ISSS Futures

This report presents ideas on how the International Society for the System Sciences and its members may contribute to our future world to the benefit of all.  Our intention is to share ideas and some concrete options to the ISSS to continue to realize its purpose and to seek positive impacts through promoting, convening, attracting, facilitating and connecting systems scientists, engineers and practitioners. As there are numerous ways to use the knowledge, methods and tools brought to the benefits of future generations, we do not pretend to be complete or to represent all relevant angles to our challenge.

 

Our analysis and proposals aim to inspire ISSS as a collective in finding purpose and a strategy to use its influence and support system scientists to apply their knowledge to a sustainable future. They have emerged from events and conversations convened by the International Society for the System Sciences (ISSS) and its members. 

 

 

 

 

 

Update 16-17  June 2020

George Mobus hosted a webinar to propose using a method to do a deep analysis of ISSS. More details on this link.

 

May 2020

 

From February through June 2020 the ISSS Saturdays sessions discussed many issues related to the future of ISSS. Most of them can be found on the page related to System Science Integration Workspace.

 

 

Update after ISSS 2019 Conference

 

There were a number of meetings and discussions on ISSS Future at the 2019 Conference and Annual Meeting in Corvallis. A group of 10 met on the Thursday afternoon before the conference began. During the one hour of plenary workshop held for three days attendees gathered and discussed the ISSS Future with Mike Jackson facilitating.  On the afternoon of the conference after the official meeting has ended over 30 members gathered to share ideas and commitments to action.  Notes to be published here.