Presentation for Kororoit Institute's International Symposium and Workshop - Living Spaces for Change: Socio-technical knowledge of cities and regions. 29 February – 2 March 2012, North Melbourne, Australia
A survey released by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that 90% of business leaders believe they can help prepare cities for the effects of climate change, with 51% saying that investing in climate change resilience gives them a competitive edge.
The dovetailing of potentially devastating climate change impacts and urbanization by mid-century is of great concern to municipal leaders. The portion of the world living in cities is slated to rise to two-thirds of the global population (or 6.4 billion), up from 54% today, according to the United Nations. In tandem, the frequency and severity of floods, storms and drought as a result of climate change are expected to rise significantly in the coming decades, particularly in coastal areas, where many large cities are located. Forging preparative responses for these changes has thus taken on a new sense of urgency for government officials, non-governmental organizations and business leaders.
For business, the executive survey, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, finds that the biggest perceived market and operational risk from climate change is the disruption of energy supplies, which could severely impact on a company’s ability to operate.
This document provides an overview of systems approaches to addressing complex public sector challenges. It discusses the need for systems thinking given increasing complexity in policy issues. Traditional linear and sectoral approaches are often inadequate for "wicked problems" that have many interconnected elements. The document then outlines some of the challenges of using systems approaches in the public sector, such as the difficulty of changing systems that must continue operating. It provides examples of systems approaches being used for issues like child protection, domestic violence, and transportation. The key is focusing on outcomes, bringing together multiple actors, and implementing interventions to transform existing systems into desired future systems. Case studies and emerging evidence suggest systems approaches have potential but also face challenges in public sector contexts.
Stephen Hale, director of Green Alliance presents at a NCVO Third Sector Foresight seminar exploring the implications of climate change for the voluntary and community sector
4.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoli 13-14 LeNS_slide
This document discusses system design for sustainability, with a focus on social equity and cohesion. It addresses how product-service systems (PSS) can provide sustainable opportunities for low and middle-income contexts. Distributed economies, which involve small, locally-based and networked production units, show promise as a PSS approach that can enhance socio-economic development and reduce inequality in these contexts. The document provides examples of PSS cases and outlines how distributed economies may facilitate social equity and cohesion through greater participation and more democratic access to resources.
4.1 Towards Social Equity And Cohesion Vezzoli 07 08 (28.10.08)vezzoli
The document discusses design for social equity and cohesion. It argues that environmental and socio-ethical sustainability are connected, and that promising emerging economic models like distributed economies and solidarity cooperative networks can help achieve both. Local-based and network-structured enterprises are highlighted as a model that facilitates access to resources and empowerment. A system innovation approach is proposed to couple eco-efficiency with social equity goals in both industrialized and developing contexts.
[1] Professor Jan Jonker presented on sustainable development and new business models for the "WEconomy".
[2] He discussed five societal "crises" in the 21st century around safety, trust, commodities, money, and governance that have led to a "risk society".
[3] Jonker argued that sustainable development is a process of change where exploitation of resources, investments, technology development, and institutions are aligned with present and future needs.
In December 2016, The Rockefeller Foundation’s African Regional Office hosted the Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Convening in Nairobi, Kenya. Over 150 delegates and 40 speakers participated, sharing insights, examples, and engaging in debate and discussion on why and how ‘resilience’ can enhance Africa’s ongoing development.
A survey released by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that 90% of business leaders believe they can help prepare cities for the effects of climate change, with 51% saying that investing in climate change resilience gives them a competitive edge.
The dovetailing of potentially devastating climate change impacts and urbanization by mid-century is of great concern to municipal leaders. The portion of the world living in cities is slated to rise to two-thirds of the global population (or 6.4 billion), up from 54% today, according to the United Nations. In tandem, the frequency and severity of floods, storms and drought as a result of climate change are expected to rise significantly in the coming decades, particularly in coastal areas, where many large cities are located. Forging preparative responses for these changes has thus taken on a new sense of urgency for government officials, non-governmental organizations and business leaders.
For business, the executive survey, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, finds that the biggest perceived market and operational risk from climate change is the disruption of energy supplies, which could severely impact on a company’s ability to operate.
This document provides an overview of systems approaches to addressing complex public sector challenges. It discusses the need for systems thinking given increasing complexity in policy issues. Traditional linear and sectoral approaches are often inadequate for "wicked problems" that have many interconnected elements. The document then outlines some of the challenges of using systems approaches in the public sector, such as the difficulty of changing systems that must continue operating. It provides examples of systems approaches being used for issues like child protection, domestic violence, and transportation. The key is focusing on outcomes, bringing together multiple actors, and implementing interventions to transform existing systems into desired future systems. Case studies and emerging evidence suggest systems approaches have potential but also face challenges in public sector contexts.
Stephen Hale, director of Green Alliance presents at a NCVO Third Sector Foresight seminar exploring the implications of climate change for the voluntary and community sector
4.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoli 13-14 LeNS_slide
This document discusses system design for sustainability, with a focus on social equity and cohesion. It addresses how product-service systems (PSS) can provide sustainable opportunities for low and middle-income contexts. Distributed economies, which involve small, locally-based and networked production units, show promise as a PSS approach that can enhance socio-economic development and reduce inequality in these contexts. The document provides examples of PSS cases and outlines how distributed economies may facilitate social equity and cohesion through greater participation and more democratic access to resources.
4.1 Towards Social Equity And Cohesion Vezzoli 07 08 (28.10.08)vezzoli
The document discusses design for social equity and cohesion. It argues that environmental and socio-ethical sustainability are connected, and that promising emerging economic models like distributed economies and solidarity cooperative networks can help achieve both. Local-based and network-structured enterprises are highlighted as a model that facilitates access to resources and empowerment. A system innovation approach is proposed to couple eco-efficiency with social equity goals in both industrialized and developing contexts.
[1] Professor Jan Jonker presented on sustainable development and new business models for the "WEconomy".
[2] He discussed five societal "crises" in the 21st century around safety, trust, commodities, money, and governance that have led to a "risk society".
[3] Jonker argued that sustainable development is a process of change where exploitation of resources, investments, technology development, and institutions are aligned with present and future needs.
In December 2016, The Rockefeller Foundation’s African Regional Office hosted the Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Convening in Nairobi, Kenya. Over 150 delegates and 40 speakers participated, sharing insights, examples, and engaging in debate and discussion on why and how ‘resilience’ can enhance Africa’s ongoing development.
