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Sociocybernetics: A Tool Box to Face World Challenges
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Sociocybernetics: a toolbox to face world challenges
In XX Century the human face for the first time the real possibility to destruct themselves because of their military capacity. In the XXI Century, we continue facing the same challenge but now because of the way of life. The military risk could be faced limiting the use of massive destruction weapons. However, the XXI Century challenge is asking to limit or change the way that we improve our lives, our health, our energy and production of goods. In other words, to survive, we need to change our way of life.
This is a complex challenge. The UN's, millennium goals, are asking for a better life for humanity, but how could we improve our life without damaging nature? At this moment even the green tech have a significant impact on our carbon footprint. Many solutions in one area become a new problem with another.
Sociocybernetics theory can observe, delimitate and explain the problem in order to capture all its complexity. Their methodologies give us a toolbox that allows us to understand the complex relations between all the parts of our social system in many observations levels. These tools allow us to understand the local problems in the context of global problems.
In this panel, we will discuss how the methodologies and tools from sociocybernetics can be applied to solve specific local social problems always in a global perspective