Host: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Co-hosts: Global Health Initiative, Inc. and National Defense University
Crises in the United States and around the world are happening with increasing frequency, severity, and complexity, and with exponentially increasing economic and human cost. During these times of transition, social networks have become an increasingly important mechanism in preventing, responding to and managing crises, especially in circumstances in which unity of effort can be achieved, but unity of command may not be feasible, or even desirable. Web 2.0 social networks, unfortunately, have important limitations and are creating challenges to vertically organized institutions. Resolving the potential and actual conflicts between horizontally and vertically organized approaches, as well as nurturing the development of new synergies between horizontal and vertical organizations is stimulating new thinking about the nature of governance during times of significant transition, as well as stimulating the emergence of “Web 3.0 Resilience Systems.”
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