WOSC 2017

WOSC´s 17th Congress "Science with and for Society – Contributions of Cybernetics and Systems” will take place from the 25th to the 27th of January 2017 in Roma, Italy, hosted by Sapienza, University of Rome

WOSC 2017 will offer a space for conversations about social dynamics from a cyber-systemic perspective. Its realisation is supported by a network of scientists from different parts of the world, which foretells an event more integrated than the usual running of parallel tracks. The construction of the agenda has been highly participative; efforts have been made to support diversity within the shared thematic of science with and for society, in particular we want to focus on challenges of the 21st century.

The themes and tracks of the Conference are the following:
Theme1: People, technology and governance for sustainability
1. Human aspects of managing systems 
2. Smartness and sustainability 
3. Smart technologies and big data 
4. The Brain of the future 
5. Governance in the Anthropocene: cybersystemic possibilities 
Theme 2: Democracy, interactions and organisation
6. Community self-organization 
7. Democracy and transparency 
8. Interactions revolution: how to harmonise interactions within and between complex adaptive systems 
9. Law, commons, social dynamics 
10. Knowledge to manage the knowledge society: non explicit, non invasive and non directive management 
11. The role of emergence within organizations 
12. The role of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Theme 3: Cyber-systemic thinking, modelling and epistemology
13. How can systems thinking help to bring solutions to humankind problems in the 21st century?
14. Think outside the box with Systems Dynamics 
15. Quantum Modelling 
16. Reflexivity, Second order science, and Context 

For further information please see the website of the event.