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In the Philippines, South Africa, Indonesia, and elsewhere, networks of community paralegals (non-lawyers trained in the basics of law and government) work with citizens to seek redress from breaches of policy.
A genuine and inclusive process will require engaging with the whole spectrum of Afghan civil society, including rights organizations, women’s groups, the clergy, public intellectuals, and influential tribal networks.
In many areas, that means supporting “informal savings groups,” networks of like-minded women who pay dues to build a shared pool of resources.
Then, of course, there is the biggest market of all: the US, where it is estimated that annual revenue for pornography in 2004 exceeded the combined revenue of the ABC, CBS, and NBC television networks by many billions of dollars.
According to one school of thought, the future is all about ad hoc alliances – virtual and flexible networks that take advantage of the world’s interconnectedness to forge mutually beneficial relationships.
As ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré has put it, “In the twenty-first century, affordable, ubiquitous broadband networks will be as critical to social and economic prosperity as networks like transport, water, and power.”
Likewise, mobile networks are delivering health services to the most remote areas of India.
Using culturally appropriate social marketing, similar to those used in anti-HIV education, the message can be spread through social networks, mobile phones, radio, and television.
In the US, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have pursued a strategic partnership with India, based on existing trade ties, investment, and the large commercial and familial networks linking the two countries.
The continuing rise in migrant deaths in transit poses a conundrum: as these migrants are pushed toward trafficking and smuggling networks, they are dragged further into the grey areas of the international community’s response.
Data flows accounted for an estimated $2.8 trillion of this gain, exerting a larger impact than global goods trade – a remarkable finding, given that the world’s trade networks developed over centuries while cross-border data flows were nascent just 15 years ago.
Such an arrangement would resemble what Anne-Marie Slaughter and Mira Rapp-Hooper have called “mesh networks,” which “are highly resilient, because no individual node is critical to the structure’s survival – even if one link breaks, the structure survives.”
To be sure, there were plenty of other nineteenth-century commentators who analyzed the creation of global networks.
For starters, given that the Internet is a transnational network of networks, most of which are privately owned, non-state actors play a major role.
But are 30 or 40 new social networks, at least that many video-sharing platforms, and hundreds of daily-deal sites really necessary?
But different networks provide new forms of power, and require different styles of leadership.
Now he is faced with the question of how to use networks to govern.
Networks come in many shapes and sizes.
Networks based on strong ties produce the power of loyalty, but may become cliques that re-circulate conventional wisdom.
In other words, weak networks are part of the glue that holds diverse societies together.
As leaders increasingly need to understand the relationship of networks to power, they will have to adapt strategies and create teams that benefit from both strong and weak ties.
Hierarchies are becoming flatter and embedded in fluid networks of contacts.
In business, too, networks are becoming more important.
In describing the success of the Toyota and Linux networks, the Boston Consulting Group concludes that the hard power of monetary carrots and accountability sticks motivates people to perform narrow, specified tasks, but that the soft power of admiration and applause are far more effective stimulants of extraordinary behavior.
Not only did he successfully use networks in his campaign; he has continued to use the Internet to reach out to citizens.
Social networks are teeming with claims that if the state retains control over lithium production, the resulting revenue will solve Chile’s problems in financing education, health care, and housing.
In the Dominican Republic, which has invested in hurricane shelters and emergency evacuation networks, the death toll was fewer than ten.
What is needed is broad and effective oversight of public procurement, fuller transparency regarding budgets and routines, and substantially upgraded, multi-agency monitoring of national borders to dismantle illicit networks involving the security sector.
Mesh networks are highly resilient, because no individual node is critical to the structure’s survival – even if one link breaks, the structure survives.
Second, they have sought to prevent the left from using its new access to public resources to build an electoral base that would appeal to groups that fall outside traditional clientelist networks.
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