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MISTICA: RE: Organizational Network Analysis

From: [email protected]
Date: dom jun 13 2004 - 11:53:00 AST

I have copied below an extract from a message to me from Ronald Stamper
<[email protected]> in London. When he heard I was going to Juan
Dolio he sent me a copy of the paper he refers to. I will send that
separately. I find both his method of analysis, MEASUR, and his questions
very interesting. Perhaps you will too.
(A Google search on "MEASUR twente" will produce background information.
The research began at the University of Twente in the Netherlands)
Deirdre

"Perhaps, in the context of the ICT -interested members of civil society
in the developing world you might suggest how ordinary people might benefit
from the results of my research.

The method of analysis described in that paper makes it possible to lay the
foundations for even complex systems that can grow without the usual heavy
costs of adapting earlier software. If we can build the Semantic Schemas
for the problem domains that interest ordinary folk (what are they?)
systems could be built piecemeal and bolted together from fragments that
many people work on. I'd like it all to be in the Open Software domain.
The business world build crappy systems that they cannot easily alter
because to do so costs an arm and a leg. They do buy from SAP and others
modular application programs that are sold on the understanding that they
solve those problems but they nevertheless have the same faults. The last
thing I want is to have the corporations take over my methods to use them
to exploit us even more!

So what do we want by way of systems? Administration for pressure grooup
work? Political action? LETS? Barter? Info banks of solutions to common
problems? Info about the loci of power and who's connected to
whom? Discredit agency = credit agency but applied to companies rather
than people? Systems to monitor activities of developers?
Please extend the list and criticise."

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