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Título del libro: 49th Annual Meeting Of The International Society For The Systems Sciences 2005, Isss 2005
Título del capítulo: Thirty years after scatt, the idealized national s&t communication system

Autores UNAM:
JAIME JIMENEZ GUZMAN;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2005
Palabras clave:

Creativity in designs; Internet2; Large system; National Science Foundations; Systems approach; Communication systems; Design


Resumen:

In 1976, the so called SCATT Report (Designing a National Scientific and Technological Communication System, by R. L. Ackoff, M. C. J. Elton, T. A. Cowan, J. C. Emery, P. Davis, M. L. Meditz, W. M. Sachs) a design made for the USA by petition of the National Science Foundation, was released. This is a profound exercise of idealized design made by a set of scholars and specialists. Idealized design is a systems approach method of planning proposed by Ackoff in the 70's. It allows the designers to release from both self-imposed constraints and the limitations posed by the current environment to attain a future not imagined otherwise. The advantages of this method of planning are: converts planning from a retrospective to a prospective orientation, invites and facilitates widespread participation of all the stakeholders in the system, tends to generate consensus among those who otherwise disagree, encourages those involved to look at the whole system, induces more creativity in design than would otherwise occur, enlarges the designers' concept of what is feasible. A good number of SCATT's features have been implemented along the years particularly through the creation of Internet and more recently of Internet2. This paper presents an analysis of the power of idealized design for the enhancement of large systems that have an impact worldwide. It is remarkable that one of the characteristics of SCATT is now on the verge of becoming a reality: the allocation of all written materials produced by mankind in the network. Copyright© (2005) by the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS).


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