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 !!
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
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,
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".
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
• 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.
DIGITAL PETERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRxgWPDkYTA&feature=related
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
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 :
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
