How Social Networking is Changing How We Collaborate and Share InformationLynn Reyes
The "social" factor in the way things really work and how we might think about it from discovery, strategic planning and design, execution, measurement and management.
Presentation made at the Convurge Conference in June 2007.
The fallowing presentation represents how the humans will interact with each other through the use of technologies. Starts with a brief introduction, fallow by positive and negative aspects from the NTIC, Internet and Social Media.
Service-oriented Communities: A Novel Organizational Architecture for Smarter...Vincenzo De Florio
The seminar I shall present at Masaryk University in Brno on May 19, 2016. A video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Fu5kv0sFWG4
How Social Networking is Changing How We Collaborate and Share InformationLynn Reyes
The "social" factor in the way things really work and how we might think about it from discovery, strategic planning and design, execution, measurement and management.
Presentation made at the Convurge Conference in June 2007.
The fallowing presentation represents how the humans will interact with each other through the use of technologies. Starts with a brief introduction, fallow by positive and negative aspects from the NTIC, Internet and Social Media.
Service-oriented Communities: A Novel Organizational Architecture for Smarter...Vincenzo De Florio
The seminar I shall present at Masaryk University in Brno on May 19, 2016. A video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Fu5kv0sFWG4
This is the final version of the synthesis of a discussion created in MaFI by Marcus Jenal in 2010. MaFI "member-led" syntheses are the product of a descentralised knowledge production model whereby MaFI members voluntarily produce a short synthesis of successful discussions created by them.
The Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development is proud to present a significant body of research, focused on raising awareness for the potential of blockchain technology to contribute profound social impact worldwide. The purpose of this white paper—The Future is Decentralized: Block Chains, Distributed Ledgers & The Future of Sustainable Development (Volume 1) is to demystify the technology + demonstrate real-world applicability of its potential using existing case studies + fieldwork.
The potential of blockchain technology to disrupt industrial sectors, commercial processes, governmental structures or economic systems seems to know no bounds. We suggest that the transformative power of this innovation should not be seen as a threat to existing systems of governance; rather, it should be seen as an opportunity for national and international institutions to defend the rights of those they represent and to accelerate our collective progress towards meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
We have taken an intersectional approach to collaboration on this project, working with volunteers across industries and organizations, with support from leading academic researchers.
This white paper is designed as the first volume in a series of primers to provide policy makers, regulators, and UN Member States a non-technical introduction to blockchain technology.
The digital world is part of our DNA now; it is part of how we consume our entertainment, share our experiences, and keep in touch with our loved ones. Technology can be harnessed to strengthen democratic institutions; in this day and age, a revaluation of our relationship with technology is more important than ever.
Blockchains can bring transparency to opaque or corrupt systems, and verifiability and immutability to commercial processes. They can bring increased security and resilience to vulnerable infrastructure, ensure individual privacy whilst guaranteeing autonomy, and encourage cooperation and engender trust where needed most.
The Amplified Resilient Community (ARC) aims to unlock community resilience as a way to navigate around global challenges and toward new solutions for wealth creation and life improvement. ARC is a framework which helps to reweave civic, economic and political life from the bottom up. The vision is for communities to develop capacities to become adaptive and flexible under the constraints and uncertainties of globalization.
Thilo Boeck is a senior research fellow based in the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University. He worked in Youth and Community Development in Peru, Germany and the UK which has influenced his commitment to participative research and training.
He worked in several research projects exploring social capital and community cohesion. He was the social researcher on the Amplified Leicester project.
Twitter: @tgboeck
Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving
by Valdis Krebs and June Holley
From the text:
"Communities are built on connections. Better connections usually
provide better opportunities. But, what are better connections, and how do
they lead to more effective and productive communities? How do we build
connected communities that create, and take advantage of, opportunities
in their region or marketplace? How does success emerge from the
complex interactions within communities?
This paper investigates building sustainable communities through improving
their connectivity – internally and externally – using network ties to create economic opportunities. Improved connectivity is created through an iterative process of knowing the network and knitting the network.
Today, virtually every major brand includes social as a core part of their marketing mix, and most realize that counts of Likes and Followers are no longer an adequate metric for brand performance in social. Seeing this growing need for better brand insights, we set upon a journey to harness the massive amount of social activity between brands and their constituents.
Big data.
This is the final version of the synthesis of a discussion created in MaFI by Marcus Jenal in 2010. MaFI "member-led" syntheses are the product of a descentralised knowledge production model whereby MaFI members voluntarily produce a short synthesis of successful discussions created by them.
The Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development is proud to present a significant body of research, focused on raising awareness for the potential of blockchain technology to contribute profound social impact worldwide. The purpose of this white paper—The Future is Decentralized: Block Chains, Distributed Ledgers & The Future of Sustainable Development (Volume 1) is to demystify the technology + demonstrate real-world applicability of its potential using existing case studies + fieldwork.
The potential of blockchain technology to disrupt industrial sectors, commercial processes, governmental structures or economic systems seems to know no bounds. We suggest that the transformative power of this innovation should not be seen as a threat to existing systems of governance; rather, it should be seen as an opportunity for national and international institutions to defend the rights of those they represent and to accelerate our collective progress towards meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
We have taken an intersectional approach to collaboration on this project, working with volunteers across industries and organizations, with support from leading academic researchers.
This white paper is designed as the first volume in a series of primers to provide policy makers, regulators, and UN Member States a non-technical introduction to blockchain technology.
The digital world is part of our DNA now; it is part of how we consume our entertainment, share our experiences, and keep in touch with our loved ones. Technology can be harnessed to strengthen democratic institutions; in this day and age, a revaluation of our relationship with technology is more important than ever.
Blockchains can bring transparency to opaque or corrupt systems, and verifiability and immutability to commercial processes. They can bring increased security and resilience to vulnerable infrastructure, ensure individual privacy whilst guaranteeing autonomy, and encourage cooperation and engender trust where needed most.
The Amplified Resilient Community (ARC) aims to unlock community resilience as a way to navigate around global challenges and toward new solutions for wealth creation and life improvement. ARC is a framework which helps to reweave civic, economic and political life from the bottom up. The vision is for communities to develop capacities to become adaptive and flexible under the constraints and uncertainties of globalization.
Thilo Boeck is a senior research fellow based in the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University. He worked in Youth and Community Development in Peru, Germany and the UK which has influenced his commitment to participative research and training.
He worked in several research projects exploring social capital and community cohesion. He was the social researcher on the Amplified Leicester project.
Twitter: @tgboeck
Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving
by Valdis Krebs and June Holley
From the text:
"Communities are built on connections. Better connections usually
provide better opportunities. But, what are better connections, and how do
they lead to more effective and productive communities? How do we build
connected communities that create, and take advantage of, opportunities
in their region or marketplace? How does success emerge from the
complex interactions within communities?
This paper investigates building sustainable communities through improving
their connectivity – internally and externally – using network ties to create economic opportunities. Improved connectivity is created through an iterative process of knowing the network and knitting the network.
Today, virtually every major brand includes social as a core part of their marketing mix, and most realize that counts of Likes and Followers are no longer an adequate metric for brand performance in social. Seeing this growing need for better brand insights, we set upon a journey to harness the massive amount of social activity between brands and their constituents.
Big data.
The Future of Social in the Enterprise - by Alan Lepofsky and Dion HinchcliffeAlan Lepofsky
This presentation talks about the past, present and future of social software within the enterprise. DIon Hinchcliffe and I presented this at Salesforce Dreamforce 2012.
HR in the Social Era. The Power of CommunityJim Lefever
By any measure, on a global, regional and local basis, the world of business is in a state of flux. We are rapidly moving away from the Industrial Age with its rigid structures, stable business models, formal processes and functionally siloed organisations into a fluid and flexible environment that fundamentally changes the way value is created, the meaning of work, and the structures for our institutions.
This has huge implications not only for how HR fulfills its purpose but indeed whether HR will survive as a function without undergoing an appropriate transformation to meet these new realities.
This white paper seeks to address these issues by combining the power of community with the changes in the workplace to create a solution that will enable the success of business in the Social Era.
White Paper: Understanding the Networked Society – new logics for an age of e...Ericsson
Technology has the potential to transform how we organize our lives, businesses and societies. But if the era we are now entering is to be more inclusive, equitable and empowering, we must start by examining the fundamentally different nature of a physical world fueled by digital connectivity.
Media, information and the promise of new technologies in Knowledge Transfer ...maudelfin
Presented at the GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH INITIATIVE: TEASDALE-CORTI PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM - Innovations in Global Health Research -Global Social Justice and the Social Determinants of Health: Setting the Course for the Future
October 1-3, 2012 | Marriott Hotel | 100 Kent St, Ottawa, ON - http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth
Conferencia en el marco de los Seminarios Internacionales del Master en Estrategias y Tecnologías para el Desarrollo, impartida por Gorka Espiau el 14 de diciembre de 2017.
