Kenotes

John Beckford

Sergio Barile

Raul Espejo

Juliana Mariano Alves

(Goodman)

Jason Jixuan Hu

Alfonso Reyes

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Alfonso Reyes

Is a physicist and a systems engineer from Los Andes University. He has a MSc in Computer Science (University of Maryland), a PhD in Management Cybernetics (University of Humberside, UK) and postdoctoral studies in Organizational Learning (University of Lincoln, UK). He has worked for the last thirty years in addressing organizational problems in the public sector, especially in the administration of justice and the promotion of local development through the capabilities approach. He has been an international consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank and the Agency for International Development (USA) in applying management cybernetics to the public sector in Colombia, Paraguay and Perú. He has published several papers and being a co-author of four books about self-organization from the point of view of second-order cybernetics. He was the chancellor of the Universidad de Ibagué in Colombia (2009-2016), a Dean of the Engineering School at los Andes University (2016-2020) and since 2020 is again the chancellor of Universidad de Ibagué.

Jason Jixuan Hu

Jason Jixuan Hu currently organizes Club-of-Remy on the Internet, considered a successor of the Macy Conferences in 21st century with informal and self-organizing principles aiming to improve the collective wisdom of our time. His career path spans from distance education, system dynamics, teaching, entrepreneurship, project management and corporate training. He is not a pure publish-or-perish academic but focuses on walk-the-talk hands-on learning. That’s why he suggested that “system thinking” to be replaced by a new term “system OTAing,” OTA stands for Observe-Think-Action. For the WOSC this year he brings in 4 “seeds” for an action plan inviting colleagues to join.

Dr. Juliana Mariano Alves

Is a professor at Universidade Estadual do Tocantins (UNITINS), Brazil. Tocantins is the youngest state in the Brazilian Federation and is home to the largest hydric system on Brazilian soil, - the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin. Juliana is recognized for her contributions to rural development, sustainable management, systemic governance, and the design and implementation of key institutions for Water Governance in the state of Tocantins. She has developed programs to mitigate environmental impacts of hydroelectric plants on the Tocantins River and implemented decentralized environmental policies in northern Brazil, as a consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA). She is committed to the improvement of water governance and management for ensuring the sustainability of water use.Juliana serves on the board of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), and is engaged in international research projects. Title of keynote: Water Governance for SustainabilityTopics: Water governance for sustainability requires complexity-oriented management systems to address multifaceted challenges.River Basin Organizations should play a pivotal role, in enhancing water govern-ance, by fostering coordination and collaboration among stakeholders.Effective water governance relies on adaptive management and prioritizes ecosys-tem health in and around hydric systems.

Government for the management of the industrial economy, under the scientific direction of Professor Stafford Beer. Distributing discretion and designing structural mechanisms for ecological management Distributing discretion throughout society, that is, making all citizens active contributors to societal performance, as well as designing structural mechanisms for their collaborative cohesion avoiding hierarchical policymaking and abuses of relational power between customers and suppliers or in other words between organisational actors and environmental agents, is used in this contribution to explore truth, and increase capacity to capture and create value in society. Without sufficient investment and expertise in society’s complexity management, the variety of data proliferation can produce costs and generate risks that exceed an organization's capacity to create and capture value from big data. Complexity management scientist have explored data management through a conceptual discussion of chaos, complexity, and order and as such this paper is an introduction to discuss the proliferation of data in situations relevant to shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow.

Raul Espejo

Raúl Espejo is President of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and Director of Syncho Research, UK. He is academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) and Past Professor of Systems and Cybernetics at the University of Lincoln, UK.His research is in organisational cybernetics and systems. His most recent book is “Organizational Systems: Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model” (2011 in English and 2016 in Spanish (both with A. Reyes)). Has co-published five books and edited 7 special issues of journals, most recently in 2018, of Futures (“Futures of Society: the interactions revolution”). Has published over a 120 papers in journal and books. Has organised two of WOSC’s world congresses in 2014 (Colombia) and in 2017 (Italy) and together with Vladimir Lepskiy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Igor Perko of Maribor University in Slovenia of the 2021 virtual congress in Moscow. Currently he is organising together with Igor Perko the 2024 WOSC’s congress in Oxford. In June 2024 he was awarded by the American Society of Cybernetics the Norbert Wiener medal. From 1971 to 1973 he was operations director of the CYBERSYN project - the project of the Chilean

These innovations engender both optimism for their transformative potential and apprehension regarding their ethical, social, and economic implications. A striking consequence is the escalating disparity in wealth distribution, where technological beneficiaries prosper while others face marginalization and impoverishment. This wealth asymmetry fuels social unrest and necessitates critical discourse on equity, justice, and sustainability. In response to these multifaceted challenges, this study proposes a conceptual model that integrates key dimensions: Technological Innovations, Distribution of Wealth, Social Impacts, and Sustainability. Drawing upon Jürgen Habermas’s theoretical constructs of necessity, possibility, and effectiveness, the model seeks to elucidate the evolutionary trajectory of Western capitalism. It examines the shift from traditional proprietary capitalism to the dominance of financial capitalism, characterized by the ascendancy of financial sectors and the digital economy. Central to the model is the identification of emerging trends potentially leading towards a third paradigm. This prospective paradigm emphasizes knowledge as a primary economic resource, underscores active societal participation in economic processes, and reevaluates income distribution mechanisms. Such a framework aims not only to describe but also to predict and guide policy responses to these transformative dynamics. Moreover, the model employs a comprehensive approach that integrates both positivist and constructivist perspectives on resource allocation. This dual perspective acknowledges the objective materiality of resources while recognizing their social construction and contextual variability. This nuanced understanding is crucial for decision-makers navigating the complexities of contemporary socio-economic systems. The keynote speech contributes to the scholarly discourse by offering a structured framework for analyzing and interpreting the interplay between technological advancement, wealth distribution dynamics, and societal well-being. By fostering a deeper understanding of these relationships, the model aims to inform policies that promote inclusive economic growth and sustainable development, thereby addressing the ethical and social challenges posed by technological evolution in the 21st century.

Sergio Barile

Sergio Barile is a full professor of business management at Sapienza University of Rome. He has previously served as the head of the Department of Management and coordinated the Doctoral program in Management, Banking, and Commodity Sciences. His research interests span business management, systems theory, decision theory, and complexity theory.Professor Barile is the founder of the Association for Research on Viable Systems (ASVSA) and is a leading authority on the Viable Systems Approach (VSA). He serves as the editor-in-chief of the Routledge- Giappichelli "Systems Management" Book Series and is a member of the editorial boards of several leading journals in business management and economic sciences. He has authored numerous books and articles published in national and international journals, including the European Management Journal, Managing Service Quality, Journal of Service Management, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Service Science (Informs), TQM, Sustainability, and Sustainability Science. In recognition of hiscontributions to research, he was awarded the Evert Gummesson Outstanding Research Award in 2015. He can be reached at sergio.barile@uniroma1.it. TOWARDS AN ‘INCOME OF RECOGNITION’ The contemporary global landscape is witnessing profound transformations driven by rapid technological advancements, which permeate every facet of societal and organizational life.

John Beckford

“Still in Torment: (Re)Designing Freedom” It is now 30 years since ‘World in Torment’ explored ‘chronic societary triage’ (WOSC, Beer 1993) and 50 since ‘Designing Freedom’ considered the role of ‘science in the service of man’. This address will briefly rehearse the key ideas of those works and then consider the current state of the world. Examining the societary, political, economic and planetary challenges we are now facing it will examine thosechallenges from a cybernetic perspective and show how those ideas can support us in resolving ‘The Real Threat to “All We Hold Most Dear