The project involved 28 national and international experts in a wide variety of different fields. They joined together to form a network - SISN - to debate frameworks considered useful to account for the complexity of social and organisational activities in the new information society.
SISN used a mixture of state of the art communication technologies (via the Internet/Web). In addition, there was a face-to-face meeting in Lincoln (from the 8th to the 11th of July 2001), a Seminar Series during the Spring of 2002 and a final meeting at the Marriot Hotel in Lincoln on the 5th of July 2002.
The network made use of a novel approach called Team Syntegrity, with origins in organisational cybernetics, to discuss the emergence and co-evolution of social systems as responses to problems in the new information society.
The document Systems and the Information Society: Requisite Organisations and Problem Solving provides a comprehensive view of the outcome of the project.
The SISN project was funded by EPSRC (UK) and developed under the direction of Professor Raul Espejo from the Lincoln School of Management.