of matching complexity subjected to continuous challenge for adaption described as "Tensional Integrity" = "Tensegrity". Tensegrity seems to be what drives evolution of the universe and is described by biologists as the "architecture of life". Author: Shann Turnbull PhD, Principal: International Institute for Self-governance Email: sturnbull@alumni.harvard.edu, Cell: +61 (0) 418 222 378 Academic paper accepted for presentation in September 2020 at the Moscow 18th Congress as a contribution to Theme 1.4 : Philosophical and methodological foundations for the development of the systems approach and cybernetics (4) Organizational theory in a CyberSystemic World. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to apply existing knowledge to counter climate change. The contribution to knowledge is to ground institutional analysis, individual behaviour, political science, economics, management and the management of global sustainability in the practices and science of governance found in nature. This is achieved by using bytes as the unit of analysis to explain how nature governs complexity on a more reliable and comprehensive basis than achieved by humans. Tax incentives could encourage organisations to adopt elements of ecological governance found in nature and in social organisations identified by Ostrom and the author. Ecological governance can provide benefits for all stakeholders as desired by CEO’s of the US Business Round Table. Corporations then become a common good to allow them to promote global common goods like countering climate change, pollution and inequalities in power, wealth and income. Democracy is enriched bottom-up. Keywords: – Bytes, Climate change, Common good, Commons tragedies, Complexity, Ecological governance, Global warming, Governance science, Natural processes, Polycentric Republics, Requisite Variety, Tensegrity. Paper type – Academic Research Paper
    2.1. Governance of pressing global policy issues in the age of the Anthropocene
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    2.1. Governance of pressing global policy issues in the age of the Anthropocene

    Evidence from numerous countries indicates that many “governance systems” are not fit for purpose under contemporary circumstances. Symptoms of governance deficit vary across policy domains and scales (from local to the global), occurring within nations, organisations and multilateral programs. The Anthropocene imposes new challenges for governments, demanding capabilities for dealing with complexity and uncertainty. Given the scale, significance and magnitude of the policy challenges arising in the Anthropocene it seems necessary to take radical governance changes towards transformative governance regimes. Innovations that break the current structures and relationships of our governance systems are needed to build capacity for governing the unfolding surprises and inherent uncertainties of the Anthropocene. This session explores theoretical, methodological and empirical cases enabling innovations in cyber-systems thinking and practice that offer promise for revitalising institutions and practices that deliver effective governance.
    2.4. Electronic democracy and digital self-organisation tools BorisSlavin
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    2.4. Electronic democracy and digital self-organisation tools BorisSlavin

    The processes of self-government and self-organization in society, expert networks and professional communities, including scientific and educational communities have the potential to reorganise using state of the art information technology (IT). IT can increase the awareness of the people of their role in active society and care for the environment, but IT can also be used for sharing misinformation and support phobic behaviour. In this section we are addressing challenges related to selection, implementation and use of IT in non-government organisations, professional and business environment and e-democracy at all levels of government: from the regional level to the national and international level.
    2.5. Consequences of digital age-technology threats to people systems and societies Allena Leonard
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    2.5. Consequences of digital age-technology threats to people systems and societies Allena Leonard

    2.6 Westphalian dilemma Raul Espejo
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    2.6 Westphalian dilemma Raul Espejo

    2.6. The Westphalian Paradox - Global Governance and Sustainability German Bula
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    2.6. The Westphalian Paradox - Global Governance and Sustainability German Bula

