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We learned from Nora Bateson that Mary Catherine Bateson died on 2 January 2021.

 

Many of us in the systems and cybernetic world were deeply touched and informed by the work of Mary Catherine. She most recently spoke at the ISSS meeting in Berlin in 2015. Many of us shared many conversations and fun times in Berlin. A great loss to our community. See the We Remember Page.

Dear members of ISSS

I (Shankar Sankaran) would like you to consider submitting a paper for the special issue in the journal titled International Journal for Managing Projects in Business (one of the three prominent journals in the field) titled 'Rethinking Infrastructure Projects in the New Normal' to consider  infrastructure development more critically post Covid-19. The issues to be addressed are very broad and you may find a viewpoint to focus your paper on. If you have any questions please ask me as I will be guest editing this issue:

 

 

Gary says "Let me simply say that organizing the writing of 50 chapters into a book of over 1000 pages has been challenging. It has taken much longer than I expected, but we are now in the final phases". Well done Gary Jim and Hiroshi.
 

ISSS VP of Systems Practice, Gary Smith, recently was a co-author on a paper published in Frontiers in Medicine concerning Covid-19.

I want to summarize some highlights from the mini meeting on May26/27 where our focus was the future of ISSS

Summary of highlights of the meeting held May30/Jun 1 focused on Technology and ISSS

Dear members

 

ISSS Vice President Conferences who is a senior researcher at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at Stellen bosch University have been invite to join the Club of Rome

 

Congratulations Rika

 

Shankar

Dear members

 

We had a very reflective meeting to day to think about the role and future of ISSS in society. This will pave the way for discussing at the next mini board meeting on May 26

 

Anticipated short-term and long-range changes in ISSS financial structure, in regards to the present pandemic and potential future models for ISSS conferences and online modalities for linking ISSS members

Dear Members

 

We had our first Mini Board Meeting this morning.

 

Although the conference had to be canceled this year due to circumstances beyond our control we plan to complete some activities normally associated with our meetings.. We will also be discussing the possibility of a virtual event later this year that will be managed by Peter Tuddenham and Delia Macnamara. More details to follow after a decision is made.

 

More detials on these activities in this news item.

Warm regards

Shankar, Rika, Roelien and Jennifer Makkar
On behalf of the ISSS 2020 Conference

ISSS signs off on a letter to call for Transparency on COVID-19 Models