Cooperatives, communities and social businesses towards a systemic proposal.Alejo Etchart Ortiz
This document proposes community cooperatives and social businesses as an alternative to the current economic system. It argues that the current system prioritizes economic growth and serving capital above all else, which leads to rising inequality and threats to resources, sustainability, and livability. Community cooperatives are suggested as a way to locally reorient economies around well-being, resilience, and equitable distribution of wealth. Examples from the Transition Network and Mondragon Cooperative in Spain are given as working models that demonstrate the potential of this approach.
This document discusses framing and counter-framing of economic concepts. It begins by defining what a frame is - a statement or take that is rooted in underlying ideological value systems. Frames and counter-frames are relational concepts that are surface representations of deeper beliefs and ideologies shaped by social and material factors. The document then examines several concepts related to framing the economy, such as universal basic income, the green new deal, and degrowth. It explores the tensions between frames like markets and society, and presents models to conceptualize the relationship between them. Finally, it discusses the role of aesthetics in challenging taken-for-granted frames and norms.
Equity Workshop: Equity in international environmental lawIIED
A presentation by Elisa Morgera, Annalisa Savaresi, Elsa Tsioumani and Louisa Parks, Edinburgh Law School and the University of Lincoln.
This presentation was given at the Expert Workshop on Equity, Justice and Well-being in Ecosystem Governance, held at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, March, 2015.
Addressing power imbalances in integrated landscape approachesCIFOR-ICRAF
This document discusses power imbalances in integrated landscape approaches and how addressing them is important for more inclusive governance. It presents examples from Kalomo landscape in Zambia, where different actors were identified using social network analysis and their various sources and exercises of power were analyzed. This included the influence of traditional leaders and how spaces for participation are determined. Understanding power dynamics in this way can help address inequities and improve decision making processes to leverage different stakeholders in landscape governance.
1) Most civil society organizations have not adequately addressed the root causes of environmental degradation and social injustice by solely focusing on eco-efficiency and promoting green capitalism.
2) The concepts of "contraction and convergence" and "degrowth" provide models for achieving environmental sustainability and justice that mainstream CSOs should promote instead of duplicating government policies.
3) CSOs must lead discussions on sustainability transitions, well-being, and long-term strategies rather than denying realities and pushing for continued economic and population growth.
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The document discusses DFID's Strategic Climate Institutions Programme Fund (SCIP) in Ethiopia, which aims to provide climate finance directly to national stakeholders. A mid-term review found that stakeholders saw SCIP as addressing key capacity needs, mobilizing diverse actors, and fostering partnerships. However, some saw design problems. Overall, SCIP was seen as having good potential and being inherently complementary to Ethiopia's climate response plans by empowering national groups to develop their own solutions through technical assistance and funding.
4.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoli 10-11 (28)LeNS_slide
The document discusses system design for social equity and cohesion. It argues that product-service systems can promote socio-ethical sustainability in emerging and low-income contexts by focusing on satisfying needs through access and use of goods/services rather than individual ownership. Distributed economies based on local renewable resources coupled with network structures have the potential to converge environmental and socio-ethical sustainability through increased self-sufficiency, access, and reduced inequality. The document advocates for transition paths and socio-technical experiments to support the incubation and self-sustaining diffusion of sustainable and socially equitable product-service system solutions.
The document outlines the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach. It discusses (1) the need for the approach due to increasing extreme weather events from climate change, (2) the three pillars of tackling changing disaster risks, enhancing adaptive capacity, and addressing vulnerability, and (3) applications of the approach including guiding policy and integrating considerations across sectors.
This document summarizes findings from a transnational study of social innovations that support social cohesion. It identifies recurrent patterns in social innovations that could inform public welfare policies, including investing in capabilities rather than deficits, open approaches to avoid stigma, and personalized bundles of support. It also discusses innovations in regulations, governance, financing, and conceptualizing welfare systems. The document concludes by noting a gap between welfare reform discourses and discussions of social innovations, and argues that innovations should help prepare and test reforms through pilot programs rather than impose standardized solutions.
People's Charter on Renewable Energy report LaoisLeaf
This report was produced by Conor. It is a compilation of the input from the many conversations held on the day.
It includes output from the exercise that Chris started the day with - identifying what issues people have with our energy system and their administration.
Table of Contents
Renewable Energy
– Production, Distribution & Conservation
Introduction 3
Flagging the Issues 4
Solutions to the Issues 4
Technologies 5
Duncan Stewarts Speech 6
Conservation 6
Distribution 7
Motivation 9
Agenda for Sustainable Development: Can It Benefit the Disabled Community? Ma...HealthOERUCT
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to eradicate poverty and promote greater equality. Poverty eradication (Goal 1) provides an opportunity to address issues facing disabled persons, as the majority live in poverty. However, the disabled community brings valuable assets that are often overlooked, such as wisdom from navigating adversity and developing coping strategies. For poverty to be successfully eliminated, the consultative process must directly involve disabled persons in development and implementation of strategies to draw on their expertise regarding barriers they face and how to overcome them.
This document discusses the core design criteria for sustainable and resilient cities, including sustainability, resilience, liveability, adaptability, and being smart. It advocates for a systems approach and methodology for engineering cities that involves mapping interdependent urban systems, developing alternative solutions, assessing impacts, and conducting futures analysis to create interventions that can adapt to future changes. The document also lists several UK research facilities and programs focused on infrastructure and urban systems.
Sustainable Development Indicators & Metricsgaiametrics-sr
John O'Connor opened remarks at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina by discussing frameworks for sustainable development and indicators to monitor progress. He covered topics such as capital stocks, multifactor productivity, intangible assets, and the need for concise indicator sets to track changes in access to resources for current and future generations. O'Connor advocated for overhauling information systems using modern technologies through public-private partnerships to support sustainable development goals.
CPDD exam oral presentation nov 2015 by Chantal BrinkmanHealthOERUCT
SDG 13 aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It has several targets related to strengthening resilience to climate hazards, integrating climate measures into policies, improving education on climate change, and mobilizing funds to address needs in developing countries. SDG 13 is connected to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which requires that persons with disabilities benefit from and participate in disaster relief. Inclusive and consultative processes are important to make sure goals and policies are fully inclusive of persons with disabilities. The knowledge and experiences of persons with disabilities in disaster-prone areas can benefit climate resilience programs and policies.
