Global Issues Networks
Global Issues Networks comprised of NGOs, universities, governmental agencies, and interested businesses who shared a common purpose in analyzing the problems and finding solutions.
George Mobus
commenting on GlobalSensemaking.net:
"What got me started thinking about organizing global-scale discourse for these issues was a book, "High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them" by Jean-francois Rischard, ISBN: 0465070108. In this book Rischard (former VP World Bank - Europe) outlines communities of interest he called Global Issues Networks (GINs).
These networks, in his view, would be comprised of NGOs, universities, governmental agencies, and interested businesses who shared a common purpose in analyzing the problems and finding solutions.
These GINs, he thought would be self-organizing once they were seeded properly, and if they had the right communications tools. He used the open source software movement as an example of the social dynamic."