About Issuenetwork

Issuenetwork.org is the workshop site by the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam. Like the name of the Foundation, issuenetwork.org is also a conceptual URL. It describes the types of networks we seek and analyse at the workshops, through specially developed software that locates, analyses and visualises densely interlinked pages on the Web. Whenever these pages (be they organizations, documents, news stories) all discuss, debate and configure around the same issue, we call it an issue network.

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Govcom.org Foundation

The Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, is dedicated to creating and hosting political tools for the Web, at http://www.govcom.org. Its director is Dr. Richard Rogers, also of the University of Amsterdam, http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.a.rogers/.

Govcom.org organizes issue network mapping workshops. For previous workshops, please see: http://www.govcom.org/workshops.html. For viewing and navigating, certain maps require an svg plug-in, available, for example, at http://www.adobe.com/svg.

Govcom.org also has developed the Web Issue Index of Civil Society. It is a downloadable quicklaunch application and interactive screensaver that shows the rise and fall of attention to important social issues by select civil society actors, previewed at http://www.infoid.org.