4.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoliLeNS_slide
This document discusses how product-service systems (PSS) and distributed economies can promote social equity and cohesion. It argues that PSS are well-suited for low and middle-income contexts by focusing on access over ownership and being more labor intensive. Distributed economies organized as small, networked local units may increase participation and access to resources. The document hypothesizes that a PSS approach using distributed economy characteristics could facilitate social and economic development in low-income areas through a democratization of access to goods and services.
Elisabeth Shrimpton gave a presentation on urban infrastructure, governance, and resilience. She discussed four themes related to governance: distribution, participation, choice of governance tools, and adaptation. She used the example of the Pipebots project, which aims to create robots to monitor underground pipes. While Pipebots could provide data to give the environment a voice, current governance does not require or incentivize using data this way. Governance tools also need to balance strict regulation with flexibility to adapt. Overall, questions of justice around who benefits from infrastructure, participation in decision-making, and governance tool selection need more explicit consideration.
This document discusses different types of goods and market failures related to public goods and common resources. It defines excludable and rival goods, and categorizes the four types of goods: private goods, public goods, common resources, and natural monopolies. Public goods are non-excludable and non-rival, leading to free-rider problems where private markets cannot provide them efficiently. Common resources are rival but non-excludable, prone to overuse in a "tragedy of the commons" situation without regulation. Governments aim to remedy such market failures through policies like cost-benefit analysis, taxation, and limiting resource use.
This document discusses how Tourism Canada uses research and strategic intelligence to inform its tourism marketing efforts. It outlines Tourism Canada's mission, values, markets, and key strategic planning tools. Tourism Canada generates wealth for Canadians by creating demand for Canada as an international travel destination through effective marketing supported by market research and measurable return on investment. It invests in long-haul, high-yield markets and uses tools like a Market Portfolio Analysis to rank markets and a Market Investment Model to determine optimal investment allocations across markets.
A empresa de tecnologia anunciou um novo smartphone com câmera aprimorada, maior tela e bateria de longa duração. O dispositivo também possui processador mais rápido e armazenamento expansível. O novo modelo será lançado em outubro por um preço inicial de US$799.
421 672 Management Of Technological Enterprises(2008 Tutorial 1)William Hall
The document discusses the importance of knowledge management for technological enterprises and engineering organizations. It outlines how people, processes, and technology infrastructure are all needed to effectively manage organizational knowledge. It provides examples of what can go wrong when knowledge is not properly managed, such as cost overruns, schedule delays, and safety incidents. The Challenger disaster is discussed as an example where failures in managing critical engineering knowledge led to loss of life.
Blog les barraquetes ceip villar palasí de saguntCEFIRE de Sagunt
Blog les barraquetes del CEIP Villar Palasí de Sagunt (València) des del qual es vol sensibilitzar de la importància de les escoles físicament sòlides en lloc de les "aules modulars".
Cooperatives, communities and social businesses towards a systemic proposal.Alejo Etchart Ortiz
This document proposes community cooperatives and social businesses as an alternative to the current economic system. It argues that the current system prioritizes economic growth and serving capital above all else, which leads to rising inequality and threats to resources, sustainability, and livability. Community cooperatives are suggested as a way to locally reorient economies around well-being, resilience, and equitable distribution of wealth. Examples from the Transition Network and Mondragon Cooperative in Spain are given as working models that demonstrate the potential of this approach.
This document discusses framing and counter-framing of economic concepts. It begins by defining what a frame is - a statement or take that is rooted in underlying ideological value systems. Frames and counter-frames are relational concepts that are surface representations of deeper beliefs and ideologies shaped by social and material factors. The document then examines several concepts related to framing the economy, such as universal basic income, the green new deal, and degrowth. It explores the tensions between frames like markets and society, and presents models to conceptualize the relationship between them. Finally, it discusses the role of aesthetics in challenging taken-for-granted frames and norms.
Equity Workshop: Equity in international environmental lawIIED
A presentation by Elisa Morgera, Annalisa Savaresi, Elsa Tsioumani and Louisa Parks, Edinburgh Law School and the University of Lincoln.
This presentation was given at the Expert Workshop on Equity, Justice and Well-being in Ecosystem Governance, held at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, March, 2015.
Addressing power imbalances in integrated landscape approachesCIFOR-ICRAF
This document discusses power imbalances in integrated landscape approaches and how addressing them is important for more inclusive governance. It presents examples from Kalomo landscape in Zambia, where different actors were identified using social network analysis and their various sources and exercises of power were analyzed. This included the influence of traditional leaders and how spaces for participation are determined. Understanding power dynamics in this way can help address inequities and improve decision making processes to leverage different stakeholders in landscape governance.
1) Most civil society organizations have not adequately addressed the root causes of environmental degradation and social injustice by solely focusing on eco-efficiency and promoting green capitalism.
2) The concepts of "contraction and convergence" and "degrowth" provide models for achieving environmental sustainability and justice that mainstream CSOs should promote instead of duplicating government policies.
3) CSOs must lead discussions on sustainability transitions, well-being, and long-term strategies rather than denying realities and pushing for continued economic and population growth.
Trialling Demand-led Climate Finance in Ethiopia: Is DFID onto a Winner?, Jul...Centre for Global Equality
The document discusses DFID's Strategic Climate Institutions Programme Fund (SCIP) in Ethiopia, which aims to provide climate finance directly to national stakeholders. A mid-term review found that stakeholders saw SCIP as addressing key capacity needs, mobilizing diverse actors, and fostering partnerships. However, some saw design problems. Overall, SCIP was seen as having good potential and being inherently complementary to Ethiopia's climate response plans by empowering national groups to develop their own solutions through technical assistance and funding.
4.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoli 10-11 (28)LeNS_slide
The document discusses system design for social equity and cohesion. It argues that product-service systems can promote socio-ethical sustainability in emerging and low-income contexts by focusing on satisfying needs through access and use of goods/services rather than individual ownership. Distributed economies based on local renewable resources coupled with network structures have the potential to converge environmental and socio-ethical sustainability through increased self-sufficiency, access, and reduced inequality. The document advocates for transition paths and socio-technical experiments to support the incubation and self-sustaining diffusion of sustainable and socially equitable product-service system solutions.