    XXI century brings new challenges and threats to Humanity. As the old mechanisms of political and economic relationships are being demolished, the new global problems are on the rise. The stratification between the poor and the rich is increasing, as well as extremist and terrorist activity. The world is facing, unregulated migration flows, inter-ethnic and inter-confessional conflicts, and the use of science for dangerous, inhumane manipulations. In this regard, we must discuss the prospects of the humanitarian and technological revolution as a viable option to overcome this man-made crisis. What we are experiencing today is the dawn of a new era of multipolar and multi-civilizational world, moving forward from the model of conflicting existence to the model of dialog and harmony. As scientists, we must focus our attention on this process and try to analyze it from philosophical, methodological and systemic points of view. Our task is of most importance – to study current and emerging civilizational projects, using systems approach and cybernetics, to envision them as super-complex systemic social and cultural phenomena, which can create meta-civilizational entities.
    2.6 Operationally closed systems develop eigenbehaviour Clas-Otto Wene
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    2.6 Operationally closed systems develop eigenbehaviour Clas-Otto Wene

    In globalization, the identity of the nation state is undergoing profound transformations; the problems it faces transcend its capabilities; the supranational domains of interest and responsibilities increase all the time. The UN calls for a "stronger and more coherent UN system, a global central bank, a global investment trust, a global environmental agency." The so-called "Compliance", as a growing commitment of the private sector, today includes money laundering, financing of terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational bribery and non-compliance with environmental protection standards. In various ways, tacit and explicit, politicians and governments recognize major global challenges: international agreements, manifestos, instruments and declarations address the aforementioned threats and others, such as crimes against humanity and abuses of biotechnology. The term multilevel governance (local governments, states, nations, European Union) points to new organizational understandings. Today the average interval between shocks is shorter than the relaxation time to absorb them. Institutions were originally designed to accept a much longer interval between shocks. Today the environmental challenges are shaking us at an increasing rate. The old questions about "who is the public" and how to gather and interpret collective opinions pose new challenges. Top-down approaches through regulation appear to be ineffective, while the scientific community complains about the so-called "clumsy climate strategy" with its appeal to treat problems at the lowest possible level of decision-making, when the challenge is global The scientific community has resonated to climate change, but in spite of all “words, words, words” the whole society is not resonating. Maybe, for very good reasons, as demonstrated by the slow response of governments to people’s demands. In particular, significant parts of the scientific subsystem and the green part of the political system wants “full steam ahead”, but there may be a lot of winners and losers, so any policy for aspects such as climate change must incorporate equality and proportionality. Resonating the whole society may release gigantic amounts of uncontrolled and unchecked variety There may therefore be very good cybernetic reasons for wishing great transitions to be spear-headed by only a few resonating subsystems. Still to accomplish the transition both the political subsystem and the civil society must be on board. We may refer to this as the Westphalian Paradox, where nation states, as established in 1648 as part of the Peace of Westphalia, trump the societal global level all the time, increasingly endangering the future of society.
    2.10 Innovation, change, creativity and organisation  Di Nauta, Lazazzara, Martinez
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    2.10 Innovation, change, creativity and organisation Di Nauta, Lazazzara, Martinez

    Change can mean bartering, replacing, transforming, modifying, converting (in a transitive sense), becoming different, changing in appearance or behavior (in a reflexive sense). So, change is related with the concept of doing with something different from the moment in which the implementation has been properly decided, and represents a sign of variation, even if not necessarily of discontinuity. Generally, the concept of change can be linked to changing the characteristics of a system/organisation and/or the way of doing things. In an economics and business framework, the concept can be extended to the mean of updating, correcting, improving the status quo by adapting to the changing environment for any social organisation. Innovation is one of the possible paths according to which change can take form, and can be described as the possibility of concretizing the creativity through an original process, with the aim to guarantee the satisfaction of changing needs over time. Creativity can be described as the attitude of a system/organisation to evolution and, therefore, not only a specific cognitive capacity, but a real attitude to change the system by the system itself. As the change implies the ability to propose something new, updated, consistent with the evolving needs, then it can be understood as innovation, because it is connected to something that is perceived as different from the past, advanced in a certain sense, precisely innovative. This session aims at discussing the above concepts in the cybernetic and complex social systems framework, with a focus on the protean nature of systems with their emerging, unpredictable, dynamic, non-linear evolutionary paths. Actually, according to this perspective, change and innovation in social systems/organisations have been offered more insights also from literature about self-organisation, dissipative structures, coevolution, learning, crisis and catastrophes, highlighting the evolution of a social system in a Popperian logic.
    Theme 3 Technology and humanity: co-deve...
    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day 2
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    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day 2