The digital divide has serious consequences in the information soc.docxmehek4
The digital divide has serious consequences in the information society. If ‘information is power’ why is creativity one of the key focuses concentration areas in the UKs Digital Economy Act?
Main points to focus on when reading for this topic:
The digital divide – all reading in regards to this point
Information society – Castells work in regards to this point
UK Digital Economy Act – Read the act and find out more about concentration areas, spefically, Creativity.
TOPIC POINT – Internet access plays a vital part in a modern society
Networks (Castells)
His hypothesis: the historical superiority of vertical/hierarchical organizations. That non centred networked form of social organization had material limits to overcome. Fundamentally linked to available technologies.
Networks have strength in their flexibility, adaptability and capacity to self configure
Global Networks
· Digital networks are global, as they have the capacity to reconfigure themselves, as directed by their programmers, transcending territorial and institutional boundaries through telecommunicated computer networks (pp 24)
· The global society is a networked society and exclusion from these networks is ‘tantamount to structural marginalisation in the global network society’ (Castells, 2009: 25)
Limitations of materials. Benefits from global networks: access to bigger markets and a variety of producers. Breaking down the value chain.
States – the network state
· State have sovereignty in specific territories; has ultimate legislative powers; the power of force (police/army); and have citizens. They are the ones who have an existent power relationships. They are very powerful: control the material form of power (guns, armies, war, police, army) and they have power over the citizens.
· With globalisation and networks these powers affect the sovereignty of the state which has to alter/transform to adapt to these dynamic situations
A. They associate together – ASEAN; EU; NATO; etc. – G20 at the ‘top of the pecking order’
B. Dense networks of international organisations to deal with international issues (UN; WTO; IMF; World Bank etc.)
C. Nation states devolve powers to regional bodies and sometimes NGOs to overcome a crisis of political legitimacy.
The material we discussed in last weeks lecture details the role of the State in the UK
Organisations – the network organization
· Castells points to the rise of the network enterprise as a response to the needs to increased flexibility and autonomy.
· Large organisations are divided internally into networks; small ones are parts of larger networks.
· These networks are dynamic and not stable and may (re)form around specific projects as alliances and partnerships.
· The unit of production is the business project not the firm though it is still the ‘legal unit of capital accumulation.’
· Financial valuation remains key and global financial markets are key in a network economy.
He also talks about the rise of the network ente ...
Technology and co-operative practice against the neoliberal universityRichard Hall
Slides for my presentation at the CAPPE, Neoliberalism and Everyday Life conference on 4 September 2014 http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cappe/conferences/conferences/annual-conference-neoliberalism-and-everyday-life
Social Business Journal - 7 Campaign Insights from Red Bull StratosDachis Group
Get the entire Social Business Journal with additional articles from Brian Solis, an interview with Estee Lauder and much more at http://social.dachisgroup.com/sbj3
Webinar: 7 Social Campaign Insights from Red Bull Stratos (@DachisGroup)Dachis Group
This webinar takes a data-driven look at the social marketing impact of the Red Bull Stratos campaign.
The Red Bull Stratos space jump on October 14, 2012 was a breathtaking spectacle and scientific achievement witnessed by millions. It was also a remarkable brand marketing phenomenon, and one of the clearest examples we’ve seen of the new wave of advocacy-driven social marketing that we call Engagement@Scale.
You'll learn:
• the core campaign metrics, including: number of consumer actions, audience size, new subscribers
• the type and tone of conversations and content shared
• the scope of leveraged impressions and consumer generated messages
Dachis Group speakers include: Brian Kotlyar (@bkotlyar)
Webinar: Social Business and Financial Services, with @DachisGroup @SocialwareDachis Group
Like their peers in retail and media, banks and insurance providers are going through a remarkable transition in how they engage with customers and partners through social channels like Twitter and Facebook.
How are they performing?
In this webinar, we'll dive into the social performance of the financial services industry, including unique challenges related to compliance and privacy.
We'll look at the "Financial Health Index," a data-driven snapshot into the social performance of global financial services brands, first presented In October at Sibos Innotribe in Osaka, the world’s largest financial services conference.
