tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50551492024-03-14T20:10:51.433+09:00Systemic musingsRay Ison, Professor in Systems at the UK Open University since 1994, is a member of the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group. From 2008-15 he also developed and ran the Systemic Governance Research Program at Monash University, Melbourne. In this blog he reflects on contemporary issues from a systemic perspective.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-37760155106375270152019-01-17T19:15:00.004+09:002019-01-17T19:15:55.425+09:00Richard Sandbrook's placeMy colleague Chris Blackmore sent me <a href="http://richardsandbrooksplace.org/">news of this website </a>today. We were not aware of its existence but can see it does a good job of honoring the ideals Richard stood for. Chris and I often reflect on missing him - and of our respect and appreciation for his engagement with us, and the Systems Group at the OU. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-76445604757550461982018-09-25T21:08:00.004+09:002018-09-26T22:28:50.929+09:00Why universities are failing 6. New assessments<div class="content__header tonal__header">
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unpacks a number of promises made by governments of both persuasion (in
the UK), promises that have not materialised. The first was <b>'</b>that degrees mean inevitably bigger salaries.' But as he points out: '<i>Britain manufactures graduates by the tonne, but it doesn’t produce
nearly enough graduate-level jobs. Nearly half of all graduates languish
in jobs that don’t require graduate skills, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/work/skills/graduate-employment-gap-report" title="">according to</a> the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. In 1979, only 3.5% of new bank and post office clerks had a degree; <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/government-must-end-conveyor-belt-approach-to-university" title="">today it is 35%</a> – to do a job that often pays little more than the minimum wage.</i>'</span></span></h1>
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'Promise number two was that expanding higher education would break down class barriers. Wrong again.' His conclusion: "<i>For everyone’s sake, let us declare this experiment a failure. It is
high time that higher education was treated again as a public good, as
Jeremy Corbyn recognises with his pledge to <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/may/21/labour-abolish-university-tuition-fees-jeremy-corbyn-eu-uk-europe" title="">scrap tuition fees</a>.
But Labour also needs to expand vocational education. And if it really
wants to increase social mobility and reduce unfairness, it will need to
come up with tax policies fit for the age of inheritance.</i>"<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/24/university-education-a-10k-salary-boost-for-the-price-of-three-flat-whites">In a letter to the Guardian today,</a> Norman Gower, a former OU PVC, affirms the arguments mounted by <span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="tone-colour" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adityachakrabortty" itemprop="sameAs" rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Chakrabortty</span></a> </span></span>in this article. He alludes to a forthcoming book, 'English <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/universities">Universities</a> in Crisis: Markets Without Competition.' In contrast Alistair Jarvis<b>, </b><i>Chief executive, Universities UK, </i>disputes<span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="tone-colour" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adityachakrabortty" itemprop="sameAs" rel="author"><span itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Chakrabortty</span></a>'s analysis and conclusions. </span></span><span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Of course he would take this line wouldn't he? I find it rather disconcerting that he considers that</span></span><i><span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> '</span></span></i><i><span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/higher-education">Higher education</a> is a public good that delivers societal and personal benefits.' </span></span></i><span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">This framing of HE seems to me to have been thrown out when fees were introduced.</span></span></div>
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Of course there are universities and there are universities; ones like the OU historically committed to enhancing participation, part time study and life-long learning have a different fit in the ecology of possibilities. These differences need to be borne in mind. I certainly hope the current <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-launches-major-review-of-post-18-education">review of post-18 education, </a>launched in early 2018, and chaired by Philip Augar, a leading author and former non-executive director of the Department for Education will have taken a systemic approach to their task e.g. what are the different learning systems that might best comprise a nation's HE sector in this part of the 21st century when the Anthropocene is upon us? There is a lot at stake, including the future of life-long learning, vocational education and<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45474557"> tuition fees</a>. Even more important is addressing the social purpose of universities and other socially constructed, citizen supported learning systems.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-87902546958726110172018-09-05T08:21:00.002+09:002018-09-05T08:21:24.787+09:00Peter Checkland's last keynote addressPeter tells me that his Keynote at the <a href="http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/OR60/OR60.aspx">60th Anniversary Conference of the OR Society</a> (UK) will be his last ever. At 87 I guess that is fair enough. His final talk '<a href="http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/OR60/OR60plenary.aspx">A Pathian shot (friendly)'</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-58997189548434034002018-09-05T08:16:00.001+09:002018-09-05T08:16:32.235+09:00What do our pets contribute to the Anthropocene?Listen <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/the-ecological-pawprint/10043782?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ecological-pawprint&utm_term=thewrap_august_2018">to this discussion</a> and find out some of the systemic implications of keeping pets. Population control enthusiasts may want to bring pets into their frames of reference?<br />
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<i><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW26799481">"Geographer Gregory Okin is an insomniac. But what keeps him awake at night is a little unusual. </span></i><br />
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<i><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW26799481">Chooks. Not the noise they make. But what they eat. </span>And that<span class="NormalTextRun SCXW26799481"> got him thinking about the ecological pawprint of what the world serves up to its pets.</span> </i><br />
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<i>S<span class="NormalTextRun SCXW26799481">o instead of counting sheep he found himself counting …well…one cat and dog…two cats and dogs…163</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW26799481">million cats and dogs..."</span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-84631868873407808712018-08-27T10:02:00.002+09:002018-08-27T10:05:41.546+09:00Myopic understandings of leadership and its functioning are pervasiveCommentaries and reactions to the recent failed internal 'coup' within the ruling coalition government in Australia makes it all too clear that pathological views of leadership are widespread. The mistaken and pervasive belief that a 'good leader' or a 'wise leader' or more commonly a 'powerful leader' who keeps it simple can fix our broken governance systems is alarming. It was thus refreshing to see Pat Campbell's <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pat-campbell-20120213-1t21q.html">cartoon on Leadership in The Age this morning</a>.<br />
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In the same edition damming critiques of what had been variously described as an 'insurgency', 'a coup<img alt="" />' or 'an insurrection' have come from former coalition senator <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-no-wonder-australians-are-so-annoyed-20180823-p4zzaz.html">Amanda Vanstone </a>and former <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/cancer-eating-the-heart-of-australian-democracy-20180826-p4zzum.html">Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd</a>. Here is a flavour:<br />
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<i>"Politics has its share of these types.
