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Advances in science and technology dramatically shake the framework of society so far and provide opportunities for revolutionizing society. For the system sciences community, it is an urgent task to develop a new social vision and to embody it as socio-technical systems. Social systems sciences are expected to provide central guidance for this effort. In this paper, a comprehensive view would be given of what kind of works have been done as social systems sciences, in particular, systems approach in terms of envisioning and developing socio-technical systems, and future research directions would be proposed. Specifically, while surveying the global trends in this field, the efforts will be presented for the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan, which aims to a systemic society (Society 5.0) as Japan’s science and technology policy for fiscal 2016–2020. Although these are inclined to be extremely subjective arguments, and it is customary to present results that have been widely discussed, it is hoped that this paper will serve as the starting point for further study.
Adapted from Motohisa Funabashi “Societal Challenges Requiring Systems Approaches”, Journal of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 665–670 (2016). Partly reprinted by permission of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.
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This paper is backed by discussions at the SICE “Super Smart Society Co-creation WG” and the Systems and Information Division “New Systems Approach Study Group for Realizing a Safe, Secure, and Comfortable Society (Smarter World)”. It goes without saying that the censure is to the author, but I appreciate the meaningful discussion. In addition, a part of this was supported by KAKENHI (No. 25240049). I would like to express my gratitude here.
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Funabashi, M. (2021). Key Factors for Promising Systems Approaches to Society 5.0. In: Kaihara, T., Kita, H., Takahashi, S. (eds) Innovative Systems Approach for Designing Smarter World. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6651-6_4
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