Speakers:
- Michael (MJ) Jones, VP Technology, Dachis Group
- Randy Jacops, VP of Customer Success, SocialWare
For the full replay, see the link below:
http://social.dachisgroup.com/webinar-social-and-financial-services-replay
Webinar: Collaborative Reporting by @DachisGroupDachis Group
Tired of wasting time on inneffective social marketing reporting? You're not alone. Month after month in offices all around the world marketers are presented with reports that are too superficial to be actionable and arrive to late to be useful. The power of social marketing is wasted.
This webinar shows you how to quickly create beautiful, simple and clear analyses of marketing performance with input from all your organization's experts. We will discuss the core challenges of social marketing reporting today and how you can overcome those challenges through collaboration and Big Data.
You will learn:
- How to isolate observations about brand's social performance.
- How to assemble a narrative of observations about a campaign, competitors or a brand program.
- How to share the insights with others and download "boss ready" reports.
Dachis Group speakers include: John De Oliveira (@johndeo), Brian Kotlyar (@bkotlyar) and Doug Kern (@doug_kern)
Webinar: Black Friday Winners and Losers 2012 (@DachisGroup)Dachis Group
Want to know who won Black Friday in social? In this webinar, we looked at how the social campaigns from 15 of the world's biggest brands performed, as we take a Big Data look across Walmart, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Kohl's, Target, JCPenney, Bass Pro Shops, Dick's Sporing Goods, Amazon, Macy's, Sports Authority, and Kmart.
You'll learn:
• Which Black Friday retailers received the most earned media exposure from social sharing.
• Which brands had the "loudest" conversation in social.
• Which brands had the largest share of social conversations during the holiday.
Dachis Group speakers include: Liz Courtney (@partyliz), Brian Kotlyar (@bkotlyar), Ray Renteria (@RayRenteria) and Doug Kern (@doug_kern)
Current State of Social Engagement Inside The Large Enterprise | Engagement @...Dachis Group
Established in 2009, the Social Business Council (SBC) is a member-driven peer forum of business professionals from large organizations that are engaged in an enterprise-wide social business initiative. Members share best practices, advice, encouragement and experiential insights regarding every aspect of social business transformation. The SBC includes industry representation from a variety of G2000 sectors.
Webinar: Measuring Social Campaigns (@DachisGroup)Dachis Group
For quite a while now, social media campaigns have been part of daily life for large brands and organizations. But, a deep, dark secret remains, as brand managers struggle to understand what worked or why, what value it contributed to the business, or how to create a better campaign next time.
Leading brands are realizing that to authentically engage at scale in social, you need to develop core competencies in advocacy programs and in social measurement, including understanding the business impact of social campaigns.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
+ How to structure your measurement approach.
+ How to identify and gather the right metrics.
+ How to communicate results with your team.
The Social Performance of Mega-Software Brands: SAP vs OracleDachis Group
Big consumer brands have always led the way in social engagement, creating and growing their Twitter and Facebook platforms. But as we enter 2012, two themes emerge, putting a twist on how brand’s participate socially.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
MATATAG CURRICULUM: ASSESSING THE READINESS OF ELEM. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I...NelTorrente
In this research, it concludes that while the readiness of teachers in Caloocan City to implement the MATATAG Curriculum is generally positive, targeted efforts in professional development, resource distribution, support networks, and comprehensive preparation can address the existing gaps and ensure successful curriculum implementation.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
for beginners, providing thorough training in areas such as SEO, digital communication marketing, and PPC training in Noida. After finishing the program, students receive the certifications recognised by top different universitie, setting a strong foundation for a successful career in digital marketing.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
2011 SBS Sydney | Martin Stewart-Weeks, The Resilient State: Smarter, Connected
1. THE RESILIENT STATE: SMARTER, CONNECTED Social Business Summit, Dachis Group, Sydney, March 2011 Martin Stewart-Weeks Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems Chair, Australian Social Innovation Exchange
