Dr. Nagib Callaos is the founding president of the IIIS and the founding president of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI). He is former Dean of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar and was the founding president of several organizations on research, development, and technological innovation, e.g. The Foundation of Research and Development of the University Simon Bolivar, the founding president of the Venezuelan Fund for Technological Innovations (created by presidential decree), The founding president of the Venezuelan Association of Executives in Patents and Copyrights, etc. His main research and professional activities were in the area of Systemic Methodologies of Information System Development, Group Decision Support Systems, and Action-Research mainly via Operations Research. He tutored more than 100 undergraduate and graduate theses and produced more than 100 research papers and reflection articles.
Related to the topic of this conversational session he has been continuously designing and redesigning (for about 35 years), via research and consulting, more effective methodologies for information/informing system development, which effectiveness depends of including ethos, pathos, and logos to the in the context of a combination of systemic and traditional systematic analysis, design, and development methodologies. A synthesis of was he has achieved in this methodological area can be found at http://www.iiis.org/nagib-callaos/Toward-Systemic-Notion-of-Methodology-Practical-Consequences.pdf. With regards to the cybernetic relationships implicitly or explicitly should exist between episteme and techne, science and engineering, in the context of their industrial and societal insertion can be found at http://www.iiis.org/nagib-callaos/engineering-and-meta-engineering/engineering-and-metaengineering.pdf. This kind of insertion is necessary for integrating research and consulting as well as for the Ethos, Pathos and Logos of both episteme and techne, research and consulting, theory and practice, the integration of Science and Engineering/Technology. This, in turn, has strong consequences in the Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Higher Education.
Para el desarrollo personal, organizacional y/o nacional son necesarios, o al menos muy importantes, los procesos de Educación (que no se deben reducir a mera instrucción) e innovación tecnológica, la cual incluye la innovación metodológica. Este es el contexto general de la presentación que hace el profesor Nagib Callaos al “Congreso Internacional de Innovación, Tecnología, Negocios y Educación” realizado en Puerto Vallarta (México) y organizado por El Tecnológico de Puerto Vallarta.
En esa presentación, el Profesor Callaos muestra la potencialidad de relaciones cibernéticas entre las cuatro nociones usadas por los organizadores del mencionado congreso. Innovación, Tecnología, Negocios y Educación, tienen implícitas relaciones cibernéticas reciprocas de co-regulación (vía retroalimentación negativa y pro-alimentación) y co-amplificación con potencial de producir sinergias y propiedades emergentes. El profesor Callaos plantea que es necesario, o al menos importante, hacer explícitas esas relaciones para los efectos de acelerar y orientar adecuadamente el desarrollo tanto nacional, como organizacional y personal. Aunque la presentación se enfoca en el ámbito académico y a sus potenciales relaciones sinérgicas con su medio ambiente (el mundo de los negocios y la sociedad en general), el planteamiento aplica igual para el ámbito personal, organizacional y de políticas públicas.