The document outlines the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach. It discusses (1) the need for the approach due to increasing extreme weather events from climate change, (2) the three pillars of tackling changing disaster risks, enhancing adaptive capacity, and addressing vulnerability, and (3) applications of the approach including guiding policy and integrating considerations across sectors.
This document summarizes findings from a transnational study of social innovations that support social cohesion. It identifies recurrent patterns in social innovations that could inform public welfare policies, including investing in capabilities rather than deficits, open approaches to avoid stigma, and personalized bundles of support. It also discusses innovations in regulations, governance, financing, and conceptualizing welfare systems. The document concludes by noting a gap between welfare reform discourses and discussions of social innovations, and argues that innovations should help prepare and test reforms through pilot programs rather than impose standardized solutions.
People's Charter on Renewable Energy report LaoisLeaf
This report was produced by Conor. It is a compilation of the input from the many conversations held on the day.
It includes output from the exercise that Chris started the day with - identifying what issues people have with our energy system and their administration.
Table of Contents
Renewable Energy
– Production, Distribution & Conservation
Introduction 3
Flagging the Issues 4
Solutions to the Issues 4
Technologies 5
Duncan Stewarts Speech 6
Conservation 6
Distribution 7
Motivation 9
Agenda for Sustainable Development: Can It Benefit the Disabled Community? Ma...HealthOERUCT
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to eradicate poverty and promote greater equality. Poverty eradication (Goal 1) provides an opportunity to address issues facing disabled persons, as the majority live in poverty. However, the disabled community brings valuable assets that are often overlooked, such as wisdom from navigating adversity and developing coping strategies. For poverty to be successfully eliminated, the consultative process must directly involve disabled persons in development and implementation of strategies to draw on their expertise regarding barriers they face and how to overcome them.
This document discusses the core design criteria for sustainable and resilient cities, including sustainability, resilience, liveability, adaptability, and being smart. It advocates for a systems approach and methodology for engineering cities that involves mapping interdependent urban systems, developing alternative solutions, assessing impacts, and conducting futures analysis to create interventions that can adapt to future changes. The document also lists several UK research facilities and programs focused on infrastructure and urban systems.
Sustainable Development Indicators & Metricsgaiametrics-sr
John O'Connor opened remarks at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina by discussing frameworks for sustainable development and indicators to monitor progress. He covered topics such as capital stocks, multifactor productivity, intangible assets, and the need for concise indicator sets to track changes in access to resources for current and future generations. O'Connor advocated for overhauling information systems using modern technologies through public-private partnerships to support sustainable development goals.
CPDD exam oral presentation nov 2015 by Chantal BrinkmanHealthOERUCT
SDG 13 aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It has several targets related to strengthening resilience to climate hazards, integrating climate measures into policies, improving education on climate change, and mobilizing funds to address needs in developing countries. SDG 13 is connected to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which requires that persons with disabilities benefit from and participate in disaster relief. Inclusive and consultative processes are important to make sure goals and policies are fully inclusive of persons with disabilities. The knowledge and experiences of persons with disabilities in disaster-prone areas can benefit climate resilience programs and policies.
4.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoliLeNS_slide
This document discusses how product-service systems (PSS) and distributed economies can promote social equity and cohesion. It argues that PSS are well-suited for low and middle-income contexts by focusing on access over ownership and being more labor intensive. Distributed economies organized as small, networked local units may increase participation and access to resources. The document hypothesizes that a PSS approach using distributed economy characteristics could facilitate social and economic development in low-income areas through a democratization of access to goods and services.
Elisabeth Shrimpton gave a presentation on urban infrastructure, governance, and resilience. She discussed four themes related to governance: distribution, participation, choice of governance tools, and adaptation. She used the example of the Pipebots project, which aims to create robots to monitor underground pipes. While Pipebots could provide data to give the environment a voice, current governance does not require or incentivize using data this way. Governance tools also need to balance strict regulation with flexibility to adapt. Overall, questions of justice around who benefits from infrastructure, participation in decision-making, and governance tool selection need more explicit consideration.
This document discusses different types of goods and market failures related to public goods and common resources. It defines excludable and rival goods, and categorizes the four types of goods: private goods, public goods, common resources, and natural monopolies. Public goods are non-excludable and non-rival, leading to free-rider problems where private markets cannot provide them efficiently. Common resources are rival but non-excludable, prone to overuse in a "tragedy of the commons" situation without regulation. Governments aim to remedy such market failures through policies like cost-benefit analysis, taxation, and limiting resource use.
This document discusses how Tourism Canada uses research and strategic intelligence to inform its tourism marketing efforts. It outlines Tourism Canada's mission, values, markets, and key strategic planning tools. Tourism Canada generates wealth for Canadians by creating demand for Canada as an international travel destination through effective marketing supported by market research and measurable return on investment. It invests in long-haul, high-yield markets and uses tools like a Market Portfolio Analysis to rank markets and a Market Investment Model to determine optimal investment allocations across markets.
A empresa de tecnologia anunciou um novo smartphone com câmera aprimorada, maior tela e bateria de longa duração. O dispositivo também possui processador mais rápido e armazenamento expansível. O novo modelo será lançado em outubro por um preço inicial de US$799.
421 672 Management Of Technological Enterprises(2008 Tutorial 1)William Hall
The document discusses the importance of knowledge management for technological enterprises and engineering organizations. It outlines how people, processes, and technology infrastructure are all needed to effectively manage organizational knowledge. It provides examples of what can go wrong when knowledge is not properly managed, such as cost overruns, schedule delays, and safety incidents. The Challenger disaster is discussed as an example where failures in managing critical engineering knowledge led to loss of life.
Blog les barraquetes ceip villar palasí de saguntCEFIRE de Sagunt
Blog les barraquetes del CEIP Villar Palasí de Sagunt (València) des del qual es vol sensibilitzar de la importància de les escoles físicament sòlides en lloc de les "aules modulars".
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This document discusses some confusing English words that are similar to Spanish words but have different meanings. It provides examples of false cognates like "embarrassed" and "embarazada", where the English word means embarrassed but the Spanish word means pregnant. Other examples given are "realize" versus "realizar", "approve" versus "aprobar", "library" versus "bookstore", and "parents" versus "parientes". The document aims to help avoid mistakes by explaining the differences in meanings between similar English and Spanish words.
