The Global System-of-Systems (SoS) Network is now at a pilot stage towards becoming one the existing Global Action Networks that endeavour for sustainable societies, as described by GAN-Net. The Global SoS Network innovates over traditional sustainable-development  methodologies by answering the following question in a realistic manner: How can wealth be created continuosly -and distributed fairly throughout human society, without harming the environment?

The network cuts right through conceptual and spatial planes, and goes straight towards identifying Best Constituent Practice (BCP), which consists of communication between constituents and their legislators. BCP establishes conflict-resolving processes that clear the way for the increase of productivity in a sustainable manner: Thus BCP can aid humanity in the creation of a peaceful global arena in which general prosperity will grow peacefully -within the ultimate constraints posed by global environmental protection.

Consequently, the aim of The Global SoS is to serve as global steward for establishing conflict-resolving processes that will enable the strategic planning and knowledge management activities. Thenceforth, constituents will employ BCP in order to establish ICT-enabled generative dialogues  that,  through the establishment of environmental democracies, will create good environmental governance conditions for the emergent:

These events imply the systematic overcoming of situations where there is unwarranted human suffering from human exploitation, epidemics, natural disasters, and other misfortunes. Humans, in their role as constituents, will employ BCP routinely in order to create a positive-results-producing dialogue: a generative process, that is, a process that brings about systemic changes towards good environmental governance for the affected individual or individuals.

The events will occur because, by closing the communication gaps that exist between themselves and their legislators, humans will become Empowered Changemakers™. Humans, in their role as constituents, will acquire the capacity to project and focus the generative power of their legislative system towards whichever factor, social or natural, causes stressful situations. 

BCP is much more than advocacy to pursue the solution of a problem per se. Rather, it is the method that facilitates the parliamentary resolution of any unwarranted social, economic or environmental difficulty. Best Constituent Practice places the citizen in ergonomic control of whichever situation causes stress to any individual or social group. 

Best Constituent Practice makes ergonomic control possible because research has shown that the present international status quo of simmering and open conflict, global poverty, industrial underdevelopment, environmental degradation and all of the interconnected complexities is not caused by economic or social problems. The present status quo is not even a people problem. It is a systems problem. More specifically, the problem is a System-of-Systems problem in which the diferent systems that make up legislative systems are not interacting in an ergonomically correct way.

One characteristic of BCP that could be of special interest is its ability to shut down the gates of systemic corruption. The diagrams contained in the generic South Project Download page of this site can help visualise how the dialogic processes created by Best Constituent Practice have that capacity.

In addition, the same diagrams and the Brief ICTs Perspective page help gather how, because of their self interest, the systematic Win-Win processing of conflict will help legislators the world over focus on productivity as their common goal. Thenceforth,  unity of purpose will have the indirect effect of making standing armies an unnecesary fixture of human society.

In order to create the required generative processes, citizens, in their role as constituents, need to employ at least three tools, and to initiate a three-step communication process. The tools are a pen, a sheet of paper, an envelope, and a postage stamp. The process consists of writing a letter to the pertinent legislator, having it delivered, and obtaining a reply. 

Article 21-1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives." United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A (III), December 10, 1948

Thus Best Constituent Practice consists of citizen use of their nation's teledemocratic infrastructure in order to establish communications with their representatives in government. The teledemocratic structure of a nation consists of the postal services and of the Internet, whenever they are used for communication between constituents and legislators. An improved teledemocratic infrastructure will make it more convenient for citizens to initiate BCP activities.

A useful characteristic of Best Constituent Practice is its capacity to enable developing nations to not just meet, but exceed the Millennium Development Goals -at a small fraction of the presently projected cost.

To achieve its goals, The Global SoS Network promotes the implementation of Teledemocratic Infrastructure Programs (TIP) in developing nations. Once those nations begin to enjoy the benefit of quality public services in a constant manner, the legislative system will have been rengineered. Those events will motivate businesses to invest in order to increase productivity, helping the nations emerge systematically towards industrially developed status.

Another BCP characteristic is its usefulness in the developed North. Even though citizens of developed nations tend to contact their legislators, the activity had not been classified as best practice.  In the developed North, BCP has the capacity to empower excluded citizens and residents of depressed areas.  Situations and opportunities abound: from US inner cities to French banlieues, or impoverished suburbs; and from forgotten towns in Siberia to disadvantaged aborigenes in Australia. In all these cases, BCP can help make a big difference.

In developed nations much of the teledemocratic infrastructure seems to be already in place. Thus, implementing  BCP seems to be more a matter of training excluded citizens so that they can transcend their technological constraint, and begin to use their nation´s teledemocratic infrastructure to contact their representatives in government. The results will help bring about eco-friendly improved productivity, which is one of the goals of the OECD.