I’m in the DC area this week in support of an information sharing project that was conceived with the intention of taking some fundamental first steps towards overcoming social, organizational, and technological challenges that regularly and continuously plague humanitarian emergencies, disaster responses, and essentially any situation that forces too many interests into too little space [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Smoke and mirrors
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, decentralization, organization on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good intentions…
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, decentralization, design, emergence, open, organization on 21 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been mulling over some items that caught my attention this past week that highlight some divergent angles being taken to address essentially similar problems: Web communications, decentralized authority, and agile organization. Though it would be too much to assume anything about the motives behind these various initiatives, what came to mind is that cliché [...]