4. Volatile and unpredictable change is creating massive new risks and opportunities Dealing with those risks and opportunities successfully means navigating some big transitions (assets, institutions, infrastructure…) At the heart of those transitions are new digital capabilities both as enablers and as critical new assets in their own right
5. And at the heart of those capabilities is the art and practice of connection through distributed networks of people and technology Those distributed networks make possible new connections to people, ideas and resources which create richer and more useful shared knowledge to inform human judgment The result is new, more resilient patterns of knowledge, action and power
11. NATO’s Policy Jam 4,000 participants 10,000 logins 124 countries 5 days 10 streams 26 online hosts 75 facilitators
12. The Tanta Effect “Blogging ‘turbocharged’ the ecology of intellectual discussion – enabling us to tap into the insights of people who would never have received the attention they were due back in the old days where reputations took a decade or more to build and were corralled into specialisms with little cross fertilisation and ‘contestability’ between them.” Thanks to Nicholas Gruen
14. The Big Shift in Three Waves 1 Infrastructure 2 Knowledge flows 3 Institutions “…a world in which citizens gain political power relative to political institutions. A world in which talented employees capture economic value relative to the firm. A world in which consumers have increased market power relative to vendors.” “…innovations in institutional architectures such as the ability to foster and participate in creation spaces where performance accelerates as more participants join” p58
15. “The challenge is designing and managing creation spaces is to provide scalable environments that can accommodate a large and growing number of participants and create the conditions for them to learn faster from each other as the number of participants grows “ p130
16. Push-based institutions are the antithesis of serendipity. In a world of carefully scripted push programs, unexpected encounters are generally treated as signs of inefficiency and worrisome unpredictability. p107
18. We have to be willing to risk looking like we don’t know the answer or maybe even the question, We’ve got to wean ourselves from overdependence on the expertise we’ve laboured to hard to accumulate. p118
21. . Cure Violence takes a 21st-century approach to “meeting people where they’re at” and invites the messengers to ‘communicate with the tools they’re already using like social networking utilities and SMS technology to distribute firsthand text and multimedia responses to violence in their own cities. Users can comment and connect with one another and affect change through actionable content submitted by Cure Violence partners and local and national organizations who adopt it to organize and mobilize. Cure Violence content will be accessible via web, mobile device, broadcast, public projection and exhibitions.
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24. Dialogue Cafe Lisbon Rio de Janeiro Tel Aviv Ramallah Toronto Amsterdam Berlin London
28. Much of this economy is formed around distributed systems, rather than centralised structures. It handles complexity not by standardisation and simplification imposed from the centre, but by distributing complexity to the margins Open Book of Social Innovation, The Young Foundation, NESTA, 2010
29. Social innovation doesn’t have fixed boundaries: it happens in all sectors, public, non-profit and private. Indeed, much of the most creative action is happening at the boundaries between sectors, in fields as diverse as fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming, waste reduction and restorative justice. Open Book of Social Innovation, The Young Foundation, NESTA, 2010
30. We define social innovations as new ideas (products, services and models) that simultaneously meet social needs and create new social relationships or collaborations. In other words, they are innovations that are both good for society and enhance society’s capacity to act. Open Book of Social Innovation, The Young Foundation, NESTA, 2010
31. Line = a relationship between two people more embedded = central less embedded = periphery Node = a person Centre and edge 1 “embedded”: the degree to which a person is connected within a network
32. Centre and edge 2 “We have grown used to the centre taking more and more of the decisions, despite the fact that in almost all cases the knowledge, expertise and experience required to inform those decisions are at the edge.” Beth Noveck, author of Wiki Government and former Deputy CTO, Open and Transparent Government, The White House
38. Resilience has become the central task of governing well. The ability to connect highly distributed networks of people, expertise and assets for common action is turning out to be critical to the chances of success.