People who just want it their way all the time. And when that doesn’t
happen they eat resentment for breakfast and dine on revenge. They put
themselves ahead of the team. Always.</i><br />
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<i>That’s
been known about this little band, and it is little, for a long time.
But now they’ve shown that this bitter diet has been like a cancer to
their competence. They are seen as, among other things, inept and
reckless and foolish. Their colleagues see it. The public sees it. It
takes a special kind of stupidity to organise a coup that you don’t win,
in a sitting week and in a government with a majority of one. If you
can’t read the numbers in a small party room how can you read what’s
happening out in the real world?" </i> Amanda Vanstone.<br />
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"<i>Abbott has never cared about policy. He has only cared about politics
and winning at any cost. I cannot remember a single positive policy
initiative that Abbott has championed and then implemented. Not one. As a
result, unconstrained by policy, the entire energy of this giant
wrecking ball of Australian politics has been focussed on destroying his
opponents - within the Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Of all modern
politicians, Abbott is <u>sui generis</u>. His singular, destructive impact on national politics cannot be underestimated</i>...........................<br />
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<i>Murdoch is also a political bully and a thug who for many years has
hired bullies as his editors. The message to Australian politicians is
clear: either toe the line on what Murdoch wants or he kills you
politically</i>." Kevin Rudd<br />
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Both Vanstone and Rudd begin to approach some of the main reasons why our governance systems are failing, but they do not go nearly far enough in their analysis and identification of options for change. In all the reportage over the last week the only article I have seen that begins a deeper form of <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-to-fix-the-flaw-at-the-heart-of-australian-politics-20180822-p4zyyl.html">analysis was by Dave Sharma</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Sharma">Sharma has an interesting history</a> - and has just returned from four years as Australia's ambassador to Israel. He has, no less, been <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-man-most-likely-to-replace-turnbull-in-the-seat-of-wentworth-20180823-p4zzdk.html">touted as a possible candidate for the Liberals in the seat of Wentworth</a> in the forthcoming by-election to replace Malcolm Turnbull. Given his analysis of the state of our governance systems one would have to question his rationale for joining the highly dysfunctional Liberal party. Or perhaps he feels he can bring insights from watching, at close quarters, the systemic failings of Israel's espoused democracy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-21235646645603967262018-08-19T05:35:00.001+09:002018-08-19T05:46:18.875+09:00Action on air pollution with EU support not fast enough - what will it be like post-Brexit?A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/03/air-pollution-linked-to-changes-in-heart-structure">new study </a>shows very strong correlations between changes in the heart structure and air pollution:<br />
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<i>The finding could help explain the increased number of deaths seen in
areas with high levels of dirty air. For example, a report last year
revealed that people in the UK are <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/17/air-pollution-kills-more-people-in-the-uk-than-in-sweden-us-and-mexico">64 times more likely to die from the effect of air pollution than people living in Sweden</a>. Such premature deaths can be linked to <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/feb/14/are-you-at-risk-how-pollution-increases-your-chance-of-death-interactive">a number of causes</a> including <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/18/asthma-deaths-rise-25-amid-growing-air-pollution-crisis">respiratory problems</a>, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/09/air-pollution-now-major-contributor-to-stroke">stroke</a> and coronary artery disease."</i><br />
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This is a major front upon which our governance systems are failing. As a backdrop this new paper in PNAS,<span style="font-size: small;"> <b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1810141115">Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene,</a> </b></span>outlines how vulnerable our situation is, yet despite Paris, we collectively 'fiddle'! <br />
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<i>"We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth
System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent
stabilization of the climate at intermediate temperature rises and cause
continued warming on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway even as human emissions
are reduced. Crossing the threshold would lead to a much higher global
average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years
and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene.
We examine the evidence that such a threshold might exist and where it
might be. If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would
likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies.
Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a
potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like
state. Such action entails stewardship of the entire Earth
System—biosphere, climate, and societies—and could include
decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon
sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance
arrangements, and transformed social values.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-29796737971266049912018-08-18T16:07:00.000+09:002018-08-18T16:07:16.364+09:00A systemic language/languaging to talk about and respond to climate changeWe already do a lot of talking and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4132289/">languaging</a> more generally about climate change. We will do a lot more. That is why we have to move to a much more sophisticated use of language than happens at the moment. Our world may disappear for the want of a much deeper understanding of how language uses us - and how primitive we are in the language we deploy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff">George Lakoff</a> has good advice on some of the <a href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/americas-linguistics-how-we-talk-about-climate-change-politics-morals/">systemic issues that are becoming more apparent each day</a> w.r.t our languaging. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-18262806161165295122018-08-18T15:56:00.004+09:002018-08-19T05:47:41.023+09:00The rise of gluten sensitivity - an emergent, systemic problemAs someone who has gluten sensitivity I experience the phenomenon as real - but it is complex to manage and deal with socially, as this excellent article in the Guardian outlines.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-54076720873661886482018-04-11T20:39:00.000+09:002018-04-11T20:41:23.990+09:00On bullied universities speaking truth to power<span class="content__headline content__headline--byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="tone-colour" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanwolff" itemprop="sameAs" rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Jonathan Wolff</span></a> in his Guardian article yesterday "</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/10/britain-bullied-universities-jonathan-wolff">Britain’s bullied universities should be speaking truth to power"</a> raises some interesting points about</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1989/0080/latest/DLM183668.html">New Zealand’s Education Act</a> .... "<i>that ..gives universities a statutory duty to be “the critic and conscience of society</i>”" Whilst he offers support for such an institutional arrangement he has little to say about other forms of institutional innovation that might be applied to UK HE.<br />
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Wolff offers a critique of academic practice, implying that more than institutional innovation is needed. Consideration of his own reflexive praxis is, however, missing from the article. In critiques of this type it would be good to see a shift from the abstract to the embodied and personal.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-52961257679870676152018-04-11T20:21:00.002+09:002018-04-11T20:21:24.006+09:00Systemic perspectives on the Murray-Darling BasinThis part <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2018/apr/05/murray-darling-when-the-river-runs-dry">photo-essay prepared by the Guardian Australia</a> is worth exploring. The invitation by the authors is to:<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Follow our 3000km journey along the rivers, travelling from inland
Queensland to the Murray mouth, to understand where the plan has failed
those who live and work on this land".</i> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-20689676670778866842018-04-11T20:17:00.000+09:002018-04-11T20:17:03.442+09:00Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice at the WorkplaceFindings from <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/esteem/projects/themes/other/enhancing-systems-thinking-practice-the-workplace">research made available</a>.<br />
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<i>"The eSTEeM project was an 18-month systemic inquiry beginning January
2014 initiated by a core team of 5 academics associated with the
production and presentation of the postgraduate programme in Systems
Thinking in Practice (STiP). The inquiry comprised a series of online
interviews over two phases, and a workshop held in London Regional
Office in May 2015. There were 33 interviews in total, including
interviews with 10 postgraduate students undertaking core modules
associated with the STiP programme, 8 STiP alumni, 8 employers of STiP
alumni, and 7 Associate Lecturers teaching on the STiP programme. The
one-day workshop involved 41 participants including members of the core
eSTEeM team, all interviewees from both initial phases, along with
other special guests invited on the basis of their involvement, support
and interest for the STiP programme.</i><br />
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<i>The project aimed to design a learning system for transforming the
‘threats’ of a gap between postgraduate study experiences and post-study
work experiences into ‘opportunities’ for radical pedagogic adaptation
and (re)design. One such course where the gap is evident is with the
postgraduate suite of qualifications in Systems Thinking in Practice
(STiP) launched at the OU in 2010."</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-31741309389830488422018-04-09T18:36:00.002+09:002018-04-09T18:36:32.877+09:00Teething problems with apprenticeships? According to <a href="http://wonkhe.cmail20.com/t/ViewEmail/d/39BEC9B754AD777D2540EF23F30FEDED/A9D17E988D6E0CC96B5BE456C00C2519">an article today on Wonkhe</a> - marking the first year of apprenticeships - some systemic issues are emerging:<br />
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Challenges include demonstrating the benefits to prospective applicants
and their families, meeting employer needs, and delays getting new
apprenticeships approved. One major employer, IBM, described the process
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experience at all”. That same employer also said they have “shifted away
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There are also issues in demonstrating the returns to firms of taking on
apprentices – simulations published by the Education Policy Institute