    The roundtables on WOSC 2021 themes: Technology and humanity: co-developing a hybrid reality and Transdisciplinarity of systems sciences and cybernetics: developing areas of knowledg
    3. Technology and humanity: co-developing a hybrid reality sections
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    3. Technology and humanity: co-developing a hybrid reality sections

    Hybrid reality is about the close interconnection of technology and people, addressing their behaviours individually or as parts of groups or organisations. From a cybernetic perspective, this theme is addressing the convergence and integration of subject, digital and physical realities. It offers a debate about the amplification of individual capabilities, through organisation and technology, and the attenuation of different digital representation and constructions of their world, actively affecting their lives. Hybrid reality refers to the dynamics of people’s life worlds in increasingly ‘smart environments’, constructing these worlds as new technologies keep emerging. ​ In WOSC 2020, we are inviting contributions on the state of the art of technological research and its applications through new tools, focused especially on their implications for people, organizations, societies and the environment. This theme wants to open discussions on computing in design and architecture, as well as on smart devices and environments (personal and organisational). It also wants to open debate about big data analytics and sharing, artificial intelligence, situation centres for development, energy and transport related issues, cyber security, health, blockchains and the convergence of technologies. The reasoning on technological feasibility should be advanced with implications for society and the environment: economic justifications, accordance to law, the ethical perspective, effects on the environment, and paths for identifying not yet recognised consequences. People are adapting to huge changes in their surroundings. They are invited to share their experiences and thereby contribute to producing group knowledge and responses to the social abuse of tools, such as Facebook, Goggle and Twitter. These reflections possibly should become the next meta-level of group consciousness. In the age of human-machine interdependence, the boundaries between individual and group intelligence are redefined, putting technology in everything we do and experience. Reasoning on group consciousness and clarification of these boundaries pose a challenge for WOSC 2020. This theme wants to give special attention to the design of hybrid reality elements. In addition to being subject-supportive, proactive, secure and providing value-added, the seamless supplementing of the natural and artificial in hybrid reality adds to the desired positive user experience. We think that it is important to use cybersystemic thinking to manage the complexity of interactions in our hybrid reality to maximize its synergetic potentials on individuals and organizations and to avoid misuse and to mitigate undesired consequences.
    3.1 Socio-humanitarian Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies Massimiliano Pirani
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    3.1 Socio-humanitarian Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies Massimiliano Pirani

    Artificial intelligence is increasingly affecting people´s initiatives. If earlier AI helped a person to perform routine operations, a few researchers are arguing that AI can copy emotions and thinking processes. The general (strong) AI is moving further and further into the areas previously inaccessible for understanding people´s capabilities: the collective unconscious, the transcendental state of mind. Such advanced technologies are useful for group strategic formation for self-organising social networks and for creating effective plans for government, non-government, regional, national, municipal, and other bodies. But all of this can lead to a sharp reduction in jobs, and as a consequence, social unrest. There is a high risk of societal development with limited attention to people´s emotions, lacking soul. This session aims to discuss such problems and propose disruptive solutions to improve AI development in the present and future.
    3.3 Hybrid Reality Examined Igor Perko
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    3.3 Hybrid Reality Examined Igor Perko

