WOSC 19th Congress 2024: Shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow

From the event website:

The WOSC 2024 Congress, through the collaboration of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) with other systemic and cybernetic organisations such as the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS) and the UK Cybernetic Society, provides a platform to support interactions that support the construction of new meaning. It is a venue to open discussions on how CyberSystemics embraces modern technology avoids shortcomings of the past, and activates Citizens, to rethink Organisations, to form smart societies, and to co-design democracy with the goal of co-creating viable relationships within Planet Earth.

WOSC 19th Congress extends an invitation to participants to delve into narratives that elucidate interactions of subjects following their leaders, consumers entangled by the industry, and active citizens, grounding their exploration in the conceptual frameworks of the Viable System Model (VSM) and Ashby’s contributions to strategies for managing variety.

Congress’s submissions are encouraged but not constrained by the following topics:

Enhancing Active Citizenship and democratic processes,
Integrating ecological, social, and economic dimensions of organizational governance and management
Combining Physical, Digital, Natural, and Artificial worlds into CyberSystemic ontologies,
Learning to develop new personal and organisational capabilities,
CyberSystemic examination of Interactions, relationships, and agents of change

Learn more about the submission process here. Deadline for abstract submission is April 1st,2 024.