TY - JOUR AU - Karabeg, Dino PY - 2014/04/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Bootstrapping Social-Systemic Evolution JF - Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2013 HaiPhong, Vietnam JA - ISSS-2013 VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings57th/article/view/2080 SP - AB - <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">An anomaly underlying sustainability-related and other contemporary issues is that relevant information is created but not heard, and not turned into action. Information technology offers building materials for enabling effective communication, but this building has not yet scaled to its potential. We point to a paradigm<em> </em>within which this anomaly can be remedied, and submit that if systems science should make the difference it can and needs to make, its presence within this paradigm may need to be strengthened. This practically means expressing the results and insights not only in printed text, but also in systemic prototypes and most importantly&mdash;in real-world systems. We point to <em>bootstrapping social-systemic evolution </em>as a strategy and a practical way to do that, and offer relevant details by describing some of our related projects and ideas.&nbsp;</span></p> ER -