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DRAFT WHITE PAPER: Internet and Society Alexander von Humboldt Institute Barcamp pitch by HEINER BENKING.

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Keywords: Knowledge Organization, Rough Overview Orientation / Survey knowledge, Structured Dialogic Design (SDD), Open Government, Cogniscope, Multitrack- Diplomacy, Education, Policy, Transdisciplinarity, Open-Forum, General Geography, 21stCenturyAgora, SuperSigns, SuperStructures, Governance, Dialog, Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0, Global Embodied Covenant, Dialog-Conversation, Participatory Futures, Futures Creation

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Keywords: Knowledge Organization, Rough Overview Orientation / Survey knowledge, Structured Dialogic Design (SDD), Open Government, Cogniscope, Multitrack

- Diplomacy, Education, Policy, Transdisciplinarity, Open-Forum, General Geography, 21stCenturyAgora, SuperSigns, SuperStructures, Governance, Dialog, Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0, Global Embodied Covenant, Dialog-Conversation, Participatory Futures, Futures Creation

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Please note:

This contribution was announced on short notice, to take right after the PRESS CONFERENCE at the very end of the 3 days of “EXPLORING THE DIGITAL FUTURE”. There was not time to prepare a WHITE PAPER on October 28– so this can follow here and needs to be updated and improved !!

I have added and linked KEYWORDS (below) so some material on the way can be easily accessed. More, like on last years Berlin 100, 200, 300 years celebrations, follow from the next slides.

The next slides – some of them have been presented in Berlin – were taken from the GYC 2011 conference the author presented in Geneva in October.

The collection below will be changed in the next months ! I AM IN THE PROCESS OF RECORDING WITH AUDIO the following set of slides – SO PLEASE COME BACK !!

NEXT are SLIDES from the GYC 2011

PLEASE also check the GYC Spring 2011 and GYC 2010 presentation and maybe check the keywords and come back as we are working hard on an AUDIO “white” video presentation …..

Introducing:"A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures"

and the "Digital Peters“

Examples of CoLaboratory Dialog Design, Deliberation and Visualization Approaches for shared Orientation, Understanding, Capacity-Building, and Actions

across Levels, Sectors, Languages, Terminologies, Scales and MindsetsHeiner Benking

Council on Global Issues, Positive Nett-Works, 21stCentury Agora

Monday 17th October 2011, Institute National Genevois , 1204 Geneva

First and not least: THANKS to: • 21stCenturyAgora

Aleco, Tom, Peter, Ken, Yiannis, Jacky, Farah, LaDonna, Laura, Kate, Roma, Janet, Gayle, Paul, Reynaldo, and many others …

• Digital Peters projectArno Peters, Andreas Kaiser and the Digital Peters production team: Martin Weinmann, Hans Rudolf Behrendt, Thomas Burch, …

1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world, integrating new perspectives

2. To think and act in a forward looking manner

3. To acquire knowledge and act in an interdisciplinary manner

4. To be able to plan and act in cooperation with others

5. To be able to participate in decision-making processes

6. To be able to motivate others to become active

7. To be able to reflect upon one’s own principles and those of others

8. To be able to plan and act autonomously

9. To be able to show empathy for and solidarity with the disadvantaged

10. To be able to motivate oneself to become active

Gestaltungs – Competences UNESCO - Education for Sustainable Development

Gestaltungs-Competence 1 & 7

To create knowledge

in a spirit of

openness to the world,

integrating new perspectives1.

7.

To be able to reflect

upon one’s own principles

and those of others

Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING

http://hanksconsulting.com/page10.html

http://21stcenturyagora.org/ http://www.globalagoras.org/

Co-Laboratories of DemocracyHow Co-Laboratories Of Democracy Work

Problematic Situation• Discover root causes;• Adopt consensual action plans:• Develop teams dedicated to implementing those plans; and• Generate lasting bonds of respect, trust, and cooperation.

