The literally one-sided emphasis on government services has all but eliminated seriously attending to the public interest. Often, an explicit appeal to public interest promoted development of infrastructure based on earlier technologies. It may have been misrepresented all along, though, as a selected history of infrastructure shows. [… A] balanced concept of public interest essentially connects it to interoperability as equitable potential for interactions. Indeed, infrastructure is government’s key responsibility.

in: Verkeersbegrip van algemeen belang: geschiedenis van infrastructurele stelselmatigheid voor toekomst van informatieverkeer

 

A predominantly technical orientation such as interconnectivity doesn’t do proper justice to the social variety that needs to be engaged by newly balanced policy, etcetera. What is needed is a framework through which up to an individual citizen’s differences are recognized as constitutive for a dynamic open society. Sufficient formalism should guarantee both relevance and rigor. For that purpose, an ontology for interdependency is indispensable.

in: Ontology for interdependency: steps to an ecology of information management

 

Whereas civil as in civil engineering originated as a departure from military engineering, civil information management should right away orient itself at civilization, i.e. supporting civic values and civil rights.

in: Civil information management, a short introduction: an information discipline for society and the metaphor of traffic

 

In its capacity as information, some 'thing' doesn’t exist independently. There are 'things,' however, that may be taken as information. The whole purpose of (most) education is of course to drill people into instant recognition as such, with their compliant behavior as the ulterior motive.

in: note 47.17

 

Complementarity holds basic lessons for modeling variety. We cannot possibly act responsibly while denying variety.

in: Metapattern for complementarity modeling

 

In social-psychological terms […] situations with pertinent behaviors of objects are readily recognized to occur with infinite variety, with ever new situations et cetera arising. Nevertheless, it may still be called complementarity, providing in this more general sense a synonym of situationism. Catering to such variety [is] Metapattern, a method and language for conceptual modeling.

in: Metapattern for complementarity modeling

 

Politicians get elected, managers promoted, by claiming to promote some interests of some people at the expense of other interests of some other people. Occupying a position of some authority, the functionary feels bound to ‘keep his promise’ — made mainly to himself: motive — if only for reelection, for further promotion, et cetera. The tragedy is that power’s preference makes blind to contextualism, undermining society’s health that would secure it as civilization[.]

in: Invitation to contextualism

 

Assuming citizens as entailing the — only — sovereign power calls for an extension of the traditional trias politica. And while I was at it, in their facilitating capacity I included a registrative branch (registrar) besides the legislative, judiciary and executive branches. It results in a pentas politica.

in: note 53.5

 

These days, much emphasis is being put on evidence-based this and evidence-based that, and so on. If you take a look at the — drawing of — the semiotic ennead, my idea is that evidence refers to concept. And a concept is irreducibly motive-based. I would argue that motive-based is value-based, that is, values are a matter of motive. When you are motivated by thirst, you value water as a drink. It makes you interested in particular evidence, i.e. of the available fluid being drinkable water.
What if there’s no water available? […] What will you think of next in an attempt to quench your thirst?

in: note 53.13

 

Teaching children along the lines of Metapattern gives them the flexible and near-intuitive tool to start expressing their experience of variety, and so on to learn better to proactively deal with it. Indeed it is a world full of variety, and changing at that, in which they live.

in: Analytic philosophy for synthesis from early education on

 

Metapattern is about facilitating more balanced social relationships by recognizing different perspectives et cetera. What can be more practical? Or even urgent?

in: note 56.24

 

I favor having Metapattern […] applied [to] facilitating critically important processes in society for real people. And it is there where, in my opinion, a paradigm shift is mostly needed.

in: note 71.2

 

With practically unlimited scope for a model, nothing may be kept implicit. My impression from popular literature on conceptual modeling is that, apart from a technology bias, an organizational bias prevails. That is, the idea is that the resulting model should serve requirements of some organization (rather than aim at whatever interactions, i.e., regardless of variety of — affiliations of —participants). With pervasive networking capabilities available, this organizational bias has become obsolete, and a risk to an organization holding on to it.
For a — much — broader model, an organization should not start from its ‘own’ business, but make conditions (also read: contexts) explicit for it […] to fit in. And from an overview, somewhat paradoxically, a particular organization may then consider how it might support more of the interactions (also read: value chains). Taking advantage of networking opportunities, of course an organization should be first to practice widening the scope of modeling.

in: note 71.25