Video - Crisis Management 3.0: Social Media and Governance in Times of Transition

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has now posted the video from the conference "Crisis Management 3.0: Social Media and Governance in Times of Transition", which was held on February 16, 2012.

The video can be found through the link below.  (Also, the event photographs and Powerpoint presentations are available through links near the bottom of the page.)

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/crisis-management-30-social-media-and-governance-times-transition

(Some viewers might need to download the JW Player in order to view the video - see the link below)

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/

Co-hosts: Global Health Initiative, Inc. and National Defense University

Crises in the United States and around the world are happening with increasing frequency, severity, and complexity, and with exponentially increasing economic and human cost.  During these times of transition, social networks have become an increasingly important mechanism in preventing, responding to and managing crises, especially in circumstances in which unity of effort can be achieved, but unity of command may not be feasible, or even desirable. Web 2.0 social networks, unfortunately, have important limitations and are creating challenges to vertically organized institutions.  Resolving the potential and actual conflicts between horizontally and vertically organized approaches, as well as nurturing the development of new synergies between horizontal and vertical organizations is stimulating new thinking about the nature of governance during times of significant transition, as well as stimulating the emergence of “Web 3.0 Resilience Systems.”  

The Crisis Management 3.0 panel and roundtable discussion will address the following questions:

1) What is the Crisis Management 3.0 paradigm, which may utilize distributed smart grids and how is it different from Crisis Management 2.0, which utilizes Web 2.0 social networks, or traditional emergency management?

2) How can intelligent social networks be enhanced to improve the development of agile, solution-based institutions, which utilize “smart swarms” to enhance resilience and sustainability in high severity crises?

3) How can governments and other large, vertically organized institutions adopt new approaches to governance that effectively incorporate participatory processes and engage social network-enhanced, horizontally managed citizen groups?

4) How can Web 3.0 Resilience Systems appropriately manage and work with social discontent to move toward proactive engagement? Can this happen at a time when the public is losing trust in government and vertically managed institutions?

5) If the United States faces strategic challenges that the government alone is unable to successfully address, how could these resilience systems help secure the health and human security of Americans?

Please click here to view pictures from this event. 

• Mr. Alberts' PowerPoint Presentation
• Mr. McDonald's PowerPoint Presentation