to estimate the costs and benefits suggest that most firms would only
break even if apprentice pay is close to minimum wage, and that
higher-level apprenticeships taken up at a later age could offer lower
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apprenticeships, which Gerry Berragan of the Institute for
Apprenticeships said he was supportive of. He also said management
degrees are a "perfectly respectable" way to use levy funds and address
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Time will tell if the government, the post-18 review, and OfS can create
a coherent, system-wide offer that includes different routes and
levels. With unspent levy funds and stubborn skills gaps, it’s likely
that more enterprising HEIs will continue to seize this opportunity."</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-13793997043487908572018-04-06T00:30:00.001+09:002018-04-06T00:30:30.981+09:00The gathering systemic failure of the nation stateYou know something's amiss when authors on both sides of the globe write about the same set of phenomena only days apart. The first to come to my attention was an article by Lachlan Harris and Andrew Charlton in the Sydney Morning Herald: "<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-fundamental-operating-model-of-australian-politics-is-breaking-down-20180322-p4z5o9.html">The fundamental operating model of Australian politics is breaking down</a>". These authors are heading in the right direction. Unfortunately they do not go nearly far enough and some of their argument along the way is dubious. I refer especially to their claims that: "</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The effects of polarisation can be seen in the rising support for
increasingly ideological minor parties such as the Greens, One Nation
and the Australian Conservatives........</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>As the electorate becomes more ideological, those votes are being cast as firm votes <i data-reactid="459">for</i> minor parties, not <i data-reactid="462">against</i> the major ones.</i>" This framing seems to me to miss the mark, especially when the authors primary experiences are within one of the main parties. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We need an open, societal debate about these issues. But with more nuanced framing than these authors provide.</span></span><br />
<br />
Then today this article <span style="font-size: small;">by <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rana-dasgupta">Rana Dasgupta</a> in The Guardian</span></span></span>:<span style="font-size: small;"> "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/05/demise-of-the-nation-state-rana-dasgupta">The demise of the nation state</a>", as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read"><i>The Long Read</i></a>. His analysis is more global and, to me, more convincing. He echos points that <a href="http://www.edstraw.com/">Ed Straw</a> and I are currently writing about in a book due with Routledge in August this year. Dasgupta argues that:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
<br />
<i>"Since 1945, we have actively reduced our world political system to a
dangerous mockery of what was designed by US president Woodrow Wilson
and many others after the cataclysm of the first world war, and now we
are facing the consequences. But we should not leap too quickly into
renovation. This system has done far less to deliver human security and
dignity than we imagine – in some ways, it has been a colossal failure –
and there are good reasons why it is ageing so much more quickly than
the empires it replaced"</i><br />
<br />
and goes on to claim that there is no going back, no way of improving the 'current model':<br />
<br />
<i>"After so many decades of globalisation, economics and information have
successfully grown beyond the authority of national governments. Today,
the distribution of planetary wealth and resources is largely
uncontested by any political mechanism............</i><i>Without political innovation, global capital and technology will rule us
without any kind of democratic consultation, as naturally and
indubitably as the rising oceans."</i><br />
<br />
We shall have to wait - but wait with active attention and personal action if his claims that:<br />
<br />
<i>"The libertarian dream – whereby antique bureaucracies succumb to
pristine hi-tech corporate systems, which then take over the management
of all life and resources – is a more likely vision for the future than
any fantasy of a return to social democracy."</i><br />
<br />
will come to pass. <a href="http://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/foucault-power-is-everywhere/">Resistance, in the Foucauldian sense</a> can be harnessed on the back of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/01/ethics-software-engineers-cambridge-analytica">Cambridge Analytics and Facebook revelations </a>together with growing critique of the <a href="https://rayison.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-systemic-implications-of-algorithms.html">antisocial power of black-box algorithms</a> and hard AI. But this will require effort and greater solidarity - the very thing offered to the UK by membership of the EU.<br />
<br />
From his convincing analysis comes the conclusion that:<br />
<br />
<i>"The three elements of the crisis described ... will only worsen. First,
the existential breakdown of rich countries during the assault on
national political power by global forces. Second, the volatility of the
poorest countries and regions, now that the departure of cold war-era
strongmen has revealed their true fragility. And third, the illegitimacy
of an “international order” that has never aspired to any kind of
“society of nations” governed by the rule of law."</i><br />
<br />
I could not agree more with his conclusions that action on our part "<i>is not a small endeavour: it will take the better part of this
century. We do not know yet where it will lead. All we can lay out now
is a set of directions</i>." His suggested actions include:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>global financial regulation. </li>
<li>global flexible democracy</li>
<li>finding new conceptions of citizenship</li>
</ul>
These are challenging agendas. Do they go far enough? I fear they are necessary but not sufficient. So what would I add? Please wait for the book. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-62242459152480738582018-04-04T20:22:00.003+09:002018-04-04T20:23:52.032+09:00The systemic implications of algorithms
