The World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) – Organisation Mondiale pour la Systémique et la Cybernétique (OMSC), is an association of individuals and organisations promoting systems thinking and cybernetics worldwide.
WOSC was founded in 1969, with the desire to support the communication of individuals and organisations related to systems thinking and cybernetics worldwide. To perform its tasks, it is organised as follows:
President
Director General:
Advisory Board
- Allenna Leonard (Canada)
- Emeritus Matjaž Mulej (Slovenia)
- Markus Schwaninger (St Gallen, Switzerland)
- Clas-Otto Wene (Sweden)
- Stuart Umpleby (USA)
Board of Directors, assisted by the Director-General
- German Bula Escobar (Colombia)
- Ray Ison (Australia and UK)
- Jerzy Józefczyk (Wrocław, Poland)
- Louis Klein (Germany)
- Vladimir Lepskiy (Russia)
- José Pérez Ríos (Spain)
- Alfonso Reyes (Colombia)
- Sandro Schlindwein (Brazil)
- Frank Stowell (UK)
- Sergio Barile (IT)
- Marialuisa Saviano (IT)
- Francesco Caputo
- John Beckford
Communications between Systems and Cybernetics associations
International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS)
Stuart Umpleby, Raul Espejo, Jose Rios, Matjaž Mulej
American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)
Stuart Umpleby, Allenna Leonard
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)
José Pérez Ríos, Ray Ison, Allenna Leonard
UK Cybernetics society
John Beckford
UK Systems Society (UKSS)
Frank Stowell
System Dynamics Society (SDS)
José Pérez Ríos, Markus Schwaninger
Sociedad Española de Sistemas generales. (SESGES)
José Pérez Ríos
World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF)
José Pérez Ríos
ELAPDIS – Escuela Latinoamericana de Pensamiento y Diseño Sistémico
Alfonso Reyes, Sandro Schlindwein
International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR)
Ray Ison, Louis Klein
Asvsa
Francesco Caputo
Business Systems Laboratory (BSLAB)
Igor Perko
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science (CIRRPC)
Vladimir Lepskiy
Complex Human Adaptive Organisations and Systems (CHAOS)
Igor Perko
Centre for Systems Studies
Igor Perko
Community Organisation Research Group/ LIBS
Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek
Metaphorum
Raul Espejo
Slovenian Society for Systems Research
Igor Perko
Kybernetes is the official journal of WOSC.