Web video on #HistoricalSynthesis with #DrMichaelBonner and #ZaidKhan for #SystemsThinking Ontario. Learning about the present by sweeping in the past, including the rise and fall of the Second Persian Empire circa 7th century.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/historical-synthesis/
Think the first step in #SystemsThinking is defining the boundary? If the systems sciences are an open system, then learning involves the sweeping-in process. Excerpt from #CWestChurchman (1982) _Thought and Wisdom_.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-sweep-in-process-of-systems-science-churchman/
For the @RSDSymposium in October, an "Explaining Systems Changes Learning: Methods & Translations", an in-person workshop was conducted in Toronto. Interested in joining in our rhythm of triweekly meetings?
Slides at https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/explaining-systems-changes-learning-rsd12/
#SystemsThinking #SystemsChange
Web video of #JudithRosen on Anticipatory Systems, Evolution, and Extinction Cascades, extending mathematical biologist #RobertRosen at #SystemsThinking Ontario
An article related to #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences 2022 plenary on Systems Changes has been published on earlyview.
Appreciating systems changes via multiparadigm inquiry: Architectural design, ecological anthropology, Classical Chinese Medicine and systems rhythms
Algorithms enable online platforms to shape the world we see.
> The fairness or unfairness of the algorithmic systems by which platforms allocate user attention affect not only users but an entire ecosystem of third-party suppliers
O’Reilly, T., Strauss, I. and Mazzucato, M. (2023). Algorithmic Attention Rents: A theory of digital platform market power. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2023-10).
Via @timoreilly
https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1720129200622023153
Do we know the value of our user-generated content?
> Big Tech firms operate multi-sided platforms in which the ‘free’ user side is largely exempt from disclosures, since the user side is often ‘monetized’ only indirectly through advertising.
O'Reilly, T., Strauss, I. and Mazzucato, M (2023). Regulating Big Tech through digital disclosures. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief No.26.
Via @timoreilly
https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1669359724192727044
Web video of #SystemsThinking Ontario session revisiting a 1998 research article, #MuhammadBadrah reviewer, #KellyOkamura discussant, #DavidHawk author. Entropy less about physics, more on behavior in social environments.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sustainable-technology-entropy-argument/
Reporting on research-in-progress on Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in #SystemsThinking tracing history of #pragmatism of #EricTrist + #FredEEmery & #WestChurchman + #RussellAckoff.
Web video with #GarySMetcalf after #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences meeting
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sciencing-philosophizing-st-on-2023-07-10/
How does #SystemsThinking relate to #Pragmatism? Within #PhilosophyOfScience, #CWestChurchman and #RussellLAckoff continued the #experimentalism of #EdgarASinger to put nonrelativistic pragmatism at the core of systems thinking in an entanglement of facts and values.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/nonrelativistic-pragmatism-and-systems-thinking/
The I Ching (Yi Jing) based in Chinese philosophy might be a more systemic approach, in contrast to the more systematic approach based in Western rationalism, says #CWestChurchman via #DeboraHammond.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/c-west-churchman-on-the-i-ching/
July 10: Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in #SystemsThinking
Extending a presentation from the 67th Annual Meeting of the #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences, #GarySMetcalf and @daviding are jointly exploring how #systemschange may be approached differently via the philosophical history of American #pragmatism, and post-colonial (contextural-dyadic) thinking.
See the full abstract and presentation at https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-07-10
Preregister at https://sciencing-philosophizing.eventbrite.ca
Web video recording on #SystemsThinking Selected Readings (1969) edited by #FredEEmery, with personal history of science by #DavidLHawk and #JohnPourdehnad .
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-1969-hawk-pourdehnad/
Book excerpts at https://st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc/view/welcome-visitors/view/systems-thinking-1969/view/systems-thinking-selected-readings-penguin-1969
Systems Thinking Ontario https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
What have we learned or forgotten since #SystemsThinking (1969) Penguin reader 18 chapters, edited by #FredEEmery?
Join #DavidLHawk and #JohnPourdehnad online on June 12 6:30pm ET for reflection and discussions.
https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
https://st1969.eventbrite.ca
https://st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc
Web video on "The Sustainable Development Goals: Origins, Context, and Perspectives" with Ned #NenadRava from @UN @JointSDGFund in discussion with #SystemsThinking Ontario.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sdgs-origins-context-perspectives-st-on-2023-05-08/
> Leading #TVO Today’s Asian Heritage Month lineup for May 2023, TVO Original Big Fight in Little Chinatown premieres on TVO, TVO Today, YouTube and smart TV services on Tuesday, May 9 at 9 pm ET.
Rereading the introduction to the 1969 _Systems Thinking: Selected Readings_ Penguin paperbook surfaces some choices by the editor #FredEEmery that I hadn't previously appreciated.
The "doable dozen" is a phrase that #BjornLomborg picked up from #JordanPeterson on the April 3 interview. The list is now more complete at Halftime for the Sustainable Development Goals microsite at https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/halftime
> The 12 best policies to scale up, that our experts have identified, cover a wide range of areas: tuberculosis, education, maternal and newborn health, agricultural research and development, malaria, e-procurement, nutrition, land tenure security, chronic diseases, trade, child immunization and skilled migration.
> The benefit of these 12 best policies can really only be described as momentous. It will save 4.2 million lives each year and generate $1.1 trillion in additional economic benefits each and every year for the developing world.
A new book by #BjornLomborg is coming out, #BestThingsFirst. I listened to the 2-hour interview by #JordanPeterson released on April 3 (as usual, while on my bike and driving). The timing seems related to the upcoming #UnitedNations meeting in October, where we are at the midpoint of the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDGs, and failing.
Here's a text summary of the interview. The list of 12 proposed initiatives isn't given as straightforward, but the idea that we might succeed on some things rather than failing on everything is likely to be appealing to many.
Greater appreciation of #SystemsThinking contextual-dyadic thinking of #KeekokLee, with
anatomy as structure / physiology as function (and process);
process ontology / thing ontology;
qi ju as qi-in-concentrating mode / qi san as qi-in-dissipating mode
https://daviding.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/2021-06-17-keekok-lee-philosophy-of-chinese-medicine-2/
Systems change researcher resident in Toronto, Canada. Past president, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Author of Open Innovation Learning book. Research fellow, CSRP Institute. Alumnus of IBM after 28 years.