wolfgang hofkirchner

(data referring to the time before 1990 are not complete due to reports not available, since in september 1990 the Austrian Academy of Sciences provoked a preliminary investigation by public prosecution taking recourse to the intelligence service of the ministry of the interior (Staatspolizeilicher Dienst) and locked out all employees of the Institute for Socio-Economic Development Research and Technology Assessment by means of police force – a measure that, finally, proved unjustified)

boards

Leitung, Arbeitskreis Information Studies, OCG, Vienna, 2011-

Founding President, Vice-President for Funds, International Society for Information Studies (ISIS), Vienna, 2011-

International Consultant Committee and Academic Committee, Xian Jiaotong University International Center for Philosophy of Information, Xian, China, 2010-

Auditor, International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR)

Austrian Computer Society (OCG), Vienna

European Scientific Committee on Organisational Learning

Deputy Head, Institut für Design Science, München (http://www.designscience.de/)

Board of Advisors, Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (IICP), Vienna

Board of Directors and Chair, Science Advisory Committee, Science of Information Institute, Washington (http://www.soii.org/)

Scientific Advisory Board, Integral Science Institute

President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS), Vienna (http://www.bertalanffy.org/)

Head, Unified Theory of Information Research Group (Association for the Advancement of Information Sciences), Vienna (http://www.uti.at/)

Advisory Board, International Symmetry Association (ISA), Budapest

Scientific Society: Dynamics–Complexity–Human Systems, Vienna, -2011

Scientific Board, Zentrum für Marxistische Friedensforschung in Frankfurt, -1990

networks

coordinator, ICTs-and-Society Network (http://www.icts-and-society.net/), 2008-

member, board, Foundations of Information Science

memberships

Change the Game Initiative, Salzburg

Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics, Trent University

International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS)

International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

Ernst-Bloch-Gesellschaft, Ludwigshafen

Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation (EBA), Nürnberg

Research Committee RC 51 “Sociocybernetics”, International Sociological Association (ISA)

International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE)

International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)

International Hegel-Marx Society for Dialectical Thought, Urbino

Interdisziplinäre Studiengruppe “Verwundbarkeit der Industriellen Zivilisation und Sicherheitspolitik”, Hamburg, -1990