Galaz Innovation in Complex Systems
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Information Technological Innovation and Global
GovernanceVictor Galaz
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University
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Twitter Updates Good Morning!
by Jer Thorp (via Vimeo)
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What are the long term institutional and
organizational implications of informationtechnology in the Anthropocene?
Mass Self-CommunicationDecreasing costs forinformation
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"Communications tools don't get sociallyinteresting until they get technologically
boring"Clay Shirky
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Bubonic P lage, Surat (India)1994In 1994 the spread of bubonic plague
in the city of Surat deaths of 57people, significant economiclosses, and social and politicaleffects. Over 300,000 peopledeserted the city (in two days!)
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Late warnings, information overload
and collapse
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Development of web crawler
GPHIN at Health Canada (1995)
ProMED - moderated e-mail listhosted by the International Society
for Infectious Diseases (1994).
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atypical pneumonia, unknown respiratory disease
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PNEUMONIA - CHINA (GUANGDONG): RFI**********************************Date: 10 Feb 2003From: Stephen O. Cunnion, MD, PhD, MPHThis morning I received this e-mail and then searched yourarchivesand found nothing that pertained to it. Does anyone knowanythingabout this problem?"Have you heard of an epidemic in Guangzhou? Anacquaintance of minefrom a teacher's chat room lives there and reports that thehospitals there have been closed and people are dying."--Stephen O. Cunnion, MD, PhD, MPHInternational Consultants in Health, IncMember ASTM&H, ISTM
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All of the sudden, we had a very powerful system that broughtin much more information from more countries, and we where
able to go to countries confidentially and validate what wasgoing on, and if they needed help, we provided help. And we
provided help by bringing together many different institutionsfrom around the world that started to work with us.
David Heymann, WHO
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Breaking down of the information pyramid
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Three new phenomena
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There is a bigger "networks of networks" []. In GOARNyou have CDC, MSF and Red Cross. Which you also have inthe different coordination groups for meningitis vaccine and
yellow fever vaccine. Or in global polio eradication. Theseare enormous, but some are very small and, you would
bring in the global influenza with laboratories and nationalinfluenza centers. But that is the network of networkswhich has no substance, no defined substance. It's there,the function, but in a highly chaotic, very undefined way.
Patrick Drury, GOARN/WHO.
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Southern Cone EIDSurveillance Network
Asian RotavirusSurveillance Network
European Centre forDisease Control,
EpiNorth
US-CDC
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)over 120 actors and others!
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David wanted to take the GPHIN business and what WHOwas doing, and develop a "network of networks". These would
be highly unformalized, highly unstructured, as chaotic aspossible, because if we allowed it to coagulate or set down at
any part of the WHO, the apparatus of the organization, []would start to drag it down []. All of these rules would just
slow down what was trying to be done.
Patrick Drury, GOARN/WHO
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Information Technology and
Global Governance
Supernetworks expand, have thecapacity to create collective intelligence.
This is an intentional strategy. Allowsflexibility, but builds on tapping resources
from formal rules, mandates and
resources. They build on thecombination btw ICT and personalconnections.
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