I’m wary that anything I may write herein will trivialize the catastrophe that frames these considerations. That, certainly, is not my intention. As a detached observer of the scenes currently unfolding in Haiti, it is hard not to wonder how on earth the responders at hand will ever manage to return some semblance of normalcy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘organization’
Regarding an information strategy
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, complexity, cooperation, Haiti, ICT, organization on 20 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Consolidation
Posted in Policy, tagged context, decentralization, emergence, organization on 30 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A tendency that I continue to find somewhat puzzling — and hopefully it’s only an error in perception, but I seriously doubt it — is the evidently sincere notion held in certain places that undirected community interactions and willing cooperation across levels of organization can somehow be bundled and consolidated into singular activities, platforms, programs, [...]
This post is not about “football”
Posted in Policy, tagged context, football, organization, philosophy, rugby on 17 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Well, my intention with this post is to talk about something towards which I have a pretty inflexible disposition, in order to make a different point altogether. First, though, in order to brace myself for the passionate responses this might elicit, it seems appropriate to come clean about all the bias I know to be [...]
Liberty and security…”2.0″!
Posted in Policy, tagged decentralization, emergence, open, organization, Web on 29 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really don’t like that meme. It’s been applied to too much by too many and might as well just be synonymous with “new and improved”. Sure, there’s plenty of transformative stuff going on under the designation, but also plenty of misdirection to cloak the old in the new. Kind of like, if you have [...]
Smoke and mirrors
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, decentralization, organization on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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