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://virginia-eubanks.com/about/">Virginia Eubanks</a>, a professor of political science at the University at Albany
in upstate New York is the author of several books that seem well worth reading: <i>Automating
Inequality</i></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><i>:How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor</i>; <i>Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age;</i> and is co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of <i>Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith</i></i>. It was while she was writing her latest book book that the power of
algorithms became shockingly evident. She is interviewed on BBC's 'The Why Factor' in this compelling clip: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062clhw">How do you fight a nameless, faceless algorithm? </a></span></span>This clip is in turn part of a larger program on the BBC World Service called: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswrjp">Machines and Morals. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-3494090728067756102018-03-08T02:12:00.000+09:002018-03-08T02:12:06.875+09:00Taking Steven Pinker to taskGood on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/environmental-calamity-facts-steven-pinker">George Monbiot for deflating the celebrity bubble</a> that has grown around Steven Pinker's work.<br />
<br />
<i>'Rather than using primary sources, Pinker draws on anecdote,
cherry-picking and discredited talking points developed by
anti-environmental thinktanks.Take, for example, Pinker’s claims about
the landmark <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf" title="">Limits to Growth report</a>,
published in 1972. It’s a favourite target of those who seek to dismiss
environmental problems. He suggests it projected that aluminium,
copper, chromium, gold, nickel, tin, tungsten and zinc would be
exhausted by 1992. It is hard to see how anyone who had read the report
could form this impression. The figures it uses for illustrative
purposes have been transformed by some critics into projections.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Its actual prediction is that “the great majority of the currently
important non-renewable resources will be extremely costly 100 years
from now”. It would be perfectly reasonable to take issue with this
claim. It is not reasonable to recycle, then attack, a widely circulated
myth about the report. That’s called the <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/169/Strawman-Fallacy" title="">straw man fallacy</a>. It is contrary to the principles of reason that Pinker claims to champion.'</i> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-21803779565236448962018-03-07T00:37:00.002+09:002018-03-07T00:37:36.361+09:00More on the systemic failings of universities/H.E.From a despondent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scott_(educationalist)">Peter Scott</a> in an article today called:<span style="font-size: small;"> '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/06/university-wrecking-reform-government-students">Don’t let this university wrecking government masquerade as reformers'</a></span><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">'</span><span style="font-size: small;">The fees and funding system in England is certainly bust.'</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">' </span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">English higher education is too expensive. It is the <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/university-tuition-fees-england-highest-world-compare-students-student-loan-calculator-a7654276.html" title="">most expensive</a> public system of higher education in the world (including the US).'</span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-33926058287987027852018-03-06T23:51:00.002+09:002018-03-06T23:51:50.840+09:00Duality, Dualism, Duelling and Brexit<a href="http://www.edstraw.com/">Ed Straw </a>and I have had an essay <a href="https://opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/ed-straw-ray-ison/duality-dualism-duelling-and-brexit">published on Open Democracy</a> which explores the systemic implications of the current 'Brexit Mess' (in the sense that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLU3aoQ7t7c">Russ Ackoff referred to messes</a>). The article is an elaboration of a letter sent to <a href="https://labour.org.uk/people/shadow-cabinet/">Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-7787707454701776282018-03-06T23:42:00.002+09:002018-03-06T23:42:47.589+09:00Paul Mason provides a systemic account of 'fake news'British commentator and radio personality <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)">Paul Mason</a> uses a form of modified system dynamics modelling to<a href="http://novaramedia.com/2018/03/01/paul-mason-explains-fake-news/"> analyse and explain the systemic implications and functioning of 'fake news'</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-43815362518836635612018-02-19T09:59:00.003+09:002018-02-19T09:59:40.062+09:00New on-line taster course on systems thinking<div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Colleagues at the <a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures">Institute for Sustainable Futures </a>(university of Technology, Sydney) have advised:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">"that the first module of the systems thinking <span class="currentHitHighlight" id="0.7610681165224417" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span> I mentioned we were developing is now available online at UTS OPEN. It’s <span class="highlight" id="0.7760666067410857" name="searchHitInReadingPane">ISF</span>’s first ever online <span class="highlight" id="0.07075535891995821" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span> and is one of the first four UTS <span class="highlight" id="0.1327096963208213" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span>s available to the general
public free of charge. We’ve tried not to replicate all the good work that’s already out there including the OU’s <span class="highlight" id="0.08034597710043123" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span>
and are hoping to offer some different angles on systems thinking. Let
us know what you think if you get a chance to have a look at it.