    Hybrid reality is about the close interconnection of technology and people, addressing their behaviours individually or as parts of groups or organisations. From a cybernetic perspective, this theme is addressing the convergence and integration of subject, digital and physical realities. It offers a debate about the amplification of individual capabilities, through organisation and technology, and the attenuation of different digital representation and constructions of their world, actively affecting their lives. Hybrid reality refers to the dynamics of people’s life worlds in increasingly ‘smart environments’, constructing these worlds as new technologies keep emerging. ​ In WOSC 2020, we are inviting contributions on the state of the art of technological research and its applications through new tools, focused especially on their implications for people, organizations, societies and the environment. This theme wants to open discussions on computing in design and architecture, as well as on smart devices and environments (personal and organisational). It also wants to open debate about big data analytics and sharing, artificial intelligence, situation centres for development, energy and transport related issues, cyber security, health, blockchains and the convergence of technologies. The reasoning on technological feasibility should be advanced with implications for society and the environment: economic justifications, accordance to law, the ethical perspective, effects on the environment, and paths for identifying not yet recognised consequences. People are adapting to huge changes in their surroundings. They are invited to share their experiences and thereby contribute to producing group knowledge and responses to the social abuse of tools, such as Facebook, Goggle and Twitter. These reflections possibly should become the next meta-level of group consciousness. In the age of human-machine interdependence, the boundaries between individual and group intelligence are redefined, putting technology in everything we do and experience. Reasoning on group consciousness and clarification of these boundaries pose a challenge for WOSC 2020. ​ This theme wants to give special attention to the design of hybrid reality elements. In addition to being subject-supportive, proactive, secure and providing value-added, the seamless supplementing of the natural and artificial in hybrid reality adds to the desired positive user experience. ​ We think that it is important to use cybersystemic thinking to manage the complexity of interactions in our hybrid reality to maximize its synergetic potentials on individuals and organizations and to avoid misuse and to mitigate undesired consequences.
    3.4. Distributed knowledge and information asymmetry - smart tech. and dig. rev. Caputo and Ototsky
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    3.4. Distributed knowledge and information asymmetry - smart tech. and dig. rev. Caputo and Ototsky

    Today the most powerful and rich Big Tech corporations implement digital revolution that was foreseen by Stafford Beer more than 50 years ago. In the emerging social and economic configurations data, information and knowledge are the new powerful sources of competitive advantages. People, groups and organisations exchange data in their mutual interactions for collecting knowledge useful in solving problems and taking decisions. Communications in a digital environment generates a huge amount of data that becomes a new power source of competitive advantages. Big data-centric corporations enwrap their customers by ecosystem of services and products obtaining complete data about people behavior and predicting their desires in future. Consequently, conditions of information asymmetry affect social and economic systems and distributed knowledge is usually not well collected, managed and understood. Unfortunately, data are approached as a resource that must be protected because it can produce a possible competitive advantage. As a consequence, conditions of information asymmetry affect social and economic systems and distributed knowledge is usually not well collected, managed and understood. The ongoing digital revolution and the opportunities provided by the so-called smart technologies could offer new perspectives and instruments in the challenging debate about distributed knowledge and information asymmetry. Accordingly, this session invites to the in-depth study the contribution of smart technology and digital revolution in defining more effective approach for the management of distributed knowledge and information asymmetry.
    3.5 Cyber Ethics -The Connectivity of Values and Cybernetics Christoph Stuckelberger
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    3.5 Cyber Ethics -The Connectivity of Values and Cybernetics Christoph Stuckelberger

    The highly interconnected nature of our world needs systemic thinking in all areas including ethics and values. Cyber Ethics looks at the values and virtues as orientation for decisions in the cyber world, be it for e-health or artificial intelligence, for autonomous cars or autonomous weapons, the interdisciplinary research or international legal regulations.
    3.6 Information security issues and technology: strategic social control and global security
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    3.6 Information security issues and technology: strategic social control and global security

