01 January 1970 0 2K Report

Problem description:

In socio technical systems an idea of technological initiative can emerge and different groups can be organizing around it. Each groups little by litle are organizing sponaneously based on common interest, shared values including ethics, around of an idea of progress and potential benefits that sometimes is vague.

Sometimes those groups start to interact each other and at certain point of development a macro context start to be needed in order to reach the necessities of the society.

Lately despite of the potential social benefits of the new technological initiative, the political body do not create the institutional conditions for the development of a new regulation and public policy (this is what I call the macrosystem). So the socio-technological initiative do not thrive.

Some of the hypothesis about why this issue is happening are:

1) Politicians do not take care or interest of the posibilities of the new technology and initiative.

2) Politicians sees the new technology as a loss of self power threat.

3) Politicians want to take control of the different technical groups resources and assets but not the values and real purpose, because they want to have more power for themselves.

4)...

In consecuence the work done by different technical groups will never be enough organized and coordinated as well as is required by a common purpose that reach societal necesities.

What I want to do is describe the problem in terms of the interaction of technological working groups (the system) and the political and policy level (the macrosystem)

Do yo know if there are a systemic theoretical framework that can help me to analyse and describe this problem and dynamic?

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