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World Conference On Systemic Flaws and Solutions in Society 2009
A global conference to document systemic flaws in our society and to point to existing or to new solutions with emphasis on how to prevent systemic flaws in the future.
Motivation
Human Civilization is threatened by a systemic collapse. Not just in some isolated segments but as a whole. In the case of a systemic breakdown repairing isolated errors becomes pointless. Only the elimination of the principal structural abnormalities within the system will avert the danger of collapse. In a time like this, every Human is being challenged to confront and assess the damage already done and to work together with others to determine the course of our future as we cannot defer this responsibility to 'higher' authorities any longer.
The awareness of the importance of systemic thinking for society at large has already been rising steadily over the past decades. However, applications and proposals for solutions of identified problems have not yet been forthcoming in significant numbers. Whether this was be due to resistance in academical circles or due to the circumstance that the field of Systemics in itself has been usurped and abused by other interests, will be one of the topics of the Conference. We will take special care and attention that this conference will not be a victim of such reprogramming.
This conference aims to:
- document the major systemic flaws in our current civilization
- point to existing or new solutions
- investigate how systemic flaws can be avoided in the future
- provide an interdisciplinary platform and is not limited to contributors with academic degrees
The contributors are requested to:
- strive for excellence in form and essence of their presentations
- heed attention to not getting entangled in the contemplation of cartesian (mechanistical) errors within society such as the critique of representants of flawed power structures instead of analyzing the present systemic deficiencies themselves
- send their abstracts, a short biography, and, if applicable, pointers to existing documentation
- add their actual materials to existing multimedia collection sites, such as Scribd or YouTube
Besides the challenge of global brainstorming and of interdisciplinary communication and networking, this World Conference also provides an excellent opportunity to present existing alternative solutions to a larger audience.
The Conference itself is planned for:
July 17th-19th, 2009.
Besides the Virtual Conference itself, 'traditional' conferences may be organized in various countries and their languages concurrently.
Selected authors may grant the publication of their articles in the 'Proceedings of the Conference On Systemic Flaws and Solutions in Society 2009' and their video presentation(s) in a future video documentary.
The Wiki for this Conference, as a repository for systemic flaws and solutions in society, is intended to be operational beyond the actual Conference.
Please post any questions via the community portal.
Official e-mail address of the conference: systemic.flaws.and.solutions@gmail.com
Latest News
Oct-31-08: The French page is in place. Some minor corrections still need to be done but tomorrow, Nov 1st, shall be the OFFICIAL START of the CALL FOR PAPERS! There are already 10 papers suggested and their abstracts and bios will be posted the coming days.
Oct-26-08: The Italian and Spanish pages are in place but the French version is delayed. We may do the official kick-off party anyway!
Oct-25-08: The basic format of the conference has been established. The Wiki has been configured to require authentication of e-mail identities before editing can take place. The plan is to have the text for the other current languages in place by the beginning of the week so that we can start sending out invitations to potential participants. We still look for a good sample paper very soon to demonstrate how the submissions should be sent in.