    The statement “Tectology calls for the study of “any system both from the point of view of the relationships among all of its parts and the relationship between it as whole and its environment, i.e., all external systems (Alexander Bogdanov, 1922).” Enrolled a range of systems thinkers, trying to understand and support the thriving of complex systems. The variety and the dynamics of activities in multilevel social systems and their environments demands for control mechanisms that must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system being controlled (adapted from Ashby, Ross, 1956). Securing the safe development of multilevel systems in digital age requires for a viable management of network technologies as a strategic factor of global security. To achieve the requisite holism of methods and means focused in safeguarding the society at all levels, international experience exchange and cooperation is imperative. Discussion points: Digital Ecosystem internal and external complexity, structure, dynamics and (in)stability The identified and unidentified vulnerabilities of the Digital Ecosystem The Digital Ecosystem focused security management and the interrelations with the “real” world. Directions of development of national and international systems of network management of social processes in the global information society. The behaviuor of existing subsystems in safeguarding and disrupting the digital ecosystem development; are we facing reverse (twisted) Cybernetics? Situation centers as a technological basis for strategic decision-making.
    3.7. Modelling uncertainty, fuzzy situations and Grey Methodologies Yang Shifen
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    3.7. Modelling uncertainty, fuzzy situations and Grey Methodologies Yang Shifen

    Modelling uncertainty, fuzzy situations and Grey Methodologies (Sifeng Liu, China; Yingjie Yang, UK; Alexander Ryjov, Russia) The development of technology is enabling novel interaction platforms such as the social media in Internet. At the same time, through investment, policies and regulations, society can enforce or prevent the development of specific technologies. Uncertainty plays a significant role in these changes. The interactions between technology and people in society are indeed complicated and traditional mathematical systems have no capacity to model them. Alternative systems are necessary to model such interactions, among them, data-driven models are gaining momentum. With the increased availability of data from Internet and the Internet of things (IOT), big data technology is the current focus for such developments. However, uncertainty in systems mean that the historical data cannot reflect recent changes of policy or other environment factors, and the only reliable data is likely to be real time data rather than historical big data. And, of course unexpected uncertainty can always surprise us in modelling. Therefore, effective modelling, maximising the use of available meaningful, albeit limited data, recognising uncertainties is essential in our big data age. Among others, the theory of grey systems does provide exactly such a facility. Here, this session, wants to highlight the role of grey systems; this debate will focus mainly on the two extremes: big data and limited data, certainty and uncertainty.” Discussion points Data Mining and Processing Systems Modelling and Simulation Forecasting and Decision Making Control Incidence Analysis Model Clustering Evaluation Complex Equipment Development Management Technical Innovation and Emerging Industry Development Computational Intelligence Uncertainty Analysis and Applications
    3.9 Cybernetics and Control Science  Michael Goubko
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    3.9 Cybernetics and Control Science Michael Goubko

    During last decades, general ideas of cybernetics were transformed into theory and practice of automatic control in various kinds of technical and social environment. This modern field has many common points with the frontline directions listed below. We plan to discuss a wide scope of interrelated problems from applied mathematics and cyberphysical media to a control in economical and social systems, among the scientists specialized in Control Science theory and applications.
    3.10 Interdisciplinary applications of physics - Laser model Andrei Khrenikov
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    3.10 Interdisciplinary applications of physics - Laser model Andrei Khrenikov

    Interdisciplinary applications of physics - Socisal Laser model Andrei Khrenikov, modeling mass protests and color revolutions. History of physics reveals numerous attempts to apply the novel physical methods to social behavior of humans founding new economical and social laws. In the second part of XX century, physics of complex systems did reach the level of complexity comparable with human-involving phenomena. This section will encompass modern applications of interdisciplinary physics in social engineering and human sciences including, but not restricted to, the following discussion points.
    Theme 4 Transdisciplinarity of systems s...
    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day 2
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    WOSC 2020 on-line discussions day 2

    The roundtables on WOSC 2021 themes: Technology and humanity: co-developing a hybrid reality and Transdisciplinarity of systems sciences and cybernetics: developing areas of knowledg
    4.5 Moiseev_WorldSimilarity
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    4.5 Moiseev_WorldSimilarity

