Authors: Raul Espejo 
Full paper draft: Editorial for CYBERNETICS OF SELF ORGANISATION
Published in: Kybernetes Vol 44 Nos 6/7
Full Citation (APA 6): (Espejo, 2015)
Espejo, Raul. (2015). The cybernetics of self-organisation. Kybernetes, 44(6/7), null. doi: doi:10.1108/K-08-2015-0198
| Call for abstracts: Business Systems Laboratory – 4th International Symposium “Governing Business Systems: Theories and Challenges for Systems Thinking in Practice” August 24-26, 2016 | Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania | ||||||||
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Publication of selection of papers presented at WOSC 2014
Raul Espejo was the Guest Editor of Vol 44, Issues 6/7 of the Journal Kybernetes, published at the end of September 2015. This double issue included 23 of the contributions to our last Congress. Copy of this editorial is in the file below:
Governing the Anthropocene: Cybersystemic Possibilities
Professor Ray Ison, the President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, extended an invitation to WOSC to participate in the event “Governing the Anthropocene: Cybersystemic Possibilities” at the Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover Germany, last July 30th and 31st. Funding support for this event was given by the Volkswagen Stiftung (Foundation) through collaboration with the Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems based at Humbolt University in Berlin. WOSC was represented by Professor Jose Perez Rios, Dr Igor Perko, Mrs Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek and Professor Raul Espejo.
Problem statement
The prevailing paradigm in the governance of the relationship between humans and the biophysical world is characterised by commitments to scientism and linear, causal and dualistic thinking. Currently governance, if understood as enacting cyber-systemic processes that maintain the quality of relationships between humans and the biosphere, can be seen to be failing on many fronts. The Anthropocene has emerged as a conceptual framing for this issue, but to date little cyber-systemic understanding and praxis (theory informed practical action) has meaningfully informed the unfolding discourse.
Link to the related blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/govan/
Last December Raul Espejo gave a talk about Cybersyn at the University of Westminster, London. Video recording of this event is now uploaded in YouTube:
youtu.be/JGTEoJI5-Y4
The talk highlighted Cybersyn’s governance approach in contrast to current approached as well as its methodological and epistemological strengths and weaknesses. The talk was followed by a lively debate.
Raul Espejo (Syncho Research, L., UK) (2015). “An Enterprise Complexity Model: Variety Engineering and Dynamic Capabilities.” International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 2(1): 22.
Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 2(1)
Como ya informamos en un mensaje anterior el lanzamiento de WOSC 2014 para la comunidad Latinoamericana tuvo lugar en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá el 14 de octubre pasado.
Ahora la Universidad Nacional ha subido el video de este evento en YouTube. El enlace de este video en Español es el siguiente:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8smqjpMAytXd7RTtWGz60PUCTCwL70TY
The above is the YouTube link to video in Spanish with the recording of WOSC 2014 launching at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia the 14th of October, 2014.
The plenary sessions at WOSC 2014 offered varied reflexions of systems thinking and cybernetics. Entrepreneurship, the Cybersyn project and big data, disruptions and reparation of social issues in the light of the Viable System Model, wicked problems, self-organisation, requisite variety, Luhmann’s autopoiesis, second order cybernetics and technology learning, the cybernetics of policy-processes and zero-time cybernetics were topics discussed in these plenaries. The attached document offers a reflection and their summary. They offer much to think about. Reflexions about WOSC 2014 (2)
Aditionally first WOSC 2014 keynote speakers videos are freeely published.
| The wicked problems remain wicked: has the craft and science of transforming whole systems moved forward, and how could we do better? | Requisite Variety, Autopoiesis, and Self-organization | Autopoiesiss |
WOSC 2014 is now concluded
We want to highlight:
Attendees of 26 countries from around the word gathered in Ibague, Colombia.
10 keynote speakers presented current issues and future perspectives on cybernetics and system thinking.
| Fernando Flores | Eden Medina | Geoff Mulgan | Carlos Gershenson | Allenna Leonard |
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| Clas-Otto Wene | Raúl Espejo | Dario Rodriguez | Humberto Maturana | Ximena Dávila |
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Professor Dr. Humberto Maturana was distinguished with WOSC’s Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal
Participants contributed papers to 9 themes
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You may find more details on the Congress homepage wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co.
Launching of WOSC 2014 for Latin-America at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia de 14th of October. Event’s language: Spanish. All are welcome.
Lanzamiento de WOSC 2014 en Latinoamerica en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia el 14 de octubre. Evento en Español . Todos son bienvenidos.
The Congress homepage wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co gives instructions to upload papers with accepted abstracts. We are pleased to inform that Emerald, publisher of Kybernetes is sponsoring a prize for the best paper (£200 and one year subscription to the journal) and also diploma commendations to three outstanding papers. We have agreed with its editors to publish a double issue of Kybernetes in 2015 with referred papers towards.