The <span class="highlight" id="0.5753252193315355" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span> is an introduction or <a href="https://open.uts.edu.au/systemsthinking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">’<span class="highlight" id="0.7336195450645435" name="searchHitInReadingPane">taster</span> <span class="highlight" id="0.2706688644831806" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span>' on </span></a><a href="https://open.uts.edu.au/systemsthinking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">systems
thinking</span></a> and you can find it here at this link <a href="https://open.uts.edu.au/systemsthinking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">https://open.uts.edu.au/systemsthinking.html</span></a> . We will hopefully be developing
another 4 modules to complete this <span class="highlight" id="0.9236568035416639" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span> (dependent on further funding).</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></i></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Please
feel free to share the link with anyone who might be interested. This
is still a ‘soft launch’ phase and we can still make improvements to the
<span class="highlight" id="0.6518089935640042" name="searchHitInReadingPane">course</span> and would really appreciate
any honest and constructive feedback on how we can further improve it. As this is only a ‘<span class="highlight" id="0.7657784168723984" name="searchHitInReadingPane">taster</span>’ module it is meant to get people interested in systems thinking and wanting more</i>. "</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-82168672663451053182018-02-19T09:08:00.001+09:002018-02-19T09:08:03.144+09:00Systemic Design<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/ben-sweeting">Ben Sweeting</a> gave a plenary presentation at the
Relating Systems Thinking and Design conference in Oslo, in October 2017, on
Cybernetics, Virtue Ethics and Design. It is available from <a href="https://systemic-design.net/rsd6/plenary-speeches/#sweeting">the proceeding</a>s and includes a video recording, which features live sketch notes from playthink.com</span> <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-25213686064664939862018-02-10T16:51:00.001+09:002018-02-11T07:18:36.661+09:00Eulogy: Phil Wallis (5th March 1982 - 2nd February 2018)<span style="font-size: small;">My dear friend and colleague Phil Wallis died on the 2nd of February after an 18 month struggle with bowel cancer. His funeral was held at the <a href="https://philipwallis.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/mechanisms-for-inclusive-water-governance/">Springvale Botanical Cemetery</a> on Thursday 8th February. This eulogy delivered at Phil's invitation was one of two tributes paid during the service. The final reading was delivered by Phil's mother - '<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/la2/daydreams/AWishforYouMyChildren.html">A wish for you my child'</a>.</span><br />
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Eulogy:
Phillip J. Wallis</div>
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5<sup>th</sup> March
1982 – 2<sup>nd</sup> February 2018</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I feel immensely privileged to have been invited by Phil to
deliver this eulogy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike other
eulogies I delivered for my parents whom I also loved this is my first
experience of having discussed possible content in advance. The conversation
with Phil was for me a heart-wrenching experience. But true to form Phil was
strong in the circumstances – considerate and concerned for me through my
tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My aim today is to leave you with a stronger
sense of Phil the professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of
the detail of his professional life is in the document available when you entered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I invite you to read this when you can and as
you do to marvel at how much Phil achieved in the 10 years of his post-PhD
professional life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is indeed
impressive and stands as a legacy worthy of celebration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end Phil felt comfortable within
himself with what he had achieved, though it would be better to reframe his
contributions in terms of what he contributed to us, his colleagues and friends,
and society more generally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil began his academic life at the
interface of geography and chemistry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
graduated with first-class honours and won a prestigious scholarship to
continue at Monash for his PhD in the emerging field of green chemistry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he had interdisciplinary and then
transdisciplinary tendencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
interdisciplinary interests began within UNIWATER, a Monash- Melbourne Uni
collaboration, and later in the Systemic Governance Research Program at Monash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was in these two programs that our
collaboration began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil was open to the complexity and
uncertainty of the world around him and felt that research that acted at the
interface of the social and natural sciences was important for long term sustainability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led him to do pioneering research <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with</i></b>
people – collaborative research, systemic co-inquiry or co-design. He became
known for his expertise in process design in research and stakeholder
engagement and for his excellent facilitator skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a brave turn to make in a world
where disciplinary focus is more readily rewarded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing last year Phil justifiably claimed
‘expertise in many facets of sustainability research with a proven track record
in communicating results by seminar and publication’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil’s academic work has been <a href="https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=aKG7v9sAAAAJ&hl=en">cited by about 400 people</a>, mostly since 2013. In other words his research has had a
significant international and national impact which will continue for some time
to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one of his most recent
papers a self-description is that of ‘an applied, transdisciplinary researcher
and natural resource management practitioner’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">When Phil and I talked about this
eulogy and our decade-long collaboration two particular experiences came to the
fore in our reflections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Phil it was
a visit we made together to Canberra in November 2014. We first attended a
<a href="http://www.petercullentrust.com.au/">Peter Cullen Trust </a>seminar and dinner. We listened to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewson">John Hewson</a> deliver an
enlightening after-dinner talk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
argued that investors were ignoring the growing risk of fossil fuel
investments, and [that] portfolios [were] highly skewed towards oil, coal and
petrol stocks rather than being balanced with commodities carrying less
long-term risk.’ We both admired <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEynJoue1Do">Hewson for his commitment to the divestment movement</a>. The following day we had meetings at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Water_Commission">National Water Commission</a>
and the <a href="https://www.mdba.gov.au/">Murray Darling Basin Authority or MDBA</a> as we called it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the latter we mounted arguments to allow
our earlier research conducted within the MDBA to be published. Despite our
arguments they denied permission and continue to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our research spoke truth to power; if taken
