The Colloquium was held on April 30th to May 1st 2004
at the University of Sunderland on "Governance and
Cybernetics".
Titles of the papers read and some full texts are
below. Conference details.
We explored applying Cybernetics to understand how
things are governed at all levels of society and tried to
discover some useful insights.
- Angela Espinosa and Jon Walker- Democracy in the Knowledge Age, Some
experiences on applied cybernetics in Columbia
- Leonie Solomons: Mapping Sri Lanka in VSM terms and
diagnosing its devolution implications arising from
fiscal equalisation
- Andrey Sergeyev and Alfredo Moscardini: What is
meant by Validation
- Rod Thomas - Stafford Beer in memoriam-"An argument
of change" three decades on
- Patrick Hoverstadt - National Decision Making in
Nuclear Waste Management
- Ralf-Eckhard Tuerke - e-Goverance: An integrated
framework to promote Governance
- Luc Hoebeke - The Identity Function (S5) and the
Tension between Participation and
Democracy
- Susan Jones: A Multi model Approach to Making the
VSM More Accessible to Senior Managers
- Allenna Leonard - How can we rise to the challenges
posed by the lag time between our momentum and our
control?
- Nick Green - Metaphorum and World Government:
Establishing the Design Rules
- Paul Stokes -From Government to the Management of
Complexity - The Cybernetics of
Governance
- John Clarke -The Eudemony Index: Toward
a methodology for overcoming chronic vulnerability to
HIV/AIDS pathology by strengthening "community
immunity" by the amplification of resilience
factors.
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