The World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) – Organisation Mondiale pour la Systémique et la Cybernétique (OMSC), is an association of individuals and organisations promoting systems thinking and cybernetics worldwide.
WOSC was was founded in 1969, with the desire to support the communication of individuals and organisations related to systems thinking and cybernetics worldwide. To perform its tasks, it is organised as follows:
President
Prof. Raúl Espejo (UK)
Advisory Board
- Allenna Leonard (Canada)
- Emeritus Matjaž Mulej (Slovenia)
- Brian Rudall (UK)
- Markus Schwaninger (St Gallen, Switzerland)
- Clas-Otto Wene (Sweden)
Director General:
Board of Directors, assisted by the Director-General
- German Bula Escobar (Colombia)
- Professor Ray Ison (Australia and UK)
- Professor Jerzy Józefczyk (Wrocław, Poland)
- Louis Klein (Germany)
- Claude Lambert (Belgium)
- Professor Vladimir Lepskiy (Russia)
- Professor José Pérez Ríos (Spain)
- Professor Francois Dubois (France)
- Andrée Piecq (Belgium)
- Professor Alfonso Reyes (Colombia)
- Professor Sandro Schlindwein (Brazil)
- Professor Frank Stowell (UK)
- Professor Stuart Umpleby (USA)
- Professor Sergio Barile (IT)
- Asoc. Professor Marialuisa Saviano (IT)
- Professor John Beckford
Communications between Systems and Cybernetics associations
International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS)
Stuart Umpleby, Raul Espejo, Jose Rios, Matjaž Mulej
American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)
Stuart Umpleby, Allenna Leonard
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
Matjaž Mulej
European Union of Systemics (EUS)
Andrée Piecq, Claude Lambert, François Dubois
Association Française de Science des Systèmes (AFSCET)
François Dubois
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)
José Pérez Ríos, Ray Ison, Allenna Leonard
UK Cybernetics society
John Beckford, Martin Smith
UK Systems Society (UKSS)
Frank Stowell
System Dynamics Society (SDS)
José Pérez Ríos, Markus Schwaninger
Sociedad Española de Sistemas generales. (SESGES)
José Pérez Ríos
World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF)
José Pérez Ríos
Asociación Latinoamericana de Sistémica (ALAS)
Alfonso Reyes
ELAPDIS – Escuela Latinoamericana de Pensamiento y Diseño Sistémico
Alfonso Reyes
International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR)
Igor Perko, Ray Ison, Louis Klein, Matjaž Mulej
Groupe d’Intervention et de Recherche en Organisation des Systèmes G.I.R.O.S.
Andrée Piecq, Claude Lambert
Systèmes et Organisations – S&O ASBL
Claude Lambert
Business Systems Laboratory (BSLAB)
Gandolfo Dominici
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science (CIRRPC)
Vladimir Lepskiy
Complex Human Adaptive Organisations and Systems (CHAOS)
Igor Perko
Kybernetes is the official journal of WOSC.