    Medical services are subject to increasing costs and are often unaffordable to the most, but also offer huge opportunities to the develop of mankind. Service performance needs enhancement and increased improvement. This session wants to focus on medicine. It wants to offer a platform for the improvement of health services. These services are often fragmented and constrained by a disciplinary divide; scientific knowledge seems to still fail in contributing to solve people’s problems. The reductionism prevailing in modern biology and medicine has reached the "evolutionary bottom", finally decomposing biosystems into the most elementary parts – atoms and molecules. Further development of biomedicine with the contribution of nano- bio-, information, cognitive - and Social (NBICS) technologies in the context of the latest industrial revolution (industry 4.0) is possible on the way of evolutionary rise in the levels of organization of biosystems and the return of wholeness in biomedical approaches and theories, i.e. in the framework of system biology and medicine.
    4 Transdisciplinarity of systems sciences and cybernetics Barile, Saviano, Bassano and Cosimato
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    4 Transdisciplinarity of systems sciences and cybernetics Barile, Saviano, Bassano and Cosimato

    In a context of huge on-going political shifts, digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are making social processes more interconnected and interdepended. These latter trends are having an essential effect in business, social and political processes. Economics, science and philosophy are the product of the game of social forces, and now it is all about addressing the role of socio-economic processes and cybernetics in the framework of the 21st century. At a more focused level, inside a paradigm where smart cities and big data are reorganizing our relevant knowledge and common thinking, new logics of value co-creation processes are underpinned by the digital technologies and social disruptions. They are disrupting and upset-ting the “old order”. Under these conditions we invite submissions proposing integrative methods to model, simulate and anticipate social and economic transformations in strongly con-strained societies.
    4.1. Redesigning the Education System  JOSE PEREZ RIOS
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    4.1. Redesigning the Education System JOSE PEREZ RIOS

    A structural and long-term transformation is taking place in the world. The decentralized communication platforms together with the rapid expansion and use of artificial intelligence will produce a major change in our society. This situation demands empowering the citizens both in skills and critical thinking to ensure both economic growth and social and political stability. The goal of attaining together Economic Development, Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability require a major transformation of our education systems. The complexity of the situations faced today by decision-takers is extreme. The variety of issues - ecological, social, economic, energy, transport, migratory, etc. - and their interrelations is huge. Hence, decision-takers need to use systemic approaches to cope with the complexity of these issues. Within the systems movement, a wealth of conceptual and methodological knowledge has been created, that is adequate for this task. Both researchers and practitioners now have the problem of making young people aware and knowledgeable of these foundations and proficient in their application. Today’s education system is fragmented and has become very ineffective and inefficient. Redesigning the education system means providing alternative ways of disseminating systems approaches (e.g., leaner-centered education, problem and project Based Learning/PBL), so the students get familiarized with systemic approaches, their methodologies, methods, tools, concepts etc. and can experience the emergent properties that do appear in systems and their contexts. Beyond that, governance structures need a revision as well together with innovative organizational forms to deliver education from k12 to higher and life-long learning. In all cases avoiding fragmentation and cultivating a cyber-systemic way of thinking and enacting.
    4.1. Redesigning the Education System Alfonso Reyes
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    4.1. Redesigning the Education System Alfonso Reyes

    A structural and long-term transformation is taking place in the world. The decentralized communication platforms together with the rapid expansion and use of artificial intelligence will produce a major change in our society. This situation demands empowering the citizens both in skills and critical thinking to ensure both economic growth and social and political stability. The goal of attaining together Economic Development, Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability require a major transformation of our education systems. The complexity of the situations faced today by decision-takers is extreme. The variety of issues - ecological, social, economic, energy, transport, migratory, etc. - and their interrelations is huge. Hence, decision-takers need to use systemic approaches to cope with the complexity of these issues. Within the systems movement, a wealth of conceptual and methodological knowledge has been created, that is adequate for this task. Both researchers and practitioners now have the problem of making young people aware and knowledgeable of these foundations and proficient in their application. Today’s education system is fragmented and has become very ineffective and inefficient. Redesigning the education system means providing alternative ways of disseminating systems approaches (e.g., leaner-centered education, problem and project Based Learning/PBL), so the students get familiarized with systemic approaches, their methodologies, methods, tools, concepts etc. and can experience the emergent properties that do appear in systems and their contexts. Beyond that, governance structures need a revision as well together with innovative organizational forms to deliver education from k12 to higher and life-long learning. In all cases avoiding fragmentation and cultivating a cyber-systemic way of thinking and enacting.
    4.3. Indisciplinarity and practical wisdom: another crisis for higher education? Clive Holtham
    20:52