on-board the results may well have avoided the current series of s<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/at-great-risk-13-billion-murraydarling-plan-headed-for-failure-report-says-20171129-gzv344.html">ystemic failings in governance of the Murray Darling Basin.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Why was this experience significant to Phil? Well he was very
proud to have been made a fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust. The regard with
which he is held within this network is testimony not only to his quiet
leadership skills, his behind the scenes facilitation, but also for his integrity
and the understanding he has gained, and helped to develop, of the complex
policy and practice issues that confront water, river, climate change,
biodiversity, food security and natural resource governance in Australia and
beyond. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also a visit in which we
were in the thick of it doing our best to make research relevant to policy and
practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">For my own part the memory that
surfaced was of hiking with Phil and John Colvin in the <a href="https://www.cavern.co.za/tugela-gorge-trail/">Turgela Gorge in the beautiful Drakensburgs</a> in Sth Africa. Both Phil and I wrote blog-posts about
the experience. <a href="https://philipwallis.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/mechanisms-for-inclusive-water-governance/">Phil wrote</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><i>“Just recently a book chapter project came to fruition……The
book had its genesis in the 2012 International Conference on Fresh Water
Governance for Sustainable Development, held in Drakensberg, South Africa. This
conference was memorable for me as I had the opportunity to collaborate with
Derick du Toit, Sharon Pollard, Harry Biggs, John Colvin, and Ray Ison in
preparing an interactive special session on systemic governance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conference was also a good chance to see
the amazing landscapes of the Drakensberg region, including a hike up Tugela
Gorge</i>.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What Phil did not write, perhaps in
deference to concerns Beth or his mother may have held, <a href="https://www.alexnail.com/drakensberg/lightning-on-the-ridge/">was encounteringmassive lightning storms</a> – the night following our walk in the midst of a storm
the hotel management would not let us walk the 100 metres or so back from
dinner to our bungalow. Why we asked? The answer: because one of their clients
had been killed by lightening some months before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As Phil would have done when charged
with undertaking a project – even a eulogy – I have sought to give voice to
others, to value multiple partial perspectives as to how Phil was experienced
in his professional life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Phil that
emerges from this albeit limited selection is:</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(i)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the mapper out of ideas, the planner, synthesiser, systems diagram user, who
could sit quietly in meetings and at a critical stage offer his model, diagram
or synthesis that ‘wowed’ those present!</span> “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Starting out not really
knowing where we were going to go, Phil would be there with whiteboard pens in
hand, and pretty soon the discussions would take off, ideas would flow and
bounce around, the inspiration would come, and the maps would grow and spread
out.</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(ii)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the calm and unassuming leader - always able to bring people along with him.
One example was when he worked with a group of fellow early-career researchers
to write a collaborative paper about their experiences. It was Phil's ability
to connect with people in both an intellectual and personal way and lead a
group that really made it come together. All of his co-authors from this
experience have been in touch with me and offered similar reflections. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One said: ‘he had a big effect on my career …
because he elevated my confidence and made me feel empowered at a time when I
was doubting myself a lot.’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(iii)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the great collaborator: supportive, patient, highly organised technologically
adept and generous. No matter what was happening he seemed to be able to take
it in his stride. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(iv)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the 'doer' - he put in the effort to turn ideas into reality and he did it
through quiet thoughtful leadership and gentle guidance rather than an
overbearing personality as is the case with a lot of ambitious people who get
things done but fail to pay attention to fostering inclusive relationships. He
was organised, meticulous in his research and kind in his dealings with people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(v)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the fantastic facilitator, inspirational in demonstrating a collaborative way
of working together. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(vi)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the unflappable …..in the face of we older CSIRO scientists’ cynicism about
social learning through online collaborative platforms he helped lead us to
wrest some science out of our apathy.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(vii)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the humourist.’ It was very subtle but always present. Like how he wrote that
book chapter called 'a nexus of nexuses', he was kind of having fun with the
whole thing but not making a big deal out of it’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(viii)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the ever positive - smiling and always looking for better ways of doing things.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(ix)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the initiator and facilitator of good conversations: ‘he rounded up our team
and whisked us off in search of some good coffee on campus and there we sat
talking all things sometimes political, sometimes about what we were reading
for pleasure, the ethics of food, and what our fellow colleagues were up to in
the water governance space’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(x)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the attentive supervisor, supporter and advisor always happy to discuss;</span>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">caring, compassionate and
consistent;</span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(xi)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the technology pioneer and enabler: ‘Phil emailed a certain professor that a
number of references were available on the cloud. To a distracted busy person
who only half read the email, the idea of references on freshwater being in the
cloud<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made sense in a weird sort of way
that did not have much to do with computing. After acknowledging mystification
Phil patiently explained but sent all the files on email instead.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(xii)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the exemplar of doing systemic thinking as an everyday practice - as a way of
shaping your thoughts as a web of ideas and views, which spurs you on to make
further connections that helps you think in a more inclusive way’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(xiii)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
the work-life-balance manager – assiduous in his concerns for equity with his
partner Beth, for the efficacy of their parenting team and his commitments to
Archer and Hugo;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(xiv)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil
- the loss to us all – ‘so much potential yet unused to make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a beautiful spirit and intellect lost
when so many that are bad and destructive go on and on.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Phil would not have liked the fuss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at this moment all of these facets of
