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Some perspective problems of Information Science. Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society

Some perspective problems of Information Science. Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society. Wolfgang Hofkirchner Associate Professor, Vienna University of Technology President Elect, ISIS President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science

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Some perspective problems of Information Science. Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society

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  1. Some perspective problems of Information Science.Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society • Wolfgang Hofkirchner • Associate Professor, Vienna University of Technology • President Elect, ISIS • President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science • Academician, International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences • Perspectives of information in Global Education as a new approach in the 21st century • FIS 2013 • Moscow, 21–24 May, 2013

  2. Some perspective problems of Information Science.Towards a Global Sustainable Information Society • Wolfgang Hofkirchner • Associate Professor, Vienna University of Technology • President Elect, ISIS • President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science • Academician, International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences • Perspectives of information in Global Education as a new approach in the 21st century • FIS 2013 • Moscow, 21–24 May, 2013

  3. Contents • 1 The Age of Global Challenges • 2 The vision of the Global Sustainable Information Society2.1 A global society2.2 A sustainable society2.3 An information society • 3 Education for the Global Sustainable Information Society3.1 Zeitgeist3.2 Information3.3 The reflexive imperative

  4. 1 The Age of Global Challenges • global challenges = challenges that • (1) affect (the survival of) all humanity (objective factor) and • (2) can successfully be treated only by humanity as a whole (subjective factor)

  5. 1 The Age of Global Challenges • global challenges are owed to disparities in the relationships between– humans and society (among humans): parochial cultures, nationalism, fundamentalism;authoritarian or technocratic rule;uneven distribution of wealth, of chances for development– humans and nature: degradation and pollution of the environment– humans and technology: warfare, high-risk technologies

  6. 1 The Age of Global Challenges global challenges are complex challenges:their complexity exceeds the problem-solving capacity of any currently existing social system – complexity needs to be reduced in order to enable the system to cope with the challenges*: by establishing a meta-level**) *) Ross W. Ashby: requisite variety =def. the amount of variety a system needs to have to be able to steer another system (at least the same variety as that system has)**) Arkady D. Ursul: information =def. the variety contained by an agent reflecting the variety of an object

  7. 2 The vision of the Global Sustainable Information Society • that complexity might be reduced by aninformationalised, sustainabilised, globalised social system, that is, a system that is • (1) existent on a planetary scale – "global" – • (2) capable of acting upon the dangers of anthropogenic breakdown – "sustainable" – because it is • (3) capacitated, by means of ICTs, to create requisite knowledge – "informational"

  8. 2.1 A global society • world society is a higher-order organisation of societal systems; it can catch up with the complexity that ensues from civilisation's own development, if it provides unity through diversity

  9. 2.2 A sustainable society • as long as societies could externalise effects at the cost of other societies, their self-organisation was compatible with the enclosure of the common(-good)s; now that they are interconnected as they are, the enclosure of the commons is not tenable any more

  10. 2.3 An information society • informationalisation is the process of raising the problem-solving capacity of the nascent world society to a level that allows for successfully tackling the problems that arise from society's own development • this process is based upon informatisation, that is, the spread of information and communication technologies that makes society more and more responsive to information;but informatisation has to be tamed so as to be harnessed for informationalisation (Ivan Illich: conviviality)

  11. 3 Education for the Global Sustainable Information Society

  12. 3.1 Zeitgeist • education • has been streamlined according to short-termed economic development • in the sense of Antiquity or Humboldt has been reduced to training of skills (life-long learning for the information society?) • does not contain critical thinking any more, no ethics, no values other than values of self-regarding individuals

  13. 3.2 Information environment self-organisation of an agent vis-à-vis its environment input/output option agent

  14. 3.2 Information environment self-organisation of an agent vis-à-vis its environment behaviour perturbation macro-level micro-level (agent) self-organisation agent

  15. 3.2 Information environment self-organisation of an agent vis-à-vis its environment behaviour perturbation macro-level micro-level (agent) self-organisation agent

  16. 3.2 Information environment self-organisation of an agent vis-à-vis its environment behaviour perturbation information macro-level micro-level (agent) self-organised order = generated/utilised information (mediator) agent

  17. 3.3 The reflexive imperative 3 social self-organisation structure of common(-good)s production/provision: macro-level micro-level (society) self-organisation (individual and societal) the "third" that mediates between ego and alter 1 ego interaction alter 2

  18. 3.3.1 Unevolved information (tribalism) 1 top-down self-organisation structure of common(-good)s production/provision: "We" macro-level micro-level (society) information in tribalism in-sync co-operation cognition cognition 1 communi- cation incarnation n 1 incarnation n+1 1

  19. 3.3.2 Restricted information (individualism) bottom-up self-organisation structure of common(-good)s production/provision: macro-level micro-level (society) information in individualism restricted cognition restricted co-operation restricted cognition restricted communi- cation 1 "I" "You" 2

  20. 3.3.3 Extended ("third"-regarding) information (cosmopolitanism) 3 full-fledged self-organisation structure of common(-good)s production/provision: "Us" macro-level micro-level (society) information in cosmopolitanism extended cognition extended co- operation extended co- operation extended cognition extended communi- cation 1 "Me" "Thee" 2

  21. 3.3.3 Extended ("third"-regarding) information (cosmopolitanism) • the reflexive imperative: • education today means education for becoming common(-good)s-regarding individualsable to cope with the global challenges

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