Quest for Structured Response tp Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties

1970A PROPOSAL

The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind Early beginnings 1968- 1970

or in a nutshell:

MODELS DISCOVERED

vs

MODELS DELIVERED

Example 1

Example 2

• An opportunity and need for systems understanding• A complex understanding needs to enfold• Complex meanings emerge through comparison and distinction• Avoiding the trap of pre-constructed understanding• Avoiding the traps on only counting what can be counted• Clustering explicity exposes us to sharing body wisdom• Understanding body wisdom with reference to system science• Voting or what initially seems to be highly important• Marrying body wisdom with system thinking• Structuring relations among problems into a shared understanding• Problem solving is spontaneous – sharing knowledge is not• Problem solving needs to be democratic• Interpretative structural modelling builds maps of logical frameworks• The problem of erroneous design trajectories

APPLICATION STAGES OF THE RCMTM SYSTEMWhat are the Factors That Influence The Drop-Out Rate For Students

with Disabilities In School

Contributing Factors Generated by Stakeholders

Complex Situation: Drop Out Rates

DIAGNOSIS

Classification OfContributing Factors

Root CauseMap

Root Cause Mapping

“Suppose School X is able to make progress in addressing:

(Factor - X)

will this help significantly in addressing:

(Factor - Y)

in the context of the reducing drop out rates of students with disabilities in School X?”

Generic Question:

Fac tor 47: LA CK OFUSER FRIENDLINESS

Fac tor 9 : EXISTENCE OF SOCIA LINEQUA LITIESFac tor 10: LOW EDUCA TIONA LLEV EL

Fa ctor 30: INADEQUATEP UBLIC P ROM OTION OF

ITS IM P ORTANCE

Level IV

Level III

Level II

Level I

Fac tor 26: FEA R OF NEW TECHNOLOGIESFac tor 40:TECHNO-PHOBIA , THE FEA R OFTECHNOLOGY

Fac tor 7 : A BSENCEOF SPECIFIC

SERV ICES ORIENTEDTO USER NEEDS

Fac tor 2 : LA CK OFINFRA STRUCTURE

Level V

Level VIFa ctor 78: LACK OF OP EN DES IGN INTERFACESFa ctor 24: LACK OF US ER P ARTICIP ATION IN ICT DES IGNFa ctor 41: THE TOO BIG P OW ER OF TECHNOLOGIS TS

Fa ctor 48: P OORINTERFACE DES IGN

Fa ctor 35: INADEQUATE GOV ERNM ENTP OLICIES ON S ERV ICES TO THE P UBLIC

Fa ctor 33: W EAKNES S OF REGULATORYIM P LEM ENTATION OF THE LEGAL FRAM EW ORK

Fac tor 74:LA CK OFSTA NDA RDIZ A TION OFQUA LITY ISSUES

Fac tor 67:SPA M

Fac tor 72:LA CK OF THE NEED TODEFINE CITIZ ENS DIGITA L RIGHTS

Fac tor 4 : LOW LEV EL OF DIGITA L LITERA CYFac tor 36: LOW INDIV IDUA L INTERESTA BOUT THE CONTENT A V A ILA BLE ON

BROA DBA ND

Fac tor 11: HIGH COSTOF SERV ICE

Fac tor 63:TECHNOLOGICA L

DETERMINISM

Fac tor 17: THE OBSTA CLES FOR THENEW EA STERN A ND CENTRA L EUMEMBERS A RE DIFFERENT FROMTHOSE OF THE OLD MEMBERS

Fac tor 16: SOCIA LRESISTA NCE TO PA Y THECOSTS OF BROA DBA ND

TECHNOLOGY

Fac tor 45:MORA L PA NICREGA RDING THE

INTERNET

Fac tor 39: RESISTA NCE TOLEA RN NEW PRA CTICESFac tor 58: NON USE A S ADELIBERA TE LIFESTY LE

Fac tor 1 : INA DEQUA TE DEFINITIONOF UNIV ERSA L SERV ICE

Fac tor 32: LA CK OF LEGA LFRA MEW ORK ON BROA DBA NDISSUES

Fac tor 18: LA CK OF INTEREST

Fac tor 82: ETHICS

Fac tor 29: INA BILITY TO PREDICTBENEFITS FOR INDIV IDUA LS

Fac tor 12: LA CK OF DIGITA LCONTENT IN MOTHERLA NGUA GE

Fac tor 76: LA CK OFINTEROPERA BILITY BETW EENSY STEMS

Fac tor 57: TELECOM FOCUSING ON3G, W HEREA S PEOPLE ON W IFI

Fac tor 52: FEA R OF BEINGW A TCHED BY THE BIG EY E

Fac tor 15: LA CK OFCOMPETENCE TOW A RDS ICT

Fac tor 19: FEA R OF INTRUSIONA ND RISK OF FA LSIFICA TION OF

PERSONA L DA TA

Man knows himself only to the extent that he knows the world;

he becomes aware of himself only within the world,

and aware of the world only within himself.

