Shaping Network Society

In 2009 we are confronted with new public policy and management approaches in mediated policy initiation and formulation (Obama’s Open Government Initiative), distributed intelligence gathering (the US intelligence communities Intellipedia), crowdsourcing of accountability (The Guardian’s British Parliament invoice scandal platform), or peer produced political campaigning (the Obama Campaign), and even social media enhanced  revolutions (Iran). [...]

as we are learning to use social media in organizations, we overestimate some aspects of this new approach and are confused about others: What is new, what is not? What is hype, what is real? Therefore, it is a time for careful definitional work. Yesterday, Andy Blumenthal, the CIO of the FBI did this in [...]

Sometimes very simple ideas are counter-intuitive. Radical transparency clearly is one of them. Let me define the concept, ask why one would want (not) to go “radically transparent,” and how to implement the strategy. What is radical transparency? Radical transparency is a management approach in which all decision making is carried out publicly and the [...]

The following entry was written by Justus Lenz with Philipp Mueller: ———————————————————- One of the “Web 2.0-type” concepts for a (semi-)structured citizen e-participation are ideation platforms. The aim of these platforms is to tap into the wisdom of crowds to  discover and develop ideas. The first big ideation platform was Dell’s Ideastorm. It was launched [...]

In the following video Beth Noveck outlines her vision for a world where public value is created by self-selected experts collaborating on platforms that mirror the collaboration process back to the participants: var so = new FlashObject (“http://natalie.feedroom.com/erepublic/natoneclip/Player.swf”, “Player”, “280″, “158″, “8″, “#000000″);so.addVariable(“skin”, “natoneclip”);so.addVariable(“site”, “erepublic”);so.addVariable(“fr_story”, “4e56ab36a1f0b7f939738147b9973d6c21b0a70c”);so.addVariable(“hostURL”,”document.location.href”);so.addVariable(“videoratio”, “”);so.addParam(“menu”, “true”);so.addParam(“quality”,”high”);so.addParam(“allowFullScreen”,”true”);so.addParam(“allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.write(“flashcontent”); LInk This is new political theory, counter-intuitive [...]