This document summarizes a book called "Social Media for Real Estate Agents & Realtors" by Dream Street Investments, Inc. The book teaches real estate professionals how to utilize social media to grow their business quickly. It explains how to use various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs to market a real estate business online. The author, an advertising major interested in real estate, learned effective online marketing strategies from the book and wants to apply the techniques to build their business. The summary concludes that anyone looking to expand a real estate or other business through social media would benefit from reading this book.
Here's an overview of what we covered in the first CHASER TRAINING on June 20th, 2011 in #YYZ.
Please note not all strategies discussed in the session are included.
This document contains data about the distribution of colors in two packets. Packet 1 contains 14 pieces total with the percentages of each color listed as fractions, decimals, and percentages. Packet 2 contains 15 pieces total with the same color distribution metrics. The mean, median, and mode percentages are also provided for comparison between the packets.
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This document describes Regalia, a luxury oceanfront condominium development in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. It will feature spacious residences with floor-to-ceiling glass walls and balconies taking advantage of ocean views. Amenities will include a pool, beach club, fitness facilities, and spa. The property is the last oceanfront parcel in Sunny Isles Beach, located near shopping and cultural attractions in Miami.
The document summarizes highlights from the 40th TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The United States has the largest share of systems at 50%. IBM is the leading vendor, providing systems for 43% of the TOP500. Power consumption of the TOP10 systems ranges from 1 to 12 megawatts, with the most power efficient architectures able to achieve over 2,000 gigaflops per kilowatt.
Knowledge Generation, Use and Management in Sustainable Infrastructure Engi...William Hall
Guest lecture slides for University of Melbourne course in sustainable engineering.
Covers the following topics:
Key frameworks of understanding for sustainability practice
o Tragedy of the commons
o Elinor Ostrom (Nobel Laureate) on models of governance
o Herbert Simon (Nobel Laureate) on
- Theoretical basis for decision support
- Theory of hierarchically complex systems
o Intersecting theories of organization and knowledge
Engineering for sustainability unavoidably involves understanding the social use of resources
o People, communities and their imperatives
o Social systems & infrastructure
o Knowledge & decision support
Topic 1 ― Sustainability and the “tragedy of the commons”
Infrastructure includes those components of the complex system of systems comprised of the environment and people responsible for mediating the material and energetic interactions of people, systems and their environment.
To successfully engineer infrastructure for sustainability you must understand the human components as well as the environmental components.
Topic 2 ― Theories of organization and knowledge
Physical theories are the basis for structural engineering.Theories of knowledge and organization are the basis for enterprise engineering. Knowledge has a physical basis.
Knowledge Generation, Use and Management in Sustainable Infrastructure Engine...William Hall
Engineers (and many others) have difficulties understanding intangible stuff like “knowledge”.
Engineers are good at establishing and applying formal rules and standards to discover and build solutions for well analyzed problems, but they are not so good at solving problems involving people or other chaotic components. Engineers work in and with organizations comprised of people who are inherently error prone and sometimes chaotic. By recognizing these problems of knowledge and organization, engineers can build systems to minimize uncertainty and manage knowledge.
This presentation covers some key frameworks of understanding for sustainability practice:
* The "tragedy of the commons"
- Garrett Hardin
- Elinor Ostrom (Nobel Laureate)
Models of governance
* Herbert Simon (Nobel Laureate)
- Theoretical basis for decision support
- Theory of hierarchically complex systems
* Intersecting theories of organization and knowledge
Engineering for sustainability unavoidably involves understanding the social use of resources
* People, communities and their imperatives
* Social systems & infrastructure
Knowledge & decision support
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This document discusses bridging organizations and adaptive governance. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including the context of social-ecological systems for bridging organizations. It then discusses how bridging organizations can help address the degradation of ecosystem services by connecting different groups. However, there are also limitations to collaboration within bridging organizations and adaptive governance approaches. The document advocates for viewing social and ecological systems as interdependent and embracing complexity and cross-scale interactions when addressing sustainability challenges.
The document discusses sustainability and sustainable practices for businesses. It defines sustainability as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Strong sustainability embraces renewable energy, treats waste as a resource, and values diversity and ecosystem resilience. Key aspects of strong sustainability are systems thinking, a principled definition, and backcasting to understand sustainability and practice it effectively.
Presentation defines Sustainability, Sustainability Management, and presents some basic tools the Sustainability Professional can use to design and implement a Sustainability strategy.
Climate finance/finance institutions - J. Ellis (OECD) CCXG GF March 2014OECD Environment
The document discusses how institutional structures influence the replication and scaling up of climate finance interventions. It defines institutional structure as the system governing interactions between public, private, and mixed actors involved in designing, managing, allocating, and delivering climate finance at international, national, and sub-national levels. Effective institutional structures can help replication by facilitating information sharing between actors, while long decision-making delays can hinder private finance. The structures must also be tailored to the scale of interventions and build capacity across different actors. Overall, the document examines how climate finance aims, decision-making processes, actor involvement, and addressing of barriers can all impact the replication and scaling up of climate projects.
This document discusses the connection between environmental sustainability and socio-ethical sustainability. It argues that emerging economic models like distributed economies and solidarity cooperative networks can promote both environmental and socio-ethical sustainability by enabling locally-based, network-structured enterprises. A system innovation approach through product-service systems may also facilitate socio-ethical development in emerging contexts by allowing communities to meet needs in a more resource-efficient way.
This document provides an overview of sustainability as a public policy paradigm. It outlines the following key points:
1. It discusses different governance approaches for climate policy including top-down, decentralized, and polycentric perspectives. Polycentric governance focuses on multi-level, multi-actor solutions that allow for self-organization and adaptation.
2. It covers optimal climate policy instrument design including using carbon pricing to internalize externalities from greenhouse gas emissions and addressing additional market failures related to technological innovation.
3. Political economy challenges are also addressed, noting that interests, ideas, and institutions all shape climate policy outcomes. Stakeholder groups have different cost-benefit assessments that influence support for climate policies.
Beyond WCEF2017: The European Union advancing a global circular economy in Brussels on 11th of October 2017.
Co-chair UNEP International Resource Panel (IRP), Partner Systemiq
The "Future of Revaluing Ecosystems" meeting brought together 28 experts to explore ways to better measure and manage the world's natural capital and its contributions to human well-being. Key discussions focused on future trends that will influence ecosystem valuation like rising consumption, climate change, and data availability. Scenarios of different trends in 2025 were explored, such as greater ecosystem shocks triggering demand for more sustainable supply chains. Participants also discussed solutions like financial instruments for ecosystem restoration and new ratings agencies to direct capital to ecosystem management. The overall goal was to change perspectives on nature from something sacrificed for development to something that underpins development.
