informal_networks

#heroic Snowden (5:45)

Snowden’s actions can create a crack of optimism and encourage more people to come out with such information.

#whistleblowing (9:30)

We need to provide some kind of protection and secure a future for people who reveal info.

#luther blisset (q) (10:55)

Changing sides, reacting on existing order

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(novel), defying existing mechanisms.

Support new organisation practices

#informal networks (13:00)

Formal networks are appearing with steady missions, agenda and practices.

Actors from such networks can form new kind of networks which can be

infomal or non formal, attaching to few, or no particular, rules of

networking. The context, and the way formal networks propagate into it, is also to be dynamically understood. Meeting people within a certain pre specified context, be it work or family, can be a very restraining experience. Spontaneous networks (exchange of info in streets, metro tickets) are interesting examples of ad

hoc, unexpected formation of bonds, relations and info exchange.

 

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