While searching for information and sites related to Science I stumbled across the International Society for The Systems Sciences. In July they’ll be holding a conference on the following topic which I found very intriguing:
Systems that Make a Difference
Location: University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin
The title for this conference borrows from Gregory Bateson’s definition of information as “a difference that makes a difference.” The question for systems researchers and practitioners is, “what difference are we making?”
What difference are we making and is our information and our information system a difference that makes a difference?
We need to start from a very basic perspective…you at a computer, connected occasionally to Docudharma.com, producing content which is presented to the group, the readers of the site and readers in other places via the news feeds, blog comments, directories and community sharing sites.