TCI 2016 How Institutional Logics Constrain Alignment in Innovation EcosystemsTCI Network
The document summarizes a presentation about alignment challenges in innovation ecosystems. It discusses how organizational diversity is necessary for innovation but can also lead to misalignment if stakeholders' expectations, interests and strategies are not well-aligned. As a case study, it examines the Dutch public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, which has struggled to expand due to misalignment among stakeholders like grid operators, local governments, and charging station providers. The presentation recommends that managers understand differences between organizations, adopt an open mindset, communicate clearly, and partner with similar organizations to improve alignment.
This document provides an introduction and overview of the Creafutur First Annual Outlook report on sustainability and business opportunities. The report aims to analyze social and market trends, case studies, and consumer insights to identify both short-term and longer-term business opportunities related to sustainability. It uses a variety of analytical tools and studies trends, successful business models, and consumer perspectives to understand the increasing demand for sustainability and how businesses can capitalize on opportunities in different sectors over different time horizons.
The document discusses frameworks for balancing hardware and software approaches to sustainable agricultural water management. It proposes that capacity development requires a balanced set of knowledge management and capacity building interventions beyond just training. It also presents two frameworks - the 4B framework for facilitating cooperation among stakeholders and the WICKS framework for facilitating information sharing and communication in water projects.
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
ASSE - The Sustainability Professional, Taking EHS To The Next LevelHector Rodriguez
The document discusses sustainability and sustainability management. It defines sustainability as managing the impacts of human activity on vital capital stocks to ensure human well-being. Sustainability management involves studying and managing organizational impacts on environmental, economic, and social capital wherever it operates. The document argues that environmental, health, and safety professionals are well-positioned to take responsibility for developing and implementing sustainability strategies due to their experience managing capital impacts, which could enhance their careers and performance.
Molly Anderson: Co-creation of Sustainable FuturesSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Similar to Else, S., Hall, W.P. 2012. Enterprise Knowledge Architecture for Community Action (20)
Socially Constructing Warships — Emergence, growth & senescence of a knowledg...William Hall
This presentation looks at the case study of Tenix Defence and the nature of a ship and its crew from biological points of view to understand how they functioned as autopoietic (i.e. "living") entities in their respective environments.
Failing to learn from Australia’s most successful defence projectWilliam Hall
Presents the history of the now defunct Australian defense contractor, Tenix Defence, as a case study in success and failure in managing large engineering projects.
Over its 20 year history, (2) Tenix successfully completed Australia's largest defense ($7 bn) project to build 10 ANZAC Frigates for Australia and New Zealand on-time, on-budget, for a healthy company profit against a stringently fixed price contract; and customers that are still happy with their ships and support 7 years after the last ship was delivered; and (2) failed so miserably on the next largish project to build 7 simpler ships for New Zealand that Tenix's owners decided to auction all of their defence assets. Also, in the 21st Century and despite the ANZAC success, the $8 bn Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) project to build 3 ships is years behind schedule and billions over budget.
For more than 17 years of this history the author was a knowledge management systems analyst with access to most areas of company operations and thus able to observe sources of the successes and failures (including from the vantage point of Tenix's bid development for the AWD. The presentation shows that most successes and failures related to the ways in which Tenix managed their corporate and human knowledge, and attempts to infer some critical lessons that should be learned from this history.
Discussing the emergence of formal knowledge management systems in prehistoryWilliam Hall
Reviews Dr Lynne Kelly's new and revolutionary understanding of the roles of Neolithic monuments such as Stonehenge, Gobekli Tepe and Poverty Point in managing the large increases in knowledge cultures required to make the transition from mobile hunting and gathering to settled farming and urban life.
Dr Kelly's book "Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies - Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture", explains how the mnemonic technology known as the method of loci, as implemented in monumental architecture, helped people to index, rehearse, preserve and share large bodies of technical and customary survival knowledge knowledge in living memory. She also shows how the method of loci can be used in conjunction with portable devices to index large bodies of personal knowledge.
Mobile hunters and gathers are known to index their knowledge-laden stories against prominent features along traditional paths they follow through landscapes they traverse. Aboriginal Australians call these paths "song-lines". As hunters and gatherers became more sedentary they no longer had ready access to their traditional song-lines and devised more compact artificial landscapes they could use to order and rehearse the growing bodies of knowledge they needed to manage the complexities of urban life and agriculture.
Kelly's ideas are likely to revolutionize our understanding of prehistoric archaeology and anthropology.
Monkey Business — What apes and New World monkeys tell us about the origins o...William Hall
This document discusses how apes and New World monkeys can provide insights into the origins of human culture, technology, and knowledge management. It suggests that:
1) Environmental pressures like climate change forced early hominins out of forests onto the savanna, requiring new adaptations like cooperative hunting and tool use to survive.
2) Chimpanzees and bonobos demonstrate intelligent tool use and social cooperation, suggesting our last common ancestor had similar capacities.
3) Capuchin monkeys in some environments independently evolved sophisticated nut-cracking industries using stone hammers and anvils, showing convergent cognitive evolution.
4) Capuchins' problem-solving abilities and cultural transmission of tool
Life, Knowledge and Natural Selection ― How life (scientifically) designs its...William Hall
The document discusses major revolutions in how life stores and processes knowledge over time, from the emergence of the first living systems to modern technological advances. It outlines three key revolutions:
1) The emergence of genetic memory in DNA and RNA around 4 billion years ago, allowing life to store knowledge across generations.
2) The development of multicellular memory and neural networks in brains between 2-1.5 billion years ago, greatly increasing an organism's processing power.
3) The rise of cultural memory and knowledge sharing through language, writing, and communication starting around 5,000 years ago, enabling societies to collectively store and build upon knowledge over generations.
Evolutionary epistemology versus faith and justified true belief: Does scien...William Hall
This presentation explores the basis for scientific rationality by testing our claims about the world against nature as described by Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology versus accepting claims based on justified true belief. The presentation is particularly concerned to show the philosophical problems with religious fundamentalism.
Coda: The sting in the tail - Meetup session 23William Hall
This is the last of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge". The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species.
