Network Awareness
Many network leaders are working to visualize social data so we have collective situational awareness of who and where our peers are at all levels of geography and interest.
FYSA (For Your Situational Awareness)
FYSA is a daily military acronym. Best action begins with optimal shared awareness. We are in the process of collaboratively creating a digital Living Map of the Living Ecosystem.
This helps create interoperability of the actors and de-centralize activity to the edges of a network, "the front lines", where all the action is.
While a living map exposes the connections, the "story work" helps these connections come to life for greater co-participation and mutual investment in a shared vision.
We are cultivating the soil of an ecosystem that seeks the flourishing of all people.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
- Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer, a German university professor, was one day when he took his class outside to sit on a river bank. On the other side the Nazis were training hard. They sat and watched. His only lesson that day was, "we need to be better than them". Bonhoeffer was hung by the Nazis.
A famous Army saying is "Wars are Won by Logistics". Logistics are tactical, the arriving of troops and supplies at the right place at the right time. Tech. Logistics also hinge on the depth of relational bond to "never leave a soldier behind" to "have each others back" and for teams to function in relational unison.