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Network of events linked
by co-participants
Between
1998 and 2003 there were more than 31 meetings of the Health
Information Forum in London. The network diagram below shows how those
meetings were "linked" by having overlapping groups of participants
(thicker lines = greater overlaps). The earlier meetings (HIF2-HIF18)
attracted a strongly overlapping set of participants, but the more
recent meetings have attracted a newer group not previously attracted
to HIF meetings. Was this developed planned or not? In retrospect, was
it desirable or not, and should it be continued? Then there is the
question of how significant these overlaps were. Did they results in
more and stronger linkages between individual participants who
co-attended, or not?
Meeting
participation can also be analysed in terms of types
of participants that co-attend. Such as the countries and organisations
they represent. As above, the network structures that are shown can be
analysed in terms of their desirability. Organisations'
co-participation may be more important than country
co-participation in that the significance of any linkages that did
eventuate and then persisted would be easier to assess. The same data
on participation in the HIF meetings was used to generate the network
diagram below. Again, thickness of links signifies the degree of
overlap, arising form co-participation of members from these types of
organisations.
Developing network models of development
projects: An introduction > Network
Examples > Communications
strategies and actual practice