    4.3. Indisciplinarity and practical wisdom: another crisis for higher education? Clive Holtham

    Tom Scholte: A Cyber-Systemic Approach to Forum Theatre - WOSC 2020
    14:56

    Tom Scholte: A Cyber-Systemic Approach to Forum Theatre - WOSC 2020

    An overview of an interdisciplinary research program exploring a theatrical approach to social system modelling.
    4.6 Global impact of investment and entrepreneurship ecosystem  Jose Rodolfo Hernandez-Carrion
    15:01

    4.6 Global impact of investment and entrepreneurship ecosystem Jose Rodolfo Hernandez-Carrion

    We propose to focus this session on the global economy. Possibly, many key problems of humanity, such as climate change, environmental pollution, ecological sustainability, poverty, inclusivity, hunger, diseases, etc. could be approached faster and more successfully if, among other aspects, sufficient intellectual and financial resources were properly routed. We need new economic thinking and advanced systems theory in the rising context of a globally connected economy. What are key elements to consider in order to achieve new goals and create answers to these economic and systemic problems? The work proposed for this session is the advancement of creative organisational systems together with logic-mathematical models and methods to simulate social dynamics under the conditions of new realities and to the anticipation of possible trajectories of global development.
    Learning from the past
    Vladimir Lefebvre’s Theory of Two Systems of Ethical Cognition (WMSCI 2016)
    26:33

    Vladimir Lefebvre’s Theory of Two Systems of Ethical Cognition (WMSCI 2016)

    "Vladimir Lefebvre’s Theory of Two Systems of Ethical Cognition" (General Joint Session at WMSCI 2016) Professor Emeritus Stuart Umpleby The George Washington University, USA Abstract: In his 1982 book Algebra of Conscience Vladimir Lefebvre contended that the dominant ethical systems in the West and the Soviet Union were fundamentally different. However, people on each side usually assume that there is only one type of ethical reasoning. The result is that each side takes actions that are misunderstood by the other side. With the guidance of Lefebvre's theory it became possible for both sides to take actions which, although counterintuitive in their own thinking, could lead to more success in negotiations and a reduction in armaments. Luckily, Lefebvre’s theory was used at the highest levels of the governments of the US and the Soviet Union during the break-up of the Soviet Union. This presentation will explain how Lefebvre’s theory can be used in negotiations between governments, between businesses, and between individuals. The theory explains some of the difficulties encountered in the transitions in the post-communist countries. It may prove helpful in negotiating with extremist groups in the Middle East and Africa.
    Democracy and 2nd Order Cybernetics Carlos Senna
    19:06

    Democracy and 2nd Order Cybernetics Carlos Senna

    staffordBeer1
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    staffordBeer1

    Project Cybersyn - Stafford Beer's Cybernetic Science Fictions
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    Project Cybersyn - Stafford Beer's Cybernetic Science Fictions

    Free As In Beer: Cybernetic Science Fictions - A paper delivered at the 2009 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference by Jeremiah Axelrod and Greg Borenstein that describes how British cyberneticist Stafford Beer's writing, infographics, and industrial design for his ambitious Cybersyn Project worked together to create a science fictional narrative of omniscience and ominpotence for Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile. Greg Borenstein website http://gregborenstein.com/

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