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Introduction to the Conversation

Professor C. West Churchman welcomes you to the gEm on-line conversation and sets the tone of the seminar.

Overview

Based on Professor Churchman's work in ethics and systems epistemology, this on-line experimental conversation is serving two purposes. First, it is providing an on-line forum for interested participants to study a variety of global ethical management cha llenges with West. Second, it is providing a basis for organizing and designing the gEm "Call for Websites Contest".

The first phase of this experimental conversation will run from early June 1997 to early August 1997. The second phase will run from late August 1997 to mid December 1997. Participants will be expected to read "The Design of Inquiring Systems" and respond to West's e-mail prompts with e-mail messages of their own (recommended length of response is about 250 words).

How to Join the Conversation

To join the gEm on-line conversation, send an email message to majordomo@haas .berkeley.edu with the following line in the body of the email message:

subscribe gemdisse [your email address]

The first set of questions

West's contribution, a second iteration

SOME SUGGESTED OUTCOMES OF THIS EXPERIMENTAL SEMINAR