Every Object, well contemplated,

opens up a new organ of perception within us.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

s.a Bateson

Collective WisdomCollective Wisdom

UN – ECOSOC- AMR 2008: http://www.quergeist.net/AMR-2008/http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/Responses_in_Full-Part_I.pdf

N) Proposal for Anna-Lindh-Foundation,  European – Mediteranian Countries, Berlin-Alexandria 2008. Transcultural Dialog and Peace-MakingRoundtable learning from experience during the last 40 years and new ideas Stumbling blocks preventing true dialog, peace-making, and reconciliation:1) we fight over words but do not check the meaning,2) we do not question and compare the values attached to statements and attitudes, 3) we do not contextualize and embody concepts and meaning, do not check the sectors, regions, scales, proportions and consequences of alternative actions, 4) we do not give voice, empower, listen, cherish and cultivate difference or variety in dialog and decision making, 5) Disorientation and dumbing-down in Cyberculture and a mis-administered and misunderstood, intangible “Globalisation / Glocalisation”: Where we get overloaded by communication noise (sign/symbol melange) and media demagogy which means: no trust and fidelity in the statements and no ways and means to check the credibility and impact/relevance, and get lost between the scales, brackets, and sectors.6) The above incompatibility and incomparability opens the door for over-claims and oversimplifications. Leaders use intangible jargon (plastic-words), neglect impacts and avoid instead of exploring differences and alternatives.

                         

e – DISCUSSION ON ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

"Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development".

http://www.futurict.eu/

Watch your metaphors and models !More: Overclaims and Oversimplifications 1997 & Sharing and Changing Realities: Landscape 1997 GeoEcoDynamics 1988 & Knowmap Spacial vs. Spatial 2001 & Access and Assimilation 1992 and Geo-Object Coding 1988 (GeoJournal) & Spatial Metaphors 1994 (Benking/Judge) – GEOSCIENCES exhibition - AWS 1991 & UN YEAR of the Mountains: Bridges for a World Divided 2002

Source: USGCRP report 2000

Source: BIOLOG, page 12Biodiversity and Global Changewww.pt-dlr.de, Nov 2003

• [more]: New Renaissance 3, UN COP15 – UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009, Continuously updated this Blog:

www.quergeist.info

Breaking Down New Walls10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009 

Third session:

Walls of menace to the Environment

Breaking down the walls that constrain environmental and sustainable development prospects). [Audio and Video]

New Science, new Language, new Thinking ?

HOW ABOUT? OLD and proven, traditional and NEW

Thinking and Doing and Sharing ?

• How about that for a beginning?• Eleanor Ostrom, Economy and Political Sciences, Nobel Prize Lecture, Dec, 8., 2009

• More:

• Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Ostrom, Elinor, Cambridge University Press, 1990

• Understanding Institutional Diversity Ostrom, Elinor, Princeton, Princeton University Press. 2005.• Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice Ostrom, Elinor and Hess,

Charlotte, Editors, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006

Breaking Down New Walls10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009 

• multi-perspective • multi-positional and multi-centric• mix of scales• nested• meta-data analysis research included• diversity of rules and systems• coping with dilemmas• multi-level

• not chaotic – but complex• common pool resources and sets• common analytical tools and language• common and diverse regimes across scales• communication and agent-based models• clarifying concepts, trust and reputation•….

“Without adequate understanding of different in methods and reasoning or patterns of thoughts, we cannot comprehend conflicts of national policies, past and present, or pave the way to international cooperation.”

Karl Pribram, Conflicting Patterns of Thoughts, 1949.

HOW TO LIE WITH MAPS

qkm

1

3

22

30

10

18

See: Millennium Project Global Agora Strutured Dialogic Design March-July 2011 exercise:

STRATEGIC ARTICULATION OF ACTIONS TO COPE WITH THE HUGE CHALLENGES OF OUR WORLD TODAYA Platform for ReflectionReynaldo Treviño Cisneros and Bethania Arango HisijaraAguascalientes, México, April 2011

In: LA TRAMAESTRATEGAR PARA ENFRENTARLOS RETOS DEL MILENIOAguascalientes, MéxicoMadrid, España, Julio 1, 2, 3 de 2011

European Commission MEDICI FrameworkEuropean Commission MEDICI Framework 13.- 20. March 2002

