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Hi,

At IIASA, Austria, I am organizing a discussion group of governance. The aim is not to hold entirely CT based discussions, but to see how the notion of governance involves in academic research and what are the tools used in such research contexts. CT is definitely one of the tools, and scenarios can be another.

The group is a mixture of ‘hard’ and ’soft’ scientists, and we had the first meeting last week and our interests lies in:
1. In the context of ‘uncertainty’ (i.e. we don’t know what would be the best solution in the context), how can we identify the best solution?
2. If we know the best solution but there is ‘unknown’ obstacle to implement such solution, how can we identify and overcome the obstacle?

Steven Ney suggested that, regarding the 2nd issue ‘the best solution’ should not be the best. The best solutions has to be implementable. And the best way to realise this is to ask ‘uncomfortable’ questions. I really look forward to see how the discussion group goes.

The format is an invited speaker gives a short presentation and then start ‘governance’ discussion in the context of his/her research. The planned speakers are:
- Dr. Jill Jaeger
- Dr. Larry Willmore
- Dr. Steven Ney
- Dr. Michael Thompson

I will try to post summaries from each of the sessions. I would appreciate any comments/suggestions. Thank you.

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