39. Four dimensions of the resilient state Managing transitions Renewing the instincts and institutions of self-government The Resilient State Improving the art and practice of connection Redefining the relationship between the centre and the edge
Editor's Notes
9000 companies in SAP’s partner networks1.2 million in SPA online communities25,000 new participants per month150 million page views by 2007“Strong network effects appear to be in play as participants find that the value of the creation space as a whole increases with the number of participants”Power of Pull, p137
NATO and Europeans Plot Path AheadBy STEVEN ERLANGERPublished: May 6, 2010 New York TimesPARIS — An unusual online effort by NATO, the European Union, governments and research groups to ask a broader public for ideas on the future of Western security policy has produced a series of recommendations that call for NATO to develop a civilian arm and the European Union to create its own intelligence agency. The discussion, called the 2010 Online Security Jam, brought together some 3,800 people with expertise or interest in trans-Atlantic security issues from 124 countries, who logged in over five days in February for thematic conversations led by many senior officials and scholars in Europe, Russia, China and the United States. The recommendations, which will be released on Friday, will be presented in detail then to NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and to Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security. Both NATO and the European Union are preparing new guidelines for their future: NATO, a new strategic concept, and the union, a blueprint for 2020. NATO is working on a new strategic concept to be finished by the NATO summit meeting set for November in Lisbon. It will be the first reworking of NATO’s guiding strategy since 1999, and is meant to reinforce its core mission and goals, particularly the idea of collective defense. The strategy must also take into account new challenges from terrorism, online attacks, nuclear proliferation and enhanced missile threats and NATO’s experience in fighting wars, in Serbia and Kosovo and Afghanistan. The recommendations have already been provided to separate working groups on both NATO and the European Union. Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright is chairwoman of an expert group that has been working to draft a new strategic concept for Mr. Rasmussen, who will make proposals to member governments for consultation. The jam, which is a concept of Internet exchanges pioneered in 2001, is a separate effort to aid those deliberations. At the same time, a former Spanish prime minister, Felipe González, is working on a report examining the European Union in 2020. The Europeans are developing their own diplomatic and military capacity alongside NATO’s, and how they work together is a delicate and crucial topic. The so-called jam focused on the ways that NATO and the European Union might work together more efficiently for collective security in a more complicated, post-cold-war world. Among the senior officials who led the online conversations were Adm. James Stavridis, the supreme allied commander in Europe; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former NATO secretary general; Gen. HakanSyren, chairman of the European Union Military Committee; Anne-Marie Slaughter, director of policy planning in the United States State Department; Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, secretary general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; and Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Endowment’s Moscow Center. The recommendations, which were picked out of the discussions by the organizers, included a more serious effort by NATO to reach beyond its military constituencies to the larger voting public, like through the creation of a civilian branch to cooperate with civilian actors like nongovernmental organizations. Another recommendation was to coordinate better on how to promote “human security,” from better governance to combating corruption and the protection of civilian populations and refugees in a battle or continuing conflict. Another, indirectly aimed at Russia, proposes that NATO and the European Union develop mutual assistance agreements with nonmembers in the case of environmental disasters or large-scale terrorist attacks. There is also a proposal for a European Intelligence Agency to better coordinate individual national intelligence on looming or hybrid issues like environmental threats, energy security and cybersecurity. It could also support specifically European Union military operations. Other ideas include the creation of a European Security Academy for European Union military and civilian staff members, improved public diplomacy to reduce the distance many Europeans feel from the union’s institutions, a European inventory of scarce natural resources with a mandate to protect them and an international crisis preparatory fund, which might collect 5 percent of donations made to any particular crisis for longer-term preparations. Robert E. Hunter, a former American ambassador to NATO and a senior adviser at RAND, praised the security jam for doing “something that NATO’s group of experts has not: to reach beyond the ‘usual suspects,’ to people who have truly original ideas and a range of analysis.” The online jam was organized by an independent research institute in Brussels, Security & Defense Agenda, in coalition with other similar institutions like Chatham House, the Atlantic Council of the United States , the Open Society Institute, the Fondation pour la RechercheStratégique, Carnegie Europe and the Bertelsmann Stiftung . The project was done in collaboration with IBM and was also supported by the governments of the United States, France and Sweden, as well as by Thales, a major aerospace and defense company, and the American giant UTC (United Technologies), which owns Pratt & Whitney, the aviation powerhouse. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/world/europe/06nato.html