Welcome to the Future

There is to our knowledge nothing similar to the synchronoptic world history of Arno Peters“

(1952)

"Es gibt unseres Wissens keine Parallele zu Arno Peters' Synchronoptischer Weltgeschichte

(1952)

http://www.zweitausendeins.de/Peters/Presse.htm

(2001)

http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/buch/4788/1.html http://www.hyperhistory.com

HYPER HISTORY & Reference Rooms„Die Sichtbarmachung des Gleichzeitigen“ – „Visualizing

the Concurrent“

GLOBAL LEARN DAY WELCOME TO EUROPE

Finding distance and perspective or feeling lost in the “woods” and afraid of “walls”?

• Crisis of • Order, Orientation, Meaning,...

Die Neuen Medien - Kommunikative Gesellschaft ?

Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin 17.1. 2000

Watch your Symbols, Icons, Words, & Metaphors, Worlds,...

a prison

a varieté

a show

a labyrinth

a bomb

a sweet pie the final flood of post- modern Cyber Culture ?

CONCEPTUAL AMBIGUITIES

EXPLOSION of INFORMATION

OBSTACLES in TRACKING

LIMITED GLOBAL CONFERENCING

DISCONNECTS & POOR FEEDBACK

BARRIERS to KNOWLEDGE

Conceptual Framework - Slices

MobilityAgriculture

Land Use

Water

GovernanceConflicts

Urbanization

Consumption

Unmet Needs

Population

Migration

Energy

Trade

Industry

Slice: Agriculture

Activities & Conditions

Sustainability Problems

Scientific & Technical Solutions

Social, Economic, Political, & Regulatory Solutions

Rings:

WORLD as PICTURE, as IKON, MODEL, ARTEFACT, NUMBER

KnowMapVol. 1, No. 5, August 2001

• People feel fine with icons (images) and symbols, but when Peirce in his sign theory introduced something in-between what

he called index they are somehow destabilized and frightened - not able to believe in the either - or world of words or metaphoric pictures.

• Just for the exercise we want to test Peirce's index here by considering his third category a spacial map or model. This would create room for communication and sensations when linking and merging of realities and bridge the media breaks. This in-betweening is further explored in …

• from chapter: Profound Ignorance and In-Between • Spacial versus Spatial Part III :

• Panoramic Thinking and End of This Journey

Heiner Benking: Alte und Neue Räume, Ordnungen und Modelle für Orientierungen und VereinbarungenUNESCO Conference: The Unifying Aspects of Cultures, Vienna 2003

From Cusanus and Peirce, to Warburg ... and further down the road less travelled„Models“ „Signs“ Library „levels“„Cognitive Panorama“N. v. Kues (Cusanus) C.S.Peirce A. Warburg work in progress

ANALOGON INDEX ORIENTATION CONTEXTS

SYMBOLON SYMBOL WORDS SUBJECTS

ICON ICON IMAGE OBJECTS

ACTION Systematic,communicativeETHICS &

PRAGMATICS

Jonas / Stachowiak

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,

Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces - a necessary evolutionary step by Heiner Benking

Source: Limits to Growth, Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers & William W. Behrens III, Potomac Associates, New York (1972)

pls. see also The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind, 1970

Subtitle of Fig 1: Although the perspectives of the world's people vary in space and time, every human concern falls somewhere on the space time graph. The majority of the world's people are concerned with matters that effect only family or friends over a short period of time. Others look far ahead in time or over a large area - a city or a nation. Only few people have

a perspective that extends far into the future. *Later we can read in the book: that in contrast to the majorities focus in the quadrant in the lower left “box”, the book concerns itself with the upper right quadrant or “box”.

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,

Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces - a necessary evolutionary step by Heiner Benking

Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystems of an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss, In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more: IFSR - ISSS

http://mattersofconsequence.com/MOCfig2.htmlhttp://mattersofconsequence.com/index.html

Quest for Structured Response tp Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties

1970A PROPOSAL

The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind Early beginnings 1968- 1970

Whoever imagines mental deep permeable barriers

which actually do not exist  and then thinks them away, has understood the world. 

As space is entrapped in geometry's network of lines,  thought is caught in its (own) inherent laws. 

Maps make the world comprehensible to us;  we are still waiting for the star-maps of the spirit.  In the same way than ambling through fields  we risk getting lost, the spirit negotiates its terrain.

