Title
Cybernetic governance of the Peruvian State: a proposal
Date Issued
01 September 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
This paper aims to make a proposal to govern the Peruvian State under the umbrella of management cybernetics, following the paths of the viable system model (VSM), proposed by Prof. Stafford Beer, enriched with other soft and hard systemic methodologies and technologies, to cover the soft and hard issues that are part of the complex Peruvian reality at different levels of recursion. For doing this, four defined perspectives were adopted to understand the complexity of Peru: the sectoral view, the regions view, the river basins view and the macroregions view. Peru is seen as a system in focus, defining, for each of these four perspectives, the five systems that VSM has. The application of the VSM in each perspective serves to apply it in two modes: diagnosis and design, according to the respective perspective. Then an integrative analysis and reflection is done considering the four perspectives, to analyze the viability of the VSM approach in the governance of the Peruvian State to establish some conclusions and recommendations in relation to the proposal, appearing at the end of the paper.
Start page
1207
End page
1229
Volume
37
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85126106090
Source
AI and Society
ISSN of the container
09515666
Sponsor(s)
The author wants to express his special acknowledgements and gratitude to Profs Peter B. Checkland, Brian Wilson and Ronald H. Anderton (passed away sometime ago), all of them from Lancaster University, U.K., who opened the author’s mind to these ideas which are so important and useful to understand, comprehend and propose viable changes in complex situations as is the case of Peru. Special thanks also go to the invited editors of the present issue of the AI & Society Journal, for their perseverance and patience to get the contributors’ papers, as was my case. Finally, the author wants to give special thanks to Jimmy Riojas-Marquez for his support in diverse stages of the paper preparation as well as to Renzo Condori-Huaman for preparing the statistical information shown in the paper. Jimmy and Renzo are both research assistants at the Instituto Andino de Sistemas—IAS.
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