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ACADEMIC COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ENCYCLOPEDIA |
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EDITOR IN CHIEF : |
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Mieczyslaw BACEWICZ, |
Matjaz MULEJ |
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Heiner BENKING Pls. see also entries in the Encyclopedia |
Nicolas PARITSIS Vice President of the European Union of Systems, Heraklion,
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General Secretary of the International Federation for Systems
Research, |
Facultad de Sociologia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid |
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President of CHAOS, Centre for Hyperincursion
and Anticipation in Ordered Systems, |
President of the Instituto Andino de Sistemas, Lima, Perú |
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Professor (Em.) of Management, |
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Ranulph GLANVILLE |
G. A. SWANSON |
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President Asociación Argentina de Cibernetica y Sistemas, Buenos Aires,
Argentina |
Eric SCHWARZ |
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Michael
JACKSON |
President of the Austrian Society for Cybernetics and Systems, |
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Anthony
JUDGE
"Anthony J.N Judge" General Secretary of the Union of International Associations, |
Stuart UMPLEBY |
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Institute for Control and Systems Research, Bulgarian |
Director of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics, Universit: de |
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President of the
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sui Sistemi, Milano, Italia |
Director of the Institut for Advanced Study
in the Integrative Sciences, |
The Numbers behind each COMMITTEE Member deserve some explanation and
clarification.
But before let me assure you that beside the "old boys" of the past
Editions there will we "new boysand girls"
and the usage of some new and old tools like WIKI and peer review editorial
boards. Pls. visit ESCO in WIKI MEDIA or see IFSR and the IFSR Newsletter expected 10/04.
So lets return to the "Numbers": They
represent the HITS by google in Nov 2004. Such searches
we have done a lot with SCHOOL CHILDREN and LIFE-LONG LEARNING classes to show
that "full text research" or GOOGLE search is sensitive to the "propper" spelling AND if the argument leads to
non-unique subjects, you might ony
get lots of noise without "signal". – pls. see the Encyclopedia if this
sound cryptical.
I recommend to visit the lecture:
The need for an
integrated systemic-cybernetic language for concepts and models in complex and
vague subject areas: "fields" such as humanities, cultural-,
anthropological- and environmental- studies, education,… and last not
least: governance of
Charles Francois when introducing
the 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia: http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/concepts-and-models.htm
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some pondering by Heiner Benking:
EMINENT
of NOT!? Searchable
or NOT!?
if you are called after your fathers name for 7
generations - and GOOGLE and all accessible files would contain 7 generation
data - the results would be quite different. But as we have the INTERNET - WEB
just since a few years, the results can be only a narrow view and biased, by
spelling, accessibility, focus, episode, .... and and .. arbitrary
and often misleading.
The problem is the technological - nearly "mesmerised" - belief in
what GOOGLE "presents". Unaware that results may be different
by factor 4 or 10 or more, within days and months - depending on factors beyond
our scope (as computing produces more and more data without, context, values,
proportions, and consequences to be assessed or explored, nore
to be communicated !! as we have no means to communicate complexity and scales
!! MAYBE visit the opening talk by CHARLES FRANCOIS when we introduced the 2nd edition.
In a nutshell: Systems and Schema - if we do not understand the frames and
grids then teh sheer volume can "dumb us
down".... What is needed is to see the bigger picture and the long view !! and understand what filter
and brokers present to us !
SEARCHING with the INNOCENT MIND:
When asking SHOOL CHILDREN and ELDERS what things are about, they often give
another - often different picture, differnt than than what wecan expect with
peer-reviews and scientific inquiery. They
question pragmatically the context and relecance,
values behind and general purpose. This is close what we expect. namely to understand information with their sources -
Information in an agreed - upon "grid".
we could tell you more about this afforts
to go beyond certain keywords and categories, or which grids can help for a
bigger shred picture.
MAYBE the entries of my work in the Encyclopedia for themes such
as education, cognition or policy/ethics will bring further some other ideas
and directions wherer to go in "complex subject
matters".
In tests with School Children in various contries we
tried the bigger picture: having them mark what certain issues are
"about". This can be seen when we let people mark their Concerns,
Interests, Considerations/Believes, in a certain "grid".
see Interest Grid or Know Grid . Of interest is
to see issues in perspective, their proportions and consequences....
maybe a good reason to start here and ecplore knowledge patters that connect... (in the sense of
C. Alexander and G. Bateson) and mybe come to a
shared exploration of knowledge whch keeps
differences, values, trusts, and ethics in mind and pursues action towards
common goals. I feel that the above Ecyclopedia is a
robust fundament for such endeavors...
Pls. see also: entries to my work
in the Encyclopedia