Tanta, who wrote for Calculated Risk, a finance and economics blog, was a pseudonym for Doris Dungey, 47, who until recently had lived in Upper Marlboro, Md. The cause of death was ovarian cancer, her sister, Cathy Stickelmaier, said....Tanta used her extensive knowledge of the loan industry to comment, castigate and above all instruct. Her fans ranged from the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times who cited her in his blog, to analysts at the Federal Reserve, who cited her in a paper on “Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit.”She wrote under a pseudonym because she hoped some day to go back to work in the mortgage industry, and the increasing renown of Tanta in that world might have precluded that. Tanta was Ms. Dungey’s longtime family nickname, Ms. Stickelmaier said.http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2008/11/sad-news-tanta-passes-away.htmlThanks to Nick Gruen for this story, which he often uses to demonstrate the power of a social networking platform into the policy space. Tanta is a perfect example of “reputational leadership” in the policy space, where impact is a function of compelling insights and experience easily and quickly shared in an open community ie via a blog. She had no status or position, but people listened and ‘followed’, which I guess makes her a ‘leader’. As Peter Drucker used to advocate, focus on contribution, not status…
The Power of PullHow small moves, smartly made, can set big things in motionJohn Hagel, John Seely Brown and Land Davison, Basic Books, 2010“As clockspeed increases, companies must continually refresh the sources of their success: their knowledge stocks. This means precipitating and participating in a broader range of knowledge flows, which in turn requires finding people, particularly people on the edge, interacting with them and building reciprocal relationships with them over time. Edge players are more likely to introduce us to new insights and to help us more rapidly develop new knowledge stocks.” p51
The fourth and final element in the new narrative for governing draws directly from the work of the New Synthesis for Public Administration project (NS6http://www.ns6newsynthesis.com/ ) being coordinated by former senior Canadian bureaucrat and leading public administration thinker and writer, Jocelyne Bourgon. The NS6 project takes as its starting point that the underlying “theory of the business’ for public administration is broken and in need both of urgent repair and fresh thinking. (The theory of the business framework was used widely by Peter Drucker in his work on organisational and system change – see short explanation below). The new frame that is emerging from the NS6 project, based on empirical work in 6 countries (Australia, Singapore, Netherlands, UK, Canada and Brazil), recognises that the traditional focus of public administration on compliance and performance remains vital. If anything, the new turbulence and complexity through which public administration leaders and practitioners must navigate will make more demands on these traditional skills and capabilities. But those same conditions are generating a raft of new demands on public administration systems driven by a rising tide of complex, ‘wicked’ problems (and opportunities) to which governments are expected to respond. Here, the need is for values, beliefs, systems, behaviours and structures in the public realm capable of creating resilience in national economic and social systems and pre-empting problems by becoming more effective at sensing, and gearing up for, emergent challenges. Dr Bourgon’s thesis, grounded in deep practical experience and wide engagement with public leaders around the world, is that we have failed over 30 years or more of compounding public sector reform to offer public sector workers and leaders a set of tools, and a set of values and mandates that allows them to behave appropriately especially in these new domains of resilience and emergence. Further, her thesis suggests that public leaders do not have the luxury of choosing which quadrant in which to play or on which to concentrate. This is not a “pick a box” choice. Where it gets really interesting is the emerging demand for public administrators to be able to cycle through all four quadrants at different times and for different purposes and in different combinations. The observation we would add is that the task of holding those four quadrants together in an increasingly demanding and complex institutional and cultural mix is dependent, in large measure, on the embrace by public administrators and government leaders of the other three elements in the emerging narrative – learning how to make and use a public purpose sector to engage the new public work, redrawing the balance between centre and edge and, ultimately, engaging people in a new assault on the challenge of effective self-government in a networked age. In his thirty-first article for HBR, Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble and, often, in a seemingly unmanageable crisis. The root cause of nearly every one of these crises is not that things are being done poorly. It is not even that the wrong things are being done. Indeed, in most cases, the right things are being done--but fruitlessly. What accounts for this apparent paradox? The assumptions on which the organization has been built and is being run no longer fit reality. These are the assumptions that shape any organization's behavior, dictate its decisions about what to do and what not to do, and define what an organization considers meaningful results. These assumptions are what Drucker calls a company's theory of the business. http://hbr.org/product/the-theory-of-the-business-hbr-org/an/94506-PDF-ENG?Ntt=Peter+Drucker&Nao=20It demands getting truthful answers on four key points; • What assumptions are we making about (1) the environment, (2) our mission and (3) the core competencies that we need? • Do the assumptions in all three areas fit each other? • Is the theory of the business known and understood by everybody? • Is the theory tested constantly - and altered if necessary? Even if your answers are four resounding cries of Yes!, the theory of the business won’t last forever. Drucker was fully aware that change is inevitable, like it or not: ‘A theory of the business always becomes obsolete when an organisation attains its original objectives’. That’s why he advised use of ‘abandonment’ - meaning that every three years you should challenge every product, service, policy and distribution channel with the question, ‘If we were not in it already, would we be going into it now?’ - the self-same question that led to the revolution at GE. But Drucker adds three more queries: • Why didn’t this work, even though it looked so promising when we went into it five years ago? • Is it because we made a mistake? • Is it because we did the wrong things? • Or is it because the right things didn’t work? Note the simplicity of the questions – Drucker believed in making himself understood. He also insisted that preventing collapse required studying the customers - and, very important, the non-customers: ‘The first signs of fundamental change rarely appear within one’s own organisation or among one’s own customers’.http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/management/drucker
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