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Table of Contents Sponsors and Affiliated Organizations.....................................................Inside front cover Welcome Message, Prof. Alexander Laszlo, ISSS President........................................... 3 List of Committee Memberships ....................................................................................... 5 Conference Schedule ....................................................................................................... 7 Plenary Speakers............................................................................................................ 21 Planetary Speakers......................................................................................................... 26 The CIEL Design Team .................................................................................................. 29 Collective Intelligence Enhancement Laboratory (CIEL) ............................................... 33 The (Global) Evolutionary Learning Laboratory (GELL / ELL) ........................................ 35 List of Abstracts .............................................................................................................. 39 Plenary Speakers Abstracts............................................................................................ 45 Session Abstracts ........................................................................................................... 49 Author Index ................................................................................................................. 113 Keywords Index ............................................................................................................ 117 Sponsors Information.................................................................................................... 124 Conference Centre Map and Local Maps ..................................................................... 126 ISBN: 978-1-906740-11-5 Copyright ISSS 2013 2 Welcome to ISSS 2013 Welcome to Hai Phong City here on the north coast of Viet Nam, and the 57th Annual Meeting and Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. This event is billed as a World Conference of the Systems Sciences, and it stands to make a significant contribution to the shape of the Systems Movement. Or more to the point, it provides you – the members of the ISSS and participants in this conference – with a platform to make such a contribution. And the timing couldn’t be better. The number of cases of systemic sustainability is burgeoning, and the government of Viet Nam is proudly hosting the presentation of living cases from around the world and right here in Hai Phong as well as on the fabulous Islands of Cat Ba — a Man And Biosphere (MAB) UNESCO Global Heritage site that we will visit as part of the conference program. With this year’s focus on Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet: Systemic Leverage Points for Emerging a Global Eco-Civilization, we will surface a world of actionable frameworks and initiatives that, together, will contribute to the launching of the first standing Global Evolutionary Learning Laboratory (GELL) in the world. But that’s only one of several “firsts” that this meeting stands to offer. Here in Hai Phong City, you will get to learn about and experience how the this urban and peri-urban system has come to be managed according integral systems principles – another world “first”. This living learning laboratory here at the conference provides a total immersion environment in which to learn about the challenges of thrivability dynamics and the advances in the curating, designing, planning and engineering of systemic sustainability in the environments in which we work, play, and learn. The program has been designed so as to offer you multiple perspectives that bridge local and global frameworks. For instance, in addition to the standard venue of Plenary Speakers, we have innovated a new category called Planetary Speakers – individuals who will be patched in from around the world through real-time audio/video streams to interact with the Plenary Speakers and with you from a context of the issues as they see them in their part of the world. And we have extended this socio-technical system throughout the conference infrastructure by way of an Internet accessible portal open to all of you here so that you can see, interact with, comment upon and enrich the proceedings moment by moment throughout our time together here. We have called this platform the Collective Intelligence Enhancement Lab or CIEL – and it represents another world “first” in conference design and relational intelligence. Here, at the 57th Annual Meeting and World Conference of the ISSS, you will move through urban, littoral, virtual and representational immersion environments as we explore the role of the systems sciences in surfacing leverage points for global civilizational shift. The environments (both in Hai Phong and on Cat Ba) have been purposefully designed to augment the meaning making process that will make of this conference much more than an academic exchange of ideas. For six days here in Viet 3 Nam, and for those continuing on to ISEE 2013 — the International conference on Social Environmental Education for an emerging Eco-Civilization, in Taiwan on the 21st and 22nd of July — this will be our action lab where we will surface actionable leverage points for systemic sustainability at various fractal levels of planetary thrivability, and ground the outcomes emerged through this process at local and global (glocal) levels. I dedicate this conference to the search for systemic leverage points that stand to shift humanity toward a global eco-civilization. Out of this process (or rather, into it) will come what I mentioned earlier as the GELL – a project that Prof. Ockie Bosch has been steadily bringing into existence over several years of dedicated work. The GELL holds the promise of ongoing thrivability curation – of surfacing the collection of local and regional solutions to real-world systemic sustainability challenges, and bringing them into systemic relationship with each other to form a fractal ontology of thrivability practices that span the globe. Thank you for being an interactive part of the process of emerging this new narrative of the Systems Movement. Alexander Laszlo President, ISSS, 2012-2013 4 Committee Memberships ISSS Conference Management Committee Jennifer Wilby, VP Administration Nam Nguyen, VP Conferences and Membership Alexander Laszlo, President Pamela Buckle, Secretary and VP Protocol Stefan Blachfellner, Director of Marketing Viet Nam National Organizing Committee (NOC) Professor Dan Duc Hiep, Chairman, First Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee, Hai Phong City Mr. Le Thanh Son, Vice Chairman, Director of the Department of Planning and Investment, Hai Phong City NOC Committee Members Head of local departments: Agriculture and Rural Development, Science and Technologies, Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Cultural, Tourism and Sports, Office of the People's Committee of Hai Phong City, Office of the People's Committee of Cat Hai District. Standing (contacting) Department: Department of Planning and Investment Invited: Chief of Office of the Communist Party of Hai Phong City to join the NOC as a member. The Assistant Secretariat for the National Organising Committee Secretary-General: Mr. Duong Ngoc Tuan, Vice Director, Department of P&I Secretary Members: Mr. Do Quang Khoa, Deputy Chief of the Office of the Communist Party of Hai Phong City Mr. Le Van Quy, Director of the Department of External Affairs Mr. Nguyen Hai Binh, PA of the Secretary of the Communist Party of Hai Phong City Mr. Do Quang Hung, Director of General Department, Office of the People's Committee Hai Phong City; Vice – Director of the Office for Sustainable Development, Hai Phong City Mr. Tran Van Phuong, Environmental management specialist, Economic Department, Division 2, Office of the People's Committee Hai Phong City Ms. Hoang Thi Lien, Vice Manager of External Economic Division, Department of Planning and Investment Ms. Bui Thi Phuong, Specialist, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development 5 The Conference Organizing and Logistics sub-committee This sub-committee was concerned with the actual conference itself — on the ground in Hai Phong City and on Cat Ba island. Ockie Bosch VP Communication and Systems Education Lien Hoang Alexander Laszlo, President Nam Nguyen (Chair), VP Membership and Conferences Jennifer Wilby, VP Administration Core Co-ordinating Circle Subcommittee Stefan Blachfellner Kathryn Bottrell Violeta Bulc Alexander Laszlo (Chair), President Nam Nguyen, VP Membership and Conference George Pór Jennifer Wilby, VP Administration ISSS Program Design Subcommittee Stefan Blachfellner Ockie Bosch Pamela Buckle Violeta Bulc (Chair) Todd Johnston Alexander Laszlo, President ISSS Nam Nguyen, VP Membership and Conferences Will Varey Palma Vizzoni Jacqui Wilmshurst Irma Wilson Karri Winn The Collective Intelligence Enhancement Laboratory (CIEL) sub-committee This sub-committee worked with George on the Co-Intelligence Initiative of the conference, the primary vehicle of which is the CIEL. The sub-subcommittee of this team was focused more specifically on the socio-technical and technological challenges of creating an operational CIEL in coordination with the needs of the GELL developed by Ockie and Nam. George Pór (Co-Chair); Kathryn Ananda (Co-Chair); Fabio Barone; Ockie Bosch; Violeta
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