A coda is a generally short and more or less independent passage added to the end of a composition so as to reinforce the sense of conclusion. Here I consider the question raised in the title of this Meetup series - what does the understanding of the roles of cognitive technologies developed in this book tell us about the future of humanity? I see three possible scenarios, only one of which is moderately benign.
Which of these will come to pass depends critically on how successful we are at understanding who we are and applying the tremendous body of knowledge we have assembled over our history.
Episode 5(7): Printing: "freedom" and the emergence of knowledge based autopo...William Hall
This is the 22nd of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge". The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species.
When I started this series I had not yet finished writing the final parts of Episode 5 or fully understood the importance of mnemonic technologies in the emergence of agriculture and industry. In my original schedule, I also underestimated the extent of material to be covered to explain the evolutionary origins of today and tomorrow's post-industrial humans. Thus, to properly conclude Episode 5 I have decided to skip the Cadenza section entirely.
The Cadenza was intended to explore how I applied many of the ideas about cognitive technologies presented in this series in my professional work as an engineering knowledge management systems analyst and designer for Tenix Defence that helped to ensure the successful completion of the $7 BN ANZAC Ship Project supplying 10 frigates to the Australian and New Zealand Navies. The project was unusual in that as part of the contract, besides constructing the ships, Tenix was required to provide a complete package of engineering technical data and knowledge regarding ship maintenance, logistics, and operations. What we did at Tenix is still state-of-the-art, but I do not need to tell the story here as the material I intended to present has already been covered quite thoroughly in the presentations referenced in Session 21.
Tonight, in lieu of presenting my Cadenza, I will finish Episode 5 by considering how the printing revolution again fundamentally changed the structure of society from a largely autocratic system to freer and more egalitarian systems. Mass printing and near universal literacy removed many controls over access to technical knowledge, enabling the Reformation and the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions. It also provided the basis for the emergence of individual entrepreneurs and knowledge based corporations as autopoietic systems.
Beginning with the spread of universal literacy with the Printing Revolution that also put the exponential growth and spread of knowledge into hyper drive, I then explore ideas relating to the inseparability of living knowledge and autopoiesis as discussed in the presentations for Sessions 13 and 14. The following papers provide the basis for these sessions and the discussion here:
Vines, R., Hall, W.P. 2011. Exploring the foundations of organizational knowledge. Kororoit Institute Working Papers No. 3: 1-39.
Hall, W.P. 2011. Physical basis for the emergence of autopoiesis, cognition and knowledge. Kororoit Institute Working Papers No.2: 1-39.
Hall, W.P., Else, S., Martin, C., Philp, W. 2011. Time-based frameworks for valuing knowledge: maintaining strategic knowledge. Kororoit Institute Working Papers No. 1: 1-28.
Episode 5(6): Writing and the rise of autocratic religions, states and empire...William Hall
This is the 21st of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge". The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species.
According to the original schedule published early in the year, this session was supposed to conclude Episide 5 with the topic "Rise of socio-technical organizations & cyborgs" covering writing, printing and the emergence of autopoietic organizations based on the use of technologies enabled by the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions. However, following on from researching the implications of Lynne Kelly's work on mnemonics as discussed in Session 20 and the transition from using formal mnemonic methods for managing cultural knowledge to using writing for managing this knowledge, I have found the topics far too complex to be covered in one session. Thus, tonight's session focuses primarily on the transition from mnemonics to writing, and how these profoundly different technologies have affected the cognitions and societal structures of the populations making the transition from the practice of mnemonics to writing.
Session 21- Cadenza was, originally intended to present my personal experiences as a documentation and knowledge management systems analyst and designer in implementing computer-based knowledge management technologies in the Australian engineering project management company, Tenix Defence primarily responsible for the $7 BN ANZAC Ship Project. However, given that I have already made two public presentations on this topic:
● Failing to learn from Australia’s most successful defence project. SIRF 2nd KM Roundtable 2015, South Melbourne, 26/5/2015 (http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/Essays/Presentations/How%20not%20to%20learn%20lessons(web).pdf), and
● Socially Constructing Warships — Emergence, growth & senescence of a knowledge-intensive complex adaptive system. Melbourne Emergence Meetup, University of Melbourne, 11 June 2015 (http://www.orgs-evolution-knowledge.net/Index/Essays/Presentations/SociallyConstructingWarships(1).pdf)
I see no need to repeat that discussion here, and will devote the present Session 21 to the societal impacts of the printing and microelectronics revolutions that have had equally profound implications for the ever more rapidly changing processes of human cognition and complexity of human social systems.
Episode 5(5): Mnemonics and the rise of social complexity - Meetup session 20William Hall
This is the 20th of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge". The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species.
It is probable that the rise of social complexity in the development of agricultural and industrial economies required a major revolution in the social capacity to accumulate and manage the transmission of "working" (i.e., technical) knowledge. There is interesting evidence assembled by the Australian science writer, Lynne Kelly, that this revolution was based initially on a technology (defined as the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area) based (1) on the construction and use of monumental theaters of the mind for effectively indexing objects of knowledge in living memory and (2) the practice within or around those theaters of particular social rituals for the accurate learning, maintenance, and transfer of those memory objects. This technology enabled initiates to store, manage, and accurately propagate a body of knowledge orders of magnitude larger than could be maintained by uninitiated.
For several thousands of years before the invention of counting tokens and symbolic and alphabetic scripts enabled knowledge to be objectified and stored by durable objects, such mnemonic technologies supported the emergence and maintenance of complex agricultural economies and specialized industries involved in the establishment of city states and state religions.
This session explains the circumstances of the Agricultural Revolution in the Neolithic and how mnemonic technologies extended the geospacial indexing and navigating capabilities that seem to be basic functions in the mammalian brain.
Episode 5(4): Apes become human with fire and language - Meetup session 19William Hall
The document discusses how early hominins like Homo erectus became human by controlling fire and developing language. It explores how using fire for cooking allowed for increased brain size and how maintaining fires required cognitive abilities like planning and cooperation. Early sites show evidence of fire use dating back 1.5 million years. The development of language around 150,000-200,000 years ago allowed for sharing knowledge culturally rather than just genetically. This helped drive further technological and cultural evolution in humans.
Episode 5(3): Where and how we started our path to now - Meetup session 18William Hall
1. Capuchin monkeys in the wild demonstrate sophisticated tool use, such as cracking nuts open with stone hammers and log anvils, which requires multiple step problem solving.
