Informatics and Cybernetics (communication and control) are having
an increasing impact on societies and in the globalization process that
is integrating them. Societies are trying to regulate this impact, and
adapt it to their respective cultural infra-structures. Societies and
cultures are in reciprocal co-adaptations with Information and
Communication Technologies. Synergic relationships might emerge in this
co-adaptation process by means of positive and negative feedback loops,
as well as feedforward ones. This would make the whole larger than the
sum of its parts, generating emergent properties in the parts involved
as well as in the whole coming forth. The academic, private, and public
sectors are integrating their activities; multi-disciplinary groups and
inter-disciplinary teams are being formed, and collaborative research
and development projects are being organized in order to facilitate and
adequately orient the design and implementation of the feedback and the
feedforward loops, so the synergic relationships are socially positive
and personally human.
Purpose
One of the main
purposes of the International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics
and Informatics: IMSCI 2009, is to bring together academics,
professionals, and managers from the private and the public sectors, so
they can share ideas, results of research, and innovative services or
products, in a multi-disciplinary and multi-sector forum.
Educational
technologies, socio-economic organizations, and socio-political
processes are essential domains among those involved in the evolving
co-adaptation and co-transformation between societies and cultures on
the one hand, and between informatics and cybernetics (communication
and control) on the other hand. Consequently, the principal conferences
in the context of the IMSCI 2009 Multi-Conference are the following:
7th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2009
5th International Conference on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics: SOIC 2009
7th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2009
These
three conferences are related to each other, and, as a whole, are
producing or might produce synergic relationships with the Information
and Communication Technologies. This is why the Organizing Committees
of the three of them have the purpose of combining their efforts in a
way that would lead to the organization of an adequate joint event,
where academics, researchers, consultants, professionals, innovators,
and practitioners from the three areas might relate and interact with
each other in the same event. This kind of interactions might generate
possibilities of cross-fertilization and analogical thinking, as well
as possibilities of new working hypothesis, ideas, and reflections on
the impact, importance, and usefulness of Informatics and Cybernetics
in important dimensions of educational, socio-political, and
socio-economical processes, services, and products.