Friedrich Rückert, Wisdom of the Brahmins a didactic poem,

Charles T. Brooks in 1882

* this is a critical translation issue: WALLS a& BOUNDARIES are „man-made“ – have no equivalent in Nature. The term Schranken therfore can be trasnlated as restraining bounds, or semiphors, barriers & temporary permeable or translucent / transparent material/strata/membranes/transition zones).

Friedrich RückertDie Weisheit des Brahmanen, ein Lehrgedicht in BruchstückenWerke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien [1897], S. 50-51.

Breaking Down New Walls10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009 

Interview, Panel-Discussion, ….

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,

Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces - a necessary evolutionary step by Heiner Benking

Guilford, J. P., The Nature of Human Intelligence, New York: McGraw Hill, 1967. Structure of Intellect. [175] Cf. the work of Heiner Benking. To be publihed in 9. Augmented knowledge in the book by Kim Veltman: Augmented Books, Knowledge, and Culturehttp://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/6d/6d_1.htm

These quests to master new knowledge owe much to systems theory, "chaos theory" (a seemingly contradictory combination of terms), complexity, [77] and developments in neural networks, whereby systematic treatments of apparently random forms bring unexpected patterns of order. What makes these trends the more significant is that thinkers concerned with the systematization of intellect, such as Guilford, have intuitively sought to link units, classes, relations, systems, etc. with products and operations (figure 12). Cf. the work of Heiner Benking.

Global Sharing and Coping Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, & Forms/Structures

Exploring and Negotiating the In-Between

Material World

In-material World not-given World

given World

MODEL SPACESMulti-Perspective, Systemic, Organismic,Holistic representations

Additional Reality Maps

EmbodiedCovenant

Artefacts – Models - Worlds

Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics

Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones - Journée Access Multimedia 17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie

Central issues include:

• Culture and Cyberculture

• Frontiers and Challenges of Conceptual Navigation

• Orientation and Understanding

• CREATE NEW SPACES AND MAPS?http://benking.de/meta-paradigm.htm

http://benkign.de/ceptualinstitute/landscape.htm

In such fields the question of context and overview evolves naturally - This is essential for learning and „daring“ to forget. As a result the human right to know what something is „about“ can evolve naturally.

Global Sharing and Coping

Starting Points

HARMONIZATIONThe first and most central entry points have been around a G7 and SRU German Environmental experts initiative which was taken up by the UN- Environment Programme

UNEP - HEM. late 1980 -- 1992

GLOBAL CHANGE

The other started with the GLOBAL CHANGE conference

1988 in Moscow.

Germany and other countries had been invited to present „Challenges to Science and Politics“ in form of Conferences and Exhibitions. As I was invited to contribute I had to think anew on how such complex Issues could be communicated to the broader public, raising awareness and consciousness, and being correct and helpful for scientists, politicians, and industry at the same time. I go public now 1998 as after having this touring exhibition 8 years in Germany, but never been shown outside Germany, and being updated and in high demand, there is high danger of losing this piece and milestone. Politics look east and local when the exhibition was opened in May 1990. The result we have no public eye and information about the exhibition, its scope and results. As this is fatal in my view, I fee I have to change and address that.

I could have also called this UIA guest page GLOBAL CHANGE or LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHANGE - as my work started about global environmental issues in 1988 with such wide and universal themes. Only because I was involved in two or more projects at that time, and have a certain background which was about preparing and documenting decisions and presenting results, I was able to make the bridge, combine what normally is not seen as one - or in one solution. As both project concepts are not only of wider interest and unique in their approach, specially in their time we are proposing here to follow each background independently and then join in again the flow of events.

1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world, integrating new perspectives

2. To think and act in a forward looking manner

3. To acquire knowledge and act in an interdisciplinary manner

4. To be able to plan and act in cooperation with others

5. To be able to participate in decision-making processes

6. To be able to motivate others to become active

7. To be able to reflect upon one’s own principles and those of others

8. To be able to plan and act autonomously

9. To be able to show empathy for and solidarity with the disadvantaged

10. To be able to motivate oneself to become active

Gestaltungs – Competences UNESCO - Education for Sustainable Development

Gestaltungs-Competence 1 & 7

To create knowledge

in a spirit of

openness to the world,

integrating new perspectives1.

7.

To be able to reflect

upon one’s own principles

and those of others

Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING

http://hanksconsulting.com/page10.html