[governance] for those concerned with network models

[David Allen]

For those concerned with network models.

(And very much: _only_ in parallel with the other threads currently 
alive in the caucus space.)

If you have not found already, there is a burgeoning body of work on 
the subject.  I happen to be familiar with one 'node' where is a 
trove on the subject:

	http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov/

Immediately available are a raft of recent events - various streams, 
some video, some audio, also ppt, Podcasts, animations, etc, from 
those events.  On the main page, that section is titled Highlights of 
past events & news.  The most recent are under Upcoming Events.

It is also worth exploring the link to Cambridge Colloquium on 
Complexity and Social Networks (CCCSN).  Particularly there, you will 
find an 'event archive.'  This includes, from the last few years, 
talks by numerous leading figures in the field.  In some cases, 
papers and the like are available for download.  This can serve as 
some introduction to the breadth.

For a treasure of resources on what is really the core subject - 
Social Network Analysis - click the link with that name.

You may also want to go to The Trans-Atlantic Initiative on Complex 
Organizations and Networks (TAICON).  Through TAICON, a regular 
series of trans-Atlantic video conferences bring together work from 
both sides of the Atlantic.

If you would like an introduction that is more than accessible, also 
comprehensive and helpful in getting hands around where the field is 
now, let me suggest to start Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's book Linked 
(available among others from Amazon).  Barabasi's presentation was 
one of the recent TAICON video conferences.  There are of course 
other books and papers, as you see.

For practical application.

You will find that practical application is just beginning.  The blog 
on the Netgov web site (to which you can subscribe - there are 
subscribers from all over the world / I believe one blog entry even 
graphically displays that set of 'nodes' ...) occasionally discusses 
application.  So do several of the presentations.  There are of 
course a number of sources of such work, often available on the site, 
one way or the other.

For purposes of the caucus, it is clear just how much serious work 
would be necessary to specify any sort of efficacious, operational 
model.


I can report that several years of the opportunity to avail oneself 
of this remarkable resource unveils an exciting new 
discipline-in-the-making, albeit one rather on the upslope of its 
development (though with roots back a century and more, you will see) 
- and looking for able contributions from those who may!  What is 
especially exciting is the fashion in which this begins to shed light 
that neither market nor hierarchy have been able.  The most 
interesting work seems to lie ahead.

On the list I hope we have those familiar with other such 'nodes' on 
the subject of social network analysis - will be looking forward to 
hear.

David
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