Networking Action

Virtual Collaboration Tools for Networks, Participation, Transparency

Steve Waddell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:35:48 PST

A survey of a half dozen global networks revealed that their use of virtual collaboration tools is amazingly rudimentary. A couple of colleagues and I discovered that when identifying tools for GOLDEN to use. We wanted virtual platforms to…

UN Global Compact: a Global Action Network Case Study

Steve Waddell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:55:17 PST

UN Global Compact Executive Head Georg Kell became frustrated with the lack of understanding about how the Compact differs from government agencies. It leads to wrong-thinking about how it should be “run” and what it can and cannot do. He…

Virtual Tools for Participation

Steve Waddell — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:55:11 PST

“Public participation…is (a) realm in which other countries are advancing beyond the United States, turning us from a leader to a follower in democratic innovation.” Thus begins an information-ladden short response to the White House’s request for “thoughts” about…

Global finance as an action research domain: Testing the boundaries

Steve Waddell — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:39:38 PST

2011. Global finance as an action research domain: Testing the boundaries. Action Research.

The Global Compact: An Organizational Innovation to Realize UN Principles

Steve Waddell — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:27:07 PST

The Global Compact: An Organizational Innovation to Realize UN Principles. Global Compact Governance Paper Series

Sustainability Networks for Stability, Durability, Resilience and Robustness

Steve Waddell — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:26:15 PST

Lack of sustainability is, to a significant degree, the product of governance – our decision-making processes and structures favor non-sustainable outcomes. What does “sustainability governance” look like? The book Dynamic Sustainabilities (DS) has expanded my thinking about this. …

Connecting Physical and Social Science to Address Complexity

Steve Waddell — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:00:53 PST

While working with Ashoka to scale transformational change, I recently met a most remarkable man with a most remarkable insight. Allan Savory is associated with environmental land management; his most remarkable insight is to integrate a physical science observation…

Death and Rise of Global Action Networks

Steve Waddell — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:50:11 PST

The Kimberley Process (KP) is falling apart. And at the same time, new efforts are rising to create global multi-stakeholder change networks to end the trade of blood diamonds. A clear lesson of the demise is that “trust”…

Scaling Up – Change – Complex Adaptive Systems

Steve Waddell — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:19:56 PDT

“Scaling up” and “change” are two topics whose relationship is preoccupying me these days. I was delighted to discover an article that presents important insights by tying the topics to “complex adaptive systems”.

From what I’ve…

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Steve Waddell — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:12:23 PDT

SSIR has a review of my latest book, Global Action Networks: Creating our future together.