Phil, as well as others not yet said, deserve a public saying and
acknowledgment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Let me finish by saying that in my experience Phil Wallis was
an easy man to love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I say this I
do not mean a Hollywood, romantic, version of love but the type of love that
arises when we treat others, including nature with legitimacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phil was an easy man to love because he made
it so easy to reciprocate the legitimacy, the love, he granted each of us when
we worked, collaborated, talked, facilitated, traveled, wrote, speculated and
laughed together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no humbug
about Phil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the real deal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our final conversation he counseled me to
go on asking challenging questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is an invitation I extend to you all on Phil’s behalf because we each
contribute to the world that Archer, Hugo and others will inherit. Phil did
more than his fair share; we owe it to him to continue his legacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ray
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Nikki Reichelt</div>
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Patricia Geraghty</div>
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Ian Morgans</div>
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Chris Blackmore</div>
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Ben Iaquinto</div>
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Monika Farnbach</div>
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Helen Corney</div>
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Kevin Collins</div>
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Moragh Mackay</div>
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James Patterson</div>
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Ross Colliver</div>
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Sharon Pollard</div>
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Jana Paschen</div>
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Brian Coffey</div>
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Catherine Allan</div>
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Derick du Toit</div>
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Katherine Daniell</div>
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Laura Mumaw</div>
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Harry Biggs</div>
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John Colvin</div>
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Yongping Wei</div>
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Anna Lukasiewicz</div>
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Jocelyn Davies</div>
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Ashley Sparrow</div>
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Jasmyn Lynch</div>
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Liz Gachenga</div>
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Tony McLeod</div>
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Jason Alexandra</div>
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Nadine Gaskell</div>
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Robyn Holder</div>
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Nicky Ison</div>
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Cathy Humphreys</div>
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<b> With Phil and John Colvin on a walk out from <a href="http://www.montusi.co.za/">Montusi Mountain Lodge</a>, the Drakensburgs, South Africa in 2012. </b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-10352881022540487582018-02-01T10:49:00.000+09:002018-02-01T10:49:08.310+09:00University interdisciplinarity: misplaced idealism...or oldish cynic?I found myself thinking <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/jan/24/the-university-of-the-future-will-be-interdisciplinary">this enthusiastic article</a> was a repeat of many that have gone before it - without ever fundamentally challenging the University status quo in terms of structures and processes.<br />
<br />
But perhaps my cynicism flourishes too much!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-37341289095715729322018-02-01T10:39:00.001+09:002018-02-01T10:39:13.034+09:00'How the Internet controls you'<a href="http://memex.naughtons.org/">John Naughton</a> has written an insightful systemic account of the the internet world we inhabit and co-create with the five largest companies on Earth. Here is a taste from his <a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/how-the-internet-controls-you">Prospect article</a>:<br />
<br />
<i>"The wags who spoke of early smartphones as “Crack-Berry” (a play on
BlackBerry, one early model) were not wrong; they are engines for
dopamine release. In January, two major Apple shareholders urged the
company <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/jana-calpers-push-apple-to-study-iphone-addiction-in-children">to address the potential harms</a>
caused by its products. They advised the firm to increase the parental
controls on its devices and research the mental health effects of
excessive use of smartphones. The shareholders, with a combined holding
of $2bn, wrote: “There is a growing body of evidence that, for at least
some of the most frequent users, this may be having unintentional
negative consequences.” A few days later, Roger McNamee, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/13/mark-zuckerberg-tech-addiction-investors-speak-up">a large and early investor in Facebook</a>,
went public with very similar arguments. Indeed, the whole tendency for
smartphones and social media apps is to “privilege our impulses over
our intentions,” in the words of Oxford computer scientist James
Williams. As a result, in Williams’s view, social media is a threat to
liberal democracy, a system that must always rely on the ordinary
citizen’s capacity for deliberation."</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-13198034094831313772018-01-03T12:16:00.001+09:002018-01-03T12:22:39.223+09:00A Learning Health SystemMembers of our STiP (<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/dtr4open/s-ti-p-showfinal">Systems Thinking in Practice) alumni group</a> are actively involved in a new enterprise called '<a href="http://www.learninghealth.org/">a learning health system</a>'.<br />
<br />
The claim is made that:<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>"A Learning Health System (LHS) gets pretty close to that approach (and
much more) to health care and health, putting precisely that type of
timely and actionable knowledge, based on the real-world experiences of
millions of patients, in the hands of clinicians, patients, and all
other health care stakeholders. Harnessing the power of such
unprecedented knowledge at our fingertips – when it’s needed and where
it’s needed, and in the form most useful to the person using it – we can
make better informed decisions that lead to saving lives, improving
health, and transforming our health care system into one that rapidly
learns and continuously improves."</i><br />
<br />
A<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2379-6146"> new journal has appeared</a> to support this emerging field.<br />
<br />
The challenge is to imbue its enactment with systems thinking in practice!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055149.post-38360089503172846522017-12-13T07:26:00.003+09:002017-12-13T07:26:34.829+09:00Member of the Scientific Council of the BCSSS<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, "EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">During 2017 I accepted an appointment as a Member of the <a href="http://www.bcsss.org/the-center/scientific-council/">Scientific Council of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS)</a>, an Austrian
independent research institute, internationally acknowledged as an
ambassador for the systems science heritage and present state-of-the-art
of applied systems research. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0