2. Their nut-cracking behavior shows transmission of technological knowledge across generations, as young monkeys learn the process.
3. Capuchins' tool use intelligence suggests that under the right evolutionary pressures, such as those early hominins faced as the African Eden deteriorated, it is possible for primates other than humans to develop advanced cognition and culture.
Episode 5(2): Genomics, our African genesis and family tree - Meetup session 17William Hall
This is the 17th of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge". The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species.
The growing fossil record and detailed genomic evidence provides an increasingly detailed understanding of our ancestry and genealogy.
Fossils and lost tools recovered from the geological record give us hints as to what kinds of humans were present in particular geographic areas. Various forms of dating based on the decay rates of a variety of different radioactive elements together with geology and stratigraphy tell us when they were there. This record grows more detailed through time as more paleoanthropologists study more areas in more detail and as Moore's law speeds up the publication cycle.
Enabled by the application of Moore's law to automated gene sequencing technology, over the last 5 years the detail and volume of genomic evidence has doubled and redoubled several times over. We can now compare the exact sequence of nucleotides in every single gene in the entire genomes of individual people, apes, and even some of our extinct cousins who lived 50,000 years or more ago, and do this down to differences in single nucleotides (i.e., to identify single character differences between two texts that are about 3 billions of characters long - about 1.5 million pages of text). Comparing the genomes of these ancient deceased relatives tells us a lot about what happened as long as half a million years or more in the past.
From these kinds of evidence we now know a great deal more about our genealogical relationships than we did five years ago.
Episode 5(1): Introducing Episode 5, our ancient ancestors and their relative...William Hall
This is the 16th of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge. The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species.
This presentation begins the last, largest and most complex episode in my fugue, where I explore from a biological rather than a technological point of view the emergence and evolution of humanity from a lineage of tool-using apes.
Some 4 million years one among several species of apes began to evolve the cultural capacity to share among themselves hyper-exponentially growing volumes of complex technical knowledge about the world. This knowledge gives us and our organizations the strategic power to control the entire biosphere of Planet Earth and the mineral and atmospheric resources supporting the biosphere.
Tonight's episode presents a step-by-step evolutionary hypothesis explaining how modern humans came to be and how the development of the cultural transmission of knowledge among groups led to the emergence of modern social and economic organizations.
Topics for this session of the Meetup include:
● Basic concepts of evolutionary and comparative biology
● A review of the material evidence about our ancestry and early evolution
I'll also say a bit about Homo naledi, described as a new species of human in a paper published this week (of September 13, 2015) by Lee Berger et al. The description, based on more than 1550 parts of more than 15 individuals found in a nearly inaccessible chamber of the Rising Star cave system near Johannesburg South Africa, is of a hominid species with a chimpanzee sized brain and a mosaic of features with resemblances to Australopithecus and early Homo. There is no dating evidence, but the features suggest this species may have been very close to the stock from which all Homo (humans) evolved.
Episode 4: 21st Century global brains and humano-technical cyborgs - Meetup s...William Hall
1) Technological convergence is merging human biology and cognition with various sensor, effector, cognitive, and communication technologies through interfaces like smart devices, implants, and neural links.
2) Moore's law is enabling more intimate human-computer interfaces like smart contact lenses, neural implants, and brain-computer interfaces that can control prosthetics.
3) Mapping the human brain's functional organization and simulating its processing through neuromorphic architectures allows cognitive convergence where brain activity can control external devices wirelessly through increasing bandwidth.
Interlude (2): Life and knowledge at higher levels of organization - Meetup s...William Hall
The document discusses different levels of organization in living systems and the emergence of autopoiesis and knowledge at each level. It covers:
1) The emergence of autopoietic cognition at the molecular level through self-regulation and feedback control embodied in molecular structure.
2) The codification of self-regulatory knowledge in self-replicating macromolecules like DNA, RNA, and proteins.
3) Higher levels of autopoiesis and knowledge at the cellular level in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and then at the multicellular level in tissues, organs and organ systems.
Interlude (1): Autopoiesis & physics of life, cognition and knowledge - Meetu...William Hall
1) The document discusses concepts from physics such as dynamic systems, chaos theory, attractors, and thermodynamics and how they relate to the emergence of life and knowledge.
2) It defines autopoiesis as a self-regulating, self-sustaining system that is produced by its own network of productions. Autopoietic systems embody structural knowledge that allows them to survive perturbations.
3) Knowledge emerges through the iterative process of systems solving problems of survival via autopoiesis. Systems that can persist by solving new problems perpetuate successful solutions, while those that cannot disintegrate and lose their accumulated knowledge.
Episode 3(4): Wrapping up the Web and the history of cognitive technologies -...William Hall
This is the 12th of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge. The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species. This presentation wraps up my discussion of the history of technologies used to enhance and extend human cognition. Because most of what I had planned for this talk has already been covered and/or discussed in the previous presentations, I thought that it would be much better to take the chance for a general review discussion of the main take-home messages to now, and to give a preview what remains to be covered in the second half of the series.
Episode 3(3): Birth & explosion of the World Wide Web - Meetup session11William Hall
This is the 11th of of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge. The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species. In presentation I show how a universally accessible library for the body of human knowledge emerged from what started as defense projects to interconnect various projects so they could share computer resources and to harden digital communications against nuclear warfare. Tonight's topics cover:
● ARPANET and the invention of addressable digital communications
● Vannevar Bush, Memex, and the revolutionary invention of hypertext
● Revolutionary tools for authoring, managing, and delivering hypertext
● Exponential growth of the web and web content
● Using the Web's automated cognition for assembling and retrieving relevant knowledge
Episode 3(2): Automating storage, management & retrieval of knowledge - Meetu...William Hall
This is the 10th of 23 presentations in a series introducing and outlining my hypertext book project, "Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation - A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge. The project explores the interactions of technology and cognition in the extraordinary evolutionary history of the human species. Here I show how preserving knowledge externally to the human mind extends cognitive processes beyond the single individual to social and automated systems. Information science covers the dissemination, indexing, management and retrieval of scholarly, scientific and technical knowledge. Topics include:
● Moving indexes and the whole library on-line
● Principles of indexing and semantic retrieval
● Increasing costs of publishing paper and managing physical libraries
● The research library is dead - long live the World Library of the knowledge society
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