Tracing Power and Influence in Networks:Net-Map as a Tool for Research and Strategic Network Planning

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Eva Schiffer and Douglas Waale Discussion Paper No. 772 June 2008 Related Resource Net-Map Toolbox Blog Abstract: Believing that complex problems call for complex solutions and that stakeholders should have a say in policies that concern them, policymakers have strongly promoted the development of forums and organizations made up of many stakeholders ...

4th UK Social Networks conference

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Date: Friday 18 July 2008 - Sunday 20 July 2008 Venue: University of Greenwich, London "The UK Social Network Conference offers an interdisciplinary venue for social and behavioral scientists, sociologists, educationalists, political scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, practitioners and others to present their work in the area of social networks. The primary ...

Net-Map Training in Washington

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Net-Map Tool- Training for Research and Impact Management Net-Map is a visualization approach to Social Network Analysis that was developed by IFPRI post-doc Eva Schiffer in her research on multi-stakeholder water governance in northern Ghana. Net-Map is a tool for understanding and improving complex social situations with multiple actors, diverse ...

SlideShare presentations on Social Network Analysis: A list

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Please note: When you visit the SlideShare website to see these slideshows you can view these presentations on screen, or download them (in some but nor all cases). You can also make public comments on any of the slides that you see, using the Comment box under the screen. IFAD Country ...

VisuaLyzer software: for visualising and analysing networks

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

There are now many different software packages available that can be used to visually represent networks, and to generate many different statistical measures of their structure. Unfortunately many of these involve a steep learning curve, and involve far more bells and whistles than I need.  VisuaLyzer is my favourite software ...

Networks and evaluation

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This page is about two complementary perspectives: the evaluation of networks, and how a network perspective can inform the design and evaluation of development programs (which may not have been designed as networks) Coming events: about network analysis (22/07/07) The evaluation of networks (16/06/07) The use of social network analysis in evaluation ...

Social Network Analysis software: A list

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

A. Software I have some familiarity with: UCINET & NetDraw ( a combined package) Easy to import data from Excel Has a huge range of abilities to manipulate and edit the raw data Has an online support group (Yahoo Groups) There is a detailed how to use it text Files can be read by many other ...

Social Network Analysis and Evaluation: A List

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Preface to the list "There are however three challenges in promoting the use of network models. One is to get people thinking in terms of networks as a kind of a base metaphor, in the same way that in the past people may have seen clockworks as a base metaphor for ...

A digression on complexity and networks…

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

....a side argument from the Rick on the Road post: Cynefin Framework versus Stacey Matrix versus network perspectives In that post I said PS1:Michael Quinn Patton's book on Developmental Evaluation has a whole chapter on "Distinguishing Simple, Complicated, and Complex". However, I was surprised to find that despite the book's focus ...

Horizontal Evaluation: Fostering Knowledge Sharing and Program Improvement within a Network

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Authors: Thiele, Graham; Devaux, Andre; Velasco, Claudio; Horton, Douglas American Journal of Evaluation, v28 n4 p493-508 2007 Abstract: Horizontal evaluation combines self-assessment and external evaluation by peers. Papa Andina, a regional network that works to reduce rural poverty in the Andean region by